POL 380 - Senior Seminar in Political Science
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

 

FUTURES READINGS (some PDF)

Democracy Futures Mika Mannermaa, et al Eds.

Robotic Nation by Marshall Brain

"Globalization and the Future of Democracy." by John Markoff. Journal of World Systems Research vol. V no. 2 (1999)

"On the Future of Democracy:  Noam Chomsky interviewed by John P. Titlow."  Dragonfire, June, 2005

The Big Question (Left and right defined the 20th century. What's next? 100 writers and thinkers answer) Prospect March 2007

2006 State of the Future Executive Summary from the Millenium Project Global Futures Studies and Research, the American Council of the United Nations University.

Global Society and its Enemies: 9/11 and the Future of Atlantic Civilization by Ludger Kuhnhardt

Characterizing a sustainability transition: Goals, targets, trends, and driving forces by Thomas M. Parris and Robert W. Kates

The End of Citizenship? The Nation State, Threats to its Legitimacy, and Citizenship Education in the Twenty-first Century by Mike Bottery

The New Feudalism: Globalization, the Market, and the Great Chain of Consumption by Tim Duvall

Recognizing Cultural Diversity with a Democratic Community Mestizaje as Opposed to the Usual Suspects by John Francis Burke

Legal Transplants and the Evolution of Global Environmental Law by Jonathan B. Weiner

Immigration and the American Realities of Assimilation and Multiculturalism by Richard Alba

Population problems: Recent developments and their impact by Joel E. Cohen

American Geography in the Year 2000 by Brian J.L. Berry (1970)

American Geographers in the Year 2000 Brian J.L. Berry (2004)

Geographies of the United States in the Year 2004 by Elvin K.Wyly

Digitizing the Social Contract: Producing American Political Culture in the Age of New Media by Philip N. Howard

Troubled Leviathan: The Contemporary U.S. versus Brian Berry’s U.S. by Barney Warf

Looking Back and Looking Forward from ‘‘The Geography of the United States in the Year 2000’’ by Donald G. Janelle

The Geography of the United States in the Year 2000: Science, Predictability, and Public Policy in an Age of Uncertainty by Daniel Z. Sui

Looking Backwards into the Future with Brian Berry by Stanley D. Brunn and Edward J. Malecki

The Future is Yours