Globalization

This book identifies and discusses research directions, challenges and achievements in contemporary geography.

One of the world's most brilliant economists and the bestselling author of The End of Poverty and Common Wealth, Jeffrey Sachs has written a book that is essential reading for everyone.

You have been had.

Larry Bossidy is one of the world's most acclaimed CEOs, with a track record for delivering results that has few peers.

International trade has shaped the modern world, yet until now no single book has been available for both economists and general readers that traces the history of the international economy from its earliest beginnings to the present day.

Reviving the Invisible Hand is an uncompromising call for a global return to a classical liberal economic order, free of interference from governments and international organizations.

A World Beyond Difference unpacks the globalization literature and offers a valuable critique: one that is forthright, yet balanced, and draws on the local work of ethnographers to counter relativist and globalist discourses.

Seeking reason in the impassioned globalization debate, de la Dehesa examines who stands to win and who stands to lose from the process of globalization, in a style accessible to readers unfamiliar with economic theory.

The focus of this book is to examine the growing impact of globalization on education policy and development in the Asia Pacific region.

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.

Laguerre proposes a relationship among migrants and their home society that transcends current views in migration studies.

The book explains the social forces, forms of consciousness and structural constraints that undermined Apartheid, preserved national unity and yet, later constrained democratic sovereignty, as the imperatives of global markets clashed with the prior aspirations of the democratic revolution.

This book renders an uncompromising verdict on the 'scourge' of our millennium: modernism, itself the artifact of certain late Eurocentric propensities.

This book examines the impact of globalization upon Canada, Mexico and the United States.

We are still only beginning to understand the increasingly complex set of interdependencies among gender, health and globalization.

The Caribbean banana trade is a controversial issue within international affairs.

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.

There is widespread recognition that globalization is changing the world around us, but so far there has been no systematic analysis of how it is impacting on human health.

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This thematically structured text offers an ideal introduction to the positive and negative effects of globalization on human welfare in industrial and developing societies.

Immigration divides our globalizing world like no other issue.

How to better manage systemic risks-from cyber attacks and pandemics to financial crises and climate change-in a globalized worldThe Butterfly Defect addresses the widening gap between the new systemic risks generated by globalization and their effective management.

A people-centered approach to global healthWhen People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health.

A Nobel Prize-winning economist tells the remarkable story of how the world has grown healthier, wealthier, but also more unequal over the past two and half centuriesThe world is a better place than it used to be.

Debates about global justice have traditionally fallen into two camps.

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.

In the global economy, linguistic diversity influences economic and political development as well as public policies in positive and negative ways.

Global private regulations-who wins, who loses, and whyOver the past two decades, governments have delegated extensive regulatory authority to international private-sector organizations.

In One Economics, Many Recipes, leading economist Dani Rodrik argues that neither globalizers nor antiglobalizers have got it right.

Many prominent critics regard the international financial system as the dark side of globalization, threatening disadvantaged nations near and far.

Regulation by public and private organizations can be hijacked by special interests or small groups of powerful firms, and nowhere is this easier than at the global level.

What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick.

International trade has shaped the modern world, yet until now no single book has been available for both economists and general readers that traces the history of the international economy from its earliest beginnings to the present day.

Has globalization diluted the power of national governments to regulate their own economies?

Where does the nation-state end and globalization begin?

Why do very different countries often emulate the same policy model?

Nuclear Logics examines why some states seek nuclear weapons while others renounce them.

"e;Globalization"e; has become a popular buzzword for explaining today's world.

Is it possible to identify the positive and negative effects of globalization on religious tourism or to estimate the transformation of the internal and external constructs of pilgrimage by these effects?

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.

What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick.

Nuclear Logics examines why some states seek nuclear weapons while others renounce them.

This is an innovative and interdisciplinary introduction to the study of nationalism.

International migration and mobility whether from outside the EU or in the form of free movement by EU citizens are controversial and potentially divisive issues that are and will remain at the top of the EU's political agenda.

Thanks to the inroads of IMFism and the "e;war on terror,"e; America has lost much of the soft power it enjoyed in Asia during the early 1990s.

Thanks to the inroads of IMFism and the "e;war on terror,"e; America has lost much of the soft power it enjoyed in Asia during the early 1990s.

Said Nursi (1877-1960) was an advocate of a form of Islam strongly committed to non-violence and constructive engagement with the West and Christianity.

Said Nursi (1877-1960) was an advocate of a form of Islam strongly committed to non-violence and constructive engagement with the West and Christianity.

This completely revised and updated sequel to Globalization and Antiglobalization advances our understanding of the dynamics of neoliberal globalization and draws our attention towards efforts to construct 'another world' beyond neoliberalism.

This completely revised and updated sequel to Globalization and Antiglobalization advances our understanding of the dynamics of neoliberal globalization and draws our attention towards efforts to construct 'another world' beyond neoliberalism.