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Summary: An Excellent Brief But Complete Description of Globalization
Review: If you are looking for a quick introduction to the issues of globalization this is the book for you. Brubaker clearly and succinctly demystifies this complex phenomenon.She also describes ethical issues circling the many problems of resource distribution, the environment, and national sovereignty. She writes from the perspective of a Christian ethicist but anyone will profit from her discussion.
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Summary: Great little, critical book on globalization
Review: This is an excellent book for anyone who wants to catch up quickly on what motivated the 1999 WTO demonstrations in Seattle, WA. Brubaker explains what the World Bank, IMF, and World Trade Organization are, and their effects on the developing world -- from injustices in the maquiladoras at the U.S.-Mexican border to Wal-Mart subcontractors in China. Her critical analysis of the excess power wielded by corporate interests is inspired by her humanitarianism, feminism, environmentalism, and Christian faith. This work contains not just a diagnosis of the problems, but activist solutions, even feasible for the uninitiated.
There are some heavier duty books on the topic which offer more painstaking treatment of the structure of the global economic institutions and issues; but many of those are not what the intelligent, yet common reader is looking for. This one has the virtue of being an informed, quick read that explains the terrain and leaves us with something to do once we've put the book down. (For the detail-oriented, though, this work is shot-through with footnotes to up-to-the-minute references.)
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