Globalization

The book examines the impact of COVID-19 on economic and political processes, contending that the global reaction to the pandemic has been the largest failure in scientific policy in a generation.

The fascinating account of two former British colonies with a shared past but vastly different identities today!

The book is about accountability processes and how they contribute solutions to our current environmental and global political problems.

While traditionally powerful Western economies are treading water at best, beset by crises in banking, housing, and employment, industrial growth and economic development are exploding in China and India.

This book examines external perceptions of the Franco-German relationship, both from a historical perspective and as a driving force for regional integration.

The book examines 'the globalization of local policing' through an ethnographic study of the Danish Police.

This book explores in detail how African countries dealt with the pandemic and how it affected different aspects of different economies and social structures.

During the next few years, most European and World cities will be developing urban agendas.

This book studies how transnational migrants create a sense of home in their host countries.

Since September 2011, the Occupy movement has captured the world's imagination.

Offering an accessible introduction to both the historical roots and the contemporary dynamics of today's world economy, this seventh edition equips students with the knowledge required to make sense of the fast-paced discipline of the global political economy.

American Book Award Winner: A "e;moving, intimate"e; account of serving as a translator for undocumented children facing deportation (The New York Times Book Review).

Taken together, Chomsky's essays present a powerful counter-narrative to official accounts of the major political events of the past four years: the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.

Globalization brings far more benefits to the U.

The Third Millennium presents unprecedented opportunities and challenges to capitalism as a global economic system.

The years since World War II have seen rapid shifts in the relative positions of different countries and regions.

This book explores the global technological transformations that have shaped development of society for eons, from the emergence of Homo sapiens to the modern day.

Focusing on high-end cuisine, this book examines the flows of culinary knowledge from culturally peripheral locations to two cities at the global center, London and New York.

Echoing the famous "e;The Limits to Growth"e; report from 1972, this edited volume analyses the changes that the World System has undergone to the present, on the fiftieth anniversary of the original report.

This book propounds the thesis that it was the dysfunction of globalization and liberalism that prompted the rise of nationalism and populism.

This book is a rarity in that it opens a genuinely creative new vista for understanding global politics as distinguished from international politics, enhancing the vision for understanding global subjects such as multilateral treaties and the Covid-19 virus.

This book presents cutting-edge research and exploration of the role of nation-state when big tech firms present themselves as new participants in contemporary international relations that act on an equal footing with nation-states.

Since the explosion of the buzzword ';globalization' in academic and public discourse more than thirty years ago, theoretical explorations of worldwide interconnectivities and mobilities have proliferated across major academic disciplines.

This book explores how resurgent nationalism across the globe demands re-examination of many of the theories and practices in applied linguistics and language teaching as political forces seek to limit the movement of people, goods, and services across national borders and, in some cases, enact violence upon those with linguistic and/or ethnic backgrounds that differ from that of the dominant culture.

Seaports, as part of urban centers, play a major role in the cultural, social and economic life of the cities in which they are located, and through the links they provide to the outside world.

This book examines the timely topic of controlling the borders of the European Schengen Area.

This book explores the phenomenon of soft power in international relations.

In an age of climate disruption, economic insecurity, technological acceleration, political fracture, and intensifying great-power rivalry, crises no longer arrive one at a time.

In an age of climate disruption, economic insecurity, technological acceleration, political fracture, and intensifying great-power rivalry, crises no longer arrive one at a time.

Focusing on BIT practice in middle-income countries, this book provides a systematic analysis of treaty texts and arbitral practice showing how investment protection standards, including fair and equitable treatment, expropriation, and full protection and security, interact with the territorial structure of IP.

Focusing on BIT practice in middle-income countries, this book provides a systematic analysis of treaty texts and arbitral practice showing how investment protection standards, including fair and equitable treatment, expropriation, and full protection and security, interact with the territorial structure of IP.

De-globalizing the Art World examines the political and aesthetic transformations of global contemporary art from the 1990s to the present.

De-globalizing the Art World examines the political and aesthetic transformations of global contemporary art from the 1990s to the present.

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