Caircross, Frances. The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Is Changing Our Lives. 2001. Discusses the global consequences of cell phones, communication satellites, and the Internet.

Chandler, Alfred D., and Bruce Mazlish. Leviathans: Multinational Corporations and the New Global History. 2005. A stimulating global perspective on multinational corporations and how they affect everyone’s life.

Drexler, Madeline. Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections. 2003. Provides an overview of the global threat from infectious diseases, old and new.

Drèze, Jean, and Amartya Sen. An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions. 2013. A rich survey of the social and political strains surrounding India’s development.

Fink, Leon. The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South. 2007. An excellent case study of a migration circuit.

Gareis, Sven Bernhard, and Johannes Varwick. The United Nations: An Introduction. 2005. An up-to-date introduction to the United Nations.

Gore, Al. An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It. 2006. Reasoned discussion of the greatest threat to the planet in the twenty-first century, for which Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Hart, Dianne Walta. Undocumented in L.A.: An Immigrant’s Story. 1997. A rich ethnographic immersion into one family’s struggle in moving from Nicaragua to California.

Hawkesworth, Mary. Political Worlds of Women: Activism, Advocacy, and Governance in the Twenty-First Century. 2012. A survey of global women’s social movements amid persistent challenges of political exclusion and economic inequality.

Jones, Geoffrey. Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century. 2005. A historical overview of the development of multinational corporations and a global capitalist economy.

Kasarda, John, and Allan Parnell, eds. Third World Cities: Problems, Policies and Prospects. 1993. Discusses the prodigious growth of cities in the nonindustrialized world in the second half of the twentieth century.

Klare, Michael T. Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict. 2002. Analyzes the conflict over vital resources and the impact on national military and economic policies.

Moaddel, Mansoor, and Stuart Karabenic. Religious Fundamentalism in the Middle East: A Cross-National, Inter-Faith, and Inter-Ethnic Analysis. 2014. A study of how fundamentalist beliefs are shaped by their national and cultural contexts.

O’Neill, Bard E. Insurgency and Terrorism: From Revolution to Apocalypse, 2d rev. ed. 2005. An excellent introduction to the nature of modern war.

O’Neill, John Terence, and Nicholas Rees. United Nations Peacekeeping in the Post–Cold War Era. 2005. Discusses the problems associated with United Nations peacekeeping efforts.

Pécoud, Antoine, and Paul de Guchteneire, eds. Migration Without Borders: Essays on the Free Movement of People. 2007. Regional perspectives on contemporary migration.

Wallerstein, Immanuel. Historical Capitalism. 2011. A concise survey of world-systems economic history.