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Independence from America: Global Integration and Inequality (Ashgate Publishing) is the work of historian Jon Kofas. He offers a study of “global integration” post-World War II, with the definition of globalization perceived to be essentially the process of world economic integration in which the U.S. has played the key role, but in which interests of most developing countries have been sacrificed. This study’s original contribution lies in the author’s contention that there have been two “models” of globalization: the U.S.-led “patron-client model” and the EU initiated “interdependent integral model.” Additionally, the German journal MITTELWEG 36 has printed Kofas’ article “Die Truman-Dokrin und der griechische Burgerkrieg 1946-1949” (“The Truman Doctrine and the Greek Civil War 1946-1949”).
Bill Mello, Division of Labor Studies, analyzed ideas about U.S. labor unions reflected in the 1954 Marlon Brando film, On the Waterfront, last month at a film festival at the Higgens Labor Research Center at the University of Notre Dame where Mello is an associate member.
Sociologist Ligaya McGovern’s article, “Transnational Feminism and Globalization: Bringing Third World Women’s Voices from the Margin to the Center,” appears in the new book Critical Globalization Studies (Routledge), published in January and edited by Richard Appelbaum and William Robinson. “The contributors,” says the publisher, “prioritize social justice and engagement with ordinary people over top-down accounts that focus only on powerful political actors and big business.”
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