Globalization

The EU's interest in and engagement with North East Asia has grown massively over the last three decades, the shaping and implementation of its policy influenced heavily by the UK and its historical links with East Asia.

This book offers a critical assessment of some of the most contentious topics in the Marxian critique of political economy in the light of the recent publications of the complete manuscripts and editions of Capital in MEGA.

UN Global Compacts is a concise introduction to the key concepts, issues, and actors in global migration governance and presents a comprehensive analysis of the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, the Global Compact on Refugees, and the Global Compact for Migration.

Financialization has become the go-to term for scholars grappling with the growth of finance.

Sylos Labini suggests a strategy of institutional reform to tackle problems of underdevelopment.

This comprehensive study traces the transnationalization of activist networks, analyzing their changing compositions and characters and examining the roles played by the World Social Forum in this process.

This book explores the impact of the rise of China on South East Asia, addressing the consequences for some of Asia's key economic sectors, including educational services, bio-technology, financial services, and the food industry, among others.

This collection of essays documents and investigates the conflicts in Europe, Russia and China that sparked populist revolts against the established globalist order in the European Union.

Regulation by public and private organizations can be hijacked by special interests or small groups of powerful firms, and nowhere is this easier than at the global level.

This book sheds new light on the socio-economic impact of multinational corporations.

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 offers in-depth legal and political analysis concerning the compatibility of the Westphalian state model with globalization and the digital revolution.

This book investigates recent changes in Japan's financial system and looks at the implications for Japan's particularistic model of political economy.

Multiculturalism has shaped identity politics in the Americas over the past decades, as illustrated by politics of recognition, affirmative action, and increasing numbers of internationally recognized cultural productions by members of ethnic minorities.

The arrival of several hundred Guatemalan-born workers in a Morganton, North Carolina, poultry plant sets the stage for this dramatic story of human struggle in an age of globalization.

This book visits contemporary British children's and young adult (YA) fiction alongside cosmopolitanism, exploring the notion of the nation within the context of globalization, transnationalism and citizenship.

This book utilises a new theoretical approach to understand the dynamics of the peasantry, and peasant resistance, in relation to capitalism, state, class, and imperialism in the global South.

Eva Gross analyzes changing national preferences towards the EU CFSP and ESDP by providing detailed accounts of British, French and German crisis decision-making in FYROM, Afghanistan, Lebanon and DR Congo.

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

Shifting away from the journalistic representations of the discourse, this book delves into the various contours that characterize China's recent globalization of infrastructure development.

This revised edition of Kimberly Hutchings s best-selling textbook provides an accessible introduction to the field of Global Ethics for students of politics, international relations and globalization.

This pioneering volume is devoted to the analysis of education from the perspective of political science, applying the full range of the discipline's analytical perspectives and methodological tools.

This book brings together diverse ideas on selected facets of globalisation and transitions in globalisation.

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.

Challenging the simplistic story by which feminism has become complicit in neoliberalism, this book traces the course of globalization of women's economic empowerment from the Global South to the Global North and critically examines the practice of empowering low-income women, primarily migrant, indigenous and racialised women.

International Political Economy and the Global South provides students from both the Global South and the Global North a textbook that speaks to distinct concepts, categories and issues of International Political Economy (IPE) from a Southern and Northern perspective, while identifying how they differ.

New Reflections on Violence for the twenty-first century.

Winner of the 2014 British Society of Criminology Book PrizeThis book examines the role of criminal law in the enforcement of immigration controls over the last two decades in Britain.

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

Enacting Globalization consists of a rich set of papers with a variety of disciplinary perspectives, focusing on Globalization and its portrayal through International Integration as manifested by its myriad flows such as people, trade, capital and knowledge flows.

This book delves into the political-economy of China's Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI), part of the larger Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), with a focus on Southeast Asia (SEA).

This book focuses on the expanding contemporary art scene in Syria, particularly Damascus, during the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Although the last two decades have seen the healthcare systems of most developed countries face pressure for major reform, the impact of this reform on the relationship between empowerment, consumerism and citizen's rights has received limited research attention.

This book discusses the ethical dilemmas of migration in the era of globalization.

International Relations (IR), as a discipline, is a western dominated enterprise.

The relationship between global governance and regionalization is fraught with ambiguity.

La globalizcion representa la forma que ha asumido la lucha de clases a escala mundial tras el ciclo de las revoluciones sociales y nacionales de los ultimos cien anos.

How did France and Australia develop a deep strategic partnership, when only about two decades ago, a group of Australians bombed the French consulate in Perth to protest against French nuclear testing in the Pacific?

Theories of Globalization offers students and scholars a comprehensive and critical introduction to the concept of globalization.

This revised and updated second edition of The Globalization and Development Reader builds on the considerable success of a first edition that has been used around the world.

Academics and policy makers have grown increasingly interested in the ways that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) may encourage better governance, democratic politics, and perhaps ultimately a global civil society.

Women's Manga in Asia and Beyond offers a variety of perspectives on women's manga and the nature, scope, and significance of the relationship between women and comics/manga, both globally as well as locally.

This volume assesses the achievements and limitations of a new set of non-state or multistakeholder institutions that are concerned with improving the social and environmental record of business, and holding corporations to account.

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.