All submissions must be directed to: submissions@gig.org. Please limit your content body to a maximum of 3000 words. Book reviews should not exceed 2000 words.
Please include the working title of your article or review in the Email subject. In addition, for our records, include the following details in your Email Body:
- Working title of the submission
- First Name, Last Name
- Email address
- A two-sentence bio
- The submission itself as an attachment. (We accept most word processor formats).
Once we receive your submission, it will be processed, and you will receive a confirmation email.
We consider articles, essays, interviews, book reviews, photographic and multimedia presentations.
The following is a suggested list of topics:
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the environment
- war and conflict, both conventional and insurgent
- population trends and their impact on cultures, political institutions, markets, and the environment.
- the movements of peoples across borders
- the meaning of borders themselves
- multinational corporations and economic interconnections
- the role of the United Nations and other international bodies
- how women and minorities are affected by globalization
- issues in global distributive justice; e.g. exportation of hazardous waste for disposal in third-world countries, inequalities in health care and responses to health emergencies across countries, prospects of global pandemics, and unethical clinical trials conducted in impoverished countries
- the effects of globalization on the human quest for meaning and on views of the “good life”
- how the media and information technology are affected by and help shape an increasingly global planet.
- religion based conflict
- the evolution of languages
- the role of education.
- how globalization today is both similar to and different from earlier instances of globalization.
In addition to these topics, contributors may address such meta-issues as: the meaning of globalization; its general benefits and costs to nations, groups, and individuals; the problem posed by globalization in a world with a single superpower; global disparities of health, education, and general well being; and the changing responsibilities of individuals, institutions, and governments in a globalized world.
