Global Perspectives on the United States: Issues and Ideas Shaping U. S. International Relations - Hardcover

Karen Christensen is an award-winning editor and author who has focused for more than ten years on community and environmental issues. She is CEO of Berkshire Publishing Group. She lived in London for more than ten years, and worked with Valerie Eliot on the T. S. Eliot Letters. Her book Eco Living, now in its third U.K. edition and a children's picture book, Rachel's Roses have been published in France, Germany, Taiwan, and China, and she has taught seminars at the College of Creative Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara and at the City Institute in London. In addition to serving as senior editor and shepherd of the Encyclopedia of Community, she was project director of the Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (Routledge, 2003), and coeditor of the Encyclopedia of Modern Asia (Scribners, 2002), International Encyclopedia of Women & Sports (Macmillan, 2001) and Encyclopedia of World Sport (ABC-Clio/Oxford, 1999). In Britain, she helped found the Women's Environmental Network, the Ecological Design Association, and she was briefly the U.K. Green Party's speaker on women's issues. Karen has been active in community affairs and local politics, both in her London neighborhood and in the Berkshires. She is currently working on a book about the search for community, A Smaller Circle.

The editors have made an exceptional effort to make subjects easy to find.... A valuable resource for analysts looking for background information; upper-level undergraduate and beginning graduate students looking for issues on which to conduct research; and general users trying to understand the US's place in the world. Summing up: Recommended. Academic and public libraries. --Choice