DEMOCRACY and GLOBALIZATION

Political Science 301

Professor Duane Oldfield

Knox College

Online Course Readings

Bacevich/Englehardt, "Andrew Bacevich on the New American Militarism"
Robert Kagan, "Power and Weakness"
Jay Mazur, "Labor's New Internationalism"
Denying Democracy
David Rothkopf, "In Praise of Cultural Imperialism"
Mario Vargas Llosa, "The Culture of Liberty"
David Rieff, "The False Dawn of Civil Society"
Arundhati Roy, "Help That Hinders"
Huberty and Riggs,"NGO Accountability: What the UN Could Learn from the US"

Other Online Readings

"National Security Strategy of the United States"
Wendell Berry, "A Citizen's Response to the National Security Strategy of the United States"
Matthew Brzezinski, "Hady Hassan Omar's Detention"
Daniel Griswold, "The Blessings and Challenges of Globalization"
NAFTA at 7
Michael Clough, "Reflections on Civil Society"

Links to Online Newspapers around the World

Nettizen
Newspapers.com"

Al-Jazeera in English

International Organizations

International Criminal Court
The World Bank
The International Monetary Fund
The World Trade Organization

Foreign Policy Resources

Project for the New American Century-The Intellectual Force Behind the Iraq War

Foreign Policy in Focus--A Progressive On-Line Publication With Research Reports on a Variety of Topics. FPIF is especially critical of U.S. unilateralism.
Global Policy Forum

Critics of Neo-liberal Globalization

Global Trade Watch
50 Years Is Enough
Focus on the Global South
Global Exchange
Jubilee 2000 (USA)
Third World Network

Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)and Global Civil Society

Global Democracy and NGOs: This site has tremendous links to online materials from a variety of different perspectives.
Amnesty International

Think Tank Pages

Left/Liberal
Global Policy Network/Economic Policy Institute
Institute for Policy Studies

Moderate
The Brookings Institution
Institute for International Economics
Conservative Pro-Globalization
The Cato Institute
The Heritage Foundation
The American Enterprise Institute
Conservative Anti-Globalization
The American Cause/Pat Buchanan
Eagle Forum