Globalization

Initially developed in Japan by Nintendo as a computer game, Pokemon swept the globe in the late 1990s.

Transnational feminism has been critical to feminist theorizing in the global North over the last few decades.

"e;Chomsky is a global phenomenon .

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 challenges and opportunities of administrative and territorial reconstruction in Africa from independence until the present time.

This book highlights the existence of a class of struggles conducted in the gray zones of formalized war, or more aptly in the interstices where state power and jurisdiction are mismatched.

The history of the 20th century was dominated by the state - nationalism, national economies, national wars.

International development is a vibrant, interdisciplinary area of the social sciences.

An examination of how the postwar United States twisted its ideal of "e;the free flow of information"e; into a one-sided export of values and a tool with global consequences.

The Organisation of Employment explores the diversity in the organisation of employment among advanced industrial societies.

Africa and the Global System of Capital Accumulation offers a groundbreaking analysis of the strategic role Africa plays in the global capitalist economy.

This volume explores the influence of professional service firms on public policy-making from a global perspective.

An original vision for using technology to transform supply chains into value chains in order to revitalize American communitiesWhen the COVID-19 pandemic led to a global economic shutdown in March 2020, our supply chains began to fail, and out-of-stocks and delivery delays became the new norm.

British interest in the Arctic has returned to heights not seen since the end of the Cold War; concerns about climate change, resources, trade, and national security are all impacted by profound environmental and geopolitical changes happening in the Arctic.

Scholars have studied the nineteenth century's unprecedented labor flows in global and specific country contexts, but have lacked a comprehensive analysis of the world's old economic core, the Mediterranean.

Bridges the gap between global farmers and fishermen and American consumers America now imports twice as much food as it did a decade ago.

Global Injustice and Crime Control places cross-border, cross-national and international crime and crime control within its wider context.

Analysis of the dynamic relationship between agricultural landscapes and the global change processes by which they are being transformed.

Techno-Geopolitics explores contemporary U.

The challenge of teaching international studies is to help students think coherently about the multiple causes and effects of global problems.

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

The second edition of International Political Economy continues to be the perfect short introduction to the fundamental theories and issues of international political economy (IPE).

Cities play a major role in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic as many measures are adopted at the scale of cities and involve adjustments to the way urban areas operate.

The Organic Globalizer is a collection of critical essays which takes the position that hip-hop holds political significance through an understanding of its ability to at once raise cultural awareness, expand civil society's focus on social and economic justice through institution building, and engage in political activism and participation.

Simon Reich presents an interpretation of the relationship between material (hard) and social (soft) power, with implications for the alternative ways these link and the impact of these linkages on the future of American policy.

This book examines the development of world trade during the COVID-19 pandemic, also taking international trade between the Czech Republic and the Russian Federation into account as a case study.

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

European Union in the Global Context explores the interplay between the state and state sovereignty, nationalism, European integration and globalisation.

This book is a rarity in that it analyzes comprehensive updates of East Asian economies beyond COVID-19 with quantitative and scientific methods.

Featuring a foreword penned by Ambassador (Ret) and Professor Emeritus Horace G.

The China Question: Contestations and Adaptations provides fresh perspectives on, and empirics about, China's international relations through the lens of the local and regional configurations and developments around the world.

The global order, based on international governance and multilateral trade mechanisms in the aftermath of the Second World War, is changing rapidly and creating waves of uncertainty.

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.

BRICS is conceivably the most formidable organisation to have emerged in the post-Cold War period in the non-Western world.

From the author of Doing Business in Europe (SAGE, 2018), Gabriele Suder has teamed up with Sumati Varma based in India, and Terence Tsai from China to bring this comprehensive solution for Asian business teaching and learning.

The governance of international sport is dominated by the SINGOs (sporting international non-governmental organisations).

Over time, globalization has evolved into a shared journey of humanity, involving entrepreneurship, innovation, business and policy advances around the world.

This book is a transnational ethnographic study of Sri Lankan women's television soap opera cultures in Australia and Sri Lanka.

Why has global governance largely failed to effectively tackle some of the most pressing global environmental challenges of our time?

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.

Given the increasing presence of non-Western nations in global affairs, Hiro Katsumata and Hiroki Kusano explore their responses to the backlash taking place in the West against the global spread of liberalism - against the global spread of free trade, multilateral institutions, and liberal-democratic politics.

Is China challenging liberal norms or being socialised to them?

This book evaluates the current state of world (dis)order at a time of growing populism, nationalism and pandemic panic.

This study looks at the ongoing efforts of the Alternative Global Movement and World Social Forum to reconcile contests over political organization among three of the most prominent groups on the contemporary left - social and liberal democratic NGOs, anti-authoritarian (anarchist) social movements, and political parties.

The history of bourgeois modernity is a history of the Enemy.

Examining the economic forces that will shape Africa's future.

This book analyzes China's transformative political power in today's world while simultaneously addressing global issues and the reformation of world institutions.

In order to help the understanding of international campaigning activities of Non-Governmental Organisations, Tepe analyses the domestic politics of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and provides a theoretical framework through which to access these.