Globalization

A leading economic historian presents a new history of financial crises, showing how some led to greater globalization while others kept nations apart The eminent economic historian Harold James presents a new perspective on financial crises, dividing them into "e;good"e; crises, which ultimately expand markets and globalization, and "e;bad"e; crises, which result in a smaller, less prosperous world.

A timely and compelling argument for a revitalized and restructured global politics The future seems increasingly uncertain.

Examines the new configuration of political power in Western Europe, as the radical right mobilises globalisation''s losers.

The Soldier and the Changing State is the first book to systematically explore, on a global scale, civil-military relations in democratizing and changing states.

For over a decade, the world has experienced an accelerating erosion of a language that took hundreds of years to emerge.

Der Band diskutiert die Möglichkeiten, aber auch Grenzen und Probleme von EU-Simulationen und liefert wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse zur Konzeptualisierung, zum Simulationsdesign und zur systematischen Evaluation von Lernergebnissen.

Using ingenious research methods, the contributors to this book explore the search for meaning among ordinary people in China today.

Asia has undergone rapid economic transformation over the past two decades.

This book is a cultural critique of labor and globalization that considers whether one can represent the other.

The crisis that nearly brought the world's financial house down in 2008 demonstrated clearly that the global economy cannot work where there is widespread deception, corruption and lack of accountability.

Ein Beben geht durch das Koordinatensystem der PolitikDie Dominanz der Volksparteien, die nach 1945 für Jahrzehnte Deutschland und Österreich geprägt hat, ist unwiderruflich vergangen.

This handbook offers a comprehensive picture of the European activities of national parliaments in all 28 member states of the European Union.

The Fifteenth Annual International Police Executive Symposium brought together 65 police executives, government officials, academics, and researchers to discuss issues relating to all aspects of policing in a global community.

Capital as a Social Kind provides an introduction to social kinds in social theory.

This volume develops a set of provocative themes: globalization is not new; it is neither legally inevitable nor irreversible; and international legal systems and institutions can assert only a special and limited influence on globalizing developments.

This book examines the nature of transnational organized crime and gangs, and how these diverse organizations contribute to violence, especially in so-called fragile states across Central and Latin America.

What does it mean to decolonize transnational feminist theory in the context of globalization?

This new, fully updated edition of Global Migration provides students with a thorough and grounded understanding of multiple dimensions of migration, including labour markets, citizenship, border control, integration, and identity.

An exploration of the role of the news media in the development of EU-China relations after the end of the Cold War, this book provides empirical evidence to support what Nye and Anholt have argued: that branding a country's image is soft power.

This book is about the crises of the world economy that have occurred from the 1970s to the present day.

This book focuses on measures pertaining to the three-pillar implementation strategy of R2P and examines how and to what extent the three pillars have been practised.

This book argues that a sense of affinity for land and space constitutes the foundation of human agency and underlies all social activity of human beings from a personal level to family, nation, region, and the world.

The Impact of UNESCO on States' Cultural Policies focuses on the impact of the 2005 Convention on Diversity of Cultural Expressions on the cultural policies of eight states and substates, examining how they have integrated it into their own cultural policy.

Is the world entering a period of breakdown or breakthrough?

Today's globalised world means offshore finance, airport boutiques and high-speed Internet for some people, against dollar-a-day wages, used t-shirts, and illiteracy for others.

The Brexit vote; the election of Trump; the upsurge of European nationalism; the devolution of the Arab Spring; global violence; Chinese expansionism; disruptive climate change; the riotous instabilities of the world capitalist system.

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 volume brings together many of the leading international figures in development studies, such as Jose Antonio Ocampo, Paul Krugman, Dani Rodrik, Joseph Stiglitz, Daniel Cohen, Olivier Blanchard, Deepak Nayyar and John Williamson to reconsider and propose alternative development policies to the Washington Consensus.

International commissions, academics, practitioners, and the media have long been critical of the UN's development efforts as disjointed and not fit for purpose; yet the organization has been an essential contributor to progress and peacebuilding.

Despite the mounting criticism that globalization is encountering, the developed countries continue to lose no opportunity to change the rules of the global economy in their favour, regardless of the impact on developing countries and the poor.

The fate of globalization in the 21st century hangs in the balance.

Pope Francis confuses many observers because his papacy does not fit neatly into any pre-established classificatory schemes.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of current debates on the influence of the Olympic Games on cities, urban policies and the governance of global cities, making a valuable contribution to the fields of Olympic studies and urban studies.

This volume explores the governance of the transforming Arctic from an international perspective.

The rapid postwar economic growth in the Southeast Asia region has led to a transformation of many of the societies there, together with the development of new types of anthropological research in the region.

Financial markets have become acknowledged as a source of crisis, and discussion of them has shifted from economics, through legal and regulatory studies, to politics.

This book shows how globalization shrinks distance, thereby expanding international obligations to aid the poor and make free trade fair.

Globalization and Money explores how men and women, particularly the poor and the unbanked in the global South, use money in ways that empower themselves and their families.

Multinational enterprises have become a main engine of the global economy, technical advancement, and product innovation, playing a pivotal role in the world economy and the global technological revolution.

COVID-19 is an invisible threat that has hugely impacted cities and their inhabitants.

Mexico in Transition provides a wide-ranging, empirical and up-to-date survey of the multiple impacts neoliberal policies have had in practice in Mexico over twenty years, and the specific impacts of the NAFTA Agreement.

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We have been living and working in the information society for decades, yet still we struggle to understand and keep up in the face of its constant flux and vast scope.

*Winner of the Leadership Book of the Year 2024, as awarded by the UK's Institute of Leadership*A book that helps make sense of the megatrends playing out in the world today and, as a result, how individuals can future-proof their businesses and careers.