Globalization

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.

The dream of a cosmopolitical utopia has been around for thousands of years.

What kind of activity is global governance?

The Globalization of Security is an important rethinking of the connections between globalization and security, focusing on a conceptual examination of the role of the state combined with key case studies.

Eva Gross analyzes changing national preferences towards the EU CFSP and ESDP by providing detailed accounts of British, French and German crisis decision-making in FYROM, Afghanistan, Lebanon and DR Congo.

This book provides institutional information and uses analytical tools to explains why governments should intervene in economies affected by globalization.

This book analyzes the issues surrounding globalization and explores the prospects of the global economy, as well as the potential vulnerabilities.

The process of globalization is dynamic in the direction of increasing integration.

Recent years have seen a range of theoretical challenges to traditional notions of state sovereignty and a burgeoning debate about the power of the state in the face of globalization and new forms of governance.

In its comparison of two major emerging nations, India and Brazil, this book approaches the subject through an innovative theoretical combination of developmental states theory and theories of the changing nature of global capitalism.

This highly-acclaimed, bestselling textbook, quickly established itself as one of the leading texts on the subject worldwide in its first edition.

Since the mid-2000s, the European Union has made unprecedented strides toward the creation of a common energy policy.

This book analyzes the recent development of Gulf capitalism through to the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis.

Barack Obama has faced many challenges in reversing U.

This book carefully examines the historical roots of contemporary Western prejudices against both Muslims and Turks, and presents an original theory of collective identity as dramatic re-enactment as a means of understanding the remarkable persistence of medieval stereotypes.

The current emphasis on the greening of the world marks a beginning of a new concern for our relationship with our planet.

Discussing the most pressing global challenges, this book suggests ways for the Obama Administration to tackle them in a holistic manner.

The first detailed historical account of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations, this book covers the genesis of the project in the early 1990s to its demise in late 2003.

This book is an exploration of contemporary Jewish-Muslim relations in the United States and the distinct ways in which these two communities interact with one another in the American context.