New Readings on Globalisation, Asia and Australia (for 1003GIR, 2016GIR and 6005GIR)

Swan defends economic record and future prospects of the Australian economy
http://www.swanmp.org/index.php?id=533 

Down with the running dogs of capitalism ... or at least liberalism
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/world/asia/chinas-new-leadership-takes-hard-line-in-secret-memo.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_ae_20130819&_r=0

Confucian soft power
http://thediplomat.com/china-power/soft-power-or-ancient-wisdom/

More dire climate warnings
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/science/earth/extremely-likely-that-human-activity-is-driving-climate-change-panel-finds.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_ae_20130819

An era of relative peace
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/opinion/global/the-great-powers-then-and-now.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all

Where is it made?
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/19/not-really-made-in-china-or-the-united-states/ 

Chinese economic dependence and lack of global companies
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/28d1a4a8-e7ba-11e2-babb-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=uk#axzz2cfZx0e9S

Britain has at one time invaded most of the world http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9653497/British-have-invaded-nine-out-of-ten-countries-so-look-out-Luxembourg.html

China as a global but 'partial power'
http://www.amazon.co.uk/China-Goes-Global-Partial-Power/dp/0199860149/ref=pd_sim_b_4/277-4982565-1908159

The financial underpinnings of economic crisis
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/23/opinion/krugman-this-age-of-bubbles.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_ae_20130825

The impact of technology on the middle class
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/how-technology-wrecks-the-middle-class/?emc=edit_tnt_20130825&tntemail0=y 

Peace through globalisation and capitalism (available through uni)
http://jpr.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/08/22/0022343313497739.full.pdf