Globalization

This book explores opportunities for diversifying modern Kazakhstan's economy, which is still heavily dependent on its natural resources, as well as looking at economic opportunities for the whole Central Asian region arising from the Chinese government's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

';Overseas aid' and ';international development' are catch-all terms that cover a multitude of activitiesand abuses.

The four decades of neoliberalism, globalisation and financialisation have produced crises - financial and pandemic - and rising inequality.

THE GLOBALIST is the first in-depth biography of an international power-broker who was instrumental in shaping the global economy that we know today.

Objects and materials are on the move like never before, often at astonishing speeds and along hidden routeways.

Analysing social change has too often been characterized by parochialism, either a Eurocentrism that projects European experience outwards or a disciplinary narrowness that ignores insights from other academic disciplines.

The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion and intensification of mineral resource exploitation and development across the global south, especially in Latin America.

The field of Bollywood studies has remained predominantly critical, theoretical and historical in focus.

Comitology is the most important form of multi-level governance in the EU.

The first detailed historical account of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations, this book covers the genesis of the project in the early 1990s to its demise in late 2003.

In recent years, a great deal of scholarly and popular ink has been spilled on the subject of globalization.

Imaging the City brings together the work of designers, artists, dancers and media specialists who cross the borders of design and artistic practices to investigate how we perceive the city; how we imagine it; how we experience it; and how we might better design it.

This book examines the international causes of hunger and malnutrition and reveals how critical elements of the global economy heighten food insecurity in the developing world.

This book explores the world of international doctoral students in the Chinese higher education system.

How are men, masculinities and gender power implicated within global institutions?

Emerging in the late 1970s, the Amsterdam School's (AS) most distinctive contribution to international political economy was the systematic incorporation of the Marxian concept of capital fractions into the study of international politics.

From the Global to the Local develops a unique perspective on human rights governance in developing countries, where the state often lacks the required resources, capacities and expertise for implementing rights.

China, India, Brazil, and South Africa are reshaping the world economy.

This book combines two strands of international political economy; examining how capitalism and democracy shape and are shaped by each other.

In recent years, the increasing focus on climate change and environmental degradation has prompted unprecedented attention being paid towards the criminal liability of individuals, organisations and even states for polluting activities.

This book takes a fresh look at media and communications policy and provides a comprehensive account of issues that are central to the study of the field.

The overarching contribution of this book is a review and assessment of the current and future impacts of globalization on the world's forests.

City Life from Jakarta to Dakar focuses on the politics incumbent to this process - an "e;anticipatory politics"e; - that encompasses a wide range of practices, calculations and economies.

Both academic and popular representations of globalization, critical or celebratory, have tended to conceptualize it primarily in spatial terms, rather than simultaneously temporal ones.

The institutional shortcomings of the World Trade Organization (WTO) became apparent during the Doha Round of Trade negotiations that began in 2001 and which aimed to improve the success of developing countries' trading by lowering trade barriers and adjusting other trade rules.

Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence: Beyond Savage Globalization?

First published in 1982.

'A wholly pleasing book, which offers a tasty side dish to anyone exploring the narrative history of the British Empire' Max Hastings, Sunday TimesWINNER OF THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS BOOK AWARD 2018The glamorous daughter of an African chief shares a pineapple with a slave trader Surveyors in British Columbia eat tinned Australian rabbit Diamond prospectors in Guyana prepare an iguana curry In twenty meals The Hungry Empire tells the story of how the British created a global network of commerce and trade in foodstuffs that moved people and plants from one continent to another, reshaping landscapes and culinary tastes.

In the wake of globalization, international management has gained importance as a decisive element behind the success of a business enterprise, however little is known about the collective strategies between two foreign firms in an overseas market.

Globalization is the coming of the 'triumph of capitalism,' the growing ascendancy of economics over politics, of corporate demands over public policy, of private over public interest.

A description of the transformations in Chinese and Taiwanese responses to the environment across the twentieth century.

This book defends the case for the expansion of the democratic model to the global political sphere.

This book examines the global regulation of biodiversity politics through the UN UNConvention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the WTO and other international treaties.

Sustainable capitalism is more than a response to the environmental crisis.

Globalization has quickened the process of communication across the world, creating changes in material and non-material culture with the flow of ideas.

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 publication empirically evaluates and develops core aspects of the literature on global governance.

This lively and invigorating book explores the complex ways that globalization has profoundly affected the once-static nationally defined boundaries of citizenship.

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

Globalization is characterised by persistent poverty and growing inequality.

International trade and the rapidly proliferating network of trade agreements have aroused passions for decades.

This thoroughly updated editionprovides a comprehensive overview of two centuries of transnational feminist efforts to produce a more just global order.

This book examines the global governance of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, interrogating the role of this international system and global discourse on HIV/AIDS interventions.

This important contribution to the study of the problem of order, which figures prominently in today's globalization debate, focuses on the role of sovereignty.

British multinationals faced unprecedented challenges to their organizational legitimacy in the middle of the twentieth century as the European colonial empires were dismantled and institutional transformations changed colonial relationships in Africa and other parts of the world.

'Global governance' has become a key concept in the contemporary study of international politics, yet what the term means and how it works remains in question.

The contemporary world has reached a pivotal moment of escalating injustices and apocalyptic risks, but also of unprecedented opportunities.

This book explores the dynamics of the linguistic landscape as a site of conflict, exclusion, and dissent.

Hegemony and World Order explores a key question for our tumultuous times of multiple global crises.