Global California: Rising to the Cosmopolitan Challenge
April 6, 2009 12:05 PM
by Abraham F. Lowenthal
Stanford University Press, $21.95
California is at the cutting edge of technological change, demographic transformation and international engagement. It has the country’s largest population, is its biggest producer of agricultural and manufactured goods, and is a leading center for higher education, research, the media and philanthropy. But habits of thought and structures date from the mid-20th century, writes Abraham F. Lowenthal, professor of international relations at USC College, and California today lacks ideas, institutions and policies equal to its global stakes and clout. In this book, with a forward by USC University Professor Kevin Starr, Lowenthal explains how Californians need to build “cosmopolitan capacity” to understand and respond to global challenges and opportunities.
TAGS: globalization
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