Globalization

It is often assumed that Iran must necessarily submit to the forces of globalization and liberalize its economy, but the country's ruling elites have continued throughout the post-revolutionary era to resist these pressures for neo-liberal economic reform, seeking to survive in the battlefield of today's globalizing economy whilst remaining loyal to their own rules of engagement.

This work focuses on the ideas and influence of Andre Gunder Frank, one of the founding figures and leading analysts of political economy at the global level.

This work focuses on the ideas and influence of Andre Gunder Frank, one of the founding figures and leading analysts of political economy at the global level.

This book engages with contemporary cultural production in Africa, focusing on theatre in Sierra Leone as main case study.

Examining Chinese domestic as well as international circumstances surrounding the emergence of an independent women's movement in Beijing in the 1990s, this book seeks to explain how such a movement could have arisen after the repression of student activists in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

Examining Chinese domestic as well as international circumstances surrounding the emergence of an independent women's movement in Beijing in the 1990s, this book seeks to explain how such a movement could have arisen after the repression of student activists in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

The multiple and diverse forces of globalization have, indeed, affected Japan significantly over the past decades.

The multiple and diverse forces of globalization have, indeed, affected Japan significantly over the past decades.

Transnational trade union action has expanded significantly over the last few decades and has taken a variety of shapes and trajectories.

Transnational trade union action has expanded significantly over the last few decades and has taken a variety of shapes and trajectories.

In Globalization and Education: Critical Perspectives , an outstanding group of international contributors explore the increasingly important dimensions of globalization as it affects educational policy and practice in nation-states around the world.

In Globalization and Education: Critical Perspectives , an outstanding group of international contributors explore the increasingly important dimensions of globalization as it affects educational policy and practice in nation-states around the world.

As the pressures of globalization are crushing local traditions, millions of uprooted people are buying into a new American salvation product.

As the pressures of globalization are crushing local traditions, millions of uprooted people are buying into a new American salvation product.

We live in a world of big cities.

We live in a world of big cities.

One of the more prolific and influential analysts of multilateral approaches to global problem-solving over the last three decades is Thomas G.

One of the more prolific and influential analysts of multilateral approaches to global problem-solving over the last three decades is Thomas G.

In modern society, we tend to have faith in technology.

In modern society, we tend to have faith in technology.

Moving beyond polemical debates on globalization, this study considers complex intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality and class within the field of globalized labor.

Moving beyond polemical debates on globalization, this study considers complex intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality and class within the field of globalized labor.

For millennia, contact between societies was limited to trade or wars, a situation that changed profoundly with the development of global markets serving industrialization.

For millennia, contact between societies was limited to trade or wars, a situation that changed profoundly with the development of global markets serving industrialization.

Do private and philanthropic solutions to the problems of education signal the end of state education in itswelfare form?

This book examines the role of transnational advocacy networks in enabling effective participation for individual citizens in the deliberative processes of global governance.

This volume defines versions of the transnational in their historical and cultural specificity.

This volume defines versions of the transnational in their historical and cultural specificity.

This exciting book examines how human tissues and cells are being exchanged, commodified and commercialized by new health technologies.

This exciting book examines how human tissues and cells are being exchanged, commodified and commercialized by new health technologies.

This book combines theory with history to look into a dozen episodes of struggle over the concrete and situated terms of world ordering, and it finds reasons to think that the contemporary 'movement of movements' against neo-liberal globalization has deeper roots and a broader history than is usually recognized.

This book combines theory with history to look into a dozen episodes of struggle over the concrete and situated terms of world ordering, and it finds reasons to think that the contemporary 'movement of movements' against neo-liberal globalization has deeper roots and a broader history than is usually recognized.

There is now considerable unanimity that international organizations such as the United Nations, the World Trade Organization (WTO), Bretton Woods Institutions and the international economic architecture need to be reformed in order to achieve greater democratic governance to tackle the myriad of challenges facing the world.

There is now considerable unanimity that international organizations such as the United Nations, the World Trade Organization (WTO), Bretton Woods Institutions and the international economic architecture need to be reformed in order to achieve greater democratic governance to tackle the myriad of challenges facing the world.

In her recent book Suiting Themselves, bestselling author Sharon Beder exposed how the global corporate elite have brazenly rewritten the rules of the global economy to line their pockets.

In her recent book Suiting Themselves, bestselling author Sharon Beder exposed how the global corporate elite have brazenly rewritten the rules of the global economy to line their pockets.

Global economic and social forces are affecting everyone, everywhere.

Global economic and social forces are affecting everyone, everywhere.

Food is increasingly traded internationally, thereby transforming the organization of food production and consumption globally and influencing most food-related practices.

Food is increasingly traded internationally, thereby transforming the organization of food production and consumption globally and influencing most food-related practices.

"e;Chowdhry and Nair, along with the authors of this volume, make a timely, vital, and deeply necessary intervention in international relations - one that informs theoretically, enriches our knowledge of the world through its narratives, and forces us to confront the differentiated wholeness of our humanity.

"e;Chowdhry and Nair, along with the authors of this volume, make a timely, vital, and deeply necessary intervention in international relations - one that informs theoretically, enriches our knowledge of the world through its narratives, and forces us to confront the differentiated wholeness of our humanity.

What would it mean to conceive of the sacred as a source of knowledge that is as vital as the secular?

What would it mean to conceive of the sacred as a source of knowledge that is as vital as the secular?

The phenomenon of "e;travelling reforms"e; has become an object of great professional interest and intensive academic scrutiny.

The phenomenon of "e;travelling reforms"e; has become an object of great professional interest and intensive academic scrutiny.

The world is caught in the mesh of a series of environmental crises.

This book is about the relationship between media, communication and globalization, explored through the unique empirical study of electronic music practitioners' use of the global social media: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

This book is about the relationship between media, communication and globalization, explored through the unique empirical study of electronic music practitioners' use of the global social media: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

State formation in post-colonial societies differed greatly from the formation of the Western capitalist state.