The main achievement of this issue is to have extended the geographical coverage of the material and its authors consistent with a journal of Globalization. The issue has two contributions on African scholars focused on Africa, a contribution focused on Latin American, another on India and China. Still another examines the impact of the OECD’s proposed (1998) multilateral agreement on investment on entrepreneurship around the world.
This is the kind of geographical coverage that will hopefully become a model for future issues. Several years ago, one of the publications of the International Studies Association examined the publication rates of scholars from Latin America, Africa and Asia in North American journals on international affairs. The publication rates were extraordinarily low, something like 1 percent. As a journal focused on globalization, it is important that we attract decent work from scholars from these regions.
This issue is also fortunate to have an excellent book review by Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat. There are dozens of books being published on globalization and related to globalization each year. If you read this journal and books on globalization, please consider us as an outlet for your critical thinking on contemporary books.
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