China’s elections won’t be Western-style

0013729e48090d0e57590cFrom Zhu Zhe in the China
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The latest revision to the country’s Electoral Law, which grants rural residents the same rights as their urban counterparts to elect deputies to people’s congresses but does not expand direct elections, shows China will adhere to its own mode of development instead of adopting Western-style elections, a top legislator has said.

“Different countries have different election rules and a socialist China won’t follow Western election campaigns,” Li Fei, deputy director of the legislative affairs commission under the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), the country’s top legislature, told China Daily following the adoption of the latest amendment to the Electoral Law last Sunday.

Li, who has been leading the revision, said some people want to expand direct elections, but the current priority is to perfect existing direct elections at county and township levels.

Whether in terms of justice or fairness, a society must pay more attention to “substantial democracy”, which in China means that there should be representatives from all areas, ethnic groups and walks of life, Li said.

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UN Seeks Emerging States’ Help to Aid Poor

By James Lamont in Financial Times

International development agencies faced a “diminishing market” unless they partnered large emerging economies to bring development to the world’s poorest countries, Helen Clark, the head of the United Nations Development Programme, warned on Tuesday.

Ms Clark said the New-York based UNDP was seeking a global partnership with India, China and Brazil to deliver investment, technology and expertise to other developing countries.

It had already worked alongside India in a solar energy investment in Guinea-Bissau, efforts to boost agricultural productivity in Rwanda and civil and public service training in Afghanistan.

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Sinomania

From Perry Anderson, in London Review of Books

These days Orientalism has a bad name. Edward Said depicted it as a deadly mixture of fantasy and hostility brewed in the West about societies and cultures of the East. He based his portrait on Anglo-French writing about the Near East, where Islam and Christendom battled with each other for centuries before the region fell to Western imperialism in modern times. But the Far East was always another matter. Too far away to be a military or religious threat to Europe, it generated tales not of fear or loathing, but wonder. Marco Polo’s reports of China, now judged mostly hearsay, fixed fabulous images that lasted down to Columbus setting sail for the marvels of Cathay. But when real information about the country arrived in the 17th and 18th centuries, European attitudes towards China tended to remain an awed admiration, rather than fear or condescension. From Bayle and Leibniz to Voltaire and Quesnay, philosophers hailed it as an empire more civilised than Europe itself: not only richer and more populous, but more tolerant and peaceful, a land where there were no priests to practise persecution and offices of the state were filled according to merit, not birth. Even those sceptical of the more extravagant claims for the Middle Kingdom – Montesquieu or Adam Smith – remained puzzled and impressed by its wealth and order.

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Sunday Book Review: The Shopping Cure: “Forces of Fortune”

From Michael J. Totten, in The New York Times

articlelargeThe Egyptian Islamist theoretician Sayyid Qutb believed the West — in particular the United States — posed an existential threat to Islam. He feared that globalization, spearheaded by the American colossus, might eventually destroy Islam by tempting pious Muslims with freewheeling capitalism, the separation of religion from government and the unleashing of decadent “animalistic desires.” Qutb, in word and in deed, took up the sword against Gamal Abdel Nasser’s secular government. Nasser hanged him in 1966, but Qutb’s ideas transformed the world by inspiring Osama bin Laden’s Qaeda theology.

Vali Nasr, in his outstanding new book “Forces of Fortune,” shows that Qutb was at least half wrong. Globalization, free trade and market economics aren’t a threat to Islam per se. What they are a threat to is the totalitarian vision of Islam that Qutb’s followers hope to impose.

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$123,000,000,000,000: China’s Estimated Economy by the Year 2040. Be Warned.

From Robert Fogel, in Foreign Policy

china_flagsIn 2040, the Chinese economy will reach $123 trillion, or nearly three times the economic output of the entire globe in 2000. China’s per capita income will hit $85,000, more than double the forecast for the European Union, and also much higher than that of India and Japan. In other words, the average Chinese megacity dweller will be living twice as well as the average Frenchman when China goes from a poor country in 2000 to a superrich country in 2040. Although it will not have overtaken the United States in per capita wealth, according to my forecasts, China’s share of global GDP — 40 percent — will dwarf that of the United States (14 percent) and the European Union (5 percent) 30 years from now. This is what economic hegemony will look like.

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What’s Wrong With Towering Ambition?

From Karl Sharro, in Spiked

On Monday, the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, unveiled the much-anticipated Burj Dubai in a spectacular ceremony. The tower immediately took its place in the record books as the tallest manmade structure ever built.

Standing at 828 metres tall, the tower surpassed the previous record-holder, Taipei 101 in Taiwan, by more than 300 metres. It has 164 floors containing more than 1,000 apartments, 49 floors of office space and an Armani hotel. The observation deck on the 124th floor is the highest in the world, providing a view for about 80 kilometres on a clear day. The building has state-of-the-art lifts that can go from the ground to the top in about 50 seconds, reaching a speed of more than 40 kilometres per hour. The tower also has the highest swimming pool in the world and the highest mosque. At the ceremony, Sheikh Mohammed renamed the tower Burj Khalifa, after the president of the United Arab Emirates and emir of neighbouring Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahayan, who helped with a financial bailout.

The Burj Dubai and Architecture’s Vacant Stare

From Christopher Hawthorne in the Los Angeles Times

6a00d8341c630a53ef0128769574d4970c-450wiOne of the odder, more complicated moments in the history of architectural symbolism will arrive Monday with the formal opening of the Burj Dubai skyscraper. At about 2,600 feet high — the official figure is still being kept secret by developer Emaar Properties — and 160 stories, the tower, set back half a mile or so from Dubai’s busy Sheikh Zayed Road, will officially take its place as the tallest building in the world.

Designed by Adrian Smith, a former partner in the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the Burj Dubai is an impossible-to-miss sign of the degree to which architectural ambition — at least the kind that can be measured in feet or number of stories — has migrated in recent years from North America and Europe to Asia and the Middle East. It is roughly as tall as the World Trade Center towers piled one atop the other. Its closest competition is Toronto’s CN Tower, which is not really a building at all, holding only satellites and observation decks, and is in any case nearly 900 feet shorter.

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Ashis Nandy and the Postcolonial Trap

From Joshua F. Leach in Butterfliesandwheels.com

Had William Hazlitt written his essay “On Persons with One Idea” today, he would surely have found room for the field of postcolonial studies. It is a field with only one idea: namely, that imperialism and racism are such dominant features of modern life, and had such a foundational role in the construction of our present society, that they inform every aspect of our ideas, culture, and history. Postcolonialism is, in theory, anti-hierarchical and anti-oppressive. But because it has only one idea, it can easily become oppressive in practice, and to quite a large extent. To show that this is true within the context of one postcolonial scholar’s book, The Intimate Enemy by Ashis Nandy, is the purpose of this essay.

Ashis Nandy might seem an unlikely candidate for such an accusation. He is a political activist and a major commentator on contemporary affairs, known for his championing of nonviolence and tolerance. One of Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Public Intellectuals, he has written about communal violence, particularly Hindu-Muslim riots and the emotionally charged landscape of nationalism. He is no friend to the Hindu right, which he has accused of being itself a product of British colonialism. All varieties of chauvinism are subjected to fierce criticism at Nandy’s hands, and he is a member of numerous human rights and civil liberties groups.

These views are decent and humane, and Nandy is no friend to injustice. Yet he is very much a member of the postcolonial movement, and it often leads him to support a blinkered traditionalism for no other reason than that it seems to be anti-Western and anti-modern.

His book, The Intimate Enemy, appeared in 1983, at a time when postcolonialism was flourishing and when its arguments must have appeared fresh and controversial, although they have now gone quite stale. In essence, Nandy is making a case against modernity, and against the entire project of secular liberal rationalism, which he sees as more or less inseparable from colonialism, capitalism, and all the aspects of modernization and development he finds objectionable.

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Tariq Ali: “Obama’s Afghan-Pak Syndrome”

From Democracy Now

The Global Studies Journal, Volume 2, Number 4 available

The final issue of Volume 2 of  The Global Studies Journal has now been published.

Some of the papers included in Volume 2, Number 4:

The Global Studies Journal, Volume 2 now complete

The final issue of Volume 2 of The Global Studies Journal has now been published.

Volume 2, Number 4 includes:

A Morally Bankrupt Dictatorship Built by Slave Labour

From Johann Hari, in The Independent

Dubai is finally financially bankrupt – but it has been morally bankrupt all along. The idea that Dubai is an oasis of freedom on the Arabian peninsular is one of the great lies of our time.

Yes, it has Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts and the Gucci styles, but beneath these accoutrements, there is a dictatorship built by slaves.

If you go there with your eyes open – as I did earlier this year – the truth is hidden in plain view. The tour books and the bragging Emiratis will tell you the city was built by Sheikh Mohammed, the country’s hereditary ruler.

It is untrue. The people who really built the city can be seen in long chain-gangs by the side of the road, or toiling all day at the top of the tallest buildings in the world, in heat that Westerners are told not to stay in for more than 10 minutes. They were conned into coming, and trapped into staying.

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Let A Hundred Theories Bloom

ve798c_thumb3From George Akerlof and Joseph E. Stiglitz, in Project Syndicate

BUDAPEST – The economic and financial crisis has been a telling moment for the economics profession, for it has put many long-standing ideas to the test. If science is defined by its ability to forecast the future, the failure of much of the economics profession to see the crisis coming should be a cause of great concern.

But there is, in fact, a much greater diversity of ideas within the economics profession than is often realized. This year’s Nobel laureates in economics are two scholars whose life work explored alternative approaches. Economics has generated a wealth of ideas, many of which argue that markets are not necessarily either efficient or stable, or that the economy, and our society, is not well described by the standard models of competitive equilibrium used by a majority of economists.

Behavioral economics, for example, emphasizes that market participants often act in ways that cannot easily be reconciled with rationality. Similarly, modern information economics shows that even if markets are competitive, they are almost never efficient when information is imperfect or asymmetric (some people know something that others do not, as in the recent financial debacle) – that is, always .

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Pakistan and the Global War on Terror

From an interview with Tariq Ali by Mara Ahmed and Judith Bello, in Counter Punch

Mara Ahmed and I were given the opportunity to interview Tariq Ali when he spoke at Hamilton College in Upstate New York on November 11, 2009, during his recent speaking tour of the United States. Tariq, a native of Pakistan who lives in England, is a well known writer, intellectual and activist. He has traveled all over Southwest Asia and the Middle East while researching his books. Mara, who is working on a film highlighting the opinions of the Pakistani people regarding the current situation in Pakistan and the Western initiated ‘Global War on Terror’, had a lot of questions for Tariq about the internal state of Pakistan. I wanted to ask Tariq for his opinion about the effects of American foreign policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and what alternatives he thought might be available. –JB

Mara: What is the role of Islamophobia in the Global War on Terror. Many American war veterans have described the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as imperialistic, racist and genocidal. Your comments?

Tariq: Well, I think Islamophobia plays an important part in things, because it creates an atmosphere in which people feel, “Oh, we’re just killing Muslims, so that’s alright.” And this situation is becoming quite serious in the United States and in large parts of Europe, where people feel that the fact that a million Iraqis have died is fine because they’re not like us, they’re Muslims. So, Islamophobia is becoming a very poisonous and dangerous ideological construct which has to be fought against.

It sometimes irritates people but I do compare it to the anti-Semitism that existed in the 20s and 30s and 40s of the last century. And I do wonder whether all the education that people are being given, and rightly so, about the killing of the Jews and the Judeocide of the Second World War is having an impact. What sort of education is it if they can’t relate what happened then to some of the things that are happening now. Education which just centers on one atrocity and that’s all, where people feel very opposed to that [one atrocity], but they can support other atrocities, is in my opinion not a proper education. And some of the level of ignorant comment on Islam and the Islamic world in the United States is deeply shocking. That’s all it is. It’s ignorance.

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A Special Report on China and America…A Wary Respect

From The Economist print edition

America and China need each other, but they are a long way from trusting each other, says James Miles.

“OUR future history will be more determined by our position on the Pacific facing China than by our position on the Atlantic facing Europe,” said the American president as he contemplated the extraordinary commercial opportunities that were opening up in Asia. More than a hundred years after Theodore Roosevelt made this prediction, American leaders are again looking across the Pacific to determine their own country’s future, and that of the rest of the world. Rather later than Roosevelt expected, China has become an inescapable part of it.

Back in 1905, America was the rising power. Britain, then ruler of the waves, was worrying about losing its supremacy to the upstart. Now it is America that looks uneasily on the rise of a potential challenger. A shared cultural and political heritage helped America to eclipse British power without bloodshed, but the rise of Germany and Japan precipitated global wars. President Barack Obama faces a China that is growing richer and stronger while remaining tenaciously authoritarian. Its rise will be far more nettlesome than that of his own country a century ago.

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Announcing the winner of the International Award for Excellence

Congratulations to Joanne Jung-wook Hong, the winner of the International Award for Excellence in global studies for her paper Power of McDonald’s ‘Happy Meal’: Globalization of American Culture and Value

Abstract: This paper aims at exploring and discussing how powerfully McDonald’s ‘Happy Meal’ contributes to globalization of American culture and value in ‘alliance’ with representation and hence ideology in the American animation industry. In particular, as a critical linguistic research, the paper focuses on investigating intertextual and ideological meaning constructions in American animation and McDonald’s promotional discourse for Happy Meal. The discussion will be mainly based on social semiotic analysis and intertextual/interdiscursive analysis of American animations and McDonald’s global Happy Meal promotional leaflets, focusing on construction of socio-cultural values and identities of America and McDonald’s.

If you have read the paper you may wish to add a review.

Finalists for the International Award for Excellence

Congratulations to all of the International Award for Excellence finalists:

  • Natalie Achamallah, Jessica Nishiguchi, Shahriar Reza Rajaee, Maya Srinivasan and Julia Borovay: Medical Tourism: Social and Ethical Concerns (to be published in the upcoming issue)
  • William Acres: What Are “World Religions” Teaching Us? Post-Imperialism in Contemporary Views of Global Faiths
  • Rebecca Cameron: Identities and International Justice
  • Asha Chand: Political Activism: The New Mantra for Fiji Indians in Global Sydney
  • Tanya Kane: A Clinical Encounter of East Meets West: A Case Study of the Production of ‘American-style’ Doctors in a Non-American Setting (to be published in the upcoming issue)
  • MariaCaterina La Barbera: Intersectional Gender: Thinking about Gender and Cultural Difference in the Global Society
  • Raphael Nawrotzki, Mioara Diaconu and Sharon Pittman: Climate-Change-Induced Human Migration: The Necessity of Collective Global Action
  • Brian Robertson, Fiona Grant and Graeme Bowles: Transnational Education and Professional Recognition: Accreditation of Built Environment Courses from a UK Perspective
  • Ahmed Salem: Problems of Regionalizing Universal International Relations Theories: A Study on Rivalry Approach to War and Peace in African and Arab Civil Wars
  • 1989!

    Written by Timothy Garton Ash The New York Review of Books

    BOOKS DRAWN ON FOR THIS ESSAY

    1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe
    by Mary Elise Sarotte
    Princeton University Press, 321 pp., $29.95

    Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
    by Stephen Kotkin, with a contribution by Jan T. Gross
    Modern Library, 197 pp., $24.00

    Der Vorhang Geht Auf: Das Ende der Diktaturen in Osteuropa
    by György Dalos
    Munich: C.H. Beck, 272 pp., e19.90

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    Two Decades After the Fall: A Symposium of 1989

    Written by Various Editors Dissent Magazine

    NINETEEN-EIGHTY-NINE WAS a year of historic revolution and possibility. Popular and often nonviolent uprisings overturned communist rule in much of Eastern and Central Europe; and pro-democracy movements began to challenge its legitimacy in the Soviet Union and China. “Nothing in our past thinking, or in anyone else’s, prepared us for the remarkable turn of events,” wrote Irving Howe in 1990. “So much the worse for theory, so much the better for life!”

    But has life changed dramatically for the better? While many economies have begun to liberalize, political illiberalism still lurks. And while many on the left hoped that social democracy might replace communism, many post-Soviet nations have adopted the policies of neoliberalism and the language of nationalism. “Any great social change unleashes great expectations,” Adam Michnik observed in 1999. “And therefore, of course, it leads to great disappointments.”

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    The Global Studies Journal, Volume 2, Number 3 available

    The third issue of Volume 2 of The Global Studies Journal has now been published.

    Volume 2, Number 3 contains:

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    Dubai: The Story of the World’s Fastest City by Jim Krane: review

    By Richard Spencer Telegraph.co.uk

    Dubai’s wealth came quickly, and it got a little carried away: artificial islands, gaudy hotels and pointy skyscrapers, spectacular or tasteless as they are, according to your viewpoint. But at first, wealth brought amenities we take for granted: running water, electricity, roads. Dubai’s first electric lights were hooked up in the Sixties. It put in taps and telephones around the same time.

    When the Emir of Qatar married a Dubai princess, the dowry was to pay for the city’s first tarmac road; a year later, he paid for a bridge connecting the emirate’s two halves. He probably felt sorry for his backward neighbour, which had just been taken over by his eccentric new father-in-law, Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed al-Maktoum.

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    Global Studies Journal Associate Editors

    The Associate Editors listing for Volume 2 of The Global Studies Journal is now available.

    The Global Studies Journal, Volume 2, Number 2 available

    The second issue of Volume 2 of The Global Studies Journal has now been published.

    Volume 2, Number 2 contains:

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    Afghan Youths Seek a New Life in Europe

    Caroline Brothers of The New York Times reports:

    On the edges of a Salvation Army soup line in Paris, a soft-spoken Afghan boy told the story recently of how he ended up in Europe, alone.

    The boy, who said he was 15 but looked younger, recounted how his family left Afghanistan after his mother lost her leg in an explosion in 2004. They spent three years in Iran, where he went to school for the first time, learning English and discovering the Internet. After his father suffered a back injury that made working difficult, the boy, who declined to give his name, headed west. More…

    Min Gong of Xiamen University to speak at Global Studies Conference

    Min Gong, Xiamen University, Xiamen, People’s Republic of China
    www.GlobalStudiesConference.com

    Min Gong is a Professor of Economics and the Vice Director of the Center for Macroeconomic Research at Xiamen University, Fujian. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from Fudan University, Shanghai, served as a visiting scholar at the Institution for Economic Research at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, and as a Freeman Fellow at the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illiois at Urbana-Champaign. More…

    Online Presentations

    Please view our online presentations on the Common Ground YouTube site or watch the Arts in Society playlist here.

    ‘Divided We Fall - How to Stop the Rise of The Far-Right in Europe’

    David Lammy of The New Republic reports….

    The successful nations in the twenty-first century will be those that come to terms quickest with the implications of globalization–of unprecedented flows of people, money, information and ideas. As a minister in the British government, representing a London constituency that is the most diverse in Europe, I have long been convinced of this. So when I attended the inauguration of President Obama in January this year, I couldn’t help feeling that America had stolen a march on Britain. Before my eyes, America was coming to terms with its multi-ethnic heritage. E pluribus unum. More…

    On Globalisation Imprint Launched

    Common Ground Publishing has launched a new imprint, On Globalisation.

    You can now submit proposals or completed manuscript submissions of:

    • individually and jointly authored books;
    • edited collections addressing a clear, intellectually challenging theme;
    • collections of papers published in The Global Studies Journal.

    Books should be between 30,000 words to 150,000 words in length. They will be published simultaneously in print and electronic formats.

    The Global Studies Journal Volume 1

    The first volume of The Global Studies Journal is complete.

    Papers of interest include:

    Neo-isms: What’s New about Ideology in the Global Age? by Manfred B. Steger - plenary presenter at the Global Studies Conference

    Ecocentric Perspectives on Global Warming: Toward an Earth Jurisprudence by Patrick Tolan - plenary presenter at the Global Studies Conference

    Mobile Cities: Reinventing Urban Mobility by Oliver Schwedes and Stephan Rammler - winner of the first International Award for Excellence in the area of global studies.

    The second volume of the Journal is now in production.

    2009 Global Studies Conference - Plenary Speaker Added

    Oliver Schwedes, Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
    www.GlobalStudiesConference.com

    Dr. Oliver Schwedes, Diplom-Politologe and Diplom-Soziologe, is with Technical University Berlin. He studied Political Science, Sociology, Philosophy and Psychology in Marburg, Berlin, Edinburgh. His dissertation was about the subject “The formation of new towns. Power- and decision making structures in a local community”. More…

    Global Studies Conference - Tours Added

    Gold and Spice Souks Tour - Saturday, 30 May

    Mall of the Emirates - Monday, 01 June

    Please click here to find out more about the 2009 Global Studies Conference.

    Global Studies Conference - Plenary Speakers Added

    Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Mellichamp Professor, Global and International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

    Muhammad Ayish, Professor of Communication, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE.

    For more information on the Conference, please visit the 2009 Global Studies Conference website.

    Global Studies Conference - Plenary Speakers Added

    Khaldoun Hasan Al-Naqeeb, Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Psychology, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait.

    Mouin Rabbani, Senior Middle East Analyst, International Crisis Group, Amman, Jordan.

    Lena Jayyusi, Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program, College of Communication and Media Sciences, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE.

    For more on the Conference, please see the 2009 Global Studies Conference website.

    Global Studies Conference - Accommodation

    Accommodation for the 2009 Global Studies Conference may now be booked. Please see the Conference website for more details.

    Global Studies Conference - Conference Dinner

    Enjoy a wonderful Arabic dinner experience at Bastakia Nights Restaurant. For more information on the Conference Dinner, please see the Conference website.

    Global Studies Conference - Plenary Speakers Added

    Georges Corm

    Georges Corm, Lebanese Economist Historian, Saint Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon.

    Georges Corm is a Lebanese Economist and Historian. He is an economic consultant to international organizations and professor at Saint Joseph University in Beirut. He studied at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (1958-1961) where he graduated in Public Finance and has also a PhD from Paris University in Constitutional Law (1969). He served as Finance Minister from December 4 1998 to 28 October 2000 in the government of Salim El Hoss. More…

    Habibul H Khondker

    Habibul H Khondker

    Habibiul Haque Khondker, Professor of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

    Habibiul Haque Khondker is a Professor of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. He taught at the National University of Singapore until 2005. He held visiting appointments at University of Pittsburgh, Institute of Social Studies, the Hague, Columbia University, and Cornell University. He was educated in Dhaka University, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada and University of Pittsburgh, USA.

    Dr. Khondker’s articles on globalization, state, civil society, democracy, famine, internet, science and gender issues have been published in journals such as International Sociology, The British Journal of Sociology, Current Sociology, Globalizations, Armed Forces and Society, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, International Journal of Mass Emergencies, Asian Journal of Social Science, South Asia, Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, Economic and Political Weekly. More…

    George Ritzer

    George Ritzer

    George Ritzer, Distinguised University Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, USA.

    George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland and is the recipient of several other awards and honors including: Honorary Doctorate from La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia; Honorary Patron, University Philosophical Society, Trinity College, Dublin; American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Award. Dr. Ritzer has chaired the American Sociological Association’s Section on Theoretical Sociology, as well as the Section on Organizations and Occupations. More…

    Second International Global Studies Conference

    30 May-1 June 2009
    Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
    www.GlobalStudiesConference.com

    The Language of Globalization

    What is the language of the world today?

    “The Internet has helped curtail English language domination” - Christian Rolling

    “One of the intriguing consequences of globalization is that English’s center of gravity is moving” - Henry Hitchings

    To read more of this article on New York Times website here.

    Indiana University’s 59th Summer Workshop in Slavic, Eastern European, and Central Asian Languages

    19 June-14 August 2009

    Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

    www.indiana.edu/~iuslavic/swseel/

    Complete 1 full academic year of language study in 8 weeks!

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    Newsletter

    Plenary Presenters Papers Published in Volume 1

    Some papers of interest which were published in Volume 1 of  The Global Studies Journal include those published by plenary presenters at the conference:

    Neo-isms: What’s New about Ideology in the Global Age? by Manfred B. Steger.

    Ecocentric Perspectives on Global Warming: Toward an Earth Jurisprudence by Patrick Tolan.

    Announcing

    Golbalisation

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    Conference Venue

    30 May to 1 June 2009
    Zayed University
    Convention Center
    Academic City Road
    Dubai, United Arab Emirates