Falling off the edge

By Alex Perry

Subjects: Crime, africa, Social aspects of Globalization, Crime, asia, Terrorism and globalization, Globalization, Political aspects of Globalization, World politics, Terrorism, Crime and globalization, Social aspects, Political aspects

Description: Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, international corporations and governments have embraced the idea of a global village: a shrinking, booming world in which everyone benefits. What if that's not the case? Alex Perry, award-winning foreign correspondent, travels from the South China Sea to the highlands of Afghanistan to the Sahara to see first-hand globalisation at the sharp end - and it's not pretty.