Week 1: Global Interactions

• Read Guinness p. 1- 26
• Read Richard Florida, The World is Spikey, The Atlantic Monthly, Oct 2005
• Watch

Week 2:

Guinness p. 27-56

UNESCO, The State of Broadband 2015 - read p.12-27 and 44 to 61 - (Pay close attention to the graphs and overall trends)

Watch the video for this article

Jason Hickel: Aid in Reverse (with Diigo highlights)

Week 3:

Guinness p. 57-91

Watch Stephanie Black, Life and debt, 2001 - Available in the library (Optional but highly recommended)

Windsor p. 22-32 handout

Week 4:

Guinness p. 92-141

Chris Carroll, Hi-Tech Trash, National Geographic, January 2008

Maquiladoras: Peggy Peattie, The New River, an Environmental Success Story, SDUT, April 23, 2014

• (Make sure to Watch all videos)
• If time, watch parts or all of the Greenpeace: The Story, Thierry de Lestrade

Week 5:

Guinness p.142-180

Chip Brown, Kayapo Courage, National Geographic, January 2014

Parul Sehgal, Is Cultural Appropriation Always Wrong, NYT, Sep 29, 2015

Week 6:

Guinness p. 181-210

Martin Wolfe, Will the Nation-State Survive Globalization?, Foreign Affairs, Jan 2001 (YIS ONLY Copy)

Gregory Aftandilian, Remaking the Republican Party: Populism a la Trump, Al Jazeera, 2017

Mark Odell, Globalization and Rapid Change Sparked Populist Backlash, Says Obama, Financial Times, 2016

If you feel like it: Read Allister Heath's counter argument to the rise of populism

Week 7:

Guinness p. 211-244