Globalization

This publication provides an unparalleled comparative analysis of two "e;hot topics"e; in the field of antitrust and unfair competition law with regard to a number of key countries.

This ethnographic study explores how four alternative media projects in El Salvador integrated digital technologies-particularly social media-into their practices, and whether incorporating these technologies affected citizen participation not only in the media production process, but in a broader discursive sphere of civic and political life as well.

This book deploys an original comparative framework, as well as archival and pattern-matching research methodologies, to analyze whistleblowing cases from Peru, South Korea, Thailand and the United States of America and to ascertain factors that make for effective whistleblowing.

Das Lehrbuch gibt einen differenzierten, übersichtlichen und verständlichen Überblick über Stand und Probleme des Wissens zu Terrorismus und Terrorismusbekämpfung.

This book contributes to an ongoing debate about the EU as a global actor, the organization's ability to speak with one voice in energy affairs, and the external dimension of the regulatory state.

This book explores one of the 20th century's most consequential global political thinkers and yet one of the most overlooked.

This book examines how emergent trends in innovation and its governance are raising new and old questions about how to control technology.

This book addresses some of the most pressing questions of our time: Is democracy threatened by globalisation?

Beyond Slacktivism examines how routine social media use shapes political participation.

This book examines how intimate relationships are built, negotiated and maintained through social media.

This edited volume analyzes national security issues with maritime implications, and, specifically, naval projects and postures of main South Atlantic countries: Brazil, Argentina, Nigeria, and South Africa.

Das Handbuch  untersucht interdisziplinär einen Schlüsselbegriff der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften.

This book asks: What are the most suitable "e;mapping strategies"e; for detecting patterns of global dynamics?

This book explores how the European Union designs its trade policy to face the most recent challenges and to influence global policy issues.

This two-volume handbook provides readers with a comprehensive interpretation of globality through the multifaceted prism of the humanities and social sciences.

This book, through an analysis of case studies in Latin America and Southeast Asia, sets out to understand the form and function of contemporary states seeking to guide and cajole markets, hoping to stimulate economic growth and generate robust development outcomes.

This book addresses the possibilities of analyzing the modern international through the thought of Michel Foucault.

This volume interrogates the intertwining of the local and the digital in environmental communication.

This novel book, motivated by the recent introduction of a major innovation in information technology, explores the possibility of the Internet being made available to millions of poor people in developing countries, who are not yet connected.

This book explores and explains the reasons why the idea of universal history, a form of teleological history which holds that all peoples are travelling along the same path and destined to end at the same point, persists in political thought.

This book presents an alternative theory of globalization that derives not from the dominant perspective of the West, from which this process emerged, but from the critical vantage point of the Third World, which has borne the heaviest burdens of globalization.

This book brings together theories of world society with poststructuralist and postcolonial work on modern subjectivity to understand the universalising and particularising processes of globalisation.

Die gestalterischen Beiträge in diesem Band entwickeln verschiedene Perspektiven kritischen Informationsdesigns in unterschiedlichen Medien und für vielfältige Anwendungsbereiche: Videospiel, medizinische Diagnostik und ästhetische Erfahrung im online-Bereich.

This book examines the relationship between post-Soviet societies in transition and the increasingly important role of their diaspora.

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 discusses how human wellbeing is constructed and transferred intergenerationally in the context of international migration.

Unterbrochene Lieferketten, Schwierigkeiten im Nachschub einfachster medizinischer Schutzkleidung (z.

This book narrates the integration of consumer culture into transnational human rights advocacy and explores its political impact.

This volume considers strategies, modalities, and styles of media use and reception.

This book argues that Canada and its international policies are at a crossroads as US hegemony is increasingly challenged and a new international order is emerging.

This book offers a comprehensive and insightful reflection on David Ricardo's ingenious theory of international trade.

With this volume, the editors propose a multi-dimensional and critical review of migrants' vulnerabilities.

This book examines the current phase of world order transition in the Atlantic area, focusing on Europe and Northern America, Asia, and Africa.

Hybrid warfare is becoming a long-term strategic challenge for NATO and the EU.

This book discusses how modern universities increasingly use reputation management in relation to internal and external challenges.

This book explores financial trends in the age of financial globalization and explores the changing roles within the global financial industry.

This book analyses the making of the international world of 'natural' disasters by its professionals.

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.

This book analyses post-deportation outcomes and focuses on what happens to migrants and failed asylum seekers after deportation.

This edited collection provides a series of accounts of workers' local experiences that reflect the ubiquity of work's digitalisation.

This book contests the negative portrayal of African immigrants as people who are not valuable members of South African society.

This book examines changing international dynamics through the lens of some of the leading think tanks from the emerging powers in the world.

This book presents the findings of research projects conducted by CREA (Community of Researchers on Excellence for all), a research community based in Barcelona, showing how social transformation combines scientific excellence with the political and social impact of the research.

This book shows how an encounter with everyday nationhood in the northern United Arab Emirates can make us revisit the classics of sociology as continuous analytical world-views.

This book examines the spaces where translation and globalization intersect, whether they be classrooms, communities, or cultural texts.

This book explains the unexpected mobilization of the Crimean Tatar diaspora in recent decades through an exploration of the exile experiences of the Crimean Tatars in Central Asia, Middle East, Eastern Europe, and North America.

This book presents selected non-US views of the Barack Obama administration.

This book is a transnational ethnographic study of Sri Lankan women's television soap opera cultures in Australia and Sri Lanka.