Seeing the Elephant · Understanding Globalization From Trunk to Tail by Marber, Peter -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction

A Different Lens Quantum World, New Players The Capitalist Peace at Risk

Chapter 1 - Seeing the Elephant in the Twenty-First Century

What’s Old Is New Again The Postwar Period: An Uneasy Peace, an Uneven Global Economy New Multipolar Power The E7 and Other Rising Powers The Rise of Nonstate Actors Working Toward the Capitalist Peace The Moment of Misperception The New Financial Arena Backlash: Where Is Globalization Taking Us? Converging or Diverging Interests? Toward a Quantum Framework for the New Millennium America’s Latest Challenge and New Global Agenda

Chapter 2 - Trade and Finance

Comparative Advantage and Free Trade: Converting to the New Religion The Next Stages of Trade Advanced Information and Communications Technology: The Turbo Trade Booster The More the Merrier: Unprecedented Interaction Nonstate Actors on the World Stage Capital Access and Waves of Money Changing Financial Hubs The New Bizarre Bazaar Anatomy of a Macro Quantum Crisis The Future of the Greenback Recoiling from the Capitalist Peace? Institutional Reform: Another Quantum Way Forward G7 Evolution WTO and Trade Progress World Bank Reform

Chapter 3 - Energy

Ever-Increasing Demand The Geography and Math of Global Energy Energy Balances and the Capitalist Peace The Realities of Supply Energy and the Global Financial System Concentration and Instability The Big Shift: From Hydrocarbons to Renewables Waste Not, Want Not The Really Bright Idea: Here Comes the Sun To Lead or Lag

Chapter 4 - Defense and Security

Old World, Old Approaches Weapons, Weapons Everywhere Ongoing Civil Wars Terrorism New World, Diversified Strategies Reforming the U.S. Military at Home and Abroad Reforming U.S. Intelligence and Diplomacy Toward a New Security Framework The UN in the New World “Disorder” NATO Reform The Way Forward

Chapter 5 - Immigration

The Ticking Age Bomb New Wealth, New Destination Countries Trends and Implications for the United States and the G7 Immigration: Interlinkages and Challenges Immigration, Trade, and the Dreaded “O” Word: Outsourcing Immigration and Security Immigration and Health Toward an Immigration Policy

Chapter 6 - Promoting Tomorrow’s Health instead of Paying for Yesterday’s Ills

Unhealthy Lifestyles Health Care Providers and Insurance Medical Tourism International Health Infrastructure Counterfeit Drugs Health and Its Interlinkages The Prescriptions: More than a Band-Aid

Chapter 7 - Environment

Prosperity: The Problem or the Solution? Land Water Air Cultivating Environmental Consciousness

Chapter 8 - Poverty

Poverty Trends: Some Bright Spots Poverty’s Interlinkages Foreign Aid and the Millennium Development Goals Toward a Poverty Strategy Alleviating Poverty as a Macro Quantum Strategy

Chapter 9 - Driving with a New Dashboard in the Macro Quantum World

Down but Not Out Living by Numbers Purchasing Power Parity Population Growth and Per Capita GDP Debt-Funded “Growth” Defining Progress in the Macro Quantum World Rethinking Consumption, Debt, and Savings Cooperation in a Multipolar World

Notes Index