Globalization

This book offers a materialist critique of mainstream human rights discourse in the period following 9/11, examining literary works, critical histories, international declarations, government statutes, NGO manifestos, and a documentary film.

This volume brings together contextually sensitive, cross-cultural, and comparative research that analyzes the ways in which cause lawyering is influencing, and being influenced by, the disaggregation of state power associated with democratization and globalization.

This comprehensive volume reviews recent scholarship regarding the role of the state in economic development.

The election of Michelle Bachelet, the first female president of Chile, brought to the public sphere topics such as gender, inequality, and the legacy of seventeen years of military rule.

In this book, Justin Jennings argues that the globalization of today is just the latest in a series of globalizing movements in human history.

'Globalization' is one of the key concepts of our time.

The Performance of the EU in International Institutions marks one of the first attempts to systematically analyse the subject.

The term globalization has gained widespread popularity; yet most treatments are either descriptive and/or focused on changes in economic interconnectivity.

Written by a diverse group of scholars and practitioners from Latin America, the US and Europe and taking into consideration the recent global financial crisis,the book offers a multifaceted insight into the expectations as well as the possible threats related to Latin America's incorporation into the sphere of global interconnectedness.

Sport can be a vehicle for the expression of identity, and also a factor in the shaping of identity.

This book develops a constitutional theory of international organization to explain the legitimation of supranational organizations.

The constraints of geography are shrinking and the world is becoming a single place.

Laguerre proposes a relationship among migrants and their home society that transcends current views in migration studies.

This book seeks to analyse the development of the European Union (EU), which was founded upon the principle of the free movement of capital, goods, services and people in 1957.

Managing the challenges of governance is more than merely managing people and resources; it is about managing the values that intersecting cultures attach to people and resources.

This book analyzes the variety of ways through which Japanese religions (Buddhism, Shinto, and new religious movements) contribute to the dynamics of accelerated globalization in recent decades.

Drawing on a postcolonial legal history of the United States' territorial expansionism, this book provides an analysis of the foundations of its global empire.

Globalization is all around us.

This book explores the connection between politics and mega-events in post-handover Hong Kong and Macao.

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.

This book brings together contributors across the disciplines to examine the local, national, regional and global processes that have shaped Maghribi societies, economies and politics since the colonial period.

The 49th parallel has long held a symbolic importance to Canadian cultural nationalists as a strong, though permeable, border.

This book provides a picture of a globalized Malaysia where its conventionally-conceived multi-ethnic composition of Malays, Chinese, Indians and Others rub shoulders with or interact more intimately on a daily basis with transnational ethnoscapes of migrant workers, asylum seekers, international students, and foreign spouses.

Neoliberal capitalism positions us all as consumers in a hypermarket where money talks.

This book links theoretical discussions about globalization and the distribution of wealth with a rich empirical analysis of Latin America.

Global competition now shapes economies and societies in ways unimaginable only a few years ago, and competition (or 'antitrust') law is a key component of the legal framework for global competition.

This concise text presents a focused, well-rounded, and clear-eyed introduction to the concept of human security.

This edited volume compares seven countries in North America and Europe on the highly topical issue of oil and gas development that uses hydraulic fracturing or "e;fracking.

The Middle East in the World offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to the broader Middle East.

International Remittance Payments are described mainly as money sent by immigrants to their families and friends in their home countries.

The Oxford Handbook of Global Studies provides an overview of the emerging field of global studies.

Trade connections and cultural exchange between Africa and the rest of the global South have existed for centuries.

Based on a six-year project at INSEAD, top scholars put these developments into perspective.

« Il est dans la nature du “brouillard de la guerre” de se nourrir en permanence des mensonges officiels des belligérants.

The New York Times bestseller, from leading innovation expert Alec Ross, a fascinating vision (Forbes) of whats next for the world and how to navigate the changes the future will bring.

The North Atlantic continues to be an area of international strategic significance regionally and globally.

Desde la caída de los regímenes comunistas, Washington ha expandido su influencia sobre la mayor parte de los antiguos países comunistas – desde el Báltico por Europa Oriental a los Balcanes y más allá al Asia Central y Meridional, mediante guerras, invasiones y operaciones encubiertas.

This undergraduate textbook captures the dynamic nature of business ethics in the era of globalization.

The hospitality sector is facing increasing competition and complexity over recent decades in its development towards a global industry.

Academics' International Teaching Journeys provides personal narratives of nine international social science academics in foreign countries as they adapt and develop their teaching.

This book brings together contributors across the disciplines to examine the local, national, regional and global processes that have shaped Maghribi societies, economies and politics since the colonial period.

This book advances and broadens the scope of research on conceptual metaphor at the nexus of language and culture by exploring metaphor and figurative language as a characteristic of the many Englishes that have developed in a wide range of geographic, socio-historical and cultural settings around the world.

This book investigates the political implications of country promotion through practices of 'nation-branding' by drawing on contemporary examples from the sports, urban development and higher education sector in Kazakhstan and Qatar.

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This book explores the limits of NGO influence and the conditions that constrain NGOs when they participate in international negotiationsThrough an empirically rich study of the UN World Summits on the Information Society (WSIS) this book conceptualizes structural power mechanisms that shape global ICT governance and analyses the impact of NGOs on communication rights, intellectual property rights, financing, and Internet governance.

This book argues that Canada and its international policies are at a crossroads as US hegemony is increasingly challenged and a new international order is emerging.