Globalization

This book offers a significant contribution to the globalization debate, and examines the complexities surrounding modern globalization.

This machine-generated volume, with chapter introductions by the human expert, of summaries of the existing studies furthers our understanding of the impact of digitalisation on spaces, their imaginations and representations.

After a long time of neglect, migration has entered the arena of international politics with a force.

We live in a society that defines us by what we consume and how.

Nationalism, especially supranationalism is the bane of global governance, and globalization.

This pioneering volume invites scholars from different social science disciplines to contribute their competing perspectives to a far-ranging albeit understudied dimension of globalization.

This book explores the causal relationship between the deregulation of international economic interests and the forms of violence that prevail in a large part of the Global South.

Echoing the famous "e;The Limits to Growth"e; report from 1972, this edited volume analyses the changes that the World System has undergone to the present, on the fiftieth anniversary of the original report.

Im vorliegenden Band werden in einem ersten Schritt theoretische Konzeptionen und Kontroversen zur Frage nach dem Verhältnis von kulturellem Transfer und Bildungsinnovation offen gelegt, wenn es darum gehen soll, die nächste(n) Generation(en) auf die Zukunft der Globalisierung vorzubereiten.

The transformation of the Vietnamese economy from socialist planning to a market economy has led to Vietnam having one of the fastest economic growth rates in the world; and to also to Vietnam engaging much more with the international economy, joining the World Trade Organisation in 2006.

This book uses a multi-method approach to challenge the notion that financial markets exert a broad influence over economic policy making in emerging economies.

In 2006, British forces entered the Helmand Province of Afghanistan in what would become one of the defining military campaigns of the decade.

This book describes and assesses an emerging threat to states' territorial control and sovereignty: the hostile control of companies that carry out privatized aspects of sovereign authority.

'A superb go-to guide for anyone seeking context on why Qatar won the 2022 World Cup bid' Daily ExpressThe Fall of the House of Fifa is the definitive story of Fifa's rise and the most spectacular fall sport has ever seen.

This book explores the change and continuity in the idea of the nation state.

This volume employs new empirical data to examine the internationalization of the social sciences and humanities (SSH).

This volume examines developmentality and the archeology of its social practices, unfolding systemic failures that muffle progress.

Considering the context of the present ecological and social crisis, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach to explore the relationship between globalism and localization.

Global private regulations-who wins, who loses, and whyOver the past two decades, governments have delegated extensive regulatory authority to international private-sector organizations.

Leading scholars from a startling array of disciplinary perspectives chart an exciting new course for legal research in this first volume of a two-volume series.

This book brings together up-to-date research from prominent international scholars in a collaborative exploration of the Japan's efforts to shape Asia's rapidly shifting regional order.

This book examines the development of world trade during the COVID-19 pandemic, also taking international trade between the Czech Republic and the Russian Federation into account as a case study.

In light of new global challenges for international cooperation and coordination, such as the revival of protectionism, surge of populism, or energy-related issues, this volume highlights possible scenarios for the future of Global Economic Governance (GEG).

This book examines the international causes of hunger and malnutrition and reveals how critical elements of the global economy heighten food insecurity in the developing world.

This book introduces into the current global ethics debate models of humanism developed in classical Chinese traditions, which have not yet been comprehensively presented to Western scholarship or integrated into the framework of global discourses on social ethics and morality.

Americans' belief in their economic, political, and cultural superiority launched them on a mission to transform Latin America that has evolved into a global process of Americanization.

This key resource for anyone interested in the United Nations, global issues, or world politics provides accessible and comprehensive coverage of the history, growth, and development of ideas and institutions governing the globe.

This book delves into the diffuse relationship between states, citizens, and non-citizens.

This book explores the emergent relationship between food and family in contemporary China through an empirical case study of Guangzhou, a typical city, to understand the texture of everyday life in the new consumerist society.

This book is the empirical part of a broad research project on society in a global context, complementing the first, theoretical book, Theorizing Society in a Global Context.

The objective of The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises is to deconstruct, question, and redefine through a critical lens what is commonly understood as "e;migration crises.

The large-scale extraction of natural resources for sale in capitalist markets is not a new phenomenon, but in recent years global demand for resources has increased, leading to greater attention to the role of resource extraction in the development of the exporting countries.

This book offers a comprehensive and multidisciplinary global overview of populism and human rights in the light of globalization.

Rapid advances and new technologies in the life sciences - such as biotechnologies in health, agricultural and environmental arenas - pose a range of pressing challenges to questions of citizenship.

Originally published in 1991, this book opens with a theoretical and historical section and analyses the affairs of both the communist party and the trade unions of specific European countries.

Although it is still early for an established academic account of the motivations behind the dramatic events in the Arab world in 2010/11, Leila Simona Talani believes that it is about time to try and place this issue into the broader picture of the latest changes in the global political economy.

Globalization is an irresistible force.

Walter Rodney was a scholar, working class militant, and revolutionary from Guyana.

The globalization of threats and the complexity of international security issues represents a greater challenge for international policing in (re)shaping inter-agency interaction, and makes effective international police cooperation more necessary than ever before.

Brazil, Russia, India and China are four of the largest and most dynamic contemporary emerging economies in the world.

Humanised accounts of restrictions on mobility are rarely the focus of debates on irregular migration.

This book illustrates the current state of China's economic and trade relations from the perspective from different countries in the Xi Jinping era.

Examining the dynamics between subject, photographer and viewer, Fashioning Brazil analyses how Brazilians have appropriated and reinterpreted clothing influences from local and global cultures.

Originally published in 1987, this book focusses on the debate around the international role of the working class and other dominated classes such as the rural and urban poor.