Globalization, Development And Transition

Sounds of Articulating Identity - Tradition and Transition in the Music of Palau, Micronesia, provides an overview of historical and contemporary music-making practices and their social contexts in the Republic of Palau.

It is clear that the current manifestation of crisis being experienced in Bali …

Stanley Fischer served as First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from 1994 to 2001. IMF Essays from a Time of Crisis collects sixteen essays written for the most part during his time at the IMF, each updated with Fischer’s later reflections on the issues raised. The IMF drew much criticism for some of its actions during Fischer’s tenure, and he vigorously defends the “battlefield medicine” practiced by the IMF during a series of economic crises, which included the problems of economic transition in the former Soviet bloc and the Asian financial crisis. Fischer addresses the subsequent calls for reform of the international financial system and makes the case for the IMF as an international lender of last resort.

by Kirk W. Junker (Editor), Paolo Davide Farah (Editor)
This volume examines the impact of globalization on international environmental law and the implementation of sustainable development in the Global South.

While many countries may embrace globalization at the conceptual level, the specifics of implementation vary greatly from country to country. Testing Global Interdependence poses such questions as: How is openness exercised? How does a country join the international globalization trend?