Globalization

In this edited volume, leading scholars from US and China analyze the challenges and opportunities for China in the 21st century, each emphasizing particular dimensions of politics, economics, political culture, and foreign policy.

Through detailed studies, this collection of writings by academics and activists explores the emergence of contemporary lesbian and butch/femme relationships and communities throughout Asia and their location within the context of nationalist struggles, religious fundamentalism, state gender regimes and global queer movements.

This balanced and innovative collection uses different methodologies to approach the common theme of a region transformed in recent years by neoliberalism.

This controversial book rejects the view that the growth of Irish nationalism, Afrikaner nationalism and Zionism was due primarily to issues of race, religion or language.

This book focuses on the adoption of new technologies led by information and communication technologies by SMEs in developing countries.

Cross-border regions are newly emerging social spaces stretching across national borders.

Asia is widely regarded as having benefited most from the dynamic growth effect of the recent wave of globalization.

This book re-evaluates the importance of social policies in shaping well-being and combating exclusion, and enhances understanding of how these policies are formed in a globalizing world.

The balance of power is one of the most influential ideas in international relations, yet it has never been comprehensively examined in pre-modern or non-European contexts.

The momentum of economic progress in India and China will bring about the next major shift in geopolitics.

This collection examines the transformation of the modern Western state in an age of accelerated globalization.

By revisiting globalization using an analysis of metaphors, such as 'global village' and 'network society', this volume sheds new light on overlooked dimensions of global politics, redresses outdated conceptualizations, and provides a critical analysis of existing approaches to the study of globalization.

This book explores what the privatization of global rule-making means for democracy.

The book provides new insight into the role of organised business interests.

We still lack practical answers to one of the most basic questions in empirical research: How should researchers interpret meanings?

Thanks to new transparency rules and increased efforts by scholars, researchers are better equipped than ever before to analyze the decision-making processes of the Council of the European Union and to test old wisdoms.

HIV/AIDS is the major political challenge of our time.

In order to regain its competitiveness, Japan is restructuring and globalizing its business and economics system, as well as other aspects of society.

In recent years women's movements and democracy movements appear to have been more successful in promoting social equality than labour movements or development movements.

This book brings together the work of international economist, labour economists and sociologists in a far-reaching study of global production networks and the challenges they pose for developing country workers.

This book examines the international factors such as enforced democracy and globalization that have affected the Great Lakes region of Africa.

This text considers different economic models available in the global market.

This volume offers a timely and important study on how norms are transferred from the international into the domestic domain through processes of socialization.

The automobile sector is one of the most archetypal global industries and is seen by many as one of the main drivers behind the homogenisation of world markets due to firms' internationalization strategies and the social practices that firms impose.

This book explores how a wide range of countries attempt to cope with the challenges of globalization.

With contributions from leading thinkers such as J.

Globalization, within academic, political and business circles alike, conjures an ever growing diversity of associations, connotations and attendant mythologies.

An inspiring collection that uses case studies and theoretical reflection to contextualise the linkages between collective action theories, social movement practices and the phenomenon of globalisation.

Value and the World Economy Today brings together a diverse group of globally renowned scholars of international political economy and critical economics to examine the relevance of value theory for understanding the world economy today.

The Globalization of Liberalism demonstrates that liberalism is more deeply embedded in the structure of modern international political and economic order than is usually realised, and that at present there is a contested process of the 'globalization of liberalism'.

The paradox of 'globalization' is that it both weakens and activates social forces of resistance.

The Asian crisis triggered ongoing controversy over the IMF's role in a 'new international financial architecture'.

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.

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

This book presents a new and practical segmentation approach to be used in global customer management in the form of a scale by which to measure the level of corporate globalization.

Amarjit Kaur examines wage labour's role in economic growth and change in Southeast Asia since 1840.

This volume is concerned with the complexities of the relationship between globalization and different groups of consumers in developing countries.

This book examines the development of social democratic parties in Western Europe and suggests that instead of viewing a single model, in the past it was more accurate to consider a Northern and Southern European version.

Christian Berndt investigates how selected corporate actors in German small and medium-sized enterprises and in large companies respond to globalisation and the apparent crisis of the German model.

How has globalization impacted on development?

The impact of globalization on the world's developing economies is not conclusive: studies show conflicting conclusions to the same problems in the context of globalization in developing countries.

Looking at anti-apartheid as part of the history of present global politics, this book provides the first comparative analysis of different sections of the transnational anti-apartheid movement.

O'Manique critically examines the evolution of the policy response to AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa through a feminist political economy lens, focusing on the relationship between neo-liberalism, the spread of AIDS and the hegemonic policy response.

This book focuses on American society as a transglobal nation and examines the temporal dimension of diasporic incorporation in New York City.

This book takes a fascinating look at the role of the Arab-Islamic world in the rise of the West.

Using the cases of Northern Cyprus and Transdniestria, the author examines state-building as practiced by informal states.

The idea of "e;Utopia"e; has made a comeback in the age of globalization, and the bewildering technological shifts and economic uncertainties of the present era call for novel forms of utopia.

This book consists of a collection of essays that deal with glocalization in Europe, including the idea of Europeanization as glocalization.

This book contributes to recent debates in transnationalism, mobilities and migration studies by offering the first in-depth sociological examination of the global phenomenon of action sports and the transnational networks and connections being established within and across local contexts around the world.

Providing critical assessment of the 'globalization thesis' through sustained analysis of the nexus of processes underlying social and cultural relations, this book examines, explores, and teases out the many contradictions embedded within different discourses of globalization.