Continuing this year’s focus on American sports, the feature article in this issue is about lacrosse. A lesson plan called “Be a Good Sport” provides activities centering on lacrosse and on sportsmanship. Other articles in this issue discuss using films for intercultural training, differentiating between cooperation and collaboration in group work, and consciousness-raising and prepositions.
International Cooperation: The Extents and Limits of Multilateralism
A number of new approaches to the subject of international cooperation were developed in the 1980s. As a result, further questions have arisen, particularly with regard to the methods and limits of cooperation and the relationship between cooperation and the debate over multilateralism. International Cooperation considers these questions, identifies further areas for research, and pushes the analysis of this fundamental concept in international relations in new directions.
America's Global Advantage: US Hegemony and International Cooperation
For over sixty years the United States has been the largest economy and most powerful country in the world. However, there is growing speculation that this era of hegemony is under threat as it faces huge trade deficits, a weaker currency, and stretched military resources. America's Global Advantage argues that, despite these difficulties, the US will maintain its privileged position.
Early Years Play and Learning: Developing Social Skills and Cooperation
This accessible and practical book provides teachers with a tool-kit for observing and assessing children's play developed by the author during a decade of working in early years classrooms.
Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life
Game theory is all around us. How the modern science of game theory has helped biologists to understand the evolution of cooperation in nature, and investigates how we might apply those lessons to our own society. In a series of experiments author sheds light on the problem of global cooperation. Rock, Paper, Scissors will both teach and delight anyone interested in what it what it takes to get people to work together.
