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This book provides a multidisciplinary vocabulary for explaining general issues and trends facing the contemporary world involving cultural diversity, economic development, the natural environment, and international peace and violence. It affords equal time to the analysis of global issues using alternative perspectives. Eight major case studies—one for each of the central issues explored—encourage the application of concepts and perspectives presented in the narrative. These perspectives include Ethnicity and Global Diversity, Economic Development, Human Ecological Sustainability, World Ecology, and Peace and War. For individuals interested in an introduction to world issues—as they relate to anthropology, sociology, history, and political science.
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For global studies courses across the curriculum, Ann Kelleher and Laura Klein's" Global Perspectives" provides a broad analytical framework for understanding cultural, economic, environmental, and political issues. This brief multidisciplinary primer introduces the basic concepts needed to study global issues as well as the differing perspectives that scholars, policymakers, and individuals bring to these issues." Global Perspectives" helps students make sense of short and long-term problems facing the world in the twenty-first century, historical and current events that led to and fuel these problems, and the consequences of their choices in an era of globalization.
About the Author:
Ann Kelleher is Professor of Political Science at Pacific Lutheran University.
Laura Klein is Professor of Anthropology at Pacific Lutheran University.
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- PublisherLongman
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0205701043
- ISBN 13 9780205701049
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
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