Globalization

Living the Global City (1996) was a landmark text in the field of Global Studies, offering an analysis of globalization and global/local processes by focussing on specific issues and themes which include community, culture, milieu, socioscapes and sociospheres, microglobalization, poverty, ethnic identity and carnival.

The ascent of globalisation tells the sweeping historical drama of the development of globalisation, from the Second World War to the present day.

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.

Globalization is often perceived in rather simplistic terms: as a single universal process leading ultimately to global equality and global democracy.

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

This compendium showcases the ongoing trends and challenges in South-South cooperation between India and select countries in Africa, for achieving food security and poverty reduction.

This book examines the phenomenon of paramilitarism across Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia, offering a nuanced perspective while identifying key patterns in the way paramilitary violence is implicated in processes of capital accumulation, state-building, and the reproduction of social power.

As we witness a series of social, political, cultural, and economic changes/disruptions this book examines the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the way emerging technologies are impacting our lives and changing society.

A study of the structure, growth, and future of transnational human travel and communicationIncreasingly, people travel and communicate across borders.

This book offers a comprehensive explanatory account of Trump's foreign policy by assessing its nature, determining the extent to which it broke with the policy of preceding presidencies, and explaining how this shift came about.

In the context of India-Taiwan relations, this book investigates the convergence of science, technology, and diplomacy (S&TD).

Liberals blame the retreat of the liberal world order on populists at home and authoritarian leaders abroad.

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

A Nobel Prize-winning economist tells the remarkable story of how the world has grown healthier, wealthier, but also more unequal over the past two and half centuriesThe world is a better place than it used to be.

This book proposes a new way to approach comparative international development by focusing on time and timing in economic and social development.

The relationship between international order and justice has long been central to the study and practice of international relations.

Logistics includes the planning and practice of moving "e;stuff"e;-raw materials, tools, finished products, and even people-from one place to another.

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.

This pivot considers how China deals with the globalization of its energy companies in the face of global efforts to combat climate change.

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

This book engages the question, hotly debated among theorists and policymakers alike, of how a developing country's pursuit of foreign direct investment (FDI) affects its development prospects in a globalized world.

Am Beispiel der Tschechoslowakei untersucht Natali Stegmann den Zusammenhang von Krieg, Staatsgründung und Staatsbürgerschaft.

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This handbook provides a comprehensive survey of US foreign policy throughout the Indo-Pacific.

This book proposes that the European Union should craft a grand strategy to navigate the new world order based on a four-pronged approach.

Global Social Justice provides a distinctive contribution to the growing debate about global justice and global ethics.

Developing a processual understanding of world statehood, this book combines history, political philosophy, explanatory social science, and critical-reflexive futures studies.

Israeli national neoliberalism has promoted innovation policies leading to an ostensible paradox: At the center is a startup nation with a vibrant and successful high-tech entrepreneurial ecosystem, accumulating resources and enabling constant growth.

This book analyzes China's development in the wider context of the global trade, investment, security, knowledge and production regimes established by the United States.

This edited volume offers the first critical engagement with one of the most provocative and controversial theories in political economy: the thesis that capital can be theorized as power and that capital is finance and only finance.

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Focusing on the Attac movements in France and Germany, this book seeks to explain the dramatic differences that exist between the individual and organisational levels of activism.

This book presents a post-COVID glimpse at how top Chinese policymakers and intellectuals understand China's future in global international relations, reviewing the global economy, China's economy, society and diplomacy, and the international situation.

Bloomsbury World Englishes offers a comprehensive and rigorous description of the facts, implications and contentious issues regarding the forms and functions of English in the world.

Tracing the population assistance movement from its tentative beginnings to the present day, this book employs history to examine the new paradigm created from the Cairo Conference - the 'road map' for the population policy future.

In recent years, food sovereignty has emerged as a way of contesting corporate control of agricultural markets in pursuit of a more democratic, decentralized food system.

The convergence of dramatic declines in birth rates worldwide, aside from sub-Saharan Africa, the rise of untrammelled global movement of capital, people and information, and the rapid-fire dissemination of a host of new medical technologies has led to the "e;globalization of motherhood"e;.

This book explores the international diffusion of Participatory Budgeting (PB), a local policy created in 1989 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, which has now spread worldwide.

This book critically examines key features of the contemporary organizational landscape by focusing on major beneficiaries of recent historical politicalcultural transformations involving the embrace of market fundamentalism and a market society: corporations, those who direct them, and those who use them for their own benefit.

Social justice has long been an aspect of the human experience.

"e;It is my expectation that respect for the critical importance of seed sovereignty will in due course be recognised by member states of the United Nations to be as critical to global peace and security as the UN Charter demands in respect of State sovereign equality, justice, human rights and economic and social wellbeing for all peoples.

Globalization and the Environment critically explores the actors, politics and processes that govern the relationship between globalization and the environment.

Marking a constructivist turn in Africa-China scholarship, this book explores African constructions of China.

This book presents the history of globalization as a network-based story in the context of Big History.

This multi-volume set focuses on a key region of the world which contains four of the biggest emerging economies, a large number of highly dynamic small- and medium-sized emerging economies, and one of the leading advanced industrial countries.

This book presents the history of globalization as a network-based story in the context of Big History.