This volume explores critical aspects of the rise and expansion of globalization through key primary documents, from letters and speeches to government documents. Overview articles provide important context to the era, while the curated selection of documents helps make the volume an important starting point for historical research.

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• Contents
• Reader’s Guide
• Globalization
• Deng Xiaoping: “Emancipate the Mind”
• Alexander Solzhenitsyn: “A World Split Apart”
• Nelson Mandela: “We Have Waited Too Long for Our Freedom”
• Aung San Suu Kyi: “Freedom from Fear”
• Benjamin R. Barber: “Jihad vs. McWorld”
• Nelson Mandela: Inaugural Address
• UN Human Rights Report on Zaire
• Osama bin Laden: Declaration of Jihad against Americans
• Interview with the Dalai Lama on China, Hatred, and Optimism
• Óscar Arias: “Thoughts on Peace”
• Condoleezza Rice: Keynote Address at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum
• Joschka Fischer: From Confederacy to Federation
• Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US
• Robert C. Byrd: “We Stand Passively Mute” Speech
• George W. Bush: Address to the Nation on Military Operations in Iraq
• Hugo Chávez: Speech at the Opening of the Twelfth G-15 Summit
• Taguba Report
• 9/11 Commission Report
• Ariel Sharon: Speech to the UN General Assembly
• Condoleezza Rice: “International Support for Iraqi Democracy”
• M. Jay Wells: “Why the Mortgage Crisis Happened”
• Geir Haarde: Statement on Financial Crisis in Iceland
• Alexander Jung: “Ponzi Planet: The Danger Debt Poses to the Western World”
• UN Arms Trade Treaty
• Benjamin Netanyahu: Speech to the UN General Assembly
• Hassan Rouhani: Letter to the UN General Assembly
• Abdullah II: Remarks to the UN General Assembly
• Viktor Orbán: Speech at the 25th Bálványos Summer Free University and Student Camp
• Alexis Tsipras: Speech on Debt Referendum