Congress Funds New Center at GWU for Impartial Study of Globalization

Honawar, Vaishali, The Washington Times (Washington, DC)

Byline: Vaishali Honawar

A new, congressionally financed research center at George Washington University will try to weigh the pros and cons of globalization for university students and the American public.

The Center for the Study of Globalization is one of the first of its kind in the country and the first in the metropolitan Washington area to devote itself entirely to the relatively new, but controversial issue of globalization.

Globalization is defined by some as the interdependence of the world's nations in terms of financial, economic, trade and social development.

"Some view globalization in a positive way, and others in a negative way," …

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Publication information: Article title: Congress Funds New Center at GWU for Impartial Study of Globalization. Contributors: Honawar, Vaishali - Author. Newspaper title: The Washington Times (Washington, DC). Publication date: October 2, 2001. Page number: 3. © 2009 The Washington Times LLC. COPYRIGHT 2001 Gale Group.

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