Bibliography
By admin • Mar 23rd, 2006 • Category: Issue Five: Contemporary ExamplesCarey, John, ed. Eyewitness to History. Reprint ed. 1997. Enables the reader to experience the manifestations of power across time and space through the first-hand accounts of contemporaries.
Friedman, Thomas L. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. 2005. Explores how the world has “flattened” in the beginning of the 21st century and questions whether humans and their political systems can adjust to the changes and stabilize the dynamics of power.
Henderson, David. The Role of Business in the Modern World: Progress, Pressures, and Prospects for the Market Economy. 2004. Argues that the primary role of business is to act as a vehicle for economic progress, not as an agent for social change.
Kagan, Robert. “Power and Weakness.” Policy Review. June 2002. Outlines the need for the western world to listen to voices from other world cultures about the role of power in contemporary society.
Staples, Amy. “Seeing Diplomacy Through Banker’s Eyes: The World Bank, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Crisis and the Aswan High Dam.” Diplomatic History. Summer 2002. Explores how the world bankers constructed their identity and that of the World Bank institution as a global corporate manager of international economic relations.
Tolson, Jay. “Inside the Masons.” Time. Sept. 2005. Investigates the history of the elite fraternal organization whose members helped shape the United States and world history.
Zha, Jianying. “Letter From Beijing: The Turtles.” The New Yorker. July 2005. Describes the role of capitalism in a traditionally communistic society and the acquisition of private wealth in the real estate market of present-day Beijing.
