Globalization

In June 2014, Brazil opened the twentieth FIFA World Cup with a spectacular ceremony.

From refugees fleeing wars or natural disasters to economic migrants pursuing better paid jobs abroad, international migration is an inescapable part of the modern world.

Multiculturalism has shaped identity politics in the Americas over the past decades, as illustrated by politics of recognition, affirmative action, and increasing numbers of internationally recognized cultural productions by members of ethnic minorities.

Dieses Buch setzt sich kritisch mit einer Reihe von provokanten Fragen auseinander: Warum sind die heutigen Gesellschaften so abhängig von den konstruktiven und destruktiven Auswirkungen der Individualisierung?

This Handbook examines the study of failure in social sciences, its manifestations in the contemporary world, and the modalities of dealing with it - both in theory and in practice.

As the economies of China, India, and other Asian nations continue to grow, these countries are seeking greater control over the rules that govern international trade.

A unique set provides an up-to-date overview of the impact of globalization on international security by examining how the interrelationships of economics, politics, and culture determine levels of stability within regions around the world.

This highly-acclaimed, bestselling textbook, quickly established itself as one of the leading texts on the subject worldwide in its first edition.

This book brings together a distinguished set of contributors from a variety of disciplines to examine current theories of institutional change.

The North Pole is being transformed from a sea-ice cap to a seasonally ice-free sea within the next few decades.

A Brookings Institution Press and the Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry (Japan) publicationEast Asian economic integration is on the rise.

The future as a field of inquiry, debate or forecasts continues to flourish.

This book provides a quantitative, cross-nationally comparative, longitudinal, and multilevel study of the drivers and spoilers of national governments' anti-trafficking measures.

This volume highlights three intertwined aspects of the global context of Orthodox Christianity: religion, politics, and human rights.

This book links theoretical discussions about globalization and the distribution of wealth with a rich empirical analysis of Latin America.

Through a series of comparative case studies, the author demonstrates that the conflicts and struggles over capitalist globalization in the Andes are intricately connected to the political power of the military in the region.

This book offers an accessible, yet sophisticated analysis of major global turning points and future scenarios with an emphasis on actionable issues.

The provocative title of this book is deliberately and challengingly universalist, matching the theoretically experimental essays, where contributors try different ideas to answer distinct concerns regarding cosmopolitanism.

The world needs a UN 3.

Globalization and Armed Conflict addresses one of the most important and controversial issues of our time: Does global economic integration foster or suppress violent disputes within and between states?

This book presents the core concepts of geographical education as a means of understanding global issues from a spatial perspective.

Acknowledgement of the ethical dimension of global finance is commonplace in the wake of financial crises.

This fourth Rural Sociological Society decennial volume provides advanced policy scholarship on rural North America during the 2010's, closely reflecting upon the increasingly global nature of social, cultural, and economic forces and the impact of neoliberal ideology upon policy, politics, and power in rural areas.

Feminist International Relations Through a Technospatial Lens is a rich, thought-provoking and wide-ranging assessment of power and empowerment in the digital age.

This book uncovers the contradictions and convergences of racism, decolonisation, migration and living international relations that were shaped by the shift from colonialism to postcolonialism and from nationalism to transnationalism between the 1950s and the present.

Analyzes the notion of the French exception and the ways in which it has informed both academic analysis and political commentary on France today.

This book studies the Chinese "e;Belt and Road Initiative"e; (BRI), also called "e;New Silk Road"e;, and focuses on its regional and local effects.

This innovative study considers why embassies today are especially relevant to the international system, examining the new representation options and global diplomacy techniques in an information age.

At the start of the twentieth century, when Germany, among other nations, was undergoing industrialization, Max Weber famously characterized modern life in words that have often been translated as "e;iron cage.

At a time of societal urgency surrounding ecological crises from depleted fisheries to mineral extraction and potential pathways towards environmental and ecological justice, this book re-examines ecologically unequal exchange (EUE) from a historical and comparative perspective.

What is Global Studies, and how does it relate to globalization?

Neoliberalism has been the reigning ideology of our era.

This book investigates the macroacquisition of Chinese - its large-scale acquisition and adoption for various purposes by individuals, governments and organisations - and the implications of this process for the future of English as a global language.

Do participatory processes open a political space to marginalized groups and individuals?

This book examines the role of external powers in Latin America in the 21st century.

John Vogler examines the international politics of climate change, with a focus on the United Nations Framework Convention (UNFCCC).

This book pursues an original perspective on Europe's shifting extent and geopolitical standing: how countries and spaces marginal to it impact on Europe as a center.

This book analyzes the recent development of Gulf capitalism through to the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis.

Challenges conventional wisdoms surrounding globalisation''s effects on developing countries, suggesting that the real losers are the middle classes.

This book offers a unique exploration of the current state of freedom of speech as a basic right available to everyone.

Studying the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) through the lens of international relations (IR) theory, Chen argues that it is inappropriate to treat the AIIB as either a revisionist or a complementary institution.

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

Since the 1970s, a 'critical' movement has been developing in the humanities and social sciences denouncing the existence of 'Western dominance' over the worldwide production and circulation of knowledge.

This is a comprehensive book series that comprises two distinct yet interconnected volumes.

This book, the first of two volumes, brings together the work of Domenico Mario Nuti to highlight his significant and varied contribution to economics.

This work takes a critical view of the debate on globalization and assesses revamped versions of structuralist thought, which underpin much of the globalization discourse.

"e;Weak Institutions and the Governance Dilemma is especially important and welcome since it offers a very incisive analysis of the role of NGOs in transitional democracies and the effect of institutional setting on NGO effectiveness in representing citizen interests.