Globalization

This book explores Chinese investments in, and cooperation with Pakistan under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

This book aims to provide an accessible introduction to the study of organised crime - about those who commit it, the effect it has on individuals, businesses and states, and the ways in which states and the international community have sought to contain it.

Explains how environmentalism became a fundamental norm in international relations and explores the impact of the greening of international society.

Migration and its associated social practices and consequences have been studied within a multitude of academic disciplines and in the context of policies at local, national and regional level.

A partir de un abordaje plural a los temas del sujeto, la modernidad y la decolonización, este volumen ofrece una imprescindible reflexión sobre aspectos pujantes de nuestro tiempo: ¿cómo redefinir la noción de sujeto de cara a los procesos de globalización, que incluyen dinámicas migratorias, flujos fantasmáticos de capitales reales y simbólicos y proliferación de mundos virtuales?

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.

This book focuses on the current tension between China and the US on trade imbalance and discusses China's opening-up strategy in the context of this trade conflict.

The profound changes to the world economy since the late twentieth century have been characterised by a growth in the number and size of transnational corporations.

Geofusion is an exciting journey around the main issues of the 21st century.

The purpose of this book is to draw up a picture of the transformations in the innovation systems induced by globalization - or globalization.

Globalization is moving fast, impacting on the life of all nations with accelerating force.

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

This book focuses on current trends in development, arguing that the digital revolution will shape today's race for global supremacy.

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Sitting next to the Great Barrier Reef, marinated in coal and gas, the industrial boomtown of Gladstone, Australia embodies many of the contradictions of the 'overheated' world: prosperous yet polluted; growing and developing yet always on the precipice of uncertainty.

Using the United Nations' 2030 Sustainable Development Goals as a reference framework, Identity, Territories, and Sustainability explores the interplay between territorial and collective identities, territorial policies, and their implications for environmental, economic, and social sustainability.

This edited volume brings together the work of scholars from different disciplines including sociology, political science and anthropology, and analyses how global institutions are embedded in local contexts within development aid.

Transnational Cooperation: An Issue-Based Approach presents an analysis of transnational cooperation or collective action that stresses basic concepts and intuition.

Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia presents a detailed examination of the underlying issues of urban life in the Far East.

In the 1980s, Britain actively engaged with China in order to promote globalisation and manage Hong Kong's decolonisation.

This book explores opportunities for diversifying modern Kazakhstan's economy, which is still heavily dependent on its natural resources, as well as looking at economic opportunities for the whole Central Asian region arising from the Chinese government's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

The book presents a world-system study based in neomedieval thinking.

How to survive and thrive in the post-industrial ageIn response to the coming impact of peak oil, John Michael Greer helps us envision the transition from an industrial society to a sustainable ecotechnic world-not returning to the past, but creating a society that supports relatively advanced technology on a sustainable resource base.

This book focuses on global activism and uses a power perspective to provide an in-depth and coherent analysis of both the possibilities and limitations of global activism.

United States-Latin American Relations, 1850-1903 is a collection of essays that provide an in-depth analysis of the developing relationship between the Americas during the critical period from the Mexican War to the Panama Canal treaty of 1903.

Globalization has brought different civilizations and peoples into new and closer contact.

This book is concerned with the varying responses of South American countries to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

Explores the global duties attached to human rights, including the necessity to promote political integration between states.

This sweeping history examines two centuries of global trade and warfare, shedding new light on the relationship between economics and conflict.

Immigration divides our globalizing world like no other issue.

This book examines the institutions that are producing consumer law at the international level, the substantive issues enshrined in these laws, and the enforcement mechanisms meant to ensure effective protection.

This edited volume analyzes how migration, the conformation of urban areas, and globalization impact Latin American geopolitics.

In this fully revised fourth edition, this book treats globalization from several vantage points, showing how these help grasp the nature of globalization both in the past and today.

At a time increasingly dominated by globalization, migration, and the clash between supranational and ultranational ideologies, the relationship between language and borders has become more complicated and, in many ways, more consequential than ever.

The last four years have seen significant damage in US-China relations that will take years to rebuild.

This book offers a tool in international relations conducted separately from the activities of ambassadors and other diplomats at the highest level of diplomacy at embassies in capital cities.

This collection interrogates the multifaceted ways in which global transformations are constituted by deeply gendered socio-economic practices at the level of the 'everyday'.

The Memory of Trade is an ethnographic study of the people of Aru, an archipelago in eastern Indonesia.

An increasing number of rural and urban-based movements are realizing some political traction in their demands for democratization of food systems through food sovereignty.

This collection sets a new agenda for conducting research on the EU and learns from past mistakes.

Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence: Beyond Savage Globalization?

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

Connecting Practices develops a distinctive method of conceptualising significant trends and global issues including environmental sustainability and inequalities in wealth and health, arguing that these are outcomes of the ways in which social practices interact and combine across space and time.

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

This book offers a systematic and comprehensive introduction to the Arctic in the era of globalization, or as it is referred to here, the 'GlobalArctic'.