...-crossing the globe took a record number of more than 1.4 billion international trips in 2018, spending huge amounts of money and generating $1.7 tril- lion in revenue, according to the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). The vol- ume and extent of these global sojourns is unprec- edented...

... , by Shoshana Zuboff PublicAffairs , 2019 © 2020 Current History. All rights reserved. 2020 The Regents of the University of California technology surveillance capitalism consumers developing nations The same week that I was writing this review of two books one of which addresses...

...Ilene Grabel At least one good thing may have emerged from the crisis: new international lending institutions led by developing nations are challenging and complementing the old US-dominated regime. © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California...

... agreements workers developing nations globalization Bangladesh multinational corporations garment industry labor rights World Trade Organization China 17 [C]hanging the incentives for governments in developing countries is prob- ably necessary albeit not sufficient to achieve sustained...

... for the Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia HONG LIU The rise of China as the world s second-largest economy and an increasingly asser-tive player in the global diplomatic arena has prompted endless scholarly and media scru- tiny over the past decade. Most analyses focus on China as a nation-state and its shifting...

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...Aviel Roshwald “[I]t is the failure to consolidate or maintain national identities that are cohesive yet adaptable, rooted in shared historical memories yet capable of integrating new ones, that helps generate some of the major threats to peace and stability in today's global environment.” Fourth...

...Lorraine Elliott Nations will try to negotiate a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol by the end of 2015. Can they agree on how to share the burden of cutting emissions and funding mitigation and adaption measures? © 2015 Current History. All rights reserved. 2015 The Regents...

...Glenda Sluga The world ended up with a League that simultaneously normalized international government and privileged the nation-state as the normative form of political sovereignty. © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California Glenda Sluga...

... nationalism climate change environment Baltic Lithuania Poland bloc power grid Kyoto protocol United Nations Framework Convention UNFCCC CEE WWF Bulgaria Romania Kazakh Kazakhstan exception 278 Achieving relatively easy terms under the Kyoto Protocol did not necessarily inspire post...

...Uri Dadush Multitudes are escaping poverty in developing nations while rich economies stagnate. © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California Uri Dadush globalization convergence developing nations development economic growth...

... rights reserved. 2013 The Regents of the University of California Joshua Lustig Mark Mazower Governing World global governance international institutions United Nations League Nations cold war history 38 Books Of all global trends, the evolution of inter-national order...

... Brazil Venezuela regionalism Luis Inácio Lula da Silva Organization American States Union South American Nations Community Latin American Caribbean Nations Mercosur Hugo Chávez United States 56 Brazil s rise, coupled with the diminished influence of the United States...

... Nations League Nations Woodrow Wilson Franklin Roosevelt Henry Kissinger George Kennan Dean Acheson China 336 Global governance still requires leadership that articulates a constructive, prac- tical vision for international cooperation. America, the Ambivalent Leader ChrIsTopher s...

.... © 2003 Current History. All rights reserved. 2003 The Regents of the University of California United States George Bush League Nations United Nations NATO Iraq multilaterialism unilateralism WTO terrorism 377 While some policymakers want to use US supremacy to resist...