Globalization

Co-published with The Graduate Institute, this book examines how energy issues have intensified with modern development, how they shape geopolitics and access to energy in Africa, and how inconsistent energy governance really is.

In addressing the politics of the international regulation of public procurement, this book fills a major gap in the literature.

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, Cooper locates the WTO-focused struggle between the US and the very small island state of Antigua on Internet gambling in the wider International Political Economy.

A novel explanation of how EU member states overcome their divergent preferences to reach agreement on common foreign policies, with fourteen in-depth case studies covering diplomatic and security issues, enlargement, trade, development and environmental protection.

This book shows how domestic political institutions and the lack of time pressure have an impact on negotiations at the WTO.

Transnational connections are a defining feature of contemporary Europe.

This book shows why contests over intellectual property rights and access to affordable medicines emerged in the 1990s and how they have been 'resolved' so far.

AcheraIou analyzes hybridity using a theoretical, empirical approach that reorients debates on metissage and the 'Third Space', arguing for the decolonization of postcolonialism.

The current international business environment is characterized by two contradictory but at times mutually supplementary trends.

Globalization and changes to statehood challenge our understanding of space and territory.

Global Civil Society 2011 combines activist and academic accounts of contemporary struggles to promote, negotiate and deliver justice in a global frame without a central authority.

Crisis in the Global Mediasphere examines the evolution of contemporary global crises as an effect of mediation and cultural change.

Sustainable Diplomacies looks at how to create conditions for the reconciliation of rival ways of living, the formation of durable relationships and the promotion of global peace and security.

Develops a new theory of 'identity' ecological modernization (EM), to analyse renewable history and policy development in many of the world's states which are leading the drive to install renewable energy.

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.

Explores Russia's re-emergence as a major actor in Central Asia and the Caucasus - a re-emergence which is limited by the involvement and influence of external state and non-state actors, including China, the USA and foreign energy companies.

Contributors examine the persistence of administrative patterns in the face of pressures for globablization by developing a concept of administrative traditions and describing the traditions that exist around the world.

Simon Reich presents an interpretation of the relationship between material (hard) and social (soft) power, with implications for the alternative ways these link and the impact of these linkages on the future of American policy.

How does a market globalize?

The world and humanity are changing at an unprecedented rate.

This book considers the key sectors of China's health care system after its entrance into the WTO, including the pharmaceutical industry, health insurance services, and hospitals in terms of policies, legal framework and market potential.

Globalization and National Economic Welfare makes an original, powerful and timely contribution to a highly topical issue that affects all countries by showing why globalization is unsustainable in the long term without fundamental changes in existing attitudes and institutions.

Combining case studies with normative theory, this book analyzes the democratic credentials of transnational actors participating in global governance, ranging from corporations and philanthropic foundations to NGOs and social movements.

Shahar Hameiri argues that state building interventions are creating a new form of transnationally regulated statehood.

Critical and scientific realism have emerged as important perspectives on international relations in recent years.

Science and politics are closely connected in today's global environmental issues.

Analyzes the notion of the French exception and the ways in which it has informed both academic analysis and political commentary on France today.

Standards are replacing tariffs as the main trade barriers facing African agro-food exports.

This compendium looks at Asian and European policies for dealing with climate change, and possible impacts on conflicts and security.

The South in World Politics is a timely analysis of the influence and effectiveness of developing states in shaping the international order from the politics of the Cold War and North-South confrontation to the contemporary challenges of globalization and the rising power of emerging economies.

International business for the modern firm has to compromise the need to use limited resources and achieve efficiency in the global marketplace.

Critics question the representativeness of NGOs, the democratic quality of their internal procedures, and their accountability to the wider public.

Critically examines theories of cosmopolitan justice grounded in the major traditions of moral philosophy.

Challenging the Aid Paradigm critically examines central aspects of Western international aid policy, while at the same time exploring non-western, especially Chinese, aid and assesses to what extent these may be competitive or complementary.

The 21st century has witnessed a fundamental transformation of political institutions and society, alongside cultural, global and complexity turns in social theory.

Does the democratic nation state remain a legitimate regime form in the current age of globalization?

Do participatory processes open a political space to marginalized groups and individuals?

The time is ripe for a new international organization, a Global Union based upon a limited sharing of sovereignty.

Expansion of non-standard employment under globalization is widely observed in all of the newly industrializing countries.

The development of the Chinese MNC is a new feature of globalization, one that will undoubtedly change the world.

Economic activities are becoming increasingly globalised.

Alfred Maizels' work on commodity trade and prices documented trends in a major area of international economic relations.

Mufti argues that Turkey's security policy is dominated by an insular and risk-averse 'Republican' strategic culture paradigm, that this paradigm has fallen into crisis, bringing some of its core elements in conflict with others, and that this crisis has permitted the reassertion of a more cosmopolitan and risk-taking 'Imperial' counter-paradigm.

Sugar is a commonplace product with a complex background, mainly because of the high degree of protectionism given to the industry and the benefits of ensuring domestic producers stay in business.

This volume considers the spread of Spanish today and particularly its role in the processes of globalization.

Palgrave Advances in Global Governance is an authoritative collection devoted to clarifying established understandings of global governance as a distinct form of political activity.

This collection re-examines and re-assesses the role of the semi-periphery in world politics and argues that the processes of globalization have led us to widen our understanding of the semi-periphery, through a range of case studies as well as theoretical chapters.

Rangsimaporn argues that Russia aspires to become a great power and tries to achieve this through utilizing its position as a Eurasian country, with vast territories in East Asia, its economic assets, primarily arms and energy, and careful management of its role in a multipolar East Asia with a complex balance of power.

This collection explores conceptions and practices of democracy of social movement organizations involved in global protest.

Written by leading scholars in a range of disciplines (from law, philosophy, politics and sociology to media studies and translation studies), this book provides key insights into the globalization of violence and the role of translation in this context, and includes detailed empirical analyses of media representations and translators' accounts.