Political economy

This volume is the result of the 2012 International Economic Association's series of roundtables on the theme of Industrial Policy.

Over the last three decades, a considerable amount of work has been conducted in the field of peace studies, conflict management, peace science in economics, sociology, anthropology and management.

In this book, author Min Tang examines the political economy of the China-based leading global Internet giant, Tencent.

A thoroughly revised and updated edition of the highly regarded 1993 book "e;Driven by Growth"e;, this work presents the political-economic evolution of the Asia-Pacific countries, with overviews of the impact of economic development on political change.

First published in 1960 Trade with Communist Countries presents an important research report for the first time covering the essential facts and drawing conclusions on East/West trading possibilities.

This fifth volume in the International Papers in Political Economy (IPPE) series focuses on the theme of path dependency and macroeconomics in terms of both theory and applications.

The first volume of a comprehensive analysis of the economic development of Sub-Saharan Africa, 1960–2000.

'Global governance' has become a key concept in the contemporary study of international politics, yet what the term means and how it works remains in question.

This book explores the phenomenon of political correctness in academia and explains why and how scholars and administrators impact PC’s prominence in the academic sphere.

The place of cannabis in global drug prohibition is in crisis, opening up new directions for socially engaged cannabis research.

Keynes is one of the most important and influential economists who ever lived.

This is the first book to provide a full and dispassionate account of the politics and economics of the Eurozone crisis, focusing on the interlinked origins and impacts of the Euro-Zone crisis and the policy responses to it.

A clear-eyed, critical examination of the social, political, and economic costs of hosting the 2016 summer OlympicsThe selection of Rio de Janeiro as the site of the summer 2016 Olympic Games set off jubilant celebrations in Brazil-and created enormous expectations for economic development and the advancement of Brazil as a major player on the world stage.

In Challenging Neoliberalism at Turkey's Gezi Park, Gurcan and Peker explore the events of May 31, 2013, when what began as a localized demonstration against the demolition of Gezi Park, a public park in Istanbul turned into a nationwide protest cycle with an unprecedented form and scale never before seen in Turkey's history.

Hegemony and World Order explores a key question for our tumultuous times of multiple global crises.

This new introductory textbook provides students with the tools they need to understand the way digital technologies have transformed the global media business of the 21st century.

Written by a public health practitioner and a medical historian, Viral Pandemics explores the terrifying world of viruses as the cause of all acute pandemics since 1900, including the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fifteen years after the first Summit of the Americas, the world and the Americas have changed enormously.

Why does a huge income gap still exist between developed and developing countries?

This book represents the first discussion from a political science perspective of the concept of Multiple Modernities in three dimensions.

Stuffing the Ballot Box is a pioneering study of electoral fraud and reform.

Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade: Remedying the 'Past'?

Iain McLean reexamines the radical legacy of AdamSmith, arguing that Smith was a radical egalitarian and that his work supported all three of the slogans of the French Revolution: liberty, equality, and fraternity.

As the distributed architecture underpinning the initial Bitcoin anarcho-capitalist, libertarian project, 'blockchain' entered wider public imagination and vocabulary only very recently.

Published in 1997, this book traces the history of foreign investment policy in South Korea from 1961 until the present.

First published in 1985 Industrial Relations in Europe examines the development of trade unions and their relations with the employers and employers' organisations in a number of Western European countries in the 1980s.

This book examines the political and social life of the Gulf city and its coastline, as exemplified by Manama in Bahrain.

International Relations: A European Perspective presents the main schools of international relations while underlining the added value of the European approach.

More than a decade into the new millennium, the fusion of corporate and state power is the essential defining feature of US foreign policy.

How has the United States government grown?

Small-scale agricultural producers in the peripheral world are often condescendingly assumed to be a single social class ('the peasantry') to be pitted against the state or corporation.

This book examines the causes of women''s unprecedented success in African politics after the 1990s.

Parliament as an Export (1966) deals with the adoption of overseas countries and particularly the Commonwealth countries of the British Parliamentary system.

'Ground-breaking and ambitious' - Nick Srnicek, author of Platform CapitalismWhoever controls the platforms, controls the future.

Large marine protected areas (MPAs) have emerged since the mid-2000s as a popular state response to the overfishing, land run-off, and climate change causing the decline of the world's oceans.

Fixer-Upper is the first book assessing how the broad set of local, state, and national housing policies affect people and communities.

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The Saudi Arabian economy has changed almost beyond recognition since the oil boom days of the 1980s, and the Kingdom itself has changed too economically, socially, and demographically.

In what ways did economic considerations affect the decision by Britain and France to make their Black African colonies independent?

What is the impact of China's new multi-directional diplomacy on international political economy and how can the international community properly respond to the new diplomacy?

While significant research has been produced in the field of disability studies, little attention has been paid to experiences of chronic illness.

International competition and skills shortages caused by technological advancement have raised entirely new issues for workers, not least how responsibility is increasingly being transferred to them.

The primary aim of the text is to introduce the reader to the relationship between economics and ethics and to the application of economic ethics in the evaluation of the market.

There has been clear recognition of tendencies towards uncritically celebrating resistance and the need for critical appraisal within the literature on globalization and contestation.

This collection of research papers explores the impact of the Arab uprisings on the politics and political economy of foreign aid provision in the MENA region.

This project provides an in-depth study of the role of worker-activist leaders in industrial strikes in China, a country where labor rights face significant challenges from state and industry suppression and by current lack of formal organization.

In this sequel to the acclaimed Welfare Theory (Palgrave, 2001), Tony Fitzpatrick examines the most recent, influential and cutting edge ideas influencing policy studies today.

The debate over the imposition of sanctions against South Africa indicated that economic sanctions had become a controversial feature of the international political scene.