Globalization

The democratic nation state of the post-war era has undergone major transformations since the 1970s, and political authority has been both internationalized and privatized.

This innovative book explores the dynamic and contested interactions - including the mutually constitutive relationships - among sexualities, transnationalism, and globalisation.

This book, written by a political scientist born in the global North but now based in one of the departments of his discipline in the Republic of South Africa, is an attempt to focus on the global geography of political science and its global reach.

This volume explores the defining features, critical approaches, challenges and opportunities for public policy in the 'Asian Century'.

A concise exploration of globalization and its role in the contemporary era Driven by technological advancements and global corporations, more and more people are swept up by globalizing processes, creating new winners and losers.

One of our greatest political minds “challenges us to think more independently and more deeply about the human consequences of power and privilege” (Norman Solomon, author of Made Love, Got War).

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

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Building on an original interpretation of social theory and an interdisciplinary approach, this book creates a new paradigm in the Russian studies.

The aim of this book is to provide the international readership a collection of articles authored by Chinese scholars on the subject of globalization and localization.

Thanks to globalization, more countries depend on each other for trade, capital, and ideas than ever before.

With this volume, the editors propose a multi-dimensional and critical review of migrants' vulnerabilities.

Looks at German global entanglements to recast how we interpret German imperialism, the origins of the First World War, and the rise of Nazism.

This book offers new perspectives on global phenomena that play a major role in today's society and deeply shape the actions of individuals, organizations and nations.

This innovative volume provides insight into the vast changes in societies now and in the near future, and highlights the need for a new sociological approach to analyse these changes.

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese and Eurasian International Relations explores China's relations with the Eurasian continent's regions and countries in a multipolar era, providing an equal and balanced platform for scholars and practitioners from East, West, North, and South.

An unprecedented attempt to analyze the role of the law in the global movement for social justice.

Using the case study of Singapore, this book examines the production of a set of institutionalized relationships and ethical meanings that link citizens to each other and the state.

Updated to reflect recent global developments, the second edition of Globalization: A Basic Text presents an up-to-date introduction to major trends and topics relating to globalization studies.

At the end of the Cold War, commentators were pondering how far Western ideas would spread; today, the debate seems to be how far Chinese ideas will reach.

In the last half-century, radical changes have rippled through the workplace and the home from Boston to Bombay.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the models of contemporary democracy; its social, cultural, economic and political prerequisites; its empirically existing varieties and its two major challenges - globalization and mediatization.

How do international students and alumni contribute to development in their countries of origin?

"e;This is the Indiana Jones of international business.

Published 35 years after Palgrave Macmillan's landmark International Political Economy (IPE) series was first founded, this Handbook captures the state of the art of contemporary IPE.

The dominant neoliberal approach presents politics and political economy as nuisances which disturb the smooth operation of self-regulating markets.

How relevant are the classic theories of agrarian change in the contemporary context?

Is there a link between the collapse of the Soviet Union, the radical reforms in China and Vietnam, and the current crisis in East Asia?

Seeking to extend the debate on the diversity of democracy, this book provides the reader with a comprehensive account of how two different global actors, the European Union and the World Social Forum respond to the challenges of globalization with various models of democracy and modes of cooperation at the transnational level.

This book examines emerging forms of governance in the Arctic region, exploring how different types of state and non-state actors promote and support rules and standards.

Shahar Hameiri argues that state building interventions are creating a new form of transnationally regulated statehood.

This edited volume provides an inclusive explanation of what, why, and how cities interact with global counterparts as well as with nation states, non-governmental organizations, and foreign publics.

How can we reconfigure our picture of modern art after the postcolonial turn without simply adding regional art histories to the Eurocentric canon?

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.

The era of globalisation brought waves of consolidation in business ownership alongside Leviathon-like state actors.

The word Eurocracy has resonance throughout out Europe but in reality we know little about the people who work in and around the EU or how they fit into its large bureaucratic framework.

The Doha Round of WTO negotiations commenced in November 2001 to further liberalize international trade and to specifically seek to remove trade barriers so developing countries might compete in major markets.

Contributors to the book suggest an alternative discourse and value system to that of the market-led corporate global agenda, one that does not directly challenge corporate globalization but recognizes a parallel reality.

Since the mid-1990s the United Nations and other multilateral organizations have been entrusted with exceptional authority for the administration of war-torn and strife-ridden territories.

This book offers a new perspective on the economics of globalization, based on the concepts of firms' capabilities as the immediate cause of countries' wealth.

One of the keywords of our time, 'globalization' frames how we understand our interconnected world.

This book analyzes shifting international taxation strategies in pursuit of tax nomads, individuals and companies who minimize their tax obligations among multiple countries.

This book examines the fate of post-Soviet press freedom and media culture in the context of the growing impact of globalisation.

This book introduces a new theory of pathways to globalization and development, which identifies national configurations of sectoral models.

How to survive and thrive in the post-industrial ageIn response to the coming impact of peak oil, John Michael Greer helps us envision the transition from an industrial society to a sustainable ecotechnic world-not returning to the past, but creating a society that supports relatively advanced technology on a sustainable resource base.

A detailed economic analysis that covers some of the most hotly debated issues currently surrounding professional football.

An increasing number of international trade disputes are settled through the WTO dispute settlement (DS) procedure.

This book is based on the author's experience as a British diplomat and scholar working in East Asia for much of the period since 1980.

Globalization has spawned more active transnational religious communities, creating a powerful force in world affairs.