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 contributors should read this before starting--it'll save a lot of grief later. http://www.powerbase.info/index.php?title=Powerbase: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 Bigglesworth 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' when creating a new page, then a space and add the name of the person or organisations you are adding.

Proposed Projects

Climate Change and the Environment

1. Globalisation: Green Alliance

2. Globalisation: International Policy Network

3. Globalisation: Global Warming Policy Foundation

4. Globalisation: CEPOS (also known as the Globalisation: Danish Centre for Political Studies)

5. Globalisation: Atlas Economic Research Foundation

6. Globalisation: Cato Institute

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

Food, Eating and Obesity

7. Globalisation: National Obesity Forum / Globalisation: International Obesity Taskforce

8. Globalisation: European Food Information Council | Globalisation: International Food Information Council

9. Globalisation: Media Smart

10.Globalisation: Associate Parliamentary Food and Health Forum/Globalisation: 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:

11. Globalisation: 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 British Association of Private Security Companies;

• Globalisation: Albany Associates - a related group expert in communicating the 'reconstruction' message Associates - Strategic Communication Project;
• Globalisation: Glevum Associates - who take 'market research' into the warzone - Why Glevum? ;
• Globalisation: Leonie Industries - who go beyond market research into 'cultural advisory services' and worldwide media distribution Industries - About.
• Globalisation: Bell Pottinger Sans Frontieres" - A wing of the PR giant Chime Communications focussed on "the provision of communications strategies and programmes for international businesses, countries, institutions, politicians and high-profile individuals"

i Diplomacy

12. Globalisation: 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 - such as the infamous '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

13. Globalisation: European Ideas Network - One of at least four networks of free market think tanks.

14. Globalisation: Centre for Social Justice new Conservative think tanks set up in 2004 by Iain Duncan-Smith

Members of the Stockholm Network

15. Globalisation: Business for New Europe

16. Globalisation: International Council for Capital Formation

17. Globalisation: Taxpayers' Alliance

18. Globalisation: Politeia

Health

19. Globalisation: New Health Network

Defence/Arms Industry

20. Globalisation: First Defence/Globalisation: Terrington Management

21. Globalisation: Air League/Globalisation: Associate Parliamentary Aerospace Group/Globalisation: Air League Educational Trust

22. Globalisation: United Kingdom National Defence Association/Globalisation: UK Defence Forum

23. Globalisation: Atlantic Partnership/Globalisation: Atlantic Bridge