Globalization

Transnational Cooperation: An Issue-Based Approach presents an analysis of transnational cooperation or collective action that stresses basic concepts and intuition.

In recent years, the term 'transparency' has emerged as one of the most popular and keenly-touted concepts around.

The institutional shortcomings of the World Trade Organization (WTO) became apparent during the Doha Round of Trade negotiations that began in 2001 and which aimed to improve the success of developing countries' trading by lowering trade barriers and adjusting other trade rules.

The institutional shortcomings of the World Trade Organization (WTO) became apparent during the Doha Round of Trade negotiations that began in 2001 and which aimed to improve the success of developing countries' trading by lowering trade barriers and adjusting other trade rules.

The Oxford Handbook of Offshoring and Global Employment deals with a key issue of our time: How do globalization, economic growth and technological developments interact to impact employment?

Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders owed much of their unexpected popularity in the 2016 primaries to their respective stances on trade and immigration policy.

Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders owed much of their unexpected popularity in the 2016 primaries to their respective stances on trade and immigration policy.

National governments around the world are turning to branding consultants, public relations advisers and strategic communications experts to help them "e;brand"e; their jurisdiction.

The Oxford Handbook of Offshoring and Global Employment deals with a key issue of our time: How do globalization, economic growth and technological developments interact to impact employment?

Most global citizens are well aware of the explosive growth of the Chinese economy.

In the passionate debate that currently rages over globalization, critics have been heard blaming it for a host of ills afflicting poorer nations, everything from child labor to environmental degradation and cultural homogenization.

The extraordinary changes in world society at the beginning of the 21st century have involved religion to a degree that would have amazed earlier observers of modernity.

Elaborating on the concepts first introduced in Global Public Goods, this book addresses the long overdue issue of how to adjust the concept of public goods to today's economic and political realities.

In the last half-century, radical changes have rippled through the workplace and the home from Boston to Bombay.

This volume brings together contextually sensitive, cross-cultural, and comparative research that analyzes the ways in which cause lawyering is influencing, and being influenced by, the disaggregation of state power associated with democratization and globalization.

Not since the Roman Empire has any nation had as much economic, cultural, and military power as the United States does today.

Much discussed but poorly understood, globalization is at once praised as the answer to all the world's problems and blamed for everything from pollution to poverty.

First published in 1890, and undoubtedly Azevedo's masterpiece, The Slum is one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed novels ever written about Brazil.

In the last seventy years of its long and distinguished existence, the Habsburg monarchy was plagued by the forces of rising nationalism.

The conventional view of globalization sees it as a process driven by giant firms from the Triad regions of North America, Europe, and Japan, shaping the world in their own image.

This book proposes a new way to approach comparative international development by focusing on time and timing in economic and social development.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringCompetition is responsible for much of the prosperity around us.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringCompetition is responsible for much of the prosperity around us.

The global order, based on international governance and multilateral trade mechanisms in the aftermath of the Second World War, is changing rapidly and creating waves of uncertainty.

The global order, based on international governance and multilateral trade mechanisms in the aftermath of the Second World War, is changing rapidly and creating waves of uncertainty.

Why do some countries and populations suffer from poverty and ill health, whilst others are more prosperous and healthy?

Why do some countries and populations suffer from poverty and ill health, whilst others are more prosperous and healthy?

In the wake of the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump, globalization has found itself increasingly under the microscope.

In the wake of the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump, globalization has found itself increasingly under the microscope.

China's rise as an economic superpower has caused growing anxieties in the West.

The world's systems of higher education (HE) are caught up in the fourth industrial revolution of the twenty-first century.

The world's systems of higher education (HE) are caught up in the fourth industrial revolution of the twenty-first century.

Offshore outsourcing- the movement of jobs to lower-wage countries- is one of the defining features of globalization.

What are the impacts of population growth?

Economic, social and cultural rights are finally coming of age.

Economic, social and cultural rights are finally coming of age.

Global crime governance has emerged as an important component of world politics.

The concept of globalization has become ubiquitous in social science and in the public consciousness and is often invoked as an explanation for a diverse range of changes to economies, societies, politics and cultures - both as a positive liberating force and as a wholly negative one.

In recent years, global historians have painted an impressionistic picture of what they call the 'connected world' of the seventeenth century.

Do we have the rights to optimism?

How are firms, networks of firms, and production systems organized and how does this organization vary from place to place?

Based on new and existing research by a world-class scholar, this is the first book in twenty years to examine the dynamics of the entire American-West European relationship since 1945.

The rise of Asia, and China specifically, is the single most important force reshaping the world economy at the beginning of the 21st century.

This book offers a new perspective on the economics of globalization, based on the concepts of firms' capabilities as the immediate cause of countries' wealth.

This book offers a new perspective on the economics of globalization, based on the concepts of firms' capabilities as the immediate cause of countries' wealth.

For a century, economists have driven forward the cause of globalization in financial institutions, labour markets, and trade.

For a century, economists have driven forward the cause of globalization in financial institutions, labour markets, and trade.

Global competition now shapes economies and societies in ways unimaginable only a few years ago, and competition (or 'antitrust') law is a key component of the legal framework for global competition.

Global competition now shapes economies and societies in ways unimaginable only a few years ago, and competition (or 'antitrust') law is a key component of the legal framework for global competition.

This collection documents the different ways in which Asian governments have been pursuing economic nationalism even as they have been integrating with the world economy.