Welcome to the site of the strategic research area Globalization at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). NTNU has defined globalization as a special research area in which the university has particular qualities for conducting research of an international standard.
International Migration: Globalization's Last Frontier (Zed Books, 2006).
Jonathon Moses is a professor of political science at NTNU whose newest book on globalization is International Migration: Globalization's Last Frontier (Zed Books, 2006). The book aims to encourage debate about the potential benefits of greater international migration. The book begins by outlining the growing frustration with the unjust distribution of our globe’s economic and political bounty and today’s most prominent economic and political responses to these frustrations.
In light of the many shortcomings associated with these responses, greater migration can be seen as a real and effective alternative for righting international wrongs. The argument is made in two parts. The main body of the book addresses four explicit arguments for free mobility, each based on a distinct academic tradition. In particular, there are strong historical, moral, political, and economic grounds to consider how freer migration can bring a drastic improvement to the social, economic and political conditions that characterize today’s world, for both rich and poor. This argument may not be a popular one, but it is sufficiently compelling not to be dismissed without serious debate. The second part of the book then discusses and counters some of the most significant barriers to increasing international migration. These include public opinion in the developed world and a monolithic body of conventional wisdom that regards free migration as too difficult, too costly, too dangerous or too unrealistic to consider. In the end, the implications of this argument are clear and profound: free international migration can lessen the huge material inequalities and human injustices that many associate with today’s globalization.
Norwegian Manufacturing Future, one of Norway’s 14 newly created Centres for Research-based Innovation
Odd Myklebust
One of globalization’s first lessons is that any product can be made anywhere in the world and shipped to markets, if labour and other costs are cheap enough. As a result, hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs have migrated away from high-wage countries throughout Europe and North America.
The Decline of the Anglo-American Middle East, 1961–1969 - A Willing Retreat (Sussex Academic Press)
Controlling the Uncontrollable? The Great Powers in the Middle East (Tapir Academic Press)
The Decline of the Anglo-American Middle East, 1961–1969 A Willing Retreat (Sussex Academic Press)
Decline of the Anglo-American Middle East
provides an extensive study of the common British and American interest in the Middle East (hence the term Anglo-American Middle East) under Kennedy and Johnson. Contrary to recent scholarly opinion, the author argues that the loss of influence to the Soviet Union and Arab radicalism in the Middle East was not the result of lack of power but lack of will. Britain, during the period of Harold Wilson’s Labour government (1964–1970) withdrew from its Middle Eastern bases for ideological reasons, namely a distaste for imperialism and colonialism. The United States, while placing great store in a continued British presence east of Suez, was unable or unwilling to prevent the British withdrawal. And as the British withdrawal gathered momentum, American disinterest toward the Middle East increased
Controlling the Uncontrollable? The Great Powers in the Middle East (Tapir Academic Press)
The NTNU Globalization Programme organized in May 2004 a conference on the Anglo-American Middle East. A distinguished group of scholars accepted the invitation and gracefully agreed to rewrite their lectures for inclusion in this book edited by Professor Tore T. Petersen. The book is about how the different great powers have, not always successfully, tried to control the Middle East. Contributors are:
Professor Edward Ingram: Pairing off Empires: The United States as Great Britain in the Middel East
Professor Alan Milward: Was the Middle East Birth Place the Birth Place of a Common European Foreign Policy?
Professor Douglas Little: Innocents Abroad? Orientalism and America’s New Empire in the Middle East
Professor Peter L. Hahn: the united States and Israel: The Formative Years
Associate Professor May Ann Heiss: Oul, Allies, Anti-Comomunisme, and Nationalism: U.S. Interests in the Middle East since 1945
NTNU Globalization Programme to be evaluated
The University Board has decided to evaluate the Strategic Areas at NTNU from an academic, organizational and strategic perspective. A scientific expert panel for the evaluation is about to be set up. The objective is to evaluate the NTNU Strategic Areas as an instrument for NTNU to achieve its goals as a university of highest scientific quality and societal relevance. The evaluation will identify scientific results achieved with a special focus on added value of the Strategic Area and assess whether the Strategic Area’s organizational and financial circumstances are suited to promote its performance. On the basis of the conclusions from the evaluation, the strategic plans of the NTNU Strategic Areas will be revised following discussions between the Strategic Areas, Faculties and NTNU’s central management. Problems to be addressed are of academic, organizatorial and strategic nature. Elements in the evaluation are a self-evaluation report to be delivered by June 15, and an evaluation report by the scientific expert panel to be completed by October 12.
