Globalization

The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Economic Systems examines the institutional bases of economies, and the different ways in which economic activity can function, be organized and governed.

Greening the Globe discusses the success of international efforts to implement changes in environmental practices.

This book investigates how global business cycles impact the economies of developing countries.

Written by one of the world's leading policy researchers, this book seeks to assess the threat posed to modern welfare states by globalization and demographic change.

This volume brings together a group of authors who share a common concern with the effects of globalization on the South.

Develops a new theory of 'identity' ecological modernization (EM), to analyse renewable history and policy development in many of the world's states which are leading the drive to install renewable energy.

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The transformation of the Vietnamese economy from socialist planning to a market economy has led to Vietnam having one of the fastest economic growth rates in the world; and to also to Vietnam engaging much more with the international economy, joining the World Trade Organisation in 2006.

This volume seeks to fill the vacuum created by the Joint Economic Committee of Congress's decision to cease publishing comprehensive assessments of Russia's performance and potential.

This book surveys the African media industry, examining various sections of the media at the elite level.

As the worlds billionaire class reaps record profits and global inequalities further divide nations and communities, this anthology compiled by renown activist Dr.

Drawing on a postcolonial legal history of the United States' territorial expansionism, this book provides an analysis of the foundations of its global empire.

Trade Unions and European Integration brings together pessimists and optimists on trade unionism under the contemporary pressures of European integration.

This book explores the rise and impact of violent non-state actors in contemporary Africa and the implications for the sovereignty and security of African states.

The author of Dark Age America shares a harrowing vision of the future and what you can do to take action and make change.

Since the mid-2000s, the European Union has made unprecedented strides toward the creation of a common energy policy.

This book is a case-study collection examining the influences and functions of British Columbia's (BC) borders in the 21st century.

This book explores the impacts of global economic, political and cultural shifts on various international legal frameworks and legal norms.

Three leading Africa scholars investigate the social forces driving the democratic transformation of postcolonial states across southern Africa.

The Global IR research programme promulgates a borderless ecology of cultures that has only an inside without an outside.

This innovative study engages critically with existing conceptualisations of diaspora, arguing that if diaspora is to have analytical purchase, it should illuminate a specific angle of migration or migrancy.

Building on the strengths of the previous edition, this well-established textbook gives students a broad and inclusive overview of the important issues and events of our rapidly changing world.

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

This is one of the first books to explore the nexus between civil society, religion, and global governance, their impact on human security and well-being, and significance for current debates in international politics.

This volume explores the global history of natural dyes from the Americas and asks how their production and trade have shaped globalisation since early modern times.

Through the application of public opinion, interview, and print-media analyses, this book provides evidence that the state of transnational identification among citizens in the EU as a result of post-Maastricht integration measures, such as the completion of the Common Market, the introduction of the Euro, the initiation of the Common Foreign and Security Policy etc.

This book offers a systematic and comprehensive introduction to the Arctic in the era of globalization, or as it is referred to here, the 'GlobalArctic'.

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

Mit diesem Handbuch zur Soldatenkaiserzeit (235–284) wird erstmals eine umfassende Gesamtdarstellung des Römischen Reiches in der Mitte des 3.

This book explores violence against the environment within the broad scope of transnational environmental crime (TEC): its extent, perpetrators, and responses.

This book provides a 5000-year history of the ways in which literary forms have shaped out notions of globalization.

Food sovereignty has been a fundamentally contested concept in global agrarian discourse over the last two decades, as a political project and campaign, an alternative, a social movement, and an analytical framework.

The quickening pace of Iran's nuclear activities has produced an international sense of urgency.

Paradigms are shifting.

In the 26 years since market-oriented reforms were introduced, China has emerged onto the world stage as a major economic presence, particularly since her accession to the World Trade Organisation in 2001.

This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large and Fear of Small Numbers, is the product of ten years' research and writing, constituting an important contribution to globalization studies.

It is commonly agreed that we live in an age of globalization, but the profound consequences of this development are rarely understood.

This book contributes to recent debates in transnationalism, mobilities and migration studies by offering the first in-depth sociological examination of the global phenomenon of action sports and the transnational networks and connections being established within and across local contexts around the world.

This book provides a clear and nuanced appraisal of Hegel's treatment of Africa, India, and Islam, and of the implications of this treatment for postcolonial and global studies.

This volume is jointly written by twenty experts and scholars from China.

The book raised the question of how relations between the US and China will unfold is one of the most consequential of the 21st century.

The rise of neo-liberal globalisation has posed major challenges for all European countries, identifying itself as the key political tension of the coming era.

This book examines theories and specific experiences of international migration and social transformation, with special reference to the effects of neo-liberal globalization on four societies with vastly different historical and cultural characteristics: South Korea, Australia, Turkey and Mexico.

This key resource for anyone interested in the United Nations, global issues, or world politics provides accessible and comprehensive coverage of the history, growth, and development of ideas and institutions governing the globe.

This book provides answers to fundamental questions of sustainable development and international cooperation in light of irreversible globalization.

This volume presents a unique examination of Western-led police reform efforts by theoretically linking neoliberal globalization, police reform and development.