Current And Recent Issues

ISSN: 1932-8060

European Euros

Kostas Kourtikakis  



Kourtikakis considers the European Debt crisis and the underlying factors affecting the ability of Europe to solve it.
volume 5 issue 10 (December 2011)

volume 5  issue 9  (November 2011)

There is an “app” for that: Mobile technologies and learning

 Lynne M. Rudasill

Phone technology now offers researchers and students in the classroom mobile phone applications that can be used to support and improve access to information, resources, and scholarship.________________________________________________________

volume 5 issue 8 (August 2011)

Water Issues from a Global, National, and Local Perspective

Nathaniel Uchtmann
Uchtmann considers the problems and solutions surrounding the scarcity of water on a global level.

volume 5 issue 7 (July 2011)

Goddess Laksmi and Cultural Traditions of Rice: Implications for the Status of Women

Bidyut Mohanty
On an example from rural India, Mohanty traces how cultural traditions recognizing the economic contribution of women shape the destiny of the girl child today.

                                                                                                                          

volume 5 issue 6 (june 2011)

Global Era Imaginaries: Myth Today

Victor Faessel
Faessel reconsiders the status and vitality of myth in the current global era.

volume 5 issue 5 (may 2011)

Politics of Crisis

Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Pieterse reflects on why the recent financial crisis hasn’t transformed regulatory policy.

volume 5 issue 4 (april 2011)

The Role of Universities in Cultural Heritage Protection

Helaine Silverman
Silverman notes the importance of university-based initiatives in securing cultural heritage.

volume 5 issue 3 (march 2011)

What is Global Studies?

Mark Juergensmeyer
Juergensmeyer reports on how graduate programs in Global Studies are defining the field.

volume 5 issue 2 (february 2011)

“The Nature of the Beast”: The Koran-Burning Controversy as a Media Spectacle in the Age of Globalization

Aziz Douai
Douai explores the media’s role in the Age of Globalization.

volume 5 issue 1 (january 2011)

“Connectivity” over “Connections”: Networking Governance and Technology Down South

Dipankar Sinha
Sinha discusses trends in government & technology relations in developing societies.

volume 4 issue 6 (december 2010)

The Individual and the Collective: A Discussion of Identity and Individualism

Stephanie Persson
Persson examines the socially constructed role of identity and individualism.

volume 4 issue 5 (november 2010)

Globalization and Higher Education Development: A Critical Analysis

Boutkhil Guemide and Miloud Mehdani
Guemide and Mehdani analyze the nature of globalization and its affect on higher education.

volume 4 issue 4 (june 2010)

Re-locating the U.S. Global Identity in the Post-9/11 World

Waleed Mahdi
Mahdi makes the case for re-imagining U.S. Identity as more than a contrast to colonial English identity.

volume 4 issue 3 (may 2010)

Strong Governments Underpin Globalization

Howard Lentner
Lentner explores the role of government in Globalization.

volume 4 issue 2 (may 2010)

Global studies abroad: toward a more integrated and meaningful study abroad experience

David Abernathy
Abernathy discusses strategies to improve abroad experiences in Global Studies.

volume 4 issue 1 (april 2010)

Dipankar Sinha
Sinha explores two contending and contrasting concepts: ‘Global Village’ and ‘Another World’.

volume 3 issue 10 (november 2009)

Fence

Safia Swimelar
Swimelar discusses the power of film to increase global perspective in the classroom.


volume 3 issue 9 (september 2009)

Rosie the RiveterRethinking Gender and Human Rights in the Global Political Economy

Deborah M. Weissman
Weissman questions whose interests human rights initiatives truly serve.


volume 3 issue 8 (august 2009)

henry

Amy Stambach
Stambach synthesizes as Foucault, Lacan, Lévi-Strauss, and Barthes discuss Global Studies.


volume 3 issue 7 (july 2009)

steger

Manfred B. Steger
Steger probes the rising global imaginary in the context of new political belief systems that fuel current ideological struggles.


volume 3 issue 6 (july 2009)

tulips-japan Creating the Global Studies Curriculum – A Space for the Local?

Jack Lule
Lule examines the theoretical, methodological and pedagogical approaches of a new global studies program that emphasizes the local.

volume 3 issue 5 (june 2009)

Beirut - Aerial ViewTourism, Sex, and Beirut

Ghada Masri
Masri explores the relationship between Beirut’s sex tourism industry and Lebanese national identity.

volume 3 issue 4 (may 2009)

harlem_10Globalization, the Global Trope, and Poor Black Communities: The Recent American Experience

David Wilson
David Wilson explains how the rhetoric of globalization aggravates African American urban poverty and marginalization.

volume 3 issue 3 (march 2009)

poverty3 Globalization, Poverty Reduction, and Economic Rights?

Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
Howard-Hassmann challenges the view that economic globalization intensifies poverty.

volume 3 issue 2 (february 2009)

human-rights


Robin Kirk

Kirk examines the evolution of human right as an academic discipline and professional field.

volume 3 issue 1 (january 2009)

burch-image Hidden Markets: Global Patterns in the Privatization of Education?

Patricia Burch
Burch explores the implications of the move toward reform of education through privatization.

One Response to “Current And Recent Issues”

  1. lazaros Says:

    I simply love this website. In our ever more interconnected world it is exceedingly important to have a better cultural understanding so all people and nations can progress together forward in our new century

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