Globalization

The G7, a self-selected club of like-minded industrialized countries, looks at first glance ill-suited to address current anti-globalist concerns.

The G7, a self-selected club of like-minded industrialized countries, looks at first glance ill-suited to address current anti-globalist concerns.

Nie zuvor hat ein Buch die heißesten Eisen der Geschichte und Gegenwart so schonungslos angefasst.

Beneath the millennial shine of political optimism and technological advance lurk a set of deep uncertainties: global inequality is growing; weapons of mass destruction are spreading; strident assertions of identity divide peoples and states; overall, there is a marked lack of effective co-ordination and reduced confidence in the power of people, ideas and democratic processes to achieve change.

This work takes a critical view of the debate on globalization and assesses revamped versions of structuralist thought, which underpin much of the globalization discourse.

The Coming of Globalization provides the basic context for understanding what globalization means for human society in the contemporary world.

Drawing on original research from social scientists working on twelve countries this book explores the key issues faced by nations and citizens as they struggle to rediscover, reaffirm or reconstruct their sense of national identities in the face of globalizing forces.

This volume discusses the effects of globalization on changing power relationships between transnational corporations (TNCs), and transnational capital, the state, and subnational groups.

Is there a link between the collapse of the Soviet Union, the radical reforms in China and Vietnam, and the current crisis in East Asia?

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it appeared that the only option for developing countries was integration into the world economy.

The main theme is how local economic cultures and economic networks in the South and in Eastern Europe are put under strain by global deregulation and how traditional and not so traditional but locally rooted structures of economic life adjust to deregulation or fail to do so.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, international corporations and governments have embraced the idea of a global village: a shrinking, booming world in which everyone benefits.

Lewellen gives us the first analytic overview of an important new subject area in a field that has long been identified with the study of relatively bounded communities.

Biosecurity practices can help prevent the introduction and spread of disease, promoting better animal health and welfare, human health, food safety, and the economic benefits of livestock production.

A collection comprising a wide variety of accounts of native peoples describing their initial encounters with European explorers, conquerors, and settlers.

This book explores modern Islamic terrorism in the context of globalization and cultural evolution.

The contemporary era of globalization demonstrates that the local and global aspects of business and government are increasingly intertwined.

Over the past decade, a virtual cottage industry has arisen to produce books and articles describing the nature, origins, and impact of globalization.

This volume takes an enlightened step back from the ongoing discussion of globalization.

Investigates the impact that certain globalizing practices have on European and American universities.

This multidisciplinary volume dicusses the impact of tourism on sustainable development in the Caribbean, the Pacific, and the Mediterranean.

A role model for late industrializing countries, Taiwan provides unique and interesting development lessons for third world countries.

Professor Fischer presents a comprehensive overview of global trade at the start of a new century, from a national, regional, and international viewpoint.

The global economy is undergoing dramatic financial changes.

The book examines, compares, and contrasts the African American and Oromo movements by locating them in the global context, and by showing how life chances changed for the two peoples and their descendants as the modern world system became more complex and developed.

Living Histories is a collection of new scholarship that explores histories of art education through a series of international contexts.

When Sultan bin Salman left Earth on the shuttle Discovery in 1985, he became the first Arab, first Muslim and first member of a royal family in space.

At the opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics, a global audience of nearly one billion viewers were treated to the unprecedented sight of James Bond meeting Queen Elizabeth II.

When Sultan bin Salman left Earth on the shuttle Discovery in 1985, he became the first Arab, first Muslim and first member of a royal family in space.

Development studies is in a state of flux.

Development studies is in a state of flux.

The Risks and Rewards for the West in the Coming Multipolar World"e;A marked shift has occurred in the tone and assumptions surrounding our national fortune.

The book that takes a comprehensive look at the threat to our food supply from genetic engineering.

The Twenty-First Century is witnessing an epic struggle between the forces of global governance and American constitutional democracy.

A seasoned journalist probes one of the right-wing's favorite targets, Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist George Soros, to explore the genesis of his influence and the truth of the conspiracies that surround him.

WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2023Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political WritingShortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical PublishingLonglisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural UnderstandingA Guardian Book of the Year'Brilliantly arranged and rich with fresh insights' Akala'A radical, beautifully written understanding of our history' Owen Jones'You can't understand how Britain works today without reading it' Frankie Boyle'A challenge to a nation living in the shadow of empire: reckon with your imperial past, or it will come back to bite you' Grace Blakeley'This book should be part of the national curriculum' Ellie Mae O'HaganBritain didn't just put the empire back the way it had found it.

Should we stop caring about fading regional powers like China, Russia, Germany, and Iran?

The Risks and Rewards for the West in the Coming Multipolar World"e;A marked shift has occurred in the tone and assumptions surrounding our national fortune.

Survival of the Richest is a fantastically well-researched book, and should join Robert Reich and Barbara Ehrenreich on the must-read bookshelf on wealth disparity.

Beyond Safety argues that concerns about the ethical impossibility of individual safety in the face of risks with increasingly obvious global consequences alters representations of neoliberal contemporary life.

This book presents solutions to problems that are total and based on thinking about how and why humans have organized themselves.

This book, written by a political scientist born in the global North but now based in one of the departments of his discipline in the Republic of South Africa, is an attempt to focus on the global geography of political science and its global reach.

The definitive text on globalization, this book provides an accessible, jargon-free analysis of how the world economy works and its effects on people and places.

This book introduces into the current global ethics debate models of humanism developed in classical Chinese traditions, which have not yet been comprehensively presented to Western scholarship or integrated into the framework of global discourses on social ethics and morality.

If Downton Abbey still colours your impression of what Britain was like on the cusp of the First World War, 1913 could be a useful corrective Scotsman2018 marks the centenary of the end of the Great War.

Globalisation has created a whole new working class - and they are reliving stories that were first played out a century ago.

Globalisation was the buzzword of the 1990s; it promises to become even more important in the first decade of the new century.

Since the financial crisis of 2008, many of us have had to reexamine our beliefs about markets and globalization.

An honest discussion of free trade and how nations can sensibly chart a path forward in today's global economyNot so long ago the nation-state seemed to be on its deathbed, condemned to irrelevance by the forces of globalization and technology.

Why Europe is on the decline-and what can be done about itHas Europe's extraordinary postwar recovery limped to an end?