Introduction -Gabriel R. Ricci 1.Imagining a Global World: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Tragedy of Great Power Politics in the First Era of Globalization, 1870 1914 - Carl J. Strikwerda 2.The Temporal and Spatial Scales of Global Climate Change and the Limits of Individualistic and Rationalistic Ethics - J. Baird Callicott 3.Saving Civilization from Itself - Brett Bowden 4.Globalization and the Andean Oil Rush - A. Pablo Iannone 5.Corporate Citizenship and Globalization: An Analysis of the United Nations Global Compact - Sanjay Paul 6.With Apologies to Daffodils: Business Enterprise and the Human Condition - Ed Chung 7.Toward Buddhist Economics, Building on E. F. Schumacher - Colin D. Butler 8."Parallel Polis" and the Arab Spring: The Internet as Layer, Difference, and Engine of Democratic Renewal - Taso G. Lagos