Here are some links to web sites relating to 'globalization'.
Guides
and Overviews
The Emory University Sociology Department has a nice guide at: http://www.sociology.emory.edu/globalization/index.html
The Global Policy Forum (a UN affiliated think tank) has a guide at: http://www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/index.htm
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (a 'bipartisan' but right-leaning think tank) has a site called "Globalization 101" at: http://www.globalization101.org/
Some organizations critical of globalization:
A good place to start is Oxfam (The
famine relief group that is IMHO one of the two or three most useful
organizations in the world) has a site called "Make Trade Fair" at http://www.maketradefair.com/. Navigation is a bit confusing on this site,
but it if you click around you can find out a great deal about globalization,
its critics, and ways to work for change.
Also good: Public Citizen (Ralph Nader's
organization) has a Global Trade Watch: http://www.citizen.org/trade/.
This site includes a fairly detailed
critique called "A Citizen's Guide to the World Trade Organization:
Everything You Need to Know to Fight for Fair Trade" beginning at http://www.citizen.org/publications/release.cfm?ID=5154.
The Third World Network: http://www.twnside.org.sg/. (This site includes the "Siena
Declaration," a concise statement of some common criticisms of globalization: http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/siena-cn.htm.
)
The Resource Center of the Americas (one of
the two or three most useful local organizations) has links to a wealth of
information, including lots of current news
about globalization and its effects: http://www.americas.org/index.htm.
50 Years Is Enough (That's 50 years of the
World Bank and the IMF founded after WWII.) http://www.50years.org/.
The International Forum on Globalization: http://www.ifg.org/.
The international financial institutions have
their own websites including some attempts to answer their critics:
The World Trade Organization: http://www.wto.org/.
(The WTO has some pages rebutting the arguments
of their critics at http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/10mis_e/10m00_e.htm
)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF): http://www.imf.org
(You might look at "Globalization:
Threat or Opportunity" at http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/ib/2000/041200.htm
)
The World Bank: http://www.worldbank.org/
(You might look at their pages on "Assessing
Globalization" indexed at http://www1.worldbank.org/economicpolicy/globalization/key_readings.html#ag.)
Articles and essays
“Globalization and its Critics” by Clive Crook, The Economist, September 27th 2001
“Do As We Say, Not As We Do” by Jack Beatty, The Atlantic Monthly, February 2002
“Thanks For Nothing” by Joseph Stiglitz, The Atlantic Monthly, October 2001
"Globalization: Stiglitz Case" by Benjamin Friedman, The New York Review of Books, August 15, 2002
“The ABC’s of the Global Economy” from Dollars and Sense Magazine, March-April 2000
“The Free Trade Fix” by Tina Rosenberg, New York Times Magazine, August 18, 2002