Globalization

A collaboration between indigenous leaders, social activists and scholars from a wide range of disciplines, In the Way of Development explores the current situation of indigenous peoples enmeshed in the remorseless expansion of the modern economy.

This volume collects and combines research on regional integration projects beyond Europe and in the Global South across a wide range of policy issues.

The end of the Cold War has seen an international proliferation of parliamentary bodies of all types and at all levels.

Why do some U.

This work represents the first systematic study of Armenia's foreign policy during the post-independence period, between 1991 and 2005.

Minor Transnationalism moves beyond a binary model of minority cultural formations that often dominates contemporary cultural and postcolonial studies.

Since the beginning of the 1990s, Brazil has followed a pattern of economic development inspired by Washington Consensus.

Through policy and intervention national governments in Europe have long held an active interest in railways, an interest that has transferred to the supranational level via the EU commission.

Across the world, ecosystems are for sale.

This rigorous survey and companion volume to Coping with Globalization, focuses on the political, ideological and economic factors lying behind responses to globalization.

Why Europe is on the decline-and what can be done about itHas Europe's extraordinary postwar recovery limped to an end?

Southern Europe has been at the heart of the European sovereign debt crisis and in the vanguard of the programmes of radical economic austerity implemented to confront it.

This book comes at a time when the intrinsic and self-evident value of queer rights and protections, from gay marriage to hate crimes, is increasingly put in question.

Southeast Asia is a laboratory showing current worldwide ecological issues.

This book presents a new and practical segmentation approach to be used in global customer management in the form of a scale by which to measure the level of corporate globalization.

This book analyzes how religious groups talk about the politics surrounding economic life.

This book examines the timely topic of controlling the borders of the European Schengen Area.

Dans son œuvre fondatrice, Le Choc des civilisations, « l’un des livres les plus importants depuis la fin de la guerre froide », selon Henry Kissinger, Samuel P.

Across the world, ecosystems are for sale.

Mexico is in a state of siege.

Against a backdrop of economic uncertainty caused by a shift toward protectionism and the COVID-19 pandemic among other issues, this book suggests that international trade fairs (ITFs) represent a vital source of economic dynamism that can support national and regional economies by creating opportunities for firms to access new markets, network with key actors in their industry or value chain, and tap into valuable external knowledge flows regarding new technologies and innovations.

Neoliberalism is fast becoming the dominant ideology of our age, yet politicians, businessmen and academics rarely identify themselves with it and even political forces critical of it continue to carry out neoliberal policies around the globe.

This work explores essential debates on globalization and world-systems analysis.

This edited volume focuses on charting the rise of neo-abolitionism and offering a critique of the idea, its logics and consequences.

This book narrates the integration of consumer culture into transnational human rights advocacy and explores its political impact.

This edited volume focuses on the intersection of time and globalization, as manifested across a variety of economic, political, cultural, and environmental contexts.

Debating Globalization is a short, accessible introduction to the debate about globalization written by many of the most prominent figures in the field.

Mexico in Transition provides a wide-ranging, empirical and up-to-date survey of the multiple impacts neoliberal policies have had in practice in Mexico over twenty years, and the specific impacts of the NAFTA Agreement.

Innovative Selling is a unique book for corporate sales professionals and their sales leaders about how to prepare, manage, cope, and succeed at corporate global sales.

Twenty-First Century World Powers and Changing Alignments provides an in-depth analysis of global political relations that exist between the most powerful countries of the world such as United States, Russia, England, China and others.

This book explores how a wide range of countries attempt to cope with the challenges of globalization.

This book explores the development of mental health systems in the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) of Samoa and Tonga through an examination of several policy transfer events from the colonial to the contemporary.

This innovative study engages critically with existing conceptualisations of diaspora, arguing that if diaspora is to have analytical purchase, it should illuminate a specific angle of migration or migrancy.

This book offers an important chronological perspective on the evolution of multilateralism within Europe and beyond.

In the wake of the outbreak of the global crisis in 2008, many observers expected the state to assume command over a faltering neoliberal finance-led model of capitalism.

An analysis of the transnationalization of politics in several societies concerned by programs of democracy promotion, the contributors to this book seek to understand how these new global norms and programs create forms of appropriation and resistance at the local level.

Nations adapt.

In the post-Cold War era, economic globalization has loomed, at least for some, as the world system's next crisis carrier, creating winners and losers and trampling on the distinctiveness of local cultures.

With more than 500,000 people killed and at least half the population displaced, Syria's conflict is the most deadly of the twenty-first century.

This book assesses business regulation in the context of globalisation and policy-making.

From the acclaimed historian of global empire, the dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world orderSteam power transformed our world, initiating the complex, resource-devouring industrial system the consequences of which we live with today.

The multiple and diverse forces of globalization have, indeed, affected Japan significantly over the past decades.

This book sets out to re-examine the foundations of Thomas Hobbes's political philosophy, and to develop a Hobbesian normative theory of international relations.

This book provides a quantitative, cross-nationally comparative, longitudinal, and multilevel study of the drivers and spoilers of national governments' anti-trafficking measures.

This rigorous survey and companion volume to Coping with Globalization, focuses on the political, ideological and economic factors lying behind responses to globalization.

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.

This book develops a philosophical framework for selecting goals for development purposes.