Mendis, who taught at the University of Pittsburgh's Semester at Sea Program, critically explores the influence of U.S. foreign policies and American values that has affected these countries where freedom prevails. With illustrative maps and photos, the interdisciplinary analysis presents vivid faces of the human side of globalization as it interplays with local communities a process of glocalization. The book is about the power of free enterprise and political freedom as the new American influence through the Washington Consensus the Trinity of Washington and its Ten Commandments continues with unintended consequences by glocalizing every society and each of us around the world.

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