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Author: Rohini Hensman Publisher: Columbia University Press Book Review by: Artha Hemrajani Globalization has leveled the playing field for developing countries like China and India, for example, to compete for jobs with developed countries like the United States and Germany. Globalization is here to stay. It positively affects the developing world and negatively affects the developed world in the form of changes in the livelihood sources and lifestyles of tens, if not hundreds of millions of people around the world. Essentially, the word ‘globalization’ immediately brings to mind the word ‘competition’. Globalization has helped employers in developing countries grow...

Editors: Won Bae Kim, Yue-man Yeung and Sang-Chuel Choe Publisher: The Chinese University Press, in collaboration with Columbia University Press Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram A conference was held on the island of Jeju in South Korea on July 7, 8 and 9 in 2010 with 31 participants from China, Japan, Russia and South Korea, wherein 23 papers were presented on matters relating to the common interests of these four nations. Organized by South Korea’s Presidential Committee on Regional Development (PCRD) the purpose of that meeting was to reshape regional policy as a result of recent changes in the...

Author: Neil A. Grauer Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Book Review by: Nano Khilnani The Johns Hopkins Hospital, part of the vast Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation (read below) with its headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland, has been named the best hospital in the United States for an incredible 21 consecutive years by U.S. News and World Report. Its faculty has been garnering various kinds of awards and recognition for a long number of years, such as Nobel Prizes, National Medals of Science, Presidential Medals of Freedom and the Mac Arthur Foundation ‘genius’ awards. The Johns Hopkins Health System includes:...

Editor: Gilbert Herdt Publisher: New York University Press Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar Moral panics are the ‘natural disasters of human history’ and they not only “present a crisis  for  a stable social order but also threaten the well being of individuals and communities.” points out the editor Gilbert Herdt in this collection of essays by seven contributors who are specialists in their respective fields. A moral panic could take the form of a condition, episode, person or group of persons, that poses or could pose as a threat to the values and interests of a given community within...