Globalization

En los diferentes ensayos que componen este libro, Zygmunt Bauman -uno de los pensadores más audaces e influyentes de nuestro tiempo- explora la íntima afinidad e interacción entre el crecimiento de la desigualdad social y el aumento de los "daños colaterales" a los pobres y marginalizados, privados de oportunidades y derechos que se convierten en los candidatos naturales a estos daños de una economía y una política orientadas por el consumo.

Development, Democracy, and Dependency is a sweeping and intellectually rigorous exploration of one of the most enduring questions in modern political economy: why do some nations achieve prosperity, institutional stability, and broad social progress, while others remain trapped in poverty, inequality, fragile democracy, and structural dependence?

This book interrogates and discusses social development in post-apartheid South Africa as both an approach to an overarching development process and an envisaged end-state of well-being.

This book interrogates and discusses social development in post-apartheid South Africa as both an approach to an overarching development process and an envisaged end-state of well-being.

Procesos transnacionales como la globalización política, económica y cultural enfrentan a las ciencias sociales con una serie de desafíos teóricos y metodológicos, que surgen debido a que lo global (ya sea una institución, un proceso, una práctica discursiva o un imaginario) trasciende el marco exclusivo del Estado-nación y al mismo tiempo habita parcialmente los territorios y las instituciones nacionales.

En esta inteligente obra, Seyla Benhabib propone concebir la identidad cultural como un proceso de negociacion dinamica, en la esfera no solo publica sino tambien privada.

Esta obra de Saskia Sassen aborda el análisis de dos dinámicas diferenciadas.

Hidden Empire of Finance follows the rise of new global cities, tracing their roots back to the 1970s proliferation of neoliberalism and following their fate in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse.

This book presents a unique and a new resource for corporates, policymakers, academics, researchers, and graduate students in the quest for determining the role of intelligent tools in sustainable development.

This book presents a unique and a new resource for corporates, policymakers, academics, researchers, and graduate students in the quest for determining the role of intelligent tools in sustainable development.

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Book DescriptionPersonalist Diplomacy: Tech Moguls as Shadow Diplomats in a Post-Multilateral WorldIn January 2025, a striking tableau at Donald Trump's inauguration captured a seismic shift in American power: technology billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg sat in seats of honor before the president's own cabinet nominees.

A century ago, life was far more fragile.

Firing the Cloud: How Humanity Survived and Accelerated is a sweeping, provocative journey through 15,000 years of human history, tracing how we evolved from small, fire-lit bands of hunter-gatherers to a globally networked civilisation living inside a digital cloud.

Collecting the ideas of a dozen young scholars, this book investigates the symbiotic relationships among globalization, diaspora, foreign policy, sustainability, and the profound psychological effects that ensue.

Collecting the ideas of a dozen young scholars, this book investigates the symbiotic relationships among globalization, diaspora, foreign policy, sustainability, and the profound psychological effects that ensue.

This book provides insights into the viability of the idea of global constitution.

This book provides insights into the viability of the idea of global constitution.

This book juxtaposes two realities of our world.

This book juxtaposes two realities of our world.

Globalisation, Science Fiction and the Poetics of Residue turns to science fiction as an unexpected guide for mapping globalisation's true impact.

This book examines ten of the most common myths surrounding the Korean Wave in relation to its histories, theories, and practices.

Globalisation, Science Fiction and the Poetics of Residue turns to science fiction as an unexpected guide for mapping globalisation's true impact.

This book examines ten of the most common myths surrounding the Korean Wave in relation to its histories, theories, and practices.

This book presents a comprehensive scientific reconstruction of human evolution, offering an original and integrative explanation for the emergence of the traits that define our species.

This book presents a comprehensive scientific reconstruction of human evolution, offering an original and integrative explanation for the emergence of the traits that define our species.

Starting from the dominant perspective of historical sociology, this book looks into the future instead and asks vital questions about the futures we face at the societal and global levels.

Starting from the dominant perspective of historical sociology, this book looks into the future instead and asks vital questions about the futures we face at the societal and global levels.

In Rethinking China, Zhengyu “Z” Huang delivers a timely and incisive critique of the prevailing US narrative on China—challenging long-held assumptions with data, expert interviews, and firsthand insight.

In Rethinking China, Zhengyu “Z” Huang delivers a timely and incisive critique of the prevailing US narrative on China—challenging long-held assumptions with data, expert interviews, and firsthand insight.

All cultures change – but some aspects change more rapidly than others.

All cultures change – but some aspects change more rapidly than others.

This book examines African migration through the lens of media, memory, and contested belonging, offering fresh insights into displacement, identity, misinformation, and digital storytelling.

This book examines how climate change is reshaping not just the environment, but also global politics, economies, and societies.

This book examines how climate change is reshaping not just the environment, but also global politics, economies, and societies.

This edited volume discusses the convergence of AI, information, and the geopolitical landscape.

This edited volume discusses the convergence of AI, information, and the geopolitical landscape.

International nimmt die politische Bedeutung von Normen in Rhetorik und Praxis stetig zu, womit auch die Etablierung der Normenforschung innerhalb der Internationalen Beziehungen korrespondiert.

International nimmt die politische Bedeutung von Normen in Rhetorik und Praxis stetig zu, womit auch die Etablierung der Normenforschung innerhalb der Internationalen Beziehungen korrespondiert.

China and the Global South in a Contested World Order is a timely and thought-provoking exploration of China’s growing influence across the Global South.

China and the Global South in a Contested World Order is a timely and thought-provoking exploration of China’s growing influence across the Global South.

Dieser Band behandelt die vielfaltigen Probleme, die mit dem geopolitischen Konzept der Region Indopazifik verbunden sind.

This book examines African migration through the lens of media, memory, and contested belonging, offering fresh insights into displacement, identity, misinformation, and digital storytelling.

This book offers an in-depth investigation into the dynamic relationship that exists between geoeconomics and geopolitics in the context of contemporary economic corridors.

This book offers an in-depth investigation into the dynamic relationship that exists between geoeconomics and geopolitics in the context of contemporary economic corridors.

This book examines Africa-China interactions, which over the last two decades have deepened across a range of areas notably politics, economics, trade, diplomacy, culture, construction, security, and ICT.