Globalization

This book seeks to make an intervention into the ongoing debate about the scope and intensity of global copyright laws.

This book introduces Ali Mazrui's delightfully stimulating scholarship about intercultural relations, calling it Postcolonial Constructivism, and shares elements of his intellectual vitality in an original way.

Reviving the Invisible Hand is an uncompromising call for a global return to a classical liberal economic order, free of interference from governments and international organizations.

In 2001 the first World Social Forum was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

This book examines how emergent trends in innovation and its governance are raising new and old questions about how to control technology.

How can we understand power in a world of ever-growing complexity?

This book critically engages with a series of provocative questions that ask: Why are contemporary societies so dependent on constructive and destructive effects of individualization?

Geofusion is an exciting journey around the main issues of the 21st century.

How do aspiring and established rising global powers respond to conflict?

The volume delves into the intricate web of contemporary permacrisis rooted in the strategic imperatives of nation-states.

This book provides a comprehensive investigation of the messy and crisis-ridden relationship between the operations of capitalist finance, global capital flows, and state power in emerging markets.

This book addresses the impact of globalization on the lives of youth, focusing on the role of legal institutions and discourses.

Over the past decade we have witnessed the extraordinary rise of new global movements that throw into question the way we think about culture, power and action in a globalizing world.

Resistance against free trade agreements based on an expanded trade agenda, including issues related to intellectual property rights, trade in services and trade-related investment measures, has increased since the demonstrations at the WTO ministerial conference in Seattle in 1999.

Modern America owes the Roman Empire for more than gladiator movies and the architecture of the nation's Capitol.

In the global economy, linguistic diversity influences economic and political development as well as public policies in positive and negative ways.

State Violence and the Execution of Law stages a provocative analysis of how the biopolitical divide between human and animal has played a fundamental role in enabling state violence, including torture, secret imprisonment and killing-at-a-distance via drones.

There is widespread recognition that globalization is changing the world around us, but so far there has been no systematic analysis of how it is impacting on human health.

Neil Ewins' study of the Staffordshire potteries in a period of great global change traces how ceramics production has been affected by globalisation in both familiar and unexpected ways.

The process of globalization can be seen in the increase of: trade interdependence, the importance of global multinational corporations, mobility and volatility of capital flows (with dangers demonstrated by the recent Mexican crisis).

Globalization is pushing to the fore a wide variety of global problems that demand urgent policy attention.

Unsere Weltordnung zerfällt – und der renommierte israelische Journalist Nadav Eyal hat einen Namen dafür: Revolte.

Examining India-America relations between 1942-62, this book reconsiders the role of America in shaping the imagination of post-colonial India.

This book explores how we define our social spaces in a world of globalization, cultural diversity, and media convergence.

The United States-Australia alliance has been an important component of the US-led system of alliances that has underpinned regional security in the Indo-Pacific since 1945.

Myconos explores the ways in which organized labour has globalized since 1945.

Can the welfare state survive in an economically integrated world?

This book applies established analytical concepts such as influence, authority, administrative styles, autonomy, budgeting and multilevel administration to the study of international bureaucracies and their political environment.

This ambitious work provides a unique statement on the question of place-based activism and its relationship to powerful forces of international capital.

This handbook fills a large gap in the current knowledge about the critical role of Africa in the changing global order.

This book questions whether the institutions and practices of the emerging EU diplomatic system conform to established standards of the state-centric diplomatic order; or whether practice is paving the way for innovative, even revolutionary, forms of diplomatic organisation.

This book shows how a constructivist account of bargaining sheds new light on the emergence of impasse situations in international trade negotiations.

Two of the dominant themes of discussion in international relations scholarship over the last decade have been global governance and rising powers.

This book presents the findings of research projects conducted by CREA (Community of Researchers on Excellence for all), a research community based in Barcelona, showing how social transformation combines scientific excellence with the political and social impact of the research.

Individual foreign investment in residential real estate by new middle-class and super-rich investors is re-emerging as a key issue in academic, policy and public debates around the world.

This book presents research, analysis, and reflections on the major issues of Guatemalan development and democracy: the role of the military, the involvement of Mayan communities in national development, the possible emergence of more inclusive political institutions and the roles of international forces and agencies in Guatemalan social change.

Ambalavaner Sivanandan was one of Britain's most influential radical thinkers.

This book discusses contemporary constellations of international politics and global transformation.

This book looks at India in the context of a globalized world.

This book examines the ways in which new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are being used by civil society organizations (CSOs) to achieve their aims through activities and networks that cross national borders.

Using an analysis of imperialism and case studies of Syria, Iran, Iraq, Bosnia, Russia and Ukraine, Global Democracy and the Crisis of Anti-Imperialism shows that the purported anti-imperialism of many self-professed socialists amounts to explicit or implicit support for totalitarianism, fascism, Islamist theocracy and imperialism.

This two-volume set presents the conference papers from the 1st International Conference on Economics, Development and Sustainability (EDESUS 2019), organized by the University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

This book critically examines key features of the contemporary organizational landscape by focusing on major beneficiaries of recent historical politicalcultural transformations involving the embrace of market fundamentalism and a market society: corporations, those who direct them, and those who use them for their own benefit.