T HE WORLD BECAME A SMALLER PLACE IN THE 20TH CENTURY. TRANSportation technology caused physical distances to shrink by several orders of magnitude, and telecommunications technology made terrestrial distances insignificant. The transformation of the world into a global village caused revolutionary changes in the physical and social infrastructure, rivaling those of the industrial revolution. E...

W e can say with some certainty, al Qaeda loves the Internet. When the latter first appeared, it was hailed as an integrator of cultures and a medium for businesses, consumers, and governments to communicate with one another. It appeared to offer unparalleled opportunities for the creation of a “global village.” Today the Internet still offers that promise, but it also has proven in some respec...

corporations have a key role in economic development, growth of national security and financial competition. the key of power is in economy. so in the global village, the economic competition replaces military conflict. a new concept in criminal justice is corporate crime. these crimes as a kind of white collar crime are studied in light of critical criminology findings of this study shows that...

The pomt of this book IS to bnng together experts from a variety of "mmorIty" backgrounds and from around the world to gIVe theIr learned and umque perspectIves on the most pervasIve ideology today, which 15 assImilatIOn on a global scale. The baSIC premIse of this book IS that both a developed country and a developed market are different from a developed community. They need not be mutually ex...