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| Preface | |
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| Editors' Note | |
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| Approaches to Studying the World Today | |
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| Beyond the Pledge of Allegiance: Becoming a Responsible World Citizen | |
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| Prelude to What May Be a Surprising Chapter | |
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| Some Preliminary Thoughts on Being and Becoming a Global Citizen | |
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| An Inconvenient Truth: We May Be More Racist and Xenophobic than Is Pleasant to Admit | |
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| Patriotism, Nationalism, Ethnocentrism, and Racism: All Points on the Same Spectrum? | |
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| One Good Thing about Sputnik: The Unlikely Catalyst Creating a Global Community | |
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| Crushed Chickpeas, Academic Freedom, and the Blind Machine | |
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| Does Fire Purge Us of Our Racism? Some Thoughts from Evolutionary Psychology | |
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| A Model for How To Proceed as a Global Citizen | |
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| How Will the Rest of This Book Help You Embrace Your Role as a "Global Citizen?" | |
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| Approaches to Studying the World Today | |
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| Topics in Global Studies | |
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| The Joy of Culture: A Beginner's Guide to Understanding and Appreciating Cultural Diversity | |
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| What is Culture?: Perspectives and Practices of Daily Life | |
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| The Importance of Understanding and Appreciating Other Cultures | |
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| Culture Change and Global Impacts | |
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| An Increase in Cultural Diversity: The United States and the World | |
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| Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism | |
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| Ethnocentrism | |
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| Cultural Relativism: A Means of Overcoming Ethnocentrism | |
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| Further Explorations of Culture: The Disciplines of Anthropology and Sociology | |
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| Culture Defined in More Detail: The History of a Definition | |
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| The Characteristics of Culture | |
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| The Elements of Culture | |
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| Institutions: Culture and Everyday Life | |
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| Putting It All Together: The Web of Culture | |
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| Reading, Writing, and Researching the Global Experience | |
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| Reading for a Global Perspective | |
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| Photo Analysis: The Way You Were | |
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| Comparative News Reading | |
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| Reading: Listen and Respond | |
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| "Overstanding" a Nonfiction Text: Reflective Questioning | |
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| Using Tagmemics: Atomizing and Contextualizing | |
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| Rabbi Arthur Waskow: "Can America Learn from Shabbat?" | |
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| Generating Questions in Responsive Reading | |
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| E. Benjamin Skinner: "A World Enslaved" | |
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| Researching and Writing for a Global Perspective | |
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| Preliminary Research: Finding Books and Articles | |
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| Reference Books | |
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| Catalogues and Databases | |
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| Fieldwork and Visual Evidence | |
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| Conducting Interviews | |
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| Recording Observations | |
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| Administering Questionnaires or Surveys | |
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| Forming and Arguing a Thesis | |
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| Family Immigration Research Project | |
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| Numbers and the World | |
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| Mistakes Were Made | |
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| The Real World | |
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| Ignoring Number | |
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| Applications: Using Numerical Information to Help Understand the World | |
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| Numerical Information: A Limitation | |
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| Basics: Understanding the Fundamentals of Nations via Numbers | |
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| The Land | |
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| The People | |
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| The Faithful | |
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| Power | |
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| Mighty Economies | |
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| Military Muscle | |
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| Quality of Life | |
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| Money | |
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| Long Life | |
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| Increased Complexity | |
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| Good Government | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| The Environment | |
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| The Condition of the Planet | |
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| A Primary Offender | |
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| The Disappearance of Species | |
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| People and More People | |
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| Environmental Responsibility | |
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| Observations | |
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| Return to Borat | |
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| Problems | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Reading World Literature to Read the World: Literature and the Global Student | |
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| World Literature and World Affairs: Looking for Parallels | |
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| Globalization: Not Just about Free Trade, Tariffs and Cotton Subsidies | |
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| Navigating the Map of World Literature: Not Continents and Countries, but Genres and Modes | |
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| Interpreting Individual Works: The Historical and Cultural Critic's Broad Perspective on Finding Meaning | |
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| One Example: The Tempest | |
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| Other Familiar Examples of Literature as Purveyors of "History" or "Culture": Huckleberry Finn, Heart of Darkness, A Modest Proposal | |
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| The Interpreter's Choice: Being an Intelligent Critic of World Literature | |
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| Classifying and Theorizing the Various Relationships between Literature and the World | |
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| Literature as Mirror | |
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| Literature as Commentator | |
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| Literature as Participant and Shaper | |
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| Literature as Alternative or Subversive History | |
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| Global Studies Topics in a Novel, a Poem, and a Short Story: The Global Experience through Literature | |
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| Novel: Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner | |
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| Poetry: Steve Chimombo's "Developments From the Grave" | |
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| Short Story: Kojo Laing's "Vacancy for the Post of Jesus Christ" | |
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| Nonfiction: The Essay, Nature Writing, the Blog | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Global Media and Global News: A Guide to Decoding and Analyzing Information | |
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| Introduction: Information Everywhere, but Not a Drop to Drink? | |
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| Defining Mass Communication and the Mass Media: The Great Global News System | |
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| Mass Media: World-Wide Roles and Responsibilities, and the Limits of Freedom | |
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| Ownership and Ownership Patterns | |
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| Ownership, Culture, and Ideological Shaping | |
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| Gatekeeping in Mass Media | |
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| The Individual and the System: i-media and u-report | |
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| The Product Itself: News or Infotainment? | |
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| What Is News? | |
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| Elements of News | |
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| Don't Be Fooled: Reading the Mass Media Intelligently | |
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| Steps to Analyzing and Understanding News: Critical Thinking-A Strategy for All Seasons | |
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| Applying Critical Thinking | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Topics in Global Studies | |
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| Environmentalism Gone Wild: The Great Green Mobilization and Beyond | |
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| Environmentalism Evolves | |
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| The Mobilization | |
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| Debating the Mobilization | |
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| What Would Thoreau Do? | |
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| Trapped in a System | |
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| Whole-Systems Design | |
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| Earth in Flow | |
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| Yes, We Can! | |
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| Religion Gone Wild | |
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| Western Imperialism and Its Legacies | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| The Old Colonial System from the Late Fifteenth to the Early Nineteenth Centuries | |
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| Motives for the New Imperialism in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries | |
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| Africa Partitioned | |
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| Colonial Policies and Their Legacies | |
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| Imperialism in Asia | |
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| India | |
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| Southeast Asia | |
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| China | |
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| Japan | |
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| Neocolonialism in the Caribbean and Central America | |
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| The Middle East and the League of Nations Mandates | |
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| Revolution in Asia and Africa: Dismantling Empires after 1945 | |
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| Asia | |
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| Africa | |
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| Looking at the World Through a Gendered Lens: Feminism and Global Studies | |
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| Defining Feminism | |
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| The Conceptual Tools of Feminism and Global Studies | |
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| The Social Construction of Gender | |
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| Gender and Other Social Factors | |
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| The Male Generic | |
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| The Devaluing of the Feminine | |
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| Deploying Feminism's Conceptual Tools Around the World: Some Examples | |
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| Female Genital Cutting | |
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| Agriculture | |
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| HIV/AIDS | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Use and Abuse: Drugs and Drug Commerce in a Global Context | |
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| Drugs around the World: The Challenge of Cultural Relativism | |
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| Drugs Have Shaped Culture, Just as Culture Has Shaped Drug Use | |
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| Peyote and the Native American Church | |
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| Caffeine and the Eight-to-Five Workday | |
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| Drug Prohibition in the United States | |
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| Race, Social Class, and Drug Legislation | |
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| Drugs and Relationships Between Cultures | |
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| Europeans Discover Coca and Tobacco | |
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| China, Great Britain, and Opium | |
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| U.S. Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century | |
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| Drug Proxy Armies and Foreign Policy | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Navigating Religion in the Global Context | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Disappearing God: Is Religion Relevant in the Western World? | |
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| Shaping Our Inner and Outer Worlds | |
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| The intersection of religion and culture | |
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| Religion's special power: transcendent command and the realm of the absolute | |
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| When Worlds Come Undone | |
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| Worlds Colliding: When Religions Conflict | |
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| The Ottoman Empire and the European Powers | |
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| Iran and Islam | |
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| Iraq and Islam | |
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| Resistance Is No Respecter of Religions | |
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| Israel: Judaism, Christianity & Islam | |
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| Latin America and Liberation Theology | |
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| In the African Context: Nigeria and Darfur | |
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| Is There a Way Forward? | |
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| World Religious and secular forces still at odds | |
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| The need for negotiation and the example of Northern Ireland | |
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| Using the model of the Good Friday Agreement in other parts of the world | |
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| Global Politics and Global Issues: Where Do You Fit? | |
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| States as Political Actors | |
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| Rules and Organizations for the Engagement of States | |
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| Non-state Political Actors | |
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| Organizations for Non-state Actors | |
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| Key Concepts Related to Cooperation and Conflict: Interests, Ideas, Perceptions, and Power | |
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| International Law-Its Range and Limitations | |
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| State Dominance in International Law | |
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| International Law and Non-state Actors | |
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| The Role of Theory in International Relations | |
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| Realism and Liberalism | |
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| Constructivism and Feminism | |
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| The United States in the World Today | |
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| The Politics of Addressing Pressing Global Problems and Pursuing Global Opportunities | |
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| Communication and Making Connections | |
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| Your Place in Global Politics-or the "Who Cares?" Question | |
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| "Jihad vs. McWorld": Benjamin R. Barber Revisited | |
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| Introduction: Finding Frameworks for the World's Multeity and Unity, Change and Stasis | |
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| Barber's "Jihad vs. McWorld" | |
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| The Presocratics | |
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| Friedman, Sachs, Stiglitz, Soros, Ritzer | |
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| Hegel | |
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| "McDonaldization" and "Flattening" | |
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| Locating "Jihad" and "McWorld" | |
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| The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq | |
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| China and the Olympics: Beijing, Summer 2008 | |
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| Zambia: A Personal Experience | |
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| Zimbabwe: Tribalism Dial Set at "Self-Destruct"? | |
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| Namibia Since Independence: Beyond Jihad and McWorld? | |
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| Talking Points | |
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| Exporting Democracy | |
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| The Successes and Failures of McWorld | |
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| The Successes and Failures of Jihad | |
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| Can We Do As Well As Barber, Friedman, et al.? Some Student Voices | |
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| Last Thoughts about Our Need for Other People's Interpretive Perspectives in the Field of Global Studies | |