Globalization

This ambitious work provides a unique statement on the question of place-based activism and its relationship to powerful forces of international capital.

This book addresses a range of issues surrounding the search for scientific truths in the study of international conflict and international political economy.

This book analyses two key topics within international politics: the responsibility to protect (R2P) and the commercialization and privatization of security.

The era of globalisation brought waves of consolidation in business ownership alongside Leviathon-like state actors.

Throughout history, maps have been a powerful tool in the constitutive imaginary of governments seeking to define or contest the limits of their political reach.

Utilizing research on networked struggles in both the 18th-century Atlantic world and our modern day, Resistance, Space and Political Identities: The Making of Counter-Global Networks challenges existing understandings of the relations between space, politics, and resistance to develop an innovative account of networked forms of resistance and political activity.

This book discusses the crucial strategic topic for the practical implementation of transitional justice in post-conflict societies by arguing that the dilemma is defined by the extent to which the actual achievement of the political goals of transition is a necessary condition for the long-term observance and implementation of justice.

This book will take the reader through the past, the present, and into the future of the flagship institution of the international customs community: the World Customs Organization (WCO).

Drawing upon a range of resources of critique (including critical realist social theory, realist international relations theory, the sociology of globalization, the Marxist critique of imperialism, and dependency theory), this book is an essential contribution to the critical understanding of nationalism and imperialism in the global age.

Gestörte Lieferketten, Flucht und Migration, Kritik an »kosmopolitischen Eliten«: Auseinandersetzungen über Globalisierung und neuerdings auch Deglobalisierung haben Konjunktur.

Sport has changed.

Uniquely informed by a sociological perspective, this major new textbook introduces the underlying origins and consequences of international migration, placing individuals within a broader social, cultural and historical context.

HIV/AIDS is the major political challenge of our time.

This book provides critical insights about how U.

An examination of how the postwar United States twisted its ideal of "e;the free flow of information"e; into a one-sided export of values and a tool with global consequences.

Ce livre est une transcription de deux conférences données à l’Université du Québec à Montréal, qui ont porté sur la grande entreprise, à comprendre comme acteur politique.

This innovative Routledge Handbook sheds light on the complex and transformative nature of Global China, prompting a re- evaluation of existing theories on global and regional dynamics.

Since the early 1980s, Japanese firms have massively globalized their production operations and have shown superb competitive powers in global markets.

As a result of the financial crisis, opposition parties have had to choose between the need to cooperate with the majority in order to contribute to necessary socio-economic changes, and the opportunity to stress their adversarial position vis-a-vis governments taking radical and unpopular measures.

This new book takes as its focus a simple yet critical question: Does foreign direct investment lead to weakened environmental regulation, thereby turning developing countries into "e;pollution havens"e;?

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Many risks face the global insurance industry today, including the aging populations of developed countries, competition from other financial institutions, and both disparate and quickly changing regulatory demands, to name a few.

The question whether and how boundaries might individuate and thereby be constitutive features of any imaginable legal order has yet to be addressed in a systematic and comprehensive manner by legal and political theory.

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.

European Union in the Global Context explores the interplay between the state and state sovereignty, nationalism, European integration and globalisation.

Cross-border regions are newly emerging social spaces stretching across national borders.

Proposing a new way of understanding the relationship between the city and personal identity, The City is Me argues that there is no longer a distance between the two.

This book centres refugees and asylum seekers as agents of global politics, broadening our thinking about political agency beyond statism, citizenship, and organized political protest.

This book addresses the politics of borders in the era of global art by exploring the identification of Chinese artists by location and exhibition.

Globalizations from Below uses a Constructivist International Relations approach that emphasizes the centrality of normative power to analyze and compare the four globalizations 'from below.

Leading economists propose solutions to the problems of globalizationGlobalization has expanded economic opportunities throughout the world, but it has also left many people feeling dispossessed, disenfranchised, and angry.

This book represents a valuable contribution to the study of Asia-Latin America relations from the unprecedented collaboration of leading Latin American specialists of China, Japan, and Korea, representing views from their respective countries.

The first of the UN Millennium Goals was to reduce extreme poverty and in 2014 it was halved compared to 1990, and now the goal is to eradicate poverty and hunger by 2030.

Industrial competition with rising economies, new regional investment from the West, and trade pacts among competitors threaten Japan's long postwar prominence.

A Brookings Institution Press and Centre for International Governance Innovation publicationThe global order is shifting.

The book breaks new ground in understanding the role of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Africa.

In this book, after discussing the fundamental problems of current science and other philosophic concepts, beginning with controversies between Heraclitus and Parmenides, Ilya Prigogine launches into a message of great hope: the future has not been determined.

The huge expansion of new marketplaces and new retailers over the last fifty years has created a retail revolution.

This book studies the relationship between British government and faith groups in its international development agenda within and beyond the context of Brexit.

This edited collection focuses on concepts of globalization, glocalization, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism.

An exploration of the controversies surrounding Singlish and how they illuminate wider issues of identity and language in the context of globalization.

This volume provides an interdisciplinary analysis on the political role of corporations in society by using the analytical device of corporate citizenship.

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

This innovative volume gathers some of the world's best scholars to analyse the world's collective international efforts to address globalised threats through global security governance.

This book discusses the feasible breakthrough of emerging economy enterprises in participating the international division of labor led by developed countries and gradually standing at the top end(s) of the value chain based on a deep understanding of the practice and upgrading opportunities of Chinese enterprises.

The late-twentieth century is often portrayed as an 'Age of Democratisation', with democracy heralded as the best of all political systems.

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