Globalization

Regionalism is under stress.

AFTER GLOBALIZATION Relentlessly, remorselessly, endlessly, we are told there is no alternative to globalization, whether our lecturers are bourgeois economists, progressive journalists, or imaginative litterateurs.

This book offers a sociological analysis of globalised capitalist markets, advancing the notion of 'disembedded markets' to challenge the idea of 'social embeddedness' common in economic sociology.

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.

Governing Complexity in the 21st Century surveys the ways in which social systems are becoming more complex.

Since the mid-1980s, David F.

This provocative book is anchored on the insurgent and resurgent spirit of decolonization of the twenty-first century.

Leading scholars, established and new, demonstrate a novel approach to the empirical study of global law-in-action in this second volume of a two-volume series.

Does the 'city region' constitute a new departure in urbanisation?

The figure of the stranger is in serious need of revision, as is our understanding of the society against which the stranger is projected.

This book is a critique of claims regarding how emerging economies are supposedly rewriting the rules of global governance and ushering in alternative models to neoliberal orthodoxy.

The Amazon region is the focus of intense conflict between conservationists concerned with deforestation and advocates of agro-industrial development.

As China develops its economy, this 2004 book argues it will be held back by its refusal to import democratic values.

While geopolitics has captured global attention, geoeconomics is the often hidden force that governs countries' relationships.

A development education resource designed and written by an international group of authors and educationalists.

This volume assesses China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as it approaches its tenth year in operation.

Dilip K.

An exploration of anthropological perspectives on the cultures, moralities and politics of the world of aid and development.

Regionalism has been a key feature of contemporary international relations.

This book discusses the ways civil society initiatives open communities to newcomers and why, how, and under what circumstances some are more welcoming than others, exploring the importance of transgressive cosmopolitanism as a basis for creating more inclusive and pluralistic societies.

This book explores rising labor unrest in China as it integrates into the global political economy.

This innovative book challenges the most powerful and pervasive ideas concerning political economy, international relations, and ethics in the modern world.

This fully revised and updated textbook focuses on the major topics of globalization today.

"e;It is my expectation that respect for the critical importance of seed sovereignty will in due course be recognised by member states of the United Nations to be as critical to global peace and security as the UN Charter demands in respect of State sovereign equality, justice, human rights and economic and social wellbeing for all peoples.

This book offers microhistories related to the transnational circulations of impressionism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

This book addresses the change of social work in the frame of modernisation.

How have immigration and diversity shaped urban life and local governance?

The COVID-19 pandemic was not a great 'equaliser', but rather an event whose impact intersected with pre-existing inequalities affecting different people, places, and geographic scales.

This book offers a historically sweeping yet detailed view of world-systemic migration as a racialized process.

This book examines the international conflict of laws.

The Zapatistas of Chiapas and the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) of Brazil are often celebrated as shining examples in the global struggle against neoliberalism.

This book looks at what a critical understanding of constitutional, labour and European Union law entails under conditions of globalisation.

In this book, Julia Berger examines internal meaning-making structures and processes driving NGO behavior, identifying constructs from within a religious tradition that forge new ways of pursuing social change.

The global financial crisis has demonstrated the impact and implications of late capitalism and its bedfellow, globalisation.

The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies provides diverse and cutting-edge perspectives on this fast-changing field.

Jeffrey James develops the insights of the often separate literatures on globalization and information technology and demonstrates their interdependence.

This book begins from the central premise that progressive social change requires collective struggle underpinned by a clear strategy, and that processes of neoliberal globalisation have altered the cartography upon which social struggle takes place.

Violence and Gender in the Globalized World expands the critical picture of gender and violence in the age of globalization by introducing a variety of uncommonly discussed geo-political sites and dynamics.

This book analyses the arrival of emerging and traditional information and technology for public and economic use in Latin America.

Originally published in 1998.

Globalization and Entrepreneurship explores the transformative impact of digital technologies on entrepreneurship across three distinct, but interconnected nations.

This book examines the role of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) practitioners in coordinating, creating, and managing regional governance practices in the areas of public health, peace and security, and microfinancial integration.

Studying paradiplomacy comparatively, this book explains why and how sub-state governments (SSG) conduct their international relations (IR) with external actors, and how federal authorities and local governments coordinate, or not, in the definition and implementation of the national foreign policy.

Why Europe is on the decline-and what can be done about itHas Europe's extraordinary postwar recovery limped to an end?

Comparing the experience of East Asia and Latin America since the mid-1970s, Elson identifies the key internal factors common to each region which have allowed East Asia to take advantage of the trade, financial, and technological impact of a more globalized economy to support its development, while Latin America has not.

Analyzes how increases in international trade, finance, and production have altered voter decisions, political party positions, and the issues that parties focus on in postindustrial democracies.

The collection considers the growing importance of the border as a prime site for criminal justice activity and explores the impact of border policing on human rights and global justice.