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Abbreviations 4Introduction 5
Thomas L. Friedman: The World Is Flat Selected excerpts
1 ARevelationinBangalore,India 6 2 TheThreePhasesofGlobalization 8 Infobox: The World as a Disc 11 3 GlobalizationandYou 12 4 TheFalloftheBerlinWall 14 Infobox: The Ten Flatteners 20 5 GlobalizationandtheConceptoftheNation 21 6 GainsandLosses 22 7 TheNeedforaNewMiddle 25 8 EducationforaFlatWorld 30 9 TheUSA:StilltheRightCountry? 3610 TheAmericanDreaminCrisis? 4011 RadicalSelf-examination 4312 CultureandGlobalization 44 Infobox: United Nations Millenium Development Goals 4813 TheLocalBecomesGlobal 49 Infobox: Alternative Concepts of Globalization 5214 Microfinance–EmpoweringthePoor 5315 GlobalizationandItsImpactonPolitics 5516 TrendsandUncertainties 58
Additional texts
1 TheRoleoftheMediaandtheEndofCommunism EVGENYMOROZOV 602 EducationtheChineseWay? AMYCHUA 633 CoronationAddress JIGMEKHESARWANGCHUK 654 Mikrokredite–einegroßeIdeeinSchwierigkeiten GEORGBLUME 675 DieGrenzenderArbeitsteilung KERSTINBUND/
THOMASFISCHERMANN/FRANKSIEREN 69
Acknowledgements 72
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Abbreviations
abbr abbreviationadj adjectivec. about,approximatelycf. confer,seederog derogatorye.g. (Latin)exempligratia=forexampleetc. (Latin)etcetera=andsoonfig figurativefml formali.e. (Latin)idest=thatisinfml informaljm. jemandemjn. jemandenl., ll. line,linesn nounp., pp. page,pagespl pluralsb. somebodysl slangsth. somethingv verb
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