Some argue that an 'information revolution' has fundamentally altered the way the world works, plays, and even thinks. But the intersection of globalization and science and technology doesn't stop there. Innovations like Global Positioning System (GPS)-equipped cars, genetically modified (GM) foods, and water purification systems have alternately delighted, frightened, or liberated people around the globe - empowering some and rendering others helpless. Much of this scientific and technological advance has been the result of international cooperation on a scale previously unseen. The following articles have been assembled to shed light on these and other related issues.