Falling Off The Edge. Globalization, World Peace And Other Lies

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Macmillan
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2008
Edition: First Edition

Description: 342 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: If the world is flat, as the prophets of globalization proclaim, then what happens on the underside Alex Perry answers with this eye-opening journey through the planets most dangerous hotspotsSince the fall of the Berlin Wall, international corporations, governments and Western pundits have embraced the idea of a global a shrinking, booming world in which everyone benefits. But what if the coming boom is an explosionAlex Perry, award-winning TIME correspondent, travels from the South China Sea to the highlands of Afghanistan to the Sahara—and observes globalization on the ground, instead of from the executive suite.Perry takes readers to Shenzen, Chinas boom city where sweatshops pay under-age workers less than $4 a day; and to Bombay, where the gap between rich and poor means million-dollar apartments overlook million-people slums. He shares a beer with Southeast Asian pirates who prey on the worlds busiest shipping artery. And he puts us in the middle of a firefight between American Special Forces and the Taliban.He shows that for every winner in our brave new world, there are tens of thousands of losers. And be they Chinese army veterans, Indian Maoist rebels or the Somali branch of al Qaeda, they are very, very angry.Falling Off the Edge is a tour de force of frontline reporting, which reveals with alarming clarity that globalization, far from a planetary panacea, starts wars.

ISBN: 9780230706897