Explores the origins and the reciprocal influences of globalization and the recent economic crisis, and suggests what new ideological foundations and geographic regions will be ascendant. - Provided by publisher

More than 20 years ago, as part of my dissertation research, I sat behind a sewing machine at a Mexican maquiladora in Ciudad Juarez. That border city was the cradle of outsourcing in the region for American companies aiming to reduce production costs and improve their competitive edge in the...

In a recent review of Phillip Roth’s prolific contribution to American Literature, a critic observes about the central character in his most notorious book, that Alexander Portnoy’s onanistic hold to the flesh is literally, in rebellion against the life that is being forced upon him . . . A...