The French Challenge: Adapting to Globalization

by Philip H. Gordon, Sophie Meunier, Sophie Meunier-Aitsahalia

Book Overview

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In August 1999 a forty-six-year-old sheep farmer name Jos Bov was arrested for dismantling the construction site of a new McDonald's restaurant in the south of France. A few months later Bov built on his fame by smuggling huge chunks of Roquefort cheese into Seattle, where he was among the leaders of the antiglobalization protests against the World Trade Organization summit.

Bov 's crusade against globalization helped provoke a debate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815702612
• ISBN13: 9780815702610
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A "must"!

"The French Challenge" is a MUST for anybody who wants to understand contemporary France. This is provocative book which has many insights into the love/hate relationship of the French with globalization. A very solid piece of work and a great read.

An excellent book

This is a wonderful book, thoroughly researched and very well written, which should satisfy both Francophiles and Francophobes alike! Gordon and Meunier offer a balanced account of a contemporary France that adapts remarkably well to globalization but hides this adaptation under a cloud of anti-globalization and anti-Americanization rhetoric.