Globalization

How did globalization come to dominate our lives?

This volume discusses Korea's role as a middle power in the midst of the 21st century global power shift.

In this book, Nagesh Kumar and expert contributors examine and explain the emerging patterns in international technology transfers and foreign direct investment flows (FDIs) over the past two decades.

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.

The book is about accountability processes and how they contribute solutions to our current environmental and global political problems.

This book develops a new concept of post-refugee transnationalism to describe experiences of Bosnian refugees who settled in Ireland after fleeing the conflict in 1990s Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Cultural Globalization: A User s Guide is a personal and engaging journey through theories of culture and globalization.

This new book argues that sovereignty, generally defined as the supreme authority in a political community, has a neglected democratic dimension that highlights the expansion of substantive individual rights and freedoms at home and abroad.

Governing Complexity in the 21st Century surveys the ways in which social systems are becoming more complex.

In today's climate, bringing your fashion brand to new international territories is more challenging than ever.

Erweiterungen des Stimmrechts betreffen auch die Frage, wer an der Selbstbestimmung der Gemeinschaft teilnehmen darf.

AcheraIou analyzes hybridity using a theoretical, empirical approach that reorients debates on metissage and the 'Third Space', arguing for the decolonization of postcolonialism.

Today the debates on globalization between its evangelists and detractors are still raging.

The first comprehensive work on globalization within the context of sustainable development initiatives in Africa.

The role of library and information sciences (LIS) in, for, and about Arctic and Northern studies is underexplored.

The notes that Ludger Kuhnhardt wrote in 235 countries and territories around the world create a fascinating panorama, reflected in the personal impressions, encounters and experiences of a political scientist and journalist working all over the world.

This book addresses the following fundamental questions: With the EU seeing Taiwan as a partner on its own merit (rather than exclusively through the China factor lens), how can the two sides consolidate this new normal, what next?

Contrary to the claims made by neoliberal governments and mainstream academics, this book argues that the huge increase in trade in recent decades has not made the world a fairer place: instead, the age of globalization has become a time of mass migration caused by increasing global inequality.

Nie zuvor hat ein Buch die heißesten Eisen der Geschichte und Gegenwart so schonungslos angefasst.

Since the Roman Empire, leaders have used ideology to organize the masses and instil amongst them a common consciousness, and equally to conquer, assimilate, or repel alternative ideologies.

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

This interdisciplinary anthology explores the impact of current globalization processes on Jewish communities across the globe.

The men and women in Invisible Hands reveal the human rights abuses occurring behind the scenes of the global economy.

This book analyzes the choices and constraints of management within the Bangladesh garment industry and how management negotiates these challenges to ensure the global garment supply chain is sustainable.

In the wake of globalization, the humanities and social sciences have explored the existence and the possibilities of human community on a global scale.

The widespread move towards more market-driven models of political economy combined with the expanding internationalisation of business and commerce has led to a series of proposals for global competition rules.

Brazil has occupied a central role in the access to medicines movement, especially with respect to drugs used to treat those with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).

Over the past decade, a virtual cottage industry has arisen to produce books and articles describing the nature, origins, and impact of globalization.

In the past two decades, states and multilateral organizations have devoted considerable resources toward efforts to stabilize peace and rebuild war-torn societies in places such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, and Sierra Leone.

Decolonial Politics in European Peripheries: Redefining Progressiveness, Coloniality and Transition Efforts is a timely contribution to the project of theorizing "e;Europe"e; through decolonial perspectives on the Left, as the European and global crisis has prompted new reflections on what it means to sit still at the European "e;peripheries"e;.

Geschäftserfolg in Bulgarien bietet einen umfassenden Einblick in die dynamischen Geschäftsmöglichkeiten, die Bulgarien ausländischen Investoren und Unternehmern bietet.

Through critical analysis of Turkey's transformation under the AKP, this book explores the relationship between domestic transformations and global/regional dynamics.

World-system analyses have recast the study of between- and within-nation country inequality as constituent aspects of a single field of inquiry: the study of inequality and social stratification as processes that always have been global in their very essence.

In these ground-breaking essays, James A.

Gipfeltreffen der G8 sind bis heute Ereignisse, die in der internationalen Presse viel Aufmerksamkeit erwecken.

This book offers an in-depth, cross-cultural and transdisciplinary discussion of the translatability of social emotions.

From the vantage point of the key powers in global finance including the United States, the European Union, Japan, and China, this highly accessible book brings together leading scholars to examine current changes in international financial regulation.

The nature of higher education is by no means fixed: it has evolved over time; different models of higher education co-exist alongside each other at present; and, worldwide, there are demands for higher education to change to better help support economic growth and to better fit chagning social and economic circumstances.

This book seeks to comprehend the evolving nature of the European Union following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the failure of the European Constitution.

Examining India-America relations between 1942-62, this book reconsiders the role of America in shaping the imagination of post-colonial India.

In this fascinating and timely book, Maren Behrensen facilitates a conversation between philosophy and the 'practitioners' of identity.

This book presents a novel theoretical and methodological approach to understanding the emerging "e;glocal"e; realities of (sub)urban space.

A stimulating, theoretically driven examination of the relationship between human rights and the globalizing process.

This book examines the political economy of conflict between China, a rising power, and the USA, a declining one.

This book argues that larger flaws in the global supply chain must first be addressed to change the way business is conducted to prevent factory owners from taking deadly risks to meet clients' demands in the garment industry in Bangladesh.