Globalization

Neil Ewins' study of the Staffordshire potteries in a period of great global change traces how ceramics production has been affected by globalisation in both familiar and unexpected ways.

At a time when many regions of the world, including Europe, see a resurgence of authoritarianism, three countries of Eastern Europe Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova are struggling to counter this trend with the aim of developing European-style democracies in the framework of their Association Agreements with the European Union.

This book examines the dynamic processes by which communities establish distinct notions of 'home' and 'belonging'.

This book develops "e;organizing eating"e; as an organizational-communication centered framework for understanding how communication and power combine to actively shape eating and working in the U.

This title examines Sub-Saharan Africa's relations with states such as the US, India, China, the EU, and Britain as well as with non-state actors.

This book examines the changing relations between the Asian part of the Middle East and the rest of the continent during the 21st century.

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 edited volume focuses on charting the rise of neo-abolitionism and offering a critique of the idea, its logics and consequences.

Wirtschaftliches Handeln findet heute zunehmend im internationalen Kontext statt und überschreitet dabei mehrfach Ländergrenzen, was sich immer deutlicher in den alltäglichen Wertschöpfungsprozessen von Unternehmen niederschlägt.

The constraints of geography are shrinking and the world is becoming a single place.

The contemporary era of globalization demonstrates that the local and global aspects of business and government are increasingly intertwined.

With more than 900 million consumers, the continent of Africa is one of the world's fastest growing markets.

Providing a coherent and current account of how the U.

Scholarly debate on the subject of global justice has been overwhelmingly focused so far on the socio-economic aspects of justice.

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.

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

The debate on the competitiveness of local and regional clusters in the current globalized markets is a priority as globalization puts pressure on such production systems and forces them to find new ways of competition and sustainability.

This research based book offers insight to the changing perspectives regarding FDI from traditional theory to new theory, from local to global link, and from opportunity to responsibility.

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.

This research based book offers insight to the changing perspectives regarding FDI from traditional theory to new theory, from local to global link, and from opportunity to responsibility.

The challenge of teaching international studies is to help students think coherently about the multiple causes and effects of global problems.

Based on new and existing research by a world-class scholar, this is the first book in twenty years to examine the dynamics of the entire American-West European relationship since 1945.

Much discussed but poorly understood, globalization is at once praised as the answer to all the world's problems and blamed for everything from pollution to poverty.

This book provides insights into the emotional dimensions of human mobility.

Competition policy-encompassing cartels, monopolies, mergers and state aid-is a hallmark of the European Union (EU).

This book investigates how technology and innovation policies in contemporary China are impacted by collaboration and conflicts between different classes and interests in a world economy, in which competitiveness is defined by the successful leverage of emerging technologies.

This book captures an epochal juncture of two of the world's most transformative processes: the People's Republic of China's rapidly expanding sphere of influence across the global south and the disintegration of the Amazonian, Cerrado, and Andean biomes.

A consensus has emerged that corporations have societal and environmental responsibilities when operating transnationally.

This book presents a study of perceptions of food insecurity in East Asia, and explores how individual countries are developing strategies to deal with the situation.

La Chine est omniprésente.

The industrialization of prostitution and the sex trade has created a multibillion-dollar global market, involving millions of women, that makes a substantial contribution to national and global economies.

Explores the global duties attached to human rights, including the necessity to promote political integration between states.

Examining India-America relations between 1942-62, this book reconsiders the role of America in shaping the imagination of post-colonial India.

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.

In Secularism as Misdirection, Nivedita Menon traces how the discourse of secularism fixes attention to and hypervisualizes women and religion while obscuring other related issues.

This key resource for anyone interested in the United Nations, global issues, or world politics provides accessible and comprehensive coverage of the history, growth, and development of ideas and institutions governing the globe.

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.

Offers a perceptive critique of the universalized model of psychiatry and its apparent exportation from the West to the developing world.

As the economies of China, India, and other Asian nations continue to grow, these countries are seeking greater control over the rules that govern international trade.

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.

The Caribbean banana trade is a controversial issue within international affairs.

This book provides a unique insight into the world of commodity trading companies, often depicted as the hidden companies of the global economy and showcases how they were instrumental in bringing about the economic integration of new commodities and far-flung regions into the first global economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

The process of globalization is dynamic in the direction of increasing integration.

China has enjoyed heroic growth rates in the last twenty five years of reform and transition, pulling more people out of poverty more quickly than at any other time in human history.

Globalization effects on health nutrition trends and flows .

Suzy Hansen (Nueva Jersey, Estados Unidos) era una joven periodista de éxito cuando Estados Unidos sufrió el ataque del 11- S y decidió invadir Irak.