U.S.-Canadian and Mexican water-related issues testify to the role that natural resources/ environmental issues play in foreign policy and demonstrate how environmental problems can affect the public and private sectors of a nation internally. How people affect the environment is an irreducible bottom line for stable international trade and market…

Argues that social transformation at the macro-level (national and global) is the result of micro-processes, or social movements organized around local issues. Describes the global mobilization processes that have a local focus but nevertheless transcend the nation-state and modify the workings of the world-system. (BSR)

Provides a four-part framework for thinking about the content of global education. The elements are the study of: (1) diverse human values; (2) global economic, political, ecological, and technological systems; (3) global problems and issues; and (4) the history of contact and interdependence among peoples, cultures, and nations. (JDH)

Provides a comprehensive listing of print and audio-visual resources for developing a global studies program. Included are elementary and secondary instructional units, activities, maps, computer software, multimedia packages, and curriculum guides. (JDH)

In this era of rapid communications, increasing interdependence in trade and monetary relations, large foreign investment flows, and looming uncertainties about pollution and resource scarcities, the traditional methods of the generalist diplomat are needed more urgently than ever. Several factors that today impede the diplomatic dialogue are…

This document is an interpretive synthesis of the discussion at a conference sponsored by the Aspen Institute that sought to develop new ways to understand how the Internet is changing the powers of the nation-state, the conduct of international relations, and the definitions of nation security. This report examines how the Internet and other…

Highlighting the 50th anniversary of the United Nations, this six-lesson unit of study addresses the history of the United Nations; the concepts of peace and conflict; and the topics of peacekeeping, development, relief, and the environment. One hundred handouts, suitable for transparency reproduction or classroom distribution, feature the United…

This lesson, one of four stand-alone lessons that examine Australia as an aspect of world history, introduces students to the environment and geography of Australia and the positions that Australia takes on global warming. Students are asked, as mock members of an Australian delegation to an international conference to be held in 2015 in Canberra…

The essays in this collection originated at a symposium on the teaching of political geography focused on the implementation of Standard 13 (National Geography Standards), "How the forces of cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and control of earth's surface." The 16 chapters (or essays) in the collection are: (1)…

The mounting number of problems and conflicts confronting all nations requires interdependent, cooperative action. Young students, beginning in kindergarten, need to be offered a global education in order to understand and cope with future world problems. This article offers suggestions for implementing a curriculum with a global perspective.…

Argues that educating Americans to accept and learn to deal with the interdependent nature of the world may be the most important task our educational system faces. (WD)

Educators of the eighties and nineties, it is suggested, are responsible for making sure that Americans enter the twenty-first century with a view as wide as the world. The widest and most neglected frontier of United States educational reform is seen as a global perspective on all studies. (MLW)

Reviews views of Zbigniew Brzezinski, Unites States national security advisor. He sees science and technology as a positive force acting on contemporary change in societies of advanced countries and that exchange of scientific knowledge may enhance cooperation among nations. (CS)

Defines diplomacy as the art of language, of avoiding misunderstanding on a global scale. Emphasizes that Australia's cultural vitality is the product of English and other indigenous languages of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander citizens, as well as European and Asian languages, and that the country's economic vitality depends on knowing…

Presents a Swedish booklet which addresses the reasons for highlighting peace education. Examines the current content and syllabi, and presents suggestions for organizing peace education, with reference to the concepts of knowledge, feeling, and action. Stresses the importance of teaching international affairs in the compulsory and upper-secondary…