Globalization

The academic discipline of International Relations strives to attain a 'global' spirit to narrow the cognitive gaps between the West and the Rest.

The academic discipline of International Relations strives to attain a 'global' spirit to narrow the cognitive gaps between the West and the Rest.

Capitalism and its Critics offers an accessible account of major theories of capitalism from the industrial revolution to the present day.

Capitalism and its Critics offers an accessible account of major theories of capitalism from the industrial revolution to the present day.

Why has global tax governance been politicized and how can we explain the varying intensity and content of public debates?

Why has global tax governance been politicized and how can we explain the varying intensity and content of public debates?

Studying paradiplomacy comparatively, this book explains why and how sub-state governments (SSG) conduct their international relations (IR) with external actors, and how federal authorities and local governments coordinate, or not, in the definition and implementation of the national foreign policy.

Studying paradiplomacy comparatively, this book explains why and how sub-state governments (SSG) conduct their international relations (IR) with external actors, and how federal authorities and local governments coordinate, or not, in the definition and implementation of the national foreign policy.

Western societies are immersed in debates about immigration and illegality.

Western societies are immersed in debates about immigration and illegality.

Black Spaces examines how space and place are racialized, and the impacts on everyday experiences among African Italians, immigrants, and refugees.

Black Spaces examines how space and place are racialized, and the impacts on everyday experiences among African Italians, immigrants, and refugees.

This book critically engages with a series of provocative questions that ask: Why are contemporary societies so dependent on constructive and destructive effects of individualization?

This book analyzes China's development in the wider context of the global trade, investment, security, knowledge and production regimes established by the United States.

This innovative volume gathers some of the world's best scholars to analyse the world's collective international efforts to address globalised threats through global security governance.

This book explores rising labor unrest in China as it integrates into the global political economy.

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

This book applies established analytical concepts such as influence, authority, administrative styles, autonomy, budgeting and multilevel administration to the study of international bureaucracies and their political environment.

This book considers the principal challenges facing the European Union, which has been buffeted by a series of profound crises, both internal and external.

This volume examines the transmission, reception, and reproduction of new cinematic styles, meanings, practices, and norms in early twenty-first-century Asia.

This book brings together an impressive range of academic and intelligence professional perspectives to interrogate the social, ethical and security upheavals in a world increasingly driven by data.

This is an edited collection of items on unionism worldwide, recognising the crisis that an informatised and globalised capitalism implies for work, workers and the trade-union movement.

A unique focus on the relationship between religion and political culture in the Third World using a comparative and thematic approach.

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

Globalization involves structural changes in forms of state, society and culture, ecology and political economy and in ethics and expectations.

Globalization is defined in economic terms to mean freer flows of trade, foreign direct investment and finance, and liberalization of trade and investment policies.

Nationalist movements in the South have been superseded by a plethora of different social movements.

The global scope of the changes in the international financial and monetary systems ensured that no nation-state could protect itself from their effects.

The process of globalization can be seen in the increase of: trade interdependence, the importance of global multinational corporations, mobility and volatility of capital flows (with dangers demonstrated by the recent Mexican crisis).

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The book examines the kind of action that needs to be taken by world bodies in fields such as the trafficing of drugs, international terrorism, world hunger and other pressing problems, and the type of political activity through which individuals can seek to influence them.

Based on a six-year project at INSEAD, top scholars put these developments into perspective.

A stunning inside look at how and why the foundations upon which China has built the world's second largest economy, have started to crumble.

Food provides a particularly exciting and grounded research site for understanding the mechanisms governing global transactions in the 21st century.

Food provides a particularly exciting and grounded research site for understanding the mechanisms governing global transactions in the 21st century.

This book critically examines the new issues and new politics regarding migration in the era of globalisation from a majority world perspective.

This book critically examines the new issues and new politics regarding migration in the era of globalisation from a majority world perspective.

This volume seeks to re-energise the paradigm of the New International Labour Studies by detailing how struggles over the construction, reproduction, utilisation and restructuring of labour forces are the contested social foundations upon which the global economy stands.

This volume seeks to re-energise the paradigm of the New International Labour Studies by detailing how struggles over the construction, reproduction, utilisation and restructuring of labour forces are the contested social foundations upon which the global economy stands.

The nature of globalization and the fallout from the international financial crisis have brought profound changes to societies and economies around the world.

The nature of globalization and the fallout from the international financial crisis have brought profound changes to societies and economies around the world.

This book analyses the present global financial and economic crisis, the most severe in nearly a century, and a wider set of multiple and converging crises with aspects and repercussions that go well beyond the current economic climate.

This book analyses the present global financial and economic crisis, the most severe in nearly a century, and a wider set of multiple and converging crises with aspects and repercussions that go well beyond the current economic climate.

This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology.

This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology.

Critical research and theorizing on the Anti- or Alter-Globalization Movement has exploded over the last two decades.

Critical research and theorizing on the Anti- or Alter-Globalization Movement has exploded over the last two decades.

Does the 'city region' constitute a new departure in urbanisation?

Does the 'city region' constitute a new departure in urbanisation?

Anti-consumerism has become a conspicuous part of contemporary activism and popular culture, from 'culture jams' and actions against Esso and Starbucks, through the downshifting and voluntary simplicity movements, the rise of ethical consumption and organic and the high profile of films and books like Supersize Me!