1st Edition

Seeking Balance Philosophical Issues in Globalization and Policy Making

By A. Pablo Iannone Copyright 2014
407 Pages
by Routledge

408 Pages
by Routledge

407 Pages
by Routledge

The problems and issues arising from globalization are difficult to resolve, in part because our ways of conceptualizing the conflicts and responding to them are inadequate. This book fills this gap, conceiving of globalization as a consequence of economic, political, technological, scientific, and cultural changes. A. Pablo Iannone provides a taxonomy of globalization processes, investigates the... Read more

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 Globalization and the Ideal of a Single Global Community
Dialogue

2 Varieties of Globalization
Dialogue

3 Contemporary Business and Technology: A Multicentered World
Dialogue

4 Old Habits, New Challenges, and Economic Policy: Argentina's Foreshadowing Case
Dialogue

5 Globalization or Modernization? Views from the Developing World
Dialogue

6 Globalization Issues, Moral Theory, and Moral Practice
Dialogue

7 Prominent Ethical Theories and this Book's Theoretical Framework
Dialogue

8 Eco-Diplomacy: Reclaiming the Green Continent
Dialogue

9 The Andean Oil Rush: A Magnet for Development Agents from All Continents
Dialogue

10 Biotechnology Goes Worldwide: Between Luddism and Transhumanism
Dialogue

11 The Factual, the Virtual, and the Fictional in the Widening World of Art, Science, and Technology
Dialogue

12 Walking the Information Overload Tightrope in Ever-Expanding Cyberspace
Dialogue

13 Globalized Cyberwars: How Much Autonomy Should Robotic Weapons Have?
Dialoge

14 Worlds in Transition, Structures of Social Life, and Cooperation among Strangers
Dialogue

15 Globalization, Migrations, and Personal Identity
Dialogue

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Biography

A. Pablo Iannone