Atlas of globalization

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The "ATLAS der GLOBALIZATION" [sic] is a French-language book series from the publisher Le monde diplomatique , which publishes the monthly magazine of the same name, Le monde diplomatique, in 24 languages with a total circulation of 2.4 million printed copies and with 43 Internet editions (as of May 2014).

The atlases in the spirit of political geography represent a combination of non-fiction, reference work and textbook. The first volume was published in French in 2003; From 2006 onwards, various thematically different follow-up volumes were published almost every year, all of which were subsequently also published in German by Le monde diplomatique / taz Verlags- und Vertriebs GmbH Berlin .

The main chapters deal with globalization issues . Each main chapter contains an introductory article as well as further chapters, which - characteristic of this series - are each described on a double page. There are multicolored graphics for each topic, especially maps and bar and line diagrams , which clearly break down the respective problem geographically and are at least three-quarters of a page in size when viewed on both sides . Web links are given for each topic. Sources are missing in the texts, there is a list of sources for the graphics.

German-language editions

2003

In Part I "Globalization and its consequences" of the first edition 2003 the main chapters are: " Global Village ", " Global Market ", " Highly Armored World", "Technical Progress and Social Faults", "Endangered Environment", "Democracy and Social." Progress "," contested world "; Part II: “Locations and Actors” contains the main chapters: “Hyperpower USA ”, “The American Continent”, “The European Union ”, “Eastern Europe”, “ Russia and its Markets”, “ Japan , the old Far East” "," China , the new Middle kingdom "," Central - and East Asia "," Middle East and North Africa "," Sub Saharan -Africa ". ISBN 3-9806917-6-4

2006 and 2007 "The new data and facts on the state of the world"

Main chapters: “Environment under threat”, “The new geopolitics ”, “Winners and losers”, “Unresolved conflicts”, “The rise of Asia”; ISBN 978-3-937683-07-2 (2006) and ISBN 978-3-937683-13-3 (2007)

2008 "special - climate"

(Title of the original edition: "L'Atlas environnement")

In the first part ("Troubling Findings") the volume deals with the causes and consequences of climate change, in the second part ("Encouraging approaches") with possible solutions and current positive developments. It is available on the enclosed CD (Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-937683-16-4 ) and has 98 colored pages in the format: 22 × 29.5 cm and over 100 maps and diagrams.

2009 and 2010 "See and understand what moves the world"

Main chapters: "New World Studies ", " Capitalism in Crisis", "The Future of Energy ", "Many Capitals , Many Views", "Complicated Africa ", "Unresolved Conflicts ". 89 chapters. 216 colored pages in the format 22.5 × 30 cm, with over 300 maps and diagrams. ISBN 978-3-937683-24-9 . The list of authors in this issue has over 65 authors, mainly from the Francophone area .

Chapter examples

As an example of how the individual main chapters are treated, here are the chapters for the 3rd main chapter "The future of energy":

"Introduction by Sven Giegold " / "Human climate factor" / "Rescue can be financed" / "Coal remains a long-runner" / "The cheap oil has been used up" / "The last drop is too expensive" / "Europe's natural gas from the East" / “Power struggle on the Caspian Sea ” / “Oil and poverty in the Arab world” / “Africa's oil wells attract old acquaintances” / “New tales of nuclear power” / “The green boom carries far into the future” / “Europe can do itself supply "/" Generous winds over the sea "/" The vision of desert electricity "

Reviews about it

  • Elisabeth von Thadden writes on ZEIT online that the atlas makes the unknown recognizable, even though solutions are neglected because of the oppressive and gloomy scenarios.
  • The editors of the Austrian magazine “Südwind - Magazine for International Politics, Culture and Development” use the work as a standard work on globalization, in order to be able to find one's way more easily “in the labyrinthine world theater”.
  • Josef Schurer welcomed by socialnet .com in his detailed summary regularly updating consecutive volumes to be able to represent better to the rapidly changing current situation and recommends the work of politicians, pupils, students and "all the people who believe in it and work to ensure that only a change of perspective enables a humane life for people in our “One World”. "
  • In the Frankfurter Rundschau online review, Arno Widmann describes the atlas as an effective antidote to the propaganda effort that has been used for decades to explain “that the only way to freedom and prosperity is this to make the rich even richer. ”The atlas shows the whole new world view with regard to the flows of migrants and ideas, the capital and raw material movements or the oil production of the future.

2011 "special - The 20th Century"

The first historical atlas of Le Monde diplomatique. It shows the entire 20th century, 100 years on 100 pages. From the end of colonialism to Germany's wars in Africa, World War I, World War II and the interwar period , Japan, China, Africa, to the decline of British coal mining, the Middle East crises, the emancipation of women and pop culture .

The following volume in the 22.4 × 29.7 cm page format with 102 pages has over 130 maps and diagrams. ISBN 978-3-937683-32-4 .

Reviews about it

  • The Berlin Institute for Population and Development presents the historical atlas as a work in which the history of the 20th century is assessed in a new light under new contexts. Not only is information provided, but also options for political action and alternative strategies are shown. The atlas shows "the ambivalence of global developments that are still ongoing and are likely to continue in the future". That structural change and urbanization brought more prosperity and social justice, but at the same time increased social inequality between high and low earners, with a view to the industrialized countries as well as to the emerging and poorly developed countries.
  • Moritz "mo." Sauer on plow.de says that this volume, like its predecessors, "packs condensed knowledge into two-page articles and tweaks the contributions with meaningful graphics".

2012 "The world of tomorrow"

The volume with an introduction by Serge Halimi was published in November 2012. ISBN 978-3-937683-39-3

2015 "Less becomes more"

This postal growth atlas comprises over 300 maps and infographics on 176 pages. He starts from the following assessment of the current situation: “In view of climate change, social conflicts and scarce resources, capitalism threatens to slide into an involuntary, crisis-ridden and tense contraction. But postal growth means something different from the permanent crisis of our growth society: A sustainable postal growth society would no longer have to grow at any price in order to stabilize. ”(P. 103) What a path to this completely different society might look like is only in the making Approaches recognizable. But in addition to a variety of big questions about growth criticism , there are already small answers and initiatives in the growth-critical movement that are promising and should be taken seriously; these are dealt with in over a hundred articles in the post-growth atlas.

2019 "World in motion"

The volume with an introduction by the editor Stefan Mahlke was published in June 2019 with 183 pages. The maps and graphics are from Adolf Buitenhuis. Buyers of the print edition can download the content as an ebook.
The chapters are:

  1. Climate crisis and world food
  2. The demographic challenge
  3. Really existing capitalism
  4. Unresolved conflicts
  5. Flight and Migration
  6. The future of civil society
  7. Democracy in danger

Web links

On the German-language website of the publisher , the tables of contents of the available volumes can be viewed, the newer editions can also be "leafed through" there, giving an overview of the layout and the relationship between texts and graphics ( example ). Many of the maps used in the volumes are also available online (all last accessed: March 2020).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "About us" ( Memento from April 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) at monde-diplomatique.de
  2. ↑ Table of contents of the 2006 edition PDF file (48 kB) ( Memento of May 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Elisabeth von Thadden: The old ball new on zeit.de
  4. ↑ Südwind magazine
  5. ↑ Jos Schnurer, former lecturer at the University of Hildesheim , review of December 10, 2009 at socialnet.de , date of access September 22, 2012
  6. ↑ Arno Widmann: "The world as it should not be" Frankfurter Rundschau online ( Memento from April 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) from October 28, 2009
  7. ^ Berlin Institute for Population and Development
  8. ↑ Moritz Sauer: Developmental Steps of Mankind in the 20th Century ( Memento from January 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), at phlow.de