{"product_id":"9781453532409","title":"The Global Issues Lectures: Changes and Challenge in the Global Village","description":"\"Not since Charles Darwinâs publication of Origin of Species in 1859, has the obsession with âsurvival of the fittestâ been as globally pervasive as it is in todayâs society nor captured with the urgency conveyed through these ten global issues lectures delivered over a five-year period from 2004 to 2009.\u003cbr\u003eChangeâ\"dramatic, transformational,\u003cbr\u003eimperative changeâ\"is the overarching theme in this series of lectures that cover a range of topics repeatedly raised in public discourse since the dawn of the 21st century. These include: The Globalization of American Brands; Implications of Newfound\u003cbr\u003eEconomic Partnerships Between\u003cbr\u003eAfrican countries and China and India; The\u003cbr\u003eImpact of Off-shoring Jobs From Developed\u003cbr\u003eCountries to Emerging Economies; The\u003cbr\u003eAscent of China as a Capitalist Economy;\u003cbr\u003eThe Over-arching Importance of Literacy to\u003cbr\u003eSocial and Economic Advancement; and The\u003cbr\u003eRole of U.S. Diplomacy in the 21st Century.\u003cbr\u003eThe year 2010 turns out to be ideal for this publication. In 2004 when the lecture series began, few would have predicted the worst recession in the U.S. since the Great\u003cbr\u003eDepression of 1930 would have occurred in 2008 with little sign of abating. Not even the prescient anticipated that six years later, rampant financial indebtedness would characterize the economies of Ireland,\u003cbr\u003eGreece, England, Spain and Portugal.\u003cbr\u003eThe compiled lectures leave the Western reader in particular, with a deep sense of imbalance in the âworld as we knew it.â\u003cbr\u003eThis is partly the consequence of having had no lectures in the series covering the\u003cbr\u003eEuropean Union or Latin America with its reinvigorated economies in Brazil and\u003cbr\u003eArgentina and the search for a new southern political âcenter of gravityâ led by Venezuela.\u003cbr\u003eNevertheless, there is a profound imperative for change and for effective responses to the litany of challenges facing both developed and emerging nations if they are to compete and survive in the 21st century. We hope you will find these lectures compelling.\"\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128683086064,"sku":"9781453532409","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781453532409_p0.jpg?v=1763850176","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781453532409","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}