global-e

The Global Studies Consortium maintains close ties to global-e, a global studies e-journal published by the 21st Century Global Dynamics research cluster at UCSB.

Latest articles from global-e:


Russia-West Relations: A Piece of the Broken Mirror of Globalization

US and Russia flags painted on cracked concrete

By Elena Alekseenkova

June 10, 2021

Relations between Russia and the so-called “collective West”… are quite a central piece of the mirror of globalization, in the…

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Sensing Radioactive Deserts: Mediating Florae and Rocks in New Mexico’s Anthropocene

“Trinitite, Ground Zero,” by Patrick Nagatani

By Stephen Borunda

May 13, 2021

The state called “the land of enchantment” was the birthplace of the atomic bomb and where the world’s first atomic attack was…

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Moral Center or Anti-Nationalist? Student Protest Movements in India

students in Mumbai express solidarity with JNU students

By Satyajit Singh

May 6, 2021

Globally, students are considered the moral center for social transformation. We can see this in the student movements in the 1960s…

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Internet of Things for Environmental Protection and Economic Development: The Role of Universities and Scientific Diplomacy

“LarvalBot” sprays microscopic coral larvae over damaged areas of Great Barrier Reef

By Andrey Gorokhov and Dzerassa Eleeva (Makoeva)

April 29, 2021

Universities contribute centrally to the development of IoT and IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) including, significantly,…

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The Fight for Recognition: The Tularosa Basin Downwinders and the Injustices of Trinity

By Tina Cordova

April 22, 2021

In a world searching for sustainable energy infrastructures, the US has still not rectified the injustices that came about with the…

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