 | The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.39 Highly anacdotical, makes for a fun read. Gives you a sense of the energy and enormous possibilities that globalization offers.
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 | The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $9.24 Zakaria describes 'the rise of the rest', how emergeing powers (i.e. China and India) change the global political power play. Gives you the big picture, but focuses strongly on foreign policy more than anything else.
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 | Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $7.50 A beautiful and touching book, of one person's global journey. Ayaan Hirsi Ali shifts through cultural extremes, makes sense of it all by her great rational power, to go on and make great sacrifices to use her unique experience, abilities and opportunities in order to better the world by making people think.
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 | Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $2.89 For a realistic critique on globalization by a thinking and responsible person (not to be confused with the likes of Naomi Klein)
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 | Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman
Buy new: $9.78 / Used from: $1.49 This book would have been better if the same arguments were made in 20% of the pages. Friedman has his own style, which always makes for a good read, but a bit more factual and a little less of a missionary tone would have made this a better book on the environmental aspects of the 'flat world'.
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 | The Open Society and Its Enemies (Routledge Classics) (Vol 2) by Karl Popper
Buy new: $96.00 / Used from: $75.18 A classic work that is not so much about globalization per se, but which explains like no other some of the concepts that underlie the cultural opportunities and threats of a globalized world.
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 | The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.20 Controversial work which played an important role in the early debate on Islam versus modernity.
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 | The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy by T.R. Reid
Buy used from: $3.74 In all debates on the 'rise of the rest', the European Union is often overlooked. But what if the EU someday decides to finally get assertive on the world stage?
In any case, as the worlds' largest economy, nobody who wants to make sense of today's world can choose to ignore it.
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 | Brazilian Politics: Reforming a Democratic State in a Changing World by Alfred P. Montero
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $5.99 Another often overlooked emergeing superpower. This book is a good introduction to its institutions and its political culture, more than a book on Brazil's role on the world stage.
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 | What's This India Business?: Offshoring, Outsourcing and the Global Services Revolution by Paul Davies
Buy new: $22.76 / Used from: $14.36 India's role in the 'flat world' is first and foremost that of outsourcing paradise. That's what this book is about.
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