Globalization

The complex relationship between globalization and European integration was largely shaped in the 1970s.

This book offers a unique insight into the dynamics of the English language in higher education in Cyprus through the lens of universities situated on both sides of its geopolitical division.

War is one of the most lucrative job markets for an increasingly global workforce.

Europe is one of the most dynamic and interesting areas of the world, pioneering in the European Union a new form of governance for half a billion people, represented in the world's first directly elected transnational parliament.

The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Geopolitics features expert geopolitical analysis from internationally renowned experts in the field.

This book investigates a different way to gain academic job experience and start an academic career.

This book considers the impact of multinational companies in China on the Chinese economy and on indigenous firms in China.

This volume examines the Africa-Asia relationship from a transregional perspective, namely as a set of emergent social, political and economic practices spanning a number of analytical and spatial scales.

This enlightening text analyses the origins of Western complaints, prevalent in the late nineteenth century, that Japan was characterised at the time by exceptionally low standards of 'commercial morality', despite a major political and economic transformation.

Throughout the entire Cold War era, Vietnam served as a grim symbol of the ideological polarity that permeated international politics.

Mobile money, e-commerce, cash cards, retail credit cards, and more as new monetary technologies become increasingly available, the global South has cautiously embraced these mediums as a potential solution to the issue of financial inclusion.

Since the Tsinghua PBCSF Chief Economists Forum's inception in 2019, the 2023 forum, adhering to the traditions of previous sessions, with combining online and offline innovation formats, conducted an in-depth analysis of many key issues in the current macro-economy from the perspective of the chief economists, with a focus on the future of China and global economy from all angles.

This book focuses on the market issues facing Asian industrialization and the possibility, feasibility, and sustainability of China integrating the Asian economics.

This volume examines Canada's migration policy as part of its foreign policy.

In this book Rajneesh Narula examines the interdependence of globalization and technological innovation at two levels: first, between locations, by examining the role of cross-border initiatives in the innovation process; second, between corporate entities, by studying the dynamics of inter-firm R&D collaboration.

In the spirit of Ivan Illich's 1968 speech 'To hell with good intentions', the book takes aim at a ubiquitous form of contemporary ideology, namely the concept of global citizenship.

The history of patent harmonization is a story of dynamic actors, whose interactions with established structures shaped the patent regime.

Are there existing alternatives to corporate globalization?

Édouard Glissant was a leading voice in debates centering on the postcolonial condition and on the present and future of globalisation.

Understanding the New Global Economy: A European Perspective argues that globalisation is facing economic and political headwinds.

By arguing and detailing the elements of a soft and hard infrastructure approach to the process of global stakeholder relationships governance, this study integrates advanced, flexible and feasible tools to develop an organization's listening culture; integrated reporting as an ongoing process of continued multi-stakeholder reporting.

Globalization is a force with a strong, analyzable impact on management practices.

In Sri Lanka, the Free Trade Zone (FTZ) employs thousands of unmarried rural women, and their migration has aroused deep anxieties over female morality and ideal conduct.

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.

This book evaluates the claim that in order to explore the changing social foundations of global power relations today, we need to include in our analysis an understanding of global civil society, particularly if we also wish to raise ethical questions about the changing political and institutional practices of transnational governance.

This is the first book-length empirical study of free zones (FZs) in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.

In The Devil behind the Mirror, Steven Gregory provides a compelling and intimate account of the impact that transnational processes associated with globalization are having on the lives and livelihoods of people in the Dominican Republic.

Friedman and a distinguished group of contributors offer a compelling analysis of globalization and the lethal explosiveness that characterizes the current world order.

Europe might appear like a continent pulling itself apart.

This book analyses the discourses of economic liberalization reform in six Western European countries - Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria.

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.

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

This book explores the evolution of Brazilian foreign relations in the last fifteen years, with a focus on continuities and change.

This book is an introduction to complex systems thinking at the global governance level.

This book deals with Israeli development aid to Sub-Saharan Africa countries as a part of Israeli foreign policy.

This book presents economic and socio-cultural perspectives on globalization from emerging markets.

In Democratic Society and Human Needs Noonan examines the moral grounds for liberalism and democracy, arguing that contemporary democracy was created through needs-based struggles against classical liberal rights, which are essentially exclusionary.

Erweiterungen des Stimmrechts betreffen auch die Frage, wer an der Selbstbestimmung der Gemeinschaft teilnehmen darf.

A collection comprising a wide variety of accounts of native peoples describing their initial encounters with European explorers, conquerors, and settlers.

International trade has shaped the modern world, yet until now no single book has been available for both economists and general readers that traces the history of the international economy from its earliest beginnings to the present day.

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.

Der fundamentalistische, politische Islam fordert den Westen heraus - seine Werte und seine Kultur.

Rangsimaporn argues that Russia aspires to become a great power and tries to achieve this through utilizing its position as a Eurasian country, with vast territories in East Asia, its economic assets, primarily arms and energy, and careful management of its role in a multipolar East Asia with a complex balance of power.

On the Shoulders of Grandmothers is a global ethnography of Ukrainian transnational migration.

This book examines just what the European Union is, in the context of the ongoing structural transformation of the global system.

This book explores the global technological transformations that have shaped development of society for eons, from the emergence of Homo sapiens to the modern day.

This book describes and discusses the various aspects of the changing "e;landscape"e; of China's industrial development within the general context of globalization.

From climate change, debt, and refugee crises to energy security, environmental disasters, and terrorism, the events that lead nightly newscasts and drive public policy demand a global perspective.