Globalization

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.

Enacting Globalization consists of a rich set of papers with a variety of disciplinary perspectives, focusing on Globalization and its portrayal through International Integration as manifested by its myriad flows such as people, trade, capital and knowledge flows.

Providing a coherent and current account of how the U.

South Korea has emerged as a new middle power playing a significant role in a wide range of important global issue areas and supporting liberal international order with its leadership diplomacy.

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.

After two decades of research into the impact of the EU on domestic politics and policies, this book explores the relationship between Europeanization and EU integration.

A comprehensive examination of the inability of liberal capitalism to generate the technological innovations necessary to prevent dangerous climate change.

Comitology is the most important form of multi-level governance in the EU.

Offers a perceptive critique of the universalized model of psychiatry and its apparent exportation from the West to the developing world.

Using the frameworks of systems theory, modernization, and the world system, New Age Globalization presents a composite multilevel, multidirectional picture of globalization informed by eight different but interdependent subsystems.

Climate Terror engages with a highly differentiated geographical politics of global warming.

This book examines the domestic and international dimensions of European Union (EU) competition policy, particularly mergers, anti-competitive practices and state aids.

This book gives a novel understanding of the globalization debate as well as the structure of world politics.

This collection sets a new agenda for conducting research on the EU and learns from past mistakes.

Comparing the experience of East Asia and Latin America since the mid-1970s, Elson identifies the key internal factors common to each region which have allowed East Asia to take advantage of the trade, financial, and technological impact of a more globalized economy to support its development, while Latin America has not.

With a particular focus on their integration paths, political participation and identifications, this book draws on large cross-national surveys of this specific population carried out between 2004 and 2012, as well as in-depth interviews and aggregate statistical data from a plethora of sources.

This book explores the Linguistic Landscapes of ten French and Italian Mediterranean coastal cities.

Traditional legal borders are increasingly contested in the present day.

Beyond Citizenship?

Today, extensive interconnected global processes provide non-state actors with a degree of agency that a 'System of States' paradigm cannot account for alone.

This book examines the internet as a form of power in global politics.

The figure of the stranger is in serious need of revision, as is our understanding of the society against which the stranger is projected.

A broad-ranging introduction to the theory, practice and politics of humanitarian intervention in the contemporary world.

Hegemony has long been a key concept within the study of International Relations, as well as across the social sciences more generally, and a term used by analysts to make sense of contemporary events.

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.

The contributors engage with a range of critical and contemporary issues of two key societies in the Asia-Pacific region, Australia and Malaysia.

Based on interviews with entrepreneurs, professionals and regional party cadres' from a range of age groups, this book argues that Western class categories do not directly apply to China and that the Chinese new middle class is distinguished more by socio-cultural than by economic factors.

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 contributors illustrate what twin analytical and practical challenges emerge from juxtaposing cultural, economic, historical, postcolonial, virtual, architectural, literary, security and political stances to the concept of the 'global city'.

This volume presents a unique examination of Western-led police reform efforts by theoretically linking neoliberal globalization, police reform and development.

The collection considers the growing importance of the border as a prime site for criminal justice activity and explores the impact of border policing on human rights and global justice.

This study considers the recent surge of science fiction narratives from the postcolonial Third World as a utopian response to the spatial, political, and representational dilemmas that attend globalization.

The study of global governance has often led separate lives within the respective camps of International Political Economy and Foucauldian Studies.

In this concise introduction to the complexities of contemporary western intelligence and its dynamics during an era of globalization, Adam Svendsen discusses intelligence cooperation in the early 21st century, with a sharp focus on counter-terrorism and WMD counter-proliferation during the 'War on Terror.

Through critical analysis of Turkey's transformation under the AKP, this book explores the relationship between domestic transformations and global/regional dynamics.

An insightful exploration of intelligence cooperation (officially known as liaison), including its international dimensions.