Globalization

This book explores how we define our social spaces in a world of globalization, cultural diversity, and media convergence.

The United States-Australia alliance has been an important component of the US-led system of alliances that has underpinned regional security in the Indo-Pacific since 1945.

Myconos explores the ways in which organized labour has globalized since 1945.

Can the welfare state survive in an economically integrated world?

This ambitious work provides a unique statement on the question of place-based activism and its relationship to powerful forces of international capital.

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 shows how a constructivist account of bargaining sheds new light on the emergence of impasse situations in international trade negotiations.

Two of the dominant themes of discussion in international relations scholarship over the last decade have been global governance and rising powers.

Individual foreign investment in residential real estate by new middle-class and super-rich investors is re-emerging as a key issue in academic, policy and public debates around the world.

This book presents research, analysis, and reflections on the major issues of Guatemalan development and democracy: the role of the military, the involvement of Mayan communities in national development, the possible emergence of more inclusive political institutions and the roles of international forces and agencies in Guatemalan social change.

Ambalavaner Sivanandan was one of Britain's most influential radical thinkers.

This book looks at India in the context of a globalized world.

This book examines the ways in which new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are being used by civil society organizations (CSOs) to achieve their aims through activities and networks that cross national borders.

Using an analysis of imperialism and case studies of Syria, Iran, Iraq, Bosnia, Russia and Ukraine, Global Democracy and the Crisis of Anti-Imperialism shows that the purported anti-imperialism of many self-professed socialists amounts to explicit or implicit support for totalitarianism, fascism, Islamist theocracy and imperialism.

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 critically examines key features of the contemporary organizational landscape by focusing on major beneficiaries of recent historical politicalcultural transformations involving the embrace of market fundamentalism and a market society: corporations, those who direct them, and those who use them for their own benefit.

Three trends have dominated the political economy of integration during the last two decades: globalization, economic nationalism, and regionalization.

In recent years, global historians have painted an impressionistic picture of what they call the 'connected world' of the seventeenth century.

This book investigates the fundamental role that tropical bioproductivity - or more specifically net primary productivity - has played in shaping the global geographies of food, finance, governance and people.

For about 40 years, RTE's radio and television channels have played an enormous role in shaping Irish social and cultural life.

This book addresses the art historical category of "e;contemporary art"e; from a transregional perspective, but unlike other volumes of its kind, it focuses in on non-Western instantiations of "e;the contemporary.

This book analyzes China's transformative political power in today's world while simultaneously addressing global issues and the reformation of world institutions.

This book critically examines the new issues and new politics regarding migration in the era of globalisation from a majority world perspective.

Globalization describes a process by which regional economies, societies and cultures have become integrated through a global network of communication, transportation and trade.

A rich and compelling analysis of how cultural globalization occurs, including the structural conditions, personal meanings and social interactions involved.

The second edition of Introduction to Global Studies offers a succinct and authoritative introduction to the important issues and events of our rapidly changing world.

This book explores and critically reflects on the theory and practice of political agency in contemporary global politics.

The Soldier and the Changing State is the first book to systematically explore, on a global scale, civil-military relations in democratizing and changing states.

This volume assesses the achievements and limitations of a new set of non-state or multistakeholder institutions that are concerned with improving the social and environmental record of business, and holding corporations to account.

For courses in International Trade.

A leading figure in cultural studies worldwide, Nestor Garcia Canclini is a Latin American thinker who has consistently sought to understand the impact of globalization on the relations between Latin America, Europe, and the United States, and among Latin American countries.

Examines the importance of South Africa's peaceful transition to democracy, especially in light of Nelson Mandela's belief that cosmopolitan dreams are not only desirable but a binding duty.

This volume brings together the work of outstanding feminist scholars who reflect on the achievements of feminist political economy and the challenges it faces in the 21st century.

In this timely and provocative study, William I.

This book presents the first published account in English of Sverre Lysgaard's theory of the 'worker collectivity' - a theory of an informal protective organisation among subordinate employees, which so far has been unknown outside Scandinavia.

In the wake of the outbreak of the global crisis in 2008, many observers expected the state to assume command over a faltering neoliberal finance-led model of capitalism.

An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history.

As firms from East Asia gain global market share they are stirring trade disputes with import-competing firms in the West.

This volume is the result of a 2013 conference held by the Asan Institute for Policy Studies (South Korea) on the 'middle power' countries of Mexico, Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, Turkey and Australia (MIKTA).

For two decades Bruce Robbins has been a theorist of and participant in the movement for a "e;new cosmopolitanism,"e; an appreciation of the varieties of multiple belonging that emerge as peoples and cultures interact.

This handbook offers readers various perspectives on globalization and multilateralism with Chinese characteristics.

This volume is concerned with the complexities of the relationship between globalization and different groups of consumers in developing countries.

This book presents a study of perceptions of food insecurity in East Asia, and explores how individual countries are developing strategies to deal with the situation.

The global economic system is experiencing a profound period of rapid change.

In Things Fall Away, Neferti X.

Featuring detailed profiles of the Chinese tech companies making waves, the tech sectors that matter most in China's grab for super power status, and predictions for China's tech dominance in just 10 years.

This book explores the emerging forms and functions of contemporary mobile borders.

Ladakh, or 'Little Tibet', is a wildly beautiful desert land up in the Western Himalayas.