Globalization

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.

'Globalization' and 'the Nation' provide significant contexts for examining past educational thinking and practice and to identify how education has been influenced today.

This book explores the experiences of temporary migrants in the Asia-Pacific region.

This volume examines developmentality and the archeology of its social practices, unfolding systemic failures that muffle progress.

Hamed El-Said investigates Counter-de-Rad programmes in Muslim majority and Muslim minority states.

The challenges faced by the public sector are many and varied.

The normative power of the European Union has historically been a key element of its foreign policy.

Presenting a critical overview of what 'emerging multipolarity' means for the world's foremost global trading bloc and economic power, the European Union, this book offers new insights into how the rise of the emerging economies has impacted the EU and its role within the World Trade Organization.

Md Saidul Islam and Md Ismail Hossain investigate how neoliberal globalization generates unique conditions, contradictions, and confrontations in labor, gender and environmental relations; and how a broader global social justice can mitigate the tensions and improve the conditions.

In this collection of refreshing and provocative essays, the contributors to Theorizing Foreign Policy in a Globalized World reflect on the game-changing political impact of globalization, outlining the situation as it currently stands and suggesting strategies for analyzing foreign policy and global governance.

This book investigates key issues facing leaders in increasingly complex decision-making environments as a result of globalization.

In an EU increasingly worried about the security of its citizens and its territory, how should the European Parliament make policy decisions in these areas?

This book studies inter-organisational relations from a new angle: power.

Is China challenging liberal norms or being socialised to them?

This book explores the dynamics of the linguistic landscape as a site of conflict, exclusion, and dissent.

This collection examines how the EU is seen in the two regions that are at the centre of its geopolitical interest.

Scholars have studied the nineteenth century's unprecedented labor flows in global and specific country contexts, but have lacked a comprehensive analysis of the world's old economic core, the Mediterranean.

Based on document analysis, and on the evaluations, perceptions and judgments of people involved in framing, making, and applying foreign policy in both countries as foreign affairs officials, law makers, or think tanks' associates, this book presents the differing worldviews and concepts for establishing an international order.

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.

The rise of new powers such as China and India is sending shockwaves through the global multilateral system.

By arguing and detailing the elements of a soft and hard infrastructure approach to the process of global stakeholder relationships governance, this study integrates advanced, flexible and feasible tools to develop an organization's listening culture; integrated reporting as an ongoing process of continued multi-stakeholder reporting.

This book explores the growing role of cities and regions as sub-national actors in shaping global governance.

Social policy is a subject that helps develop our understanding of the meaning of human wellbeing, and of the systems by which wellbeing must be promoted.

Immigrants and minorities in Europe and America have responded in diverse ways to security legislation introduced since 9/11 that targets them, labeling them as threats.

This study looks at the underlying foundations of global order, putting aside mainstream institutionalist approaches in showing how China and the US are engaged in an intense process of contestation and renegotiation of an institutionalized order that has long been taken for granted.

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen documents the startling rise of the Arab Gulf States as regional powers with international reach and provides a definitive account of how they have become embedded in the global system of power, politics, and policy-making.

The post-Yugoslav states have developed very differently since Yugoslavia dissolved in the early 1990s.

This book questions whether the institutions and practices of the emerging EU diplomatic system conform to established standards of the state-centric diplomatic order; or whether practice is paving the way for innovative, even revolutionary, forms of diplomatic organisation.

This book is about the status of political equality under global political conditions.

In this edited volume, scholars from Latin America and the United States will analyze how US foreign policy making circles have applied the concepts to the creation of new US security initiatives in the Latin American region during the post September 11, 2001 era.

The concept of the 'smart city' as the confluence of urban planning and technological innovation has become a predominant feature of public policy discourse.

This innovative book analyses the role gender plays in the relationship between globalisation, migration and reproductive labour.

Movies, television, and American culture permeates even the most remote reaches of the globe in unprecedented levels.

For states in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, the "e;Arab Spring"e; has had different implications and consequences, stemming from the politics of identity and the historical and political processes that have shaped development.

This book explores aspects of US foreign policy, including the development process as well as the policy itself in respect to various countries and regions and some significant issues around the globe today.

This is the most in-depth study of the economic partnership between the European Union and the CARIFORUM countries, a group of fifteen small developing economies in the Caribbean.