Globalization

The book presents a world-system study based in neomedieval thinking.

An overview of how advances in information technology can be used to enhance the resolution of legal disputes.

A case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the past forty years The conventional wisdom about globalization is wrong.

This book examines how developing countries often sign up to highly potent rules underwriting economic globalisation without even realising it.

The Oxford Handbook of Offshoring and Global Employment deals with a key issue of our time: How do globalization, economic growth and technological developments interact to impact employment?

With the process of a "e;wider Europe"e; (EU-Commission President Romano Prodi's "e;ring of friends"e;) that extends from Marrakech in Morocco to St.

This two-volume set presents the conference papers from the 2023 iteration of the International Conference on Economics, Development and Sustainability (EDESUS 2023), organized by the VNU University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

Bridging African and Arab histories, this book examines the relationship between Islam, nationalism and the evolution of identity politics from late 19th Century to World War II.

This book offers a sociological analysis of globalised capitalist markets, advancing the notion of 'disembedded markets' to challenge the idea of 'social embeddedness' common in economic sociology.

The crisis caused by COVID-19 poses a major challenge for the global economy and business.

War-torn deserts, jihadist killings, trucks weighted down with contraband and migrantsfrom the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands to the Sahara, images of danger depict a new world disorder on the global margins.

Severe poverty is one of the greatest moral challenges of our times.

The third edition of this popular core textbook provides wide-ranging coverage of the structure, internal working, policies and performance of international organizations such as the UN, EU, IMF and World Bank.

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

This edited volume analyzes how migration, the conformation of urban areas, and globalization impact Latin American geopolitics.

There has been clear recognition of tendencies towards uncritically celebrating resistance and the need for critical appraisal within the literature on globalization and contestation.

This important book discusses the political economy of world order and the basic ideological and ontological grounds upon which the emergent global order is based.

This book has four main objectives: to bring the thus far almost entirely neglected historical case of 'the rise of Japan' into the literature on power shifts in general and 'the rise of China' in particular; to propose a discourse-based conceptualization of identity for the study of economic policy that engages theoretical and methodological debates on how to overcome the dichotomy between 'ideational' (identity) and 'material' (economic) factors; to address the tendency to focus on the 'radical Other' in poststructuralist IR scholarship, by highlighting how heterogeneity disturbs exclusive and binary articulations of identity and difference; and to propose a method for putting political discourse theory (PDT) into practice in empirical research by drawing on rhetorical political analysis (RPA).

This book builds upon a wide variety of academic and professional resources to offer an in-depth analysis of the nature, causes, and consequences of major business and technology trends of our time.

In this book, Detlef Jahn analyzes the role of politics in the field of environmental performance in twenty-one OECD countries.

As globalization continues apace, lines of communications are shortening and the boundaries between nations are becoming increasingly blurred.

This volume examines Canada's migration policy as part of its foreign policy.

Encoding the Olympics assembles a uniquely representative international team of media experts to provide a comprehensive review of the global impact of media and cultural communications associated with the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

This book is devoted to the concept of horizontal art history-a proposal of a paradigm shift formulated by the Polish art historian Piotr Piotrowski (1952-2015)-that aims at undermining the hegemony of the discourse of art history created in the Western world.

In an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity, the dynamics of cultural production and the very notion of creativity are in transition.

This book examines the impact of globalization on the Indian economy, exploring the trade, investment and financial aspects of globalization, and also considering its implications for the balance of payments and currency exchange rate.

Translated from the original Russian, this book analyzes the economic development of leading European empires and the United States of America.

With the economic and political rise of East Asia in the second half of the twentieth century, many Western countries have re-evaluated their links to their Eastern counterparts.

The overarching contribution of this book is a review and assessment of the current and future impacts of globalization on the world's forests.

This two-volume set presents the conference papers from the 1st International Conference on Economics, Development and Sustainability (EDESUS 2019), organized by the University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

This book examines the transformation of the state in Central and Eastern Europe since the end of communism and adoption of market oriented reform in the early 1990s, exploring the impact of globalization and economic liberalization on the region's states, societies and political economy.

This book comprises a collection of well-researched essays on selected contemporary economic and finance issues in China, making a timely contribution to the intellectual intercourse regarding the implications of China's rise.

'A breath of fresh air' - Norman FinklesteinWorkers in the Global South are doomed through economic imperialism to carry the burden of the entire world.

A trailblazing look at the historical emergence of a global field in contemporary art and the diverse ways artists become valued worldwidePrior to the 1980s, the postwar canon of ';international' contemporary art was made up almost exclusively of artists from North America and Western Europe, while cultural agents from other parts of the world often found themselves on the margins.

Immigration divides our globalizing world like no other issue.

Like many other indigenous groups, the Huaorani of eastern Ecuador are facing many challenges as they attempt to confront the globalization of capitalism in the 21st century.

This book analyses post-deportation outcomes and focuses on what happens to migrants and failed asylum seekers after deportation.

This new edition of Viral Pandemics illuminates how the increasing emergence of novel viruses has combined with intensifying global interconnectedness to create an escalating spiral of viral disease.

What happens to a country when its skilled workers emigrate?

The Stoics, Dante, the philosophers of the Enlightenment, H.

Since the AIDS epidemic was recognized, information on safer sex has been assumed to be the most crucial means of preventing further spread of the disease.

Europe might appear like a continent pulling itself apart.

'A manifesto for future-proofing our jobs and prosperity' THE SUNDAY TIMESWe stand on the edge of a new era that will bring change to our world on a par with the Industrial Revolution.

This book is an urgent and compelling account of the Occupy movements: from the M15 movement in Spain, to the wave of Occupations flooding across cities in American, Europe and Australia, to the harsh reality of evictions as corporations and governments attempted to reassert exclusive control over public space.

The book covers the fundamentals of global aging and health and provides real-world models from countries and regions that offer the best practices in current approaches.

This book studies the Chinese "e;Belt and Road Initiative"e; (BRI), also called "e;New Silk Road"e;, and focuses on its regional and local effects.

London has long been a magnet for migrants, millions of whom have been attracted by its economic, educational and cultural roles as a truly global city.

This book examines the relationship between post-Soviet societies in transition and the increasingly important role of their diaspora.