Globalization

By delving into the history of geopolitics and bringing us up to date with cutting-edge case studies looking at infrastructure, terrain, and maps, this book will dispel simplistic and misleading notions about the nature of how humans interact with the environment.

In different but complementary ways, the chapters in this collection provide a deeper understanding of socio-cultural processes in various parts of the African continent.

This book sheds new light on gender-based inequalities in a globalized world.

This book analyzes how recent welfare state transformations across advanced democracies have shaped social and economic disparities.

This book provides a framework for understanding the global flows of cuisine both into and out of Asia and describes the development of transnational culinary fields connecting Asia to the broader world.

In this book, Kevin Ip articulates and defends an egalitarian conception of global distributive justice grounded on the value of equality as a normative ideal of how human relations should be conducted.

Eleonore Kofman and Parvati Raghuram argue for the benefits of social reproduction as a lens through which to understand gendered transformations in global migration.

This volume is the result of a 2013 conference held by the Asan Institute for Policy Studies (South Korea) on the 'middle power' countries of Mexico, Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, Turkey and Australia (MIKTA).

Contemporary governance is a contested field of competing institutional schemes and system of rules.

This book examines the European Union (EU) coordination of the G7, G8 and G20 (Gx).

Cash Transfers and Basic Social Protection offers a ground-breaking analysis of the discourses that facilitated the rise of cash transfers as instruments of development policy since the 1990s.

This book analyzes the effects of economic, social, and political disruptions that have come with integration into the global economy for countries in five different regions and the developing world as a whole.

Building on contemporary efforts to theorize conflicts related to borders, migration, and belonging, this book transforms existing analyses in order to propose critical interventions.

This book suggests how the internationalisation of teaching and learning for sustainability can be a vehicle for a two-way flow of knowledge across national, cultural and theoretical boundaries.

Until recently, Australia and Latin America were considered irrelevant to one another.

The author examines Brazil's emerging role as an important actor in various sectors of global governance.

As firms from East Asia gain global market share they are stirring trade disputes with import-competing firms in the West.

This book focuses on both North-South and South-South relations to reveal an understanding of major climate change and climate change management issues through practices and narratives of environmental security in a specific regional context.

This core textbook addresses structural change in the advertising industry, its legal and political environment, and the ways in which people engage with advertising.

This book explores how the kinds of world-wide restructurings of higher educationand research work that are underway today havenot only increased employment insecurity in academia but may actually beproducing unemployment both for those within academia and forgraduate job-seekers in other sectors.

Though geographically far apart, Turkey and Australia are much closer than many would think.

This volume details the evolution of Japan's foreign policy and its initiatives with respect to Central Asia.

The author provides a theoretical framework of the global political economy of banking regulation and analyses the policies and politics of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.

This edited volume addresses how the state system, the organizing political institution in world politics, copes with challenges of rapid change, unanticipated crises, and general turmoil in the twenty-first century.

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

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.

Since 9/11 Western states have sought to integrate 'securitisation' measures within migration regimes as asylum seekers and other migrant categories come to be seen as agents of social instability or as potential terrorists.

Innovation is sweeping the globe at breakneck speed, and emerging markets are where tremendous growth and opportunity reside.

The end of the Cold War gave rise to much talk of a 'new' global order and debate about just how new or orderly it was and would be.

The North Atlantic continues to be an area of international strategic significance regionally and globally.

Global university rankings are now more than a decade old and this book uses the data they have produced to examine how the international landscape of universities has changed over the years.

In the globalized Arctic there has been a transformation from military security to human security.

This book maps changing definitions of statehood in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus as a result of their exclusion from an expanding Europe.

This book examines the emergent conviction that UN robust peacekeeping works better than UN traditional peacekeeping in reducing civilian killings within contemporary post-cold war violent civil wars.

Orientalist discourses in Brazilian culture are an expression of anxieties about the re-structuring of time and space in the network age.

'Globalization' and 'the Nation' provide significant contexts for examining past educational thinking and practice and to identify how education has been influenced today.

This book explores the experiences of temporary migrants in the Asia-Pacific region.

This volume examines developmentality and the archeology of its social practices, unfolding systemic failures that muffle progress.

Hamed El-Said investigates Counter-de-Rad programmes in Muslim majority and Muslim minority states.

The challenges faced by the public sector are many and varied.

The normative power of the European Union has historically been a key element of its foreign policy.

Presenting a critical overview of what 'emerging multipolarity' means for the world's foremost global trading bloc and economic power, the European Union, this book offers new insights into how the rise of the emerging economies has impacted the EU and its role within the World Trade Organization.

Md Saidul Islam and Md Ismail Hossain investigate how neoliberal globalization generates unique conditions, contradictions, and confrontations in labor, gender and environmental relations; and how a broader global social justice can mitigate the tensions and improve the conditions.

In an EU increasingly worried about the security of its citizens and its territory, how should the European Parliament make policy decisions in these areas?

This book studies inter-organisational relations from a new angle: power.

Is China challenging liberal norms or being socialised to them?

This book explores the dynamics of the linguistic landscape as a site of conflict, exclusion, and dissent.

This collection examines how the EU is seen in the two regions that are at the centre of its geopolitical interest.

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.

Based on document analysis, and on the evaluations, perceptions and judgments of people involved in framing, making, and applying foreign policy in both countries as foreign affairs officials, law makers, or think tanks' associates, this book presents the differing worldviews and concepts for establishing an international order.