Globalization

Drawing on original research from social scientists working on twelve countries this book explores the key issues faced by nations and citizens as they struggle to rediscover, reaffirm or reconstruct their sense of national identities in the face of globalizing forces.

This book charts the way towards a better, repurposed globalization, which it calls 'reglobalization', and shows how this can be built, incrementally but realistically, via reforms to the partial and fragile existing structures of global governance.

This edited collection aims to examine the global-rural relationship of migration that shapes rural places.

This book presents a novel perspective on neocolonialism, education and other related issues.

Social and environmental historians assess the extent to which transnational agents changed socioecological space as a consequence of globalization.

This book explores the activities of the local Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan.

Is China challenging liberal norms or being socialised to them?

This work examines the ability of existing and evolving PMC regulation to adequately control private force, and it challenges the capacity of international law to deliver accountability in the event of private military company (PMC) misconduct.

This collection documents the different ways in which Asian governments have been pursuing economic nationalism even as they have been integrating with the world economy.

Globalization is a catchword of our time, referring to the interdependence that affects us all.

Examining globalization in the Middle East, this book provides a much needed assessment of the impact of globalization in the 'greater' Middle East, including North Africa, in the context of the powerful geopolitical forces at work in shaping the region today.

Private Interest Governments were identified in the 1980s as a special form of public regulation in selected economic sectors, rivalling conventional market, state, or community-based forms of public order.

Though geographically far apart, Turkey and Australia are much closer than many would think.

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

Die in dem Buch versammelten Beiträge der Festschrift für Gert Schmidt sprechen einzelne Facetten der globalen Wandlungsdynamik des Kapitalismus mit dem Ziel an, den „Wandel des Wandels“ in der Ökonomie greifbar werden zu lassen.

This highly-acclaimed, bestselling textbook, quickly established itself as one of the leading texts on the subject worldwide in its first edition.

This book offers an extensive and original study of the dynamics of rivalry, evolution of costly and violent conflicts, and potential cooperation among powerful players.

Ya no basta con que los directivos manejen sus empresas con eficiencia, sino que además se espera que sean reales agentes de cambio por lo que buscan la legitimidad social.

Atmosphere, the elusive ambiance of a place, enables or hinders its mobility in global consumption contexts.

Nandigram, a riverine village in southern West Bengal, is well knowr ail over the globe after the tragedy in 2007 on the conflicting issue of proposed land acquisition lor petrochemical hub.

Globalization is transforming the world at an accelerated pace.

American identity has always been capacious as a concept but narrow in its application.

Development studies is in a state of flux.

In the wake of World War II, a number of institutions designed to promote a liberal global economic and geopolitical order were establishedthe International Monetary Fund, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (forerunner of the World Trade Organization), and the World Bank in the economic sphere, and the United Nations in the geopolitical realm.

Many states appear to have strong sentiment on energy security and energy transit vulnerability.

This book sets out an agenda to transform international criminal trials and the delivery of international criminal justice to victim communities through collaboration of currently competing paradigms.

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.

The book present the focal attention on the elimination of poverty and to reach to the purpose discusses various factors, plans and perspectives in details : various dimensions discussed by many different economist of world and the variations, analysis of the perspective in context of last five decades development experience of the other countries, Indian experience and its multiface in India.

Globalization has become one of the most important topics within politics and economics.

This volume brings together the work of outstanding feminist scholars who reflect on the achievements of feminist political economy and the challenges it faces in the 21st century.

Based on the author's long experience in academic life and the public realm, especially in foreign policy, this book argues that a single categoric classification of cities is inadequate, and that cities have had different and varied impacts and positions throughout the history of civilization.

This book aims to address this neglect in the European context with concentration on the UK case.

This book deals with pertinent issues and frameworks that will help readers map the course of India's Foreign Policy and its strategies.

This book analyzes e-participation in smart cities.

This book provides a historical review of the transformation of China's image around the world since the 1978 Reform and Opening Up.

British multinationals faced unprecedented challenges to their organizational legitimacy in the middle of the twentieth century as the European colonial empires were dismantled and institutional transformations changed colonial relationships in Africa and other parts of the world.

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.

Blue-collar job loss, immigration, trade deficits—Americans blame globalization for a host of problems.

Dieses Lehrbuch führt ein in die politikwissenschaftliche Debatte über Global Governance.

The Globalization and Environment Reader features a collection of classic and cutting-edge readings that explore whether and how globalization can be made compatible with sustainable development.

In clear and concise terms, Robert Went demythologises globalization.

Despite increasing interest in how involvement in local government can improve governance and lead to civic renewal, questions remain about participation's real impact.

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.

As we move deeper into the twenty-first century, the forces of globalisation continue to transform both the spaces around international borders, and the social processes, cultural practices, economies, and political dynamics within and between these spaces.

This book stems from a simple 'feminist curiosity' that can be succinctly summed up into a single question: what happens to combatant women after the war?

MayaAjmera and Greg Fields provide the architecture of a new perspective on theglobal agenda for children, based on a new global web of relationships stemmingfrom the community level.