Globalization

This book examines the institutions that are producing consumer law at the international level, the substantive issues enshrined in these laws, and the enforcement mechanisms meant to ensure effective protection.

This book focuses on recent technical advancements and state-of-the art technologies for analyzing characteristic features and probabilistic modelling of complex social networks and decentralized online network architectures.

This book contributes to the current revival of dependency approaches for the analysis of global capitalism.

This book investigates studies on colonialism and anti-colonialism from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America.

This book contributes to the discourse on post-colonial and globalization theories, focusing on Nigeria's transition to a federal system of government.

 This book develops a nuanced decolonial critique that calls for the decolonization of media and communication studies in Africa and the Global South.

Pursuing an interdisciplinary approach, this book offers detailed insights into the empirical relationships between overall social key figures of states and cultures in the fields of information and communication technology (ICT) (digital divide/inequality), the economy, education and religion.

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

Un)timely Crises explores how 'crisis'-as a narrative, concept, grammar, and experience-structures time and space.

This book investigates recent policy initiatives dealing with the online enforcement of copyright in the European Union, providing unique insights into the current stalemate in the field.

This book maintains that the theory of imperialism should incorporate the concept of an "e;operational code"e; of political elites to account for agencies' actions.

This volume employs new empirical data to examine the internationalization of the social sciences and humanities (SSH).

This book explores the consequences of the last three decades' substantial neoliberal securitisation of freedom of speech, democracy and social security of racialised groups.

This book looks at marginality from a less conventional perspective by analyzing complex social, cultural, political and economic relations between the aspects of globalization and various forms of marginalization.

This fascinating and ambitious book proposes a new strategy ("e;the Ramo Plan"e;) to tackle the current global socioeconomic crisis.

This project offers a critical overview of how online activities and platforms are becoming an important source for the production and promotion of women's films.

This volume unpacks an intriguing challenge for the field of media research: combining media research with the study of complex networks.

This book introduces Ali Mazrui's delightfully stimulating scholarship about intercultural relations, calling it Postcolonial Constructivism, and shares elements of his intellectual vitality in an original way.

This book conducts a comparative legal study from two analytical points of view.

This book analyses and furthers the academic debates on post-liberal peacebuilding, through a number of conceptual, theoretical and empirical research outputs.

Combining global, media, and cultural studies, this book analyzes the success of Hallyu, or the "e;Korean Wave"e; in the West, both at a macro and micro level, as an alternative pop culture globalization.

This book explores the images and perceptions of the EU in the eyes of their Strategic Partners.

This book challenges the conventional wisdom that civil war inevitably stymies economic development and that 'civil war represents development in reverse'.

This book explains how the US dollar serves as the primary reserve currency for the international financial system and assesses its prospects for the future.

This book addresses a timely, yet largely overlooked, issue in political science: the integration of migrants in a multilevel polity.

Human trafficking has come to be seen as a growing threat, and transnational advocacy networks opposed to human trafficking have succeeded in establishing trafficking as a pressing political problem.

This book assesses the impact of the work of Chris Brown in the field of International Political Theory.

This edited volume analyzes how migration, the conformation of urban areas, and globalization impact Latin American geopolitics.

This innovative volume explores the link between local and regional eating cultures and their mediatization via transnational TV cooking shows, glocal food advertising and social media transfer of recipes.

This book offers a systematic and comprehensive introduction to the Arctic in the era of globalization, or as it is referred to here, the 'GlobalArctic'.

This book presents stimulating new perspectives on three key sets of issues: a fair globalization, the policies that might be adopted in response to protectionist pressures, and sustainable development policies involving G7 and G20 actions to lay the foundations for renewed trust.

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.

This book offers new ways of thinking about corruption by examining the two distinct ways in which policy approaches and discourse on corruption developed in the UN and the OECD.

This book explores a type of wandering referred to as "e;errant bodies.

Bereits seit dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs ist der Status der Souveränitätsrechte über die Paracel- und Spratly-Inselgruppen ungeklärt.

Dieses Lehrbuch führt ein in die politischen Zusammenhänge der Wahrnehmung von Risiken, des politischen Umgangs mit ihnen und in die gesellschaftswissenschaftlichen Möglichkeiten, diese Politik zu analysieren.

Verwaltungen müssen im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung umdenken und sich für die künftigen Herausforderungen neu aufstellen.

Gaming in Deutschland und speziell in Sachsen – quo vadis?

Der Journalismus ist im Wandel – nicht nur aufgrund des Medienstrukturwandels durch Digitalisierung und Internet, sondern auch aufgrund neuer Technologien, die erstmals sogar ein Stück weit die Existenzberechtigung des Berufsbilds infrage stellen.

Games als Bestandteil der Popkultur – Utopien in Games – Medienpädagogische Ansätze, Games nutzbar zu machen.

This book analyzes the global implications of the fourth industrial revolution, the Technological Revolution 4.

Einführend wird kurz das Entstehen der Taliban geschildert sowie ihre Schreckensherrschaft, ihr „Steinzeit-Kalifat“, illustriert.

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.

Spätestens seit den frühen Formationen einer auf Notendrucken basierenden Musikindustrie unterhalten musikferne Unternehmen Beziehungen zu Musik und ihren Akteur*innen.