University of North Carolina Center for Global Initiatives
University of North Carolina Global
Published on a quarterly basis, global-e provides a forum for commentary on global events, processes, and issues. Each edition features brief essays (800 words) by leading scholars and practitioners, offering provocative reflections on a range of topics with the aim of stimulating discussion among the global studies community. As each new edition is posted on the web, email announcements are delivered to individual subscribers and to listservs associated with professional and scholarly organizations interested in global studies. We aim to both encourage circulation of commentary essays and stimulate discussion among readers. Accordingly, each essay is open to reader response and deliberation.
Although available to internet users around the world, global-e focuses on building relations among global studies programs. Commentaries are on public issues, theoretical debates, methodological challenges, and curricular concerns.
The editorial staff solicits essays of approximately 800 words, which is the standard length for opinion pieces in most newspapers, magazines, and journals. Our aim is to provoke discussion and to provide commentators with an opportunity to circulate their ideas in a new format.
global-e is managed collaboratively by global studies programs at the following universities:
Center for Global Initiatives, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Center for Global Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Global Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Center for International Education, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Center for Global Studies, University of Washington-Seattle
Global and International Studies, University of California-Santa Barbara
We look forward to your active participation in global-e. For more information, please contact Dr. Niklaus Steiner at
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- Turkey and the Arab Spring
- Feb 8 '12 4:38PM
- Ercan Balcı When Turkey is mentioned in relation to the Arab Spring, there are two major points of view: 1. Turkey is a great model for Arab countries as a secular democracy with a majority muslim population. 2. Turkey is not a good model since it has its own problems with minority rights, freedom of […]
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- Debt Crisis in Europe and the Limits of National Power in the Face of a Global Challenge
- Dec 6 '11 1:35PM
- Kostas Kourtikakis Lecturer & Research Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The European debt crisis has been at the top of the news in the United States and around the world since it fist broke out in 2009. Citizens and businesses have been watching with great concern and fascination […]
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- There is an “app” for that: Mobile technologies and learning
- Nov 7 '11 2:59PM
- Lynne M. Rudasill From the adze maker to the Gutenberg Bible to Project Gutenberg to the mobile “app,” technological advances both impact and support human society. The revolution in communications and technology embodied by the internet and the World Wide Web has been felt in all but the most resistant or distant corners of the […]
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- Water Issues from a Global, National, and Local Perspective
- Sep 19 '11 3:39PM
- By Nathaniel Uchtmann Water is prominent on the list of global crises that are predicted to present major challenges to human populations at scales ranging from local to global. In the coming decades, water is thus expected to acquire an increasingly important position on the global agenda. Even today, water-related human morbidity and mortality, which […]
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- Goddess Laksmi and Cultural Traditions of Rice: Implications for the Status of Women
- Aug 2 '11 5:34PM
- Bidyut Mohanty, Institute of Social Sciences (Delhi) There is worldwide concern at the falling proportion of girls among youth populations in developing countries, especially in China and India which are otherwise making news as rising economies. Recent census figures in both countries present a still increasing gender gap and thus an alarming trend toward an […]