Ways of the World: A Brief Global History First Edition CHAPTER 24 Accelerating Global Interaction...

Ways of the World:A Brief Global History

First Edition

CHAPTER 24Accelerating Global Interaction

Since 1945

Copyright © 2009 by Bedford/St. Martin’s

Robert W. Strayer

Global Interaction and the Transformation of the World Economy

• Reglobalization• Disparities and Resistance• Globalization and an American Empire

The Globalization of Liberation: Comparing Feminist Movements

• Feminism in the West• Feminism in the Global South• International Feminism

Religion and Global Modernity• Fundamentalism on a Global Scale• Creating Islamic Societies: Resistance and Renewal in

the World of Islam• Religious Alternatives to Fundamentalism

The World’s Environment and the Globalization of Environmentalism

• The Global Environment Transformed• Green and Global

Chapter 24 Accelerating Global Interaction, Since 1945

• Map 24.1 Globalization in Action: Trade and Investment in the Early Twenty-first Century (p. 726)

• Map 24.2 Global Inequality: Population and Economic Development (p. 729)

• Map 24.4 The Islamic World in the Early Twentyfirst Century (p. 743)• Map 24.5 Carbon Dioxide Emissions in the Twentieth Century (p. 750)• Snapshot: World Population Growth, 1950–2005 (p. 748)• One World (p. 722)• A World Economy (p. 725)• Che Guevara (p. 735)• Mothers of Missing Children (p. 738)• Hamas in Action (p. 744)• Environmentalism in Action (p. 751)