Globalization

A compelling theory on the rationale for the changing fortunes of nations

This volume explores how difference is constructed, manifested, mobilised and obscured in socially uneven societies, particularly those fuelled by neoliberal economic growth in the recent years.

International institutions, from the International Monetary Fund to the International Olympic Committee, are perceived as bastions of sclerotic mediocrity at best and outright corruption at worst, and this perception is generally not far off the mark.

This book offers transdisciplinary scholarship which challenges the agendas of and markers around traditional social scientific fields.

This book is part of the Human Centered Book Trilogy, the 2021 volumes of the Routledge Human Centered Management HCM Series.

This book is part of the Human Centered Book Trilogy, the 2021 volumes of the Routledge Human Centered Management HCM Series.

This book shows how globalization shrinks distance, thereby expanding international obligations to aid the poor and make free trade fair.

In order to regain its competitiveness, Japan is restructuring and globalizing its business and economics system, as well as other aspects of society.

Any consideration of global migration in relation to work and citizenship must necessarily be situated in the context of the Great Recession.

An overview of the development of cooperatives over the last fifty years, addressing the major challenges that they face in the future.

The world's systems of higher education (HE) are caught up in the fourth industrial revolution of the twenty-first century.

This book uncovers the contradictions and convergences of racism, decolonisation, migration and living international relations that were shaped by the shift from colonialism to postcolonialism and from nationalism to transnationalism between the 1950s and the present.

This book examines the rise and spread of corporate social responsibility across the globe and its impact on corporate reputation and behaviour.

This book explores how Turkey's contested national identity has affected its foreign policysince the late Ottoman era.

The Soldier and the Changing State is the first book to systematically explore, on a global scale, civil-military relations in democratizing and changing states.

Since opening to foreign investment in 1979, China has emerged as the leading investment site for multinational corporations.

While clearly assessing the achievements, performance and responses of major global south institutions to global change, Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner shows how and why such arrangements are critical in the South's efforts to call the international community's attention to their concerns and to resolve their special problems.

Beyond Safety argues that concerns about the ethical impossibility of individual safety in the face of risks with increasingly obvious global consequences alters representations of neoliberal contemporary life.

This book examines the role of transnational advocacy networks in enabling effective participation for individual citizens in the deliberative processes of global governance.

Exploring the culture and media of the Americas, this handbook places particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences and focuses on the transnational or hemispheric dimensions of cultural flows and geocultural imaginaries that shape the literature, arts, media and other cultural expressions in the Americas.

By examining how neoliberal economic reform policies have affected educated young adults in contemporary Morocco, Searching for a Different Future posits a new socioeconomic formation: the global middle class.

This expansive history traces the hidden connections between oil and capitalism from the late 1800s to the current climate crisis.

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.

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

This innovative book analyses the role gender plays in the relationship between globalisation, migration and reproductive labour.

This book analyzes the evolution and impact of the concept of risk on processes of transnational banking and financial market regulation, as well as the externalities generated by speculative financial activity in developing and emerging market economies.

Capitalism likes us to believe in the steady, inevitable march of progress, from the abacus to the iPad.

Dieses Lehrbuch setzt sich mit den zentralen Institutionen, Akteuren und politischen Prozessen um die globale Verteilung und Nutzung kritischer natürlicher Ressourcen auseinander.

This comprehensive collection offers a concise introduction to the institutional framework of the Holy See, conceptualizing papal agency and positions from a range of international theory perspectives.

Long established as the leading textbook on migration and used by students and scholars alike all over the world, this fully revised and updated sixth edition continues to offer an authoritative and cutting-edge account of migration flows, why they occur, and their consequences for both origin and destination societies.

Recognition is a fundamental aspect of all social interactions; between individuals, groups, local communities and sovereign states.

The post-Yugoslav states have developed very differently since Yugoslavia dissolved in the early 1990s.

In this book, Justin Jennings argues that the globalization of today is just the latest in a series of globalizing movements in human history.

The beginnings of globalisation are usually dated to the last third of the twentieth century, alongside the rise of supranational companies, the financial economy and the information technology revolution.

This book examines the domestic and international dimensions of European Union (EU) competition policy, particularly mergers, anti-competitive practices and state aids.

This book analyzes the World Social Forum (WSF) in a context of crisis and transition in the history of Western capitalist modernity.

Der fundamentalistische, politische Islam fordert den Westen heraus - seine Werte und seine Kultur.

The issue of private property and the rights it confers remain almost undiscussed in critiques of globalization and free market economics.

The financial crisis that began in 2008 and its lingering aftermath have caused many intellectuals and politicians to question the virtues of capitalist systems.

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.

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Disorder and Public Concern Around Globalization examines the contrast between an idealized vision and a realistic view of globalization.

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.

In The Devil behind the Mirror, Steven Gregory provides a compelling and intimate account of the impact that transnational processes associated with globalization are having on the lives and livelihoods of people in the Dominican Republic.

The focus of this volume is on the role of the developmental state in a situation in which a series of major crises affects the (semi-) periphery of the global economy.

Globalization and its relation to poverty reduction and development are not well understood.

This innovative handbook provides a comprehensive, and truly global, overview of the main approaches and themes within law and society scholarship or social-legal studies.

This book offers a unique insight into the dynamics of the English language in higher education in Cyprus through the lens of universities situated on both sides of its geopolitical division.

Craig Calhoun, one of the most respected social scientists in the world, re-examines nationalism in light of post-1989 enthusiasm for globalization and the new anxieties of the twenty-first century.