Globalization research project

Today I start a research project on Globalization that I’ve been procrastinating for at least a few months now.

I bought five books from the nearest HPB and checked out two from my university library.

They are:

• Malcom Waters — Globalization
• Magdish Bhagwati — In Defense of Globalization
• Mangers B. Steger — Globalisms, 3rd edition
• George Soros — On Globalization
• Koichi Iwabuchi — Recentering Globalization
• Tang Suit Chee and Allong Wong, ed. — The Challenge and Impact of Globalization- Towards a Biblical Response
• Stephen Kinzer — Overthrow

My goals for this project are:

1. Read all seven books
2. Write summaries of all seven books
3. Write a 17,000 word minimum research essay
4. Discover five new things in favor of globalization and five new things against
5. Convert the research essay into a series of bit-sized, easily digestible blog posts
6. From the book bibliographies identify fifteen new books for further study

I plan to do all this, limiting myself to eight hours a day, before I leave for a missions trip on January 3rd. I also will be gone a few days here and there, notably Christmas but also some other events as well.