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NETWORKS, FORUMS, JOURNALS, PROJECTS and INSTITUTES
 
 

"Academia.edu is a tree of academics around the world, displayed according to university/department affiliation."

 

"Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education."

The Atlantic Community: http://www.atlantic-community.org/index/about/ac

"The Atlantic Community is the first online platform for transatlantic debate on key issues of international politics and globalization. We facilitate thought-provoking open discussion on the common challenges facing North America and Europe with daily commentary from policy experts, journalists and decision-makers."


Building Global Democracy: http://www.buildingglobaldemocracy.org/

"The Building Global Democracy Programme aims to advance knowledge and action for greater public participation and control in the governance of global challenges."

Forum for a new World Governance: http://www.world-governance.org/

"The Forum for a new World Governance encourages the development and distribution of new ideas in several languages and a large number of countries in the form of Proposal Papers. These are intended to collect the most relevant proposals for generating the breakthroughs and mutations necessary for the construction of a new, fairer, and more sustainable world governance."

Global Networks - A Journal of Transnational Affairs: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/glob_enhanced/

"Global Networks publishes high quality, peer-reviewed research on global networks, transnational affairs and practices, and their relation to wider theories of globalization. The journal provides a forum for discussion, debate and the refinement of key ideas in this emerging field. The international team of editors are committed to open and critical dialogue and encourage the reasoned scrutiny of claims about the coming shape of the world. Contributions are drawn mainly from anthropology, geography, international political economy, business studies and sociology, but they also include history, political science, international relations, cultural studies and urban and regional studies."

The Globalization Studies Network: http://gsnetwork.igloogroups.org/

"The Globalization Studies Network (GSN) endeavours to make distinctive contributions to excellence in globalization studies."

The Global Public Policy Institute: http://www.gppi.net/


"GPPi is an independent, non-profit think tank based in Berlin and Geneva. Our research focuses on effective and accountable governance. Our consulting practice offers services for public and private institutions. We provide a platform for debate and foster strategic communities bringing together the public sector, civil society, and business. Our team is supported by an international advisory board."

Globality Studies Journal: http://www.sunysb.edu/globality/

"Globality Studies Journal(GSJ) is an open access journal committed to interdisciplinary analyses of global history and society, global civilization and local cultures."

The Global Site: http://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/index.html 

"In the twenty-first century, the social sciences face new intellectual and political challenges. The world has been undergoing profound political and military upheavals, in which both national and international relations of power are being transformed. Increasingly global capitalist relations pose old questions of inequality and social conflict in new forms. Both the contents and forms of cultural relations are rapidly changing, together with their political and economic significance, and the challenge of the Internet is part of this process. The site exists to promote serious academic analysis of all questions relevant to this broad problematic."

The Global Transformations Website: http://www.polity.co.uk/global/

 "In this website you will find a variety of useful texts and tools to help further the study of globalization and the debates about it. Among these are: discussions of how to define globalization, advice about how to research globalization, as well as a variety of articles and interviews by the editors and useful links relating to the Globalization series."

The Globalization and Autonomy Project: http://www.globalautonomy.ca/global1/

"The Globalization and Autonomy Online Compendium, is a collective publication by the team of leading Canadian and international scholars who are part of the SSHRCC Major Collaborative Research Initiative on Globalization and Autonomy. Using the Compendium, the team is making the results of their research available to a wide public audience. Team members have prepared a glossary of hundreds of short articles on relevant persons, places, organizations, events and key concepts and compiled an extensive searchable bibliographical database."

International Forum on Globalization: http://www.ifg.org/

"THE INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON GLOBALIZATION (IFG) is a North-South research and educational institution composed of leading activists, economists, scholars, and researchers providing analyses and critiques on the cultural, social, political, and environmental impacts of economic globalization."

The International Institute for Environment and Development: http://www.iied.org/

"As an independent international research organisation, we are specialists in linking local to global. In Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central and South America, the Middle East and the Pacific, we work with some of the world's most vulnerable people to ensure they have a say in the policy arenas that most closely affect them — from village councils to international conventions."

McMaster University - Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition: http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~global/

"The Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition was created in early 1998 following the designation of globalization and the human condition as a strategic area of research by the Senate of McMaster University. The Institute brings together a group of approximately 30 scholars primarily from the social sciences and humanities disciplines."

The New School of Athens: http://www.new-school-of-athens.org/spip.php?page=sommaire〈=en

"The New School of Athens (NSOA) is a recent international initiative whose mission statement is to explore new and better ways of managing our world. NSOA aims at becoming the 21st century version of Plato's ancient Academy, focusing on the management of globalization and the democratization of world governance. In keeping with the tradition of the original School of Athens it will be a center of inter-ideological dialogue and a meeting place between opposing views of the world."

The OneWorld Network: http://oneworld.net/

"The OneWorld network is governed by the OneWorld International Foundation (OWIF), the guardian of OneWorld's vision - of a world where resources are shared fairly and sustainably, where human rights are nurtured and protected, and where democratic governance structures enable people to shape their own lives. OneWorld is dedicated to working with others to bring about this vision."

RMIT - Globalism Research Centre: http://www.rmit.edu.au/GLOBALISM

"Founded in 2002, the Globalism Research Centre undertakes engaged research into globalisation, transnationalism, nationalism and cultural diversity. It seeks to understand and critically evaluate current directions of global change, with an emphasis on the cultural implications of political and economic transformation."

TED: Ideas worth spreading: http://www.ted.com

"TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader. The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes)."

World Policies: http://www.worldpolicies.com/

"Read over 150 newspapers edited in over 60 countries; specialization in international politics."

YaleGlobal Online Magazine: http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/

"YaleGlobal Online is the flagship publication of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. The magazine explores the implications of the growing interconnectedness of the world by drawing on the rich intellectual resources of the Yale University community, scholars from other universities, and public- and private-sector experts from around the world."


BOOKS

 
Manuel Castells: The Power of Identity
 
"The Power of Identity is the second volume of Manuel Castells trilogy The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture. It deals with the social, political, and cultural dynamics associated with the technological transformation of our societies and with the globalization of the economy."
 
 
"In this collection, one of the leading critical thinkers in international political economy, Robert W. Cox examines the major themes that have characterized his work over the past three decades and explores the main topics that affect the globalized world at the start of the twenty-first century. The book addresses such core issues as global civil society, power and knowledge, the covert world, multilateralism and civilizations and world order."
 
 
"This challenging work develops a radical theory of the new world order to argue that as the globalization of power intensifies, so too do globalized forms of resistance. Stephen Gill explains how the dialectic of power and resistance involves issues of governance, economy, and culture. This struggle is reflected in the questions of American supremacy, the power of capital, market civilization, and surveillance power. Thus new forms of political agency and collective action are emerging to challenge dominant powers."
 
Antonio Gramsci: Prison notebooks 
 
"Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is widely regarded as the most original political thinker in the tradition of Western Marxism and an outstanding intellectual figure. Arrested and imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926, Gramsci died before fully regaining his freedom. Yet his voluminous notebooks-thousands of pages of brilliant reflections on an extraordinary range of subjects, written within the confines of his prison cell-established an enduring intellectual legacy."
 
 
"This collection examines the interaction between industrial relations and international relations in the global economy. The role of trade unions has changed significantly in the era of economic globalisation and this book analyses the key developments in union strategy on a local, national, regional and global level."

David Held and Anthony McGrew: The Global Transformations Reader

"The world is changing dramatically and a vigorous public debate is under way about the nature and historical significance of these changes. At the centre of this debate lie conflicting claims about the extent, form and consequences of contemporary globalization. On the one hand there are the globalists, who argue that the world is being fundamentally and irreversibly transformed by globalization. On the other hand there are the sceptics, who believe that the globalists' claims are exaggerated and poorly substantiated. The sceptics contest the very idea of globalization, arguing that the power of national governments, nationalism and geopolitics remain the determining features of our age." 


Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine
 
"Journalist Klein introduced the term 'disaster capitalism.' Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka after the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed remarkably similar events: people still reeling were hit again, this time with economic 'shock treatment,' losing their land and homes to corporate makeovers. This book retells the story of Milton Friedman's free-market economic revolution. In contrast to the myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies. At its the core is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years."
 
 
"One of the twentieth century's most thorough and discerning historians, Karl Polanyi sheds "new illumination on... the social implications of a particular economic system, the market economy that grew into full stature in the nineteenth century."
 
 
"The increasing globalization of economic, social, political, and cultural life is a key feature of the contemporary world. Written by a leading authority, Jan Aart Scholte's new book provides a concise but broad-ranging introduction to its causes, character, consequences,and implications. Accessible but avoiding oversimplification, the book provides a balanced assessment of how the benefits of globalization could be maximized and its ill effects minimized."
 
Susan Strange: Casino Capitalism

"Casino Capitalism has finally and deservedly found its way back into print. Susan Strange's critical commentary on the weaknesses of the international financial system as they developed in the 1970s and early 1980s is as timely today as when it first appeared in 1986. The re-issue will be of undiminished interest to general readers and those interested in world politics and economics and all who share concerns about bank failures, financial fraud, political corruption, money laundering, and general volatility in world financial markets. Casino Capitalism continues to challenge conventional ideas on the role of money in world society."

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