Robert W. Strayer
Ways of the World:
A Brief Global History
First Edition
CHAPTER 24
Accelerating Global Interaction
Since 1945
Copyright © 2009 by Bedford/St. Martin’s
Global Interaction and the Transformation
of the World Economy
• Reglobalization
• Disparities and Resistance
• Globalization and an American Empire
The Globalization of Liberation:
Comparing Feminist Movements
• Feminism in the West
• Feminism in the Global South
• International Feminism
Religion and Global Modernity
• Fundamentalism on a Global Scale
• Creating Islamic Societies: Resistance and Renewal in
the World of Islam
• Religious Alternatives to Fundamentalism
The World’s Environment and the
Globalization of Environmentalism
• The Global Environment Transformed
• Green and Global
Chapter 24
Accelerating Global Interaction, Since 1945
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Map 24.1 Globalization in Action: Trade and Investment in the Early
Twenty-first Century (p. 726)
Map 24.2 Global Inequality: Population and Economic Development
(p. 729)
Map 24.4 The Islamic World in the Early Twentyfirst Century (p. 743)
Map 24.5 Carbon Dioxide Emissions in the Twentieth Century (p. 750)
Snapshot: World Population Growth, 1950–2005 (p. 748)
One World (p. 722)
A World Economy (p. 725)
Che Guevara (p. 735)
Mothers of Missing Children (p. 738)
Hamas in Action (p. 744)
Environmentalism in Action (p. 751)