Globalization

The topic of China's rise and what it really means for the global and regional order is the subject of intense debate.

This book explores how we define our social spaces in a world of globalization, cultural diversity, and media convergence.

Much has been made of the role of various media in the shaping of conflicts and political agendas in today's Arab world.

Set against the backdrop of tensions in East Asia, this book analyzes how East Asia's "e;new middle powers"e; and emerging powers employ public diplomacy as a key element of their foreign policy strategy and in so doing influence regional power dynamics.

This book provides an account of milestone health insurance reforms that took place in Korea and Thailand, which significantly advanced equitable access and redistribution in health care.

This book examines the growing interest by Asian states, which are normally considered as 'outsiders' in the Arctic governance system.

This book is a broad and detailed case study of how journalists in more than 20 countries worldwide covered the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment (AR5) reports on the state of scientific knowledge relevant to climate change.

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 volume explores the governance of the transforming Arctic from an international perspective.

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 examines the contribution of the European Commission to the process of transformation of EU borders.

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 explains the increasingly turbulent Sino-Japanese relations since the 2000s by innovatively investigating the formation mechanism of mutual misperception deeply rooted in China-Japan-U.

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.

Global Vision: How Companies Can Overcome the Pitfalls of Globalization addresses the business challenges that globalization poses.

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.

In this book, Po-Yi Hung uses tea production as a lens to investigate the tension between nature and society under the market economy in frontier China.

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.

This book explains the historical and philosophical understanding of Eurasia and its current relevance to the formation of the Eurasian Union.

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.

This book explores the emerging forms and functions of contemporary mobile borders.

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, the economic crisis and related policies of austerity have led to a growth in extreme exploitation at work, with migrants particularly vulnerable.