Globalization

International migration afflicts nearly every corner of the globe, from the Americas, Europe and North Africa, and adjoining countries in South Asia.

This volume evaluates the performance of innovation in India and the role of its scientific establishment.

This book explores how contemporary art can alter the ways in which we visualise and conceptualise the world and the social relations that shape it.

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

Globalization has led to a surge in crossborder migration,and the population of international migrants in East Asia has more than doubledover the pasttwo decades.

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, Cooper locates the WTO-focused struggle between the US and the very small island state of Antigua on Internet gambling in the wider International Political Economy.

Hannah Arendt is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most powerful political theorists.

From climate change, debt, and refugee crises to energy security, environmental disasters, and terrorism, the events that lead nightly newscasts and drive public policy demand a global perspective.

With different pedagogic practices come different ways of examining them and fresh understandings of their implications and assumptions.

Human trafficking, and the related problems of organised crime and prostitution, has become a serious problem for post-Soviet countries since the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

This book is about how China strives to rebuild its soft power through communication.

This book presents a systematic study of the history, theory and policy of investor citizenship and residence programmes.

Olympic Aspirations: Realised and Unrealised surveys more than a century of the Olympic Movement's promotion of Olympic ideals internationally.

The so-called 'Spanish miracle', beginning in the mid-1990s, eventually became a nightmare for the majority of the population, culminating in the present-day economic and political crisis.

Dieser Band behandelt das urbane Imaginäre in Sprache, Literatur und Film.

New Humanism and Global Governance is the first in this subject to study how a variety of factors related to globalization will shape the future of the human community.

This edited collection presents an alternative set of reflections on India's contemporary global role by exploring a range of influential non-Western state perspectives.

Capital market liberalization has been a key battle in the debate on globalization for much of the previous two decades.

Although China's economy has grown very rapidly in recent decades, there are still very large differences between the economy of mainland China and the economies of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

We live a world in which the number of prisons is growing and experiences of incarceration are increasingly widespread.

This new book takes as its focus a simple yet critical question: Does foreign direct investment lead to weakened environmental regulation, thereby turning developing countries into "e;pollution havens"e;?

It is often assumed that Iran must necessarily submit to the forces of globalization and liberalize its economy, but the country's ruling elites have continued throughout the post-revolutionary era to resist these pressures for neo-liberal economic reform, seeking to survive in the battlefield of today's globalizing economy whilst remaining loyal to their own rules of engagement.

Moving beyond polemical debates on globalization, this study considers complex intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality and class within the field of globalized labor.

This book offers a scholarly and lively introduction to comparative criminal justice.

This book examines industrial upgrading in China's Pearl River Delta (PRD), with a specific focus on how strategic coupling impacts industrial upgrading from the perspective of relational economic geography.

This book provides a much-needed classroom text in international studies that is genuinely interdisciplinary in its approach.

Wirtschaftliches Handeln findet heute zunehmend im internationalen Kontext statt und überschreitet dabei mehrfach Ländergrenzen, was sich immer deutlicher in den alltäglichen Wertschöpfungsprozessen von Unternehmen niederschlägt.

What Globalization Now Means for Your BusinessExecutives can no longer base their strategies on the assumption that globalization will continue to advance steadily.

Conventional theories of capitalism are mired in a deep crisis: after centuries of debate, they are still unable to tell us what capital is.

Reconsidering Global Environmental Governance: Coloniality, Extractivism, and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice employs the concept of coloniality to examine the relationship between global environmental governance and environmental justice.

This edited volume examines the practices and applications of digital diplomacy in the OSCE Region.

This book presents new perspectives on current development policy against the background of the Covid-19 pandemic.

In the past few decades, and across disparate geographical contexts, states have adopted policies and initiatives aimed at institutionalizing relationships with "e;their"e; diasporas.

The events of the 11th of September 2001 revealed most dramatically that globalization has a shadow.

First published in 1981, this edited collection reviews the operations of state-owned enterprises, examining the actual performance of such organisations in the advanced industrialised countries.

This book engages with the implications of an expanding Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of Transnational Corporations in their supply chains.

This two-volume set presents the conference papers from the 2023 iteration of the International Conference on Economics, Development and Sustainability (EDESUS 2023), organized by the VNU University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

The world's governing structures are higgledy-piggledy: disorderly, heads and tails in any or every direction.

Develops new and intriguing insights into globalization theory and internationalization practice, expanding the investigation of East Asian values and contexts in comparison and separate from Western-dominant thoughts of globalization and internationalization in higher education.

Covering the World Intellectual Property Organization, this volume introduces a much ignored element of the contemporary structure of global governance to scholars of international political economy.

Focussing on China's stem cell research, this book investigates how, over the last decade, Chinese scientists, ethicists and policy-makers have developed a cosmopolitan sensibility in comprehending and responding to ethical and regulatory concerns.

This book critically analyzes the current historical conjuncture of neoliberal capitalism with an eye to its emergent alternatives.

In this synthetic, interdisciplinary work, Neil Brenner develops a new interpretation of the transformation of statehood under contemporary globalizing capitalism.

The Nile River Basin supports the livelihoods of millions of people in Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda, principally as water for agriculture and hydropower.

This book examines how renewed forms of artistic activism were developed in the wake of the neoliberal repression since the 1980s.

European art and the wider world 1350-1550 considers select examples of European art and material culture through the lens of global connections.

In the current period of globalization, Governing Interests presents new research on the impact of internationalization on the organization and representation of business interests through trade and employer associations.