The U.S.: A Globalizing Economy in a Globalized World

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (003) ◽  
pp. 14-29
Author(s):  
V. Suppyan
Keyword(s):  
Globalized World ◽  
The U.S

The Fourth Reverse Wave?

2022 ◽  
pp. 63-76
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
World Order ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Community ◽  
Reverse Wave ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
The U.S

This chapter examines the work of Samuel Huntington and his theory regarding waves of democratization. The chapter notes that the international community is witnessing a move away from the globalized world order that the era has facilitated (or de-globalization) and that de-democratization is seemingly occurring simultaneously. The chapter pays particular attention to the United States and actions that have been viewed as anti-democratic by the previous presidential administration, which has accelerated the global community's leeriness when it comes to international cooperation led by the U.S.

scholarly journals Islamic banking

2021 ◽  
pp. 275-287
Author(s):  
Christian Castro
Keyword(s):  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Islamic Banking ◽  
Investment Funds ◽  
Banking And Finance ◽  
Financial Products ◽  
The World ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
The U.S

In recent years the rise of Islamic banking has been one of the most important trends in the economic sphere, with an estimated 1.5 billion Muslims in the world, this arena has plenty of room for expansion. Conforming to Shariah (Islamic Law) puts a huge demand among Muslims looking for financial products and services that adhere to their beliefs. If it weren’t for the creation of such alter-natives to conventional banking and finance, Muslims would find it hard to participate in our globalized world without violating their religious principles. There are currently over 300 financial Institutions across the global sphere providing some type of Islamic financial product. According to some experts, the assets that are currently being managed under Shariah law, which range from investment to commercial banks and investment funds, are estimated to be no less than 300 billion. Other experts in the industry estimate the assets under mana-gement to be much larger. The FSA (Financial Services Authority), a regulator for financial services based out of London, estimates the total amount associated with Shariah banking to be as much as 500 billion. Even the U.S rating agency, S & P, estimates the sukuk (deed) market has reached over 75 billion and will likely be over 150 billion by the end of the decade. It used to be that Islamic fi-nancial products were more of a niche market but over time they are now considered mainstream, with many well-known interna-tional financial institutions battling to get a little piece of the pie.

scholarly journals BOOK REVIEW Book Author: Kathleen Stein-Smith. Book title: The U.S. Foreign Language Deficit: Strategies for Maintaining a Competitive Edge in a Globalized World. Year of Publication: (2016). Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Teaneck, New Jersey, USA. Book pages: 123 pp. Book ISBN 978-3-319-34158-3

2021 ◽  
pp. 12-16
Author(s):  
Forough Rahimi ◽  
Gholam Shahisavandi
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Book Title ◽  
Competitive Edge ◽  
Teaching Language ◽  
Language Deficit ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
The U.S

Kathleen Stein-Smith’s The U.S. Foreign Language Deficit: Strategies for Maintaining a Competitive Edge in a Globalized World is an attempt to outline a comprehensive and organized model for one of the recent trends in the field of teaching language and the importance of language.

Transnational habitus: Educational, bilingual and biliteracy practices of Chinese sojourner families in the U.S.

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xia Chao ◽  
Xiufang Ma
Keyword(s):  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
English Only ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
One Year ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
The U.S

Grounded in the perspectives of language socialization and transnational habitus, this one-year ethnographic case study explores two middle-class Chinese sojourner families’ educational, bilingual and biliterate practices after their arrival in the U.S. It addresses the process that their middle childhood children experienced, from the excitement of the new English-speaking environment to linguistic and social isolation, to their adaptation to the environment and, finally, to transnational uplift. The families’ transnational practices throughout the four phases are shaped by their economic, educational and sociocultural dispositions that link together their country of origin and the U.S. They tend to cross national borders in language, literacy and education as well as to circulate glocalized English–Chinese biliteracy. This study reveals the disjunction between the families’ “imagined world” of the U.S. and the reality of a language barrier and ideological conflicts underpinned in an English-only society. The families’ transnational migration is an educational practice with access to their children’s “imagined world”. This study suggests that ESL learning should be considered as a socialization practice, which is tied to and structured by transnational fields in today’s globalized world.

Review Editor's Introduction

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-358
Author(s):  
Jeffrey C. Isaac
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Barack Obama ◽  
Political Order ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Developed World ◽  
The U.S

As I write this introduction, barely eight weeks have elapsed since the inauguration of President Barack Obama, and if there were a honeymoon period, it has most definitely passed. In Pakistan, a weak and divided regime is tottering. To its west, the U.S.-installed regime in Afghanistan is in retreat before the Taliban. In a globalized world, no country has been spared the stresses caused by the financial crisis. And here in the U.S., the severity of the downturn has reignited rancorous partisan debate. The topic of Robert Bates's When Things Fell Apart—the focus of our featured symposium—is the breakdown of political order in parts of Africa. But, apropos earlier discussions about area studies and its limits in which Bates was an important participant, the problem of ensuring effective and legitimate governance is hardly the provenance of the “less developed” world.

Moros in America

2020 ◽  
pp. 143-167
Author(s):  
Oliver Charbonneau
Keyword(s):  
Motion Pictures ◽  
World's Fair ◽  
Dime Novel ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Adventure Stories

This chapter talks about Moros and Americans negotiating an increasingly globalized world beyond colony and metropole. It mentions a vernacular dime novel about the St. Louis World's Fair published in 1904 titled Uncle Bob and Aunt Becky's Strange Adventures at the World's Great Exposition. It also describes how overseas colonies appeared to a skeptical metropolitan public and how cultural producers appropriately portrayed the America's foreign subjects. The chapter mentions the U.S. newspapers that followed the Moros closely as they met with presidents, performed for midwestern crowds, took in the Manhattan skyline, and embraced collegiate life. It cites the Moros' appearance in assorted fictions, such as comic operas, children's adventure stories, radio serials, and motion pictures that manufactured Muslim colonial subjects and presented them in varied ways to a curious public.

scholarly journals State aid in banking sector

2012 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-210
Author(s):  
Jana Mikušová
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
State Aid ◽  
Mortgage Market ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Member States ◽  
Small Circle ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
The U.S

The financial crisis has hit Europe with a truly unprecedented power, which has in early 2008 expected only a very small circle of pessimists. After the first cracks began to appear on the mortgage market in the U.S., however, started an avalanche that rolls until today. In today’s globalized world, it would be very naive to believe that this would not have an impact on the European Union internal market.With the crisis in the banking sector, the Member States of the European Union fought against the crisis in various ways. Allocation of the state aid in the first months of the crisis took place within the existing rules, yet it was necessary to enclose these huge expenditures by rules and regulations issued by the European Commission.This article discusses the types of state aid, which were used at the time from the first wave of state aid granted by Member States from 2008 to 2010 and also assess the current situation together with the evaluation of the approach of the European Commission.

Global Youth Migration and Gendered Modalities

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Access To Resources ◽  
Cultural Expectations ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
Youth Migration ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
The U.S

Gender is a factor of youth migration; it shapes the roles, capacities, access to resources, and cultural expectations in society. Gender defines who leaves and who stays behind in the place of origin, or the extent from which the youth travels outside of their own communities. This collection is possibly the first to present the intersection of gender and youth migration with encompassing themes related to imperial histories, negotiating identities, education, and work using diverse studies in Canada, France, Hungary, Bangladesh, Turkey, Italy, Albania, Ethiopia, U.K. and the U.S. Gendered modalities suggest that there are particular ways or modes in which gender as a system of power relations become manifest in youth migration, either voluntarily or coerced, and consequently, their negotiation of structures and limiting social practices.Gender and youth are intrinsically connected to migration, and this book is about these connections in multidisciplinary perspectives in an increasingly globalized world.

Culture, Personality, and Attitudes Toward Euthanasia

2015 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Adam Wasserman ◽  
Naser Aghababaei ◽  
Drew Nannini
Keyword(s):  
Multivariate Regression ◽  
The United States ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Multivariate Models ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
The U.S

This article reports cultural differences in the relationship between personality characteristics and euthanasia attitudes using samples from Iran and the United States. Survey data from university students were analyzed using multivariate regression. Results indicate that while attitudes toward euthanasia are significantly more positive among the U.S. sample, there is significantly greater variation among the Iranian sample. Honesty-Humility and Openness to Experience are predictive factors in both samples, where Agreeableness is only significant among the Iranian group. Additionally, Chow tests of structural features of the multivariate models show significant differences between the two samples. We conclude by discussing implications of these results for understanding cultural similarities and differences in attitudes toward euthanasia, including the practical implications of this work for patient care in an increasingly globalized world.

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