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The Paradox of a Global US.

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The Paradox of a Global US, Bruce Mazlish, Nayan Chanda, and Kenneth Weisbrode, eds., ISBN: 10-0804751552, Pages: 240, Stanford University Press, 2007

This book arose out of collaboration between the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, created in 2001, and the New Global History Initiative, a decade-old project whose task is the study of the contemporary process of globalization from an interdisciplinary and historical perspective. Bruce Mazlish, Professor of History Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and several of his colleagues headed the study which culminated in the 2003 conference. The volume is a collection of papers presented at that conference. Although the chapters written by experts in diverse disciplines--history, religion, political science, and media studies--could be read independently, the proceedings are devoted to a single, well-defined theme.

The chapters in this book can be clustered into three groups: (1) the nature of globalization (two chapters), (2) the USA and its historical past (two chapters), and (3) present U.S. policy and attitudes (four chapters). The volume also contains an extremely informative introduction, which gives a roadmap of what follows, as well as a foreword by Strobe Talbott. The book is intended for students of globalization, policymakers and planners, and "interested...

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