globalization

Globalization has pushed back the borders of the wine world, creating a complex, interconnected market where Old World and New World wines and producers compete head to head for control of the market forces that are redrawing the world wine map.

Over the past thirty years trade and an open global economy have created a more prosperous, democratic, and peaceful world. Free trade has given us competition which helps lower prices, provides a better selection of products, expands a global middle class, reduces poverty and child labor, and fuels a demand for U.S. products in the global marketplace.

Explores the positive and negative effects of communism in Russia, the U.S., and other parts of the world, examining its influence through the lenses of anarchism, Christianity, Marxism, liberalism, and conservatism and applying it to contemporary issues, including war, hunger, the environment, and others.

Presents a comprehensive examination of globalization and its positive and negative effects on U.S. employment, wages, and management.

Presents an overview of the effect of globalization on the world's environment, providing a discussion of biodiversity, sustainable development global environmental agreements, changes in the physical environment, and more.

Presents an introduction to globalization, providing an overview of what it is, its essential concepts and participants, and its impact, as well as debating its merits and discussing alternatives.

Explores how the quality of life varies in different parts of the world and what can be done to help meet people's basic needs, both through government action and the efforts of individual citizens.