Global Political Economy places the study of IPE in broad theoretical context, equally emphasizing theory and practice to provide a framework for analyzing current events and long-term developments in the global economy.
Samuel Huntington's landmark book, The Clash of Civilizations, presented a vision of a world divided by cultural differences, national interests, and political ideologies.
Read this gripping, timely book about the transmission of deadly viruses from animal to human populations, and how we can fight the current Covid-19 pandemic.
Las páginas de este libro aportan lecturas sobre la globalización cultural a partir del caso de Corea desde miradas particulares sobre las relocalizaciones de productos, expresiones y procesos configuradores de la cultura coreana tradicional, moderna y contemporánea.
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.
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.
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.
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 engages the question, hotly debated among theorists and policymakers alike, of how a developing country's pursuit of foreign direct investment (FDI) affects its development prospects in a globalized world.
This book renders an uncompromising verdict on the 'scourge' of our millennium: modernism, itself the artifact of certain late Eurocentric propensities.
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.
This thematically structured text offers an ideal introduction to the positive and negative effects of globalization on human welfare in industrial and developing societies.
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.
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.
Global private regulations-who wins, who loses, and whyOver the past two decades, governments have delegated extensive regulatory authority to international private-sector organizations.
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.