Globalization

The book turns the 'democratic peace' theme on its head: rather than investigating the reasons for the supposed pacifism of democracies, it looks for the causes of their militancy.

The children and grandchildren of South Asian migrants to the UK are living out British identities which go largely unrecognized.

Temptations of Power examines the new security dilemma which confronted George W.

Maswood examines the trade and regulatory structures that inhibit the capacity of developing countries to improve their economic conditions.

Minns argues that the industrial transformations of Mexico, South Korea and Taiwan were based on the existence of powerful developmentalist states in each.

This book examines the various channels and transmission mechanisms, such as greater openness to trade and foreign investment, economic growth, effects on income distribution, technology transfer and labour migration through which the process of globalization affects different dimensions of poverty in the developing world.

This study offers a comparative analysis of Latin American and Middle Eastern corporatism by looking at Egypt and Mexico's differing experiences with privatization and showing that how the working class was attached to the regime during the period of state-building shapes leaders institutional options and capabilities for market reform.

In this edited volume, distinguished scholars and policy analysts explore how China's rise has brought great opportunities for cooperation as well as great challenges for geo-political competition between the United States and China.

Benefiting from a truly Pan-American perspective, these essays evaluate the economics and politics of the new patterns of North-South integration in the particular context of the Americas, questioning if regional and bilateral trade agreements like NAFTA, CAFTA or the FTAA are appropriate mechanisms to promote economic development.

This volume develops a set of provocative themes: globalization is not new; it is neither legally inevitable nor irreversible; and international legal systems and institutions can assert only a special and limited influence on globalizing developments.

The Spaces of Latin American Literature: Tradition, Globalization, and Cultural Production examines how Latin American writers, artists, and intellectuals have negotiated their relationship with Western culture from the colony to the present.

This book offers a unique perspective on current changes.

This book pursues an original perspective on Europe's shifting extent and geopolitical standing: how countries and spaces marginal to it impact on Europe as a center.

Why did the world's strongest power intervene militarily in the tiny Commonwealth Caribbean island of Grenada in October 1983?

This collection of essays comprises a number of case studies from key wine-growing regions and countries around the world.

What is the appropriate criterion to use for distributive justice?

The essays in this collection work toward a larger goal of separating 'globalization' from strictly economic considerations.

In this edited volume, leading scholars from US and China analyze the challenges and opportunities for China in the 21st century, each emphasizing particular dimensions of politics, economics, political culture, and foreign policy.

Through detailed studies, this collection of writings by academics and activists explores the emergence of contemporary lesbian and butch/femme relationships and communities throughout Asia and their location within the context of nationalist struggles, religious fundamentalism, state gender regimes and global queer movements.

This balanced and innovative collection uses different methodologies to approach the common theme of a region transformed in recent years by neoliberalism.

This controversial book rejects the view that the growth of Irish nationalism, Afrikaner nationalism and Zionism was due primarily to issues of race, religion or language.

This book focuses on the adoption of new technologies led by information and communication technologies by SMEs in developing countries.

Cross-border regions are newly emerging social spaces stretching across national borders.

Asia is widely regarded as having benefited most from the dynamic growth effect of the recent wave of globalization.

This book re-evaluates the importance of social policies in shaping well-being and combating exclusion, and enhances understanding of how these policies are formed in a globalizing world.

The balance of power is one of the most influential ideas in international relations, yet it has never been comprehensively examined in pre-modern or non-European contexts.

The momentum of economic progress in India and China will bring about the next major shift in geopolitics.

This collection examines the transformation of the modern Western state in an age of accelerated globalization.

By revisiting globalization using an analysis of metaphors, such as 'global village' and 'network society', this volume sheds new light on overlooked dimensions of global politics, redresses outdated conceptualizations, and provides a critical analysis of existing approaches to the study of globalization.

This book explores what the privatization of global rule-making means for democracy.

The book provides new insight into the role of organised business interests.

We still lack practical answers to one of the most basic questions in empirical research: How should researchers interpret meanings?

Thanks to new transparency rules and increased efforts by scholars, researchers are better equipped than ever before to analyze the decision-making processes of the Council of the European Union and to test old wisdoms.

HIV/AIDS is the major political challenge of our time.

In order to regain its competitiveness, Japan is restructuring and globalizing its business and economics system, as well as other aspects of society.

In recent years women's movements and democracy movements appear to have been more successful in promoting social equality than labour movements or development movements.

This book brings together the work of international economist, labour economists and sociologists in a far-reaching study of global production networks and the challenges they pose for developing country workers.

This book examines the international factors such as enforced democracy and globalization that have affected the Great Lakes region of Africa.

This text considers different economic models available in the global market.

This volume offers a timely and important study on how norms are transferred from the international into the domestic domain through processes of socialization.

The automobile sector is one of the most archetypal global industries and is seen by many as one of the main drivers behind the homogenisation of world markets due to firms' internationalization strategies and the social practices that firms impose.

This book explores how a wide range of countries attempt to cope with the challenges of globalization.

With contributions from leading thinkers such as J.

Globalization, within academic, political and business circles alike, conjures an ever growing diversity of associations, connotations and attendant mythologies.

An inspiring collection that uses case studies and theoretical reflection to contextualise the linkages between collective action theories, social movement practices and the phenomenon of globalisation.

Value and the World Economy Today brings together a diverse group of globally renowned scholars of international political economy and critical economics to examine the relevance of value theory for understanding the world economy today.

The Globalization of Liberalism demonstrates that liberalism is more deeply embedded in the structure of modern international political and economic order than is usually realised, and that at present there is a contested process of the 'globalization of liberalism'.

The paradox of 'globalization' is that it both weakens and activates social forces of resistance.

The Asian crisis triggered ongoing controversy over the IMF's role in a 'new international financial architecture'.

Globalization and National Economic Welfare makes an original, powerful and timely contribution to a highly topical issue that affects all countries by showing why globalization is unsustainable in the long term without fundamental changes in existing attitudes and institutions.