Globalization

This book provides a timely and nuanced analysis of the successes and shortcoming of efforts to move beyond market democracy in Bolivia and Venezuela.

This book provides a timely and nuanced analysis of the successes and shortcoming of efforts to move beyond market democracy in Bolivia and Venezuela.

This book critically examines the international, geopolitical, policy, institutional, and curricular challenges facing Canadian offshore school programs.

Zu Beginn der 2020er-Jahre hat die digitale Transformation unseren Alltag und fast alle Bereiche von Wirtschaft und Verwaltung erreicht.

El libro compila las ponencias expuestas los días 5 y 6 de septiembre de 2002, en Paipa (Boyacá), entorno a los procesos de globalización.

The prevailing Western paradigm is modernity: a model focused on individual liberty, secularism, and the scientific control of nature.

This book asks if it is time to "e;reboot"e; the fundamental institutions of global international society.

This thoroughly updated editionprovides a comprehensive overview of two centuries of transnational feminist efforts to produce a more just global order.

This book applies established analytical concepts such as influence, authority, administrative styles, autonomy, budgeting and multilevel administration to the study of international bureaucracies and their political environment.

This book presents solutions to problems that are total and based on thinking about how and why humans have organized themselves.

The Nile River Basin supports the livelihoods of millions of people in Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda, principally as water for agriculture and hydropower.

Jacques offers a unique analysis of the connections between global marine and atmospheric science to global political phenomena.

This pivot considers how China deals with the globalization of its energy companies in the face of global efforts to combat climate change.

This groundbreaking volume investigates the processes of globalization in one of the oldest and grandest of world cities.

Migration and its associated social practices and consequences have been studied within a multitude of academic disciplines and in the context of policies at local, national and regional level.

Is it time to reaffirm our liberal values?

As the financial crisis continues to shake the economy it has begun to expose cracks in the ideology long used to justify neoliberal policies.

This book is about three key dimensions in economics globalization, migration and the welfare state that are of enduring interest.

This book explores the connections between the processes of social structuring and sensibilities in contemporary cities.

'Before the current global era it is impossible to imagine that comparable events [like September 11] could have occurred, reflecting as they do our new-found interdependence.

"e;Globalization"e; has become a popular buzzword for explaining today's world.

This volume brings together marginalized perspectives and communities into the mainstream discourse on education for sustainable development and global citizenship.

This book chronicles the intersection of chaplaincy, autopathography (illness narratives), and stigmatized illness through the observations and stories of a chaplain working at a facility for people with HIV and AIDS.

This volume collects and combines research on regional integration projects beyond Europe and in the Global South across a wide range of policy issues.

Explores current debates around religious extremism as a means to understand and re-think the connections between terrorism, insurgency and state failure.

The end of the Cold War has seen an international proliferation of parliamentary bodies of all types and at all levels.

This edited book by Mills and Karp brings together political, legal and moral perspectives on the responsibilities of human rights protection in world politics today.

The contributors highlight alternative imaginaries and social forces harnessing new organizational and political forms to counter and displace dominant strategies of rule.

Through policy and intervention national governments in Europe have long held an active interest in railways, an interest that has transferred to the supranational level via the EU commission.

The use of regional organizations to mitigate and respond to disasters has become a global trend.

Drawing from novel theoretical insights in social psychology, cultural psychology, and marketing, Globalization, Culture and Branding provides guidelines for imbuing brands with culturally symbolic meanings that can create deep psychological bonds with multi-cultural consumers.

This book challenges the popular view that established ideologies no longer make sense in today's globalizing world.

Examining the global significance of the freight container, with particular emphasis on the perspectives of the US and China, Globalization Contained considers the implications of the freight container as an agent of change for the future of the global economy and global security.

This book provides a cross-regional investigation of the role of citizenship and ethnicity in migration, political incorporation, and political transnationalism in the age of globalization, exploring the political realities of Dutch Antilleans in the Netherlands and Latin American Nikkeijin in Japan.

Existing theories of cooperation assume a stable geo-political order, led by countries with a shared conception of the modalities of cooperation.

Over the past two decades, corporations and venture capitalists have adjusted business models to change the digital world.

Este libro, desde una visión que busca potenciar las economías y el comercio en la Zona de Integración Fronteriza Ecuatoriana-colombiana, invita al lector a adaptarse a un entorno de inestabilidad, regido por una dinámica cambiante que define las actividades económicas de la zona limítrofe entre ambas naciones.

Vietnam's political development has entered an extraordinary, if indeterminate, phase.

Hier könnt Ihr in den Schwerpunkt "Bauwerke" im Bereich "Bauen" hereinschnuppern und herausfinden, was an Gebäuden, Straßen, Brücken, Fountonplatten, Errinerungs-Steine sowie vieles weitere, Interessant sein kann, und wie die Erde mit allen Bauwerken darin, jederzeit zum "Besseren" Umgestaltet werden kann.

This book investigates the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party's crucial goal of using the propaganda system to consolidate its power within the domestic political environment and its prominent recent attempts to use propaganda overseas to increase China's international power.

Do NGOs strengthen Turkey's efforts at Europeanization and democratization or do they use EU funding to serve other interests?

This book reviews bureau-type organizations delivering network goods, documenting how most global institutions greatly improved their effectiveness during the last few decades.

This book offers a new critical perspective on emerging and alternative 'spaces' for emancipation within lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities.

Using a framework of norm diffusion to determine the EU's international actorness in the context of its relations with ASEAN, this book provides a timely and in-depth analysis of EU-ASEAN relations.

This first comprehensive study of the EU's diplomatic representation in the world, the EEAS, this book seeks to understand why it has failed to formulate a centralised policy towards external states.

Drawing evidence from North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, the contributors illustrate that even within the common framework of economic globalization, the ways in which the interests of state actors and the agency of migrants intersects continuously shapes and reshapes both home and destination societies.

At the end of the Cold War, commentators were pondering how far Western ideas would spread; today, the debate seems to be how far Chinese ideas will reach.

Pasura proposes a framework for understanding African diasporas as core, epistemic, dormant and silent diasporas.