Globalization

This book examines changing international dynamics through the lens of some of the leading think tanks from the emerging powers in the world.

This book takes issue with the likening of contemporary globalization to nineteenth century trade interdependence, in which the defining feature of contemporary globalization is the spread of global production networks, which were notably absent in the past.

This book presents the findings of research projects conducted by CREA (Community of Researchers on Excellence for all), a research community based in Barcelona, showing how social transformation combines scientific excellence with the political and social impact of the research.

This book offers new perspectives on global phenomena that play a major role in today's society and deeply shape the actions of individuals, organizations and nations.

This book presents a new approach to studying the European Union's regional and global relevance.

This book analyzes how Chinese think tanks have become essential actors in today's Chinese foreign policy and diplomatic practices.

This book analyses post-deportation outcomes and focuses on what happens to migrants and failed asylum seekers after deportation.

This book contests the negative portrayal of African immigrants as people who are not valuable members of South African society.

This book studies the sources of inequality in contemporary South Korea and the social and political contention this engenders.

This book discusses contemporary constellations of international politics and global transformation.

This book investigates how modern French foreign policy is practiced.

This book presents an alternative theory of globalization that derives not from the dominant perspective of the West, from which this process emerged, but from the critical vantage point of the Third World, which has borne the heaviest burdens of globalization.

This book analyzes the impact of historical, political and sociocultural contexts on the reading, rewriting and translating of texts.

This edited collection explores citizenship in a transnational perspective, with a focus on Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

This book offers a novel interpretation of Russian contemporary discourse on Islam and its influence on Russian state policies.

This book delves into migration management via an original case study of a guest worker programme involving the circular migration to Spain of female Moroccan agricultural workers destined for the strawberry agri-food industry in the south.

This book deals with the consequences of the inclusion of African states and communities in the global aluminium chain.

This book explores and explains the reasons why the idea of universal history, a form of teleological history which holds that all peoples are travelling along the same path and destined to end at the same point, persists in political thought.

This book explores how the contemporary threat of terrorism is eroding the concept of hospitality in the West.

This book asks: What are the most suitable "e;mapping strategies"e; for detecting patterns of global dynamics?

This collection examines implications of technological automation to global prosperity and peace.

This book analyzes social movements across a range of countries in the non-Western world: Bosnia, Brazil, Egypt, India, Iran, Palestine, Russia, Syria, Turkey and Ukraine in the period 2008 to 2016.

This book explores the rise and impact of violent non-state actors in contemporary Africa and the implications for the sovereignty and security of African states.

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 is about the future of nuclear weapons, geopolitics, and strategy.

This edited volume analyses different forms of resistance against international institutions and charts their success or failure in changing the normative orders embodied in these institutions.

This book examines the decade from 2004 to 2013 during which people in China witnessed both a skyrocketing number of food safety crises, and aggregating regulatory initiatives attempting to control these crises.

Drawing on an original UK-wide study of public responses to humanitarian issues and how NGOs communicate them, this timely book provides the first evidence-based psychosocial account of how and why people respond or not to messages about distant suffering.

This book provides a timely and in-depth analysis of how two major trade powers, the United States of America (US) and the European Union (EU), contribute to a socio-political dimension of globalization.

This book discusses current theories and practices in the field of public procurement.

Uniquely informed by a sociological perspective, this major new textbook introduces the underlying origins and consequences of international migration, placing individuals within a broader social, cultural and historical context.

This book opens up a unique intellectual space where eleven female scholar-activists explore alternative forms of theorising social reality.

This book examines the relationship between post-Soviet societies in transition and the increasingly important role of their diaspora.

This publication provides an unparalleled comparative analysis of two "e;hot topics"e; in the field of antitrust and unfair competition law with regard to a number of key countries.

This book argues for hybridity of Western and African cultures within cybercultural and subcultural forms of communication.

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

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 examines the formation of identity of the Nagas in northeast India in light of the proselytizing efforts by the Americans and the colonization by the British in their search for control over areas inhabited by the Nagas which were perfect for tea plantations.

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 edited volume breaks new ground by innovatively drawing on multiple disciplines to enhance our understanding of international relations and conflict.

This empirically and theoretically grounded book provides insights into the ascendance of powers such as Turkey, South Korea and Indonesia and their relationship with Africa.

This book takes food parcels as a vehicle for exploring relationships, intimacy, care, consumption, exchange, and other fundamental anthropological concerns, examining them in relation to wider transnational spaces.

This book examines why and how small powers link their security interests and trade agendas, and how security threats influence the facilitation and outcome of their trade activities.

This book discusses the geopolitics of development from the point of view of the Global South.

This book analyses two key topics within international politics: the responsibility to protect (R2P) and the commercialization and privatization of security.

This book explores the potential educational technologies have for transforming education in the Middle East.

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

This book investigates how human rights law can be applied to corporate entities.

1688 – die Welt am Vorabend der Globalisierung.

This edited book examines the experience of small states in Europe during the 2015-2016 migration crisis.