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Friedman, author of The World Is Flat " Bound Together is a graceful recounting of modern globalization with a panoramic perspective. I see globalization as a historical process of interconnectedness that has shaped all of our lives. Of traders, preachers, adventurers, and soldiers, is there one group that has played a greater role in shaping the world today? At the same time, it comes from an assumption that theatre artists are also actively performing what it means to be global. If we look under the hood of our daily existence, almost everything—from what we consume, wear or use to the music we listen to or the movies we enjoy—is the product of a long and complex historical journey. His book should be read in every home, school, business and embassy in the world, and become a vital part of our common intellectual heritage.

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Milton Friedman wrote about how the humble pencil shows our interconnectedness. The motivation in the inquiry is based on a presumption that theatre artists are also actively participating in defining what globalization means. Since humans migrated from Africa and dispersed throughout the world, they have found countless ways and reasons to reconnect with each other. His book about "how traders, preachers, adventurers and warriors shaped globalisation" is essentially a human drama, about people travelling across cultures, leaving civilisations, finding new homes, and creating new lives by blending with other people. Globalisation has suffered too long from being seen as a mercantilist endeavour to benefit multinationals. That's their loss; for the many of us in the middle, Chanda portrays the complexities and that, in itself, is an important task. Nayan Chanda's fascinating history explains how those global links were formed in Bound Together.

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As director of the publications programme of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, he publishes an engaging online magazine on the subject. Chanda divides his stories in four parts. Growing interconnectedness has always brought pain in about equal measure to gain. Furthermore, he has had a three-decade innings at the Hong Kong-based Far Eastern Economic Review disclosure: where he was my editor. But it is impossible to oppose the process of globalization, which is being driven by hundreds of millions of people from every walk of life.

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Drawing a few lines in the sand would have allowed him to attract a wider readership that remains sceptical of globalisation. Item type: Sách Includes bibliographical references p. For Chanda, globalization is a process of ever-growing interconnectedness and interdependence that began thousands of years ago and continues to this day with increasing speed and ease. It is in dealing with the colonial project that Chanda could have stopped being a reporter and taken a stance more firmly in criticising adventurism. The book is a must for every student of globalization. Wasserstein, Newsweek "With the perspective of a historian and the savvy of a political scientist, Chanda skillfully argues that globalization was, is and will always be inevitable. From the cells in our bodies to the objects that are integral to our everyday existence, we are all connected by invisible threads that stretch across continents and millennia.

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. For all its positive contributions, globalization has also brought war, slavery, displacement, and pandemics. Chanda documents the history of the past two millennia by casting light, not heat, on little-known facts and apparently unconnected trends to show how we are bound together. Trade and flag often followed each other, and the Bible and the rifle too went hand-in-hand. Many artists engage with the global by either collaborating with artists of different nationalities or using globalization as a central theme to their theatre works.

Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization by Nayan Chanda

In this entertaining book, Nayan Chanda follows the exploits of traders, preachers, adventurers, and warriors throughout history as they have shaped and reshaped the world. Chanda demystifies a phenomenon invested by its enemies with nearly satanic properties. Editorial Reviews "By unbundling the attributes of modern globalization and linking them to an almost endless chain of historical precedents, Mr. Most recently, the development of the World Wide Web has "flattened" the world of global services and accelerated the transfer of ideas and information. Partisans on both sides can learn much from his book. Since humans migrated from Africa and dispersed throughout the world, they have found countless ways and reasons to reconnect with each other. But he also has a great deal of sympathy for globalisation's losers.

Chanda's fascinating history explains how those global links were formed. This cacophonous debate, Chanda says, is pointless. But in the final analysis, the performance mediates the sociality between the local and the global and ultimately performs an entanglement of the local and the global as a reference to an attraction and repulsion to globalization. Still, I would say that traders, who often moonlighted as preachers, adventurers, and soldiers, played the most significant role. As many NGO staff think of themselves as non-religious, senior executives at HRW are not comfortable with that comparison; but the point, while not novel, is a valid one.

Are there certain transition points in history that greatly facilitated globalization in its various forms? On the other hand are the weak, who see in that rising tide a tsunami. In developing countries, poverty is increasing, while in thedeveloped world, growing economic inequality, unemployment and fears about job security are fueling demand for trade protections and more restrictive immigration policies. C454-Bound 2007 Summary: Since humans migrated from Africa and dispersed throughout the world, they have found countless ways and reasons to reconnect with each other. It is a real contribution to the literature—a must-read for anyone interested in understanding or teaching this subject. This is a book filled with fascinating information.

He conveys his prodigious knowledge with clarity, wit, and narrative verve, weaving themes from the history of science, politics, commerce, and religion into a coherent, compelling story. In the second part, "Preachers", Chanda compares today's NGOs his focus is Human Rights Watch with missionaries of another era, who spread a message of universal values to influence public opinion and change the world. In the end, globalization—from the lone adventurer carving out a new trade route to the expanding ambitions of great empires—is the product of myriad aspirations and apprehensions that define just about every aspect of our lives: what we eat, wear, ride, or possess is the product of thousands of years of human endeavor and suffering across the globe. . Chanda reviews and illustrates the economic and technological forces at play in globalization today and concludes with a thought-provoking discussion of how we can and should embrace an inevitably global world. If there is a fundamental difference today, it is that gunboats are not deployed to open markets and, political rhetoric about crusades and jihads apart, few nation-states invoke the faith to launch a war. There, Chanda witnessed Asia's rise and its economic crisis of 1997-98, when the poster-child of globalisation had become its victim.

In the end, globalization—from the lone adventurer carving out a new trade route to the expanding ambitions of great empires—is the product of myriad aspirations and apprehensions that define just about every aspect of our lives: what we eat, wear, ride, or possess is the product of thousands of years of human endeavor and suffering across the globe. Bound Together, By Nayan Chanda Two cheers for globalisation —Salil Tripathi That's the human aspect of globalisation, as Nayan Chanda's gently-paced history reminds us. Narayana Murthy, Chairman and Chief Mentor, Infosys Technologies Ltd. From the failed World Trade Organisation summit in Seattle in 1999 onwards, globalisation has attracted more than a fair share of critics, from supposed intellectual heavyweights like Joseph Stiglitz to populist polemicists like Naomi Klein. This is a human endeavour, and restricting it, as Amartya Sen argued in the context of international trade, would be like restricting conversation among people.