Globalisation Project 2010

This is the Globalisation portal for all pages linked to Globalisation and Anti-Globalisation research reports. For resources to help you investigate see Investigative Research.

Referencing -- please read this first

I know referencing in Powerbase is difficult for newbies until they get the hang of it and we are trying to make it simpler. So here's a very simplified guide. All new contributorss should read this before starting--it'll save a lot of grief later. http://www.spinprofiles.org/index.php/SpinProfiles:A_Guide_to_Referencing#The_super-quick_guide_to_referencing

Sentences

Please also use complete sentences when writing/starting an article for Spin, eg John Smith is the Conservative candidate for Biggleworth East...

Not just a page title and then a fragment like 'Conservative candidate for Bigglesworth East'

Page Titles

All pages in this database which are part of the globalisation project should have titles beginning : Globalisation:

Make sure you add the colon ':' immediately after the word 'Globalisation'

Then a space and add the name 0f the person or organisations you are adding.

Proposed Projects

Climate change and the Environment

   * Green Alliance
   * International Policy Network
   * Global Warming Policy Foudnation
   * CEPOS (also known as the Danish Centre for Political Studies)
   * Atlas Economic Research Foundation
   * Cato Institute

   * See: Pays To Deny Climate Change, take oil money and use it to fund climate deniers

Food, Eating and Obesity

   * National Obesity Forum / International Obesity Taskforce
   * European Food Information Council | International Food Information Council
   * Media Smart
   * Associate Parliamentary Food and Health Forum
   * Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum

Conflict and Private Security Industry

The conflict communication and reconstruction industry - The work of 'rebuilding' areas destroyed by war and other excesses of globalisation is big business, as is the PR element of these wars. See for example:

• Post Conflict People - an NGO "committed to reviving societies suffering from recent or on-going conflicts", whose directors happen to be the directors of the Association of Private Security Companies;

• Albany Associates - a related group expert in communicating the 'reconstruction' message Associates - Strategic Communication Project;

• Glevum Associates - who take 'market research' into the warzone - Why Glevum? ;

• Leonie Industries - who go beyond market research into 'cultural advisory services' and worldwide media distribution Industries - About.

i Diplomacy

• Alliance for Youth Movements (www.movements.org) - a group founded and funded by the likes of google, facebook, youtube, pepsi, cbc, MTV and the US State Department to promote digital activism - famously the 'twitter revolution' in Iran. This is an important developing area in which the role of globalisation in the media and communication is very interesting, see for example | this essay by Sami Ben Gharbia on internet freedom and Arab digital activism.

Free Market Think Tanks

   * European Ideas Network - One of at least four networks of free market think tanks.
   * Centre for Social Justice new Conservative think tanks set up in 2004 by Iain Duncan-Smith

Members of the Stockholm Network

   * Business for New Europe | International Council for Capital Formation | Taxpayers' Alliance | Politeia

Health

   * New Health Network

Defence/Arms Industry

   * First Defence/Terrington Management
   * Air League/Associate Parliamentary Aerospace Group/Air League Educational Trust
   * United Kingdom National Defence Association/UK Defence Forum
   * Atlantic Partnership/Atlantic Bridge