Crossing Borders
Second Edition
Video and Multimedia
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Audio
- Global 3000: The Globalization Program This podcast explores globalization from several different perspectives worldwide.
- Center for Strategic and International Studies This podcast highlights global issues and features recordings of interviews, events, and press briefings.
Multimedia
- Globalisation (UNESCO: Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future) A link to the globalization unit through UNESCO’s Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future initiative, which includes many interactive lessons on globalization.
Video
- TED TALK: Pankaj Ghemawat "Actually, the World Isn’t Flat" This video addresses common misconceptions of globalization with data.
- Thomas Friedman in Conversation with Dov Seidman This video is an interview with Thomas Friedman, at the 92nd Street Y, Dec 13 2009, who discusses some of the ideas covered in his books on globalization.
- Life in a Day This video is a documentary created with YouTube clips that depict daily life from 192 nations on July 24, 2010.
Web Resource
- Globalization 101 A link to Globalization 101, a project of the SUNY Levin Institute, that examines globalization issues in depth.
- International Forum on Globalization A link to the IFG, a research and education institution that provides analysis of political, social, cultural, and environmental impacts of globalization.
- YaleGlobal Online A link to YaleGlobal Online, the website to the journal YaleGlobal that provides extensive resources on global issues.
- International Studies Association A link to ISA, an organization that connects professionals and students in fields of international studies, that includes information about the organization, its conferences, its publications, and a job board.
- World Trade Organization A link to the WTO, a global organization that addresses issues of trade between countries, which includes information about the WTO, news, topics on trade, and research, multimedia, statistics, and other publications.
- Grameen Bank A link to Grameen Bank, a microfinance organization and bank that makes loans to people living in poverty.
- The Green Belt Movement A link to the Green Belt Movement, an NGO that promotes community development through environmental conservation.
- UNdata A link to UNdata, an internet search engine, retrieving data series from statistical databases provided by the UN system.
- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation A link to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a private foundation that funds innovation in international development, global health, education and development in the United States, and global policy and advocacy.
- Kiva Microfunds A link to Kiva, an internet-based microlending organization that extends loans to people living in poverty around the world.
- ONE Campaign A link to the ONE Campaign, an international campaigning and advocacy organization that fights extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa.