Globalization

Myconos explores the ways in which organized labour has globalized since 1945.

This book presents a new and practical segmentation approach to be used in global customer management in the form of a scale by which to measure the level of corporate globalization.

Amarjit Kaur examines wage labour's role in economic growth and change in Southeast Asia since 1840.

This volume is concerned with the complexities of the relationship between globalization and different groups of consumers in developing countries.

This book examines the development of social democratic parties in Western Europe and suggests that instead of viewing a single model, in the past it was more accurate to consider a Northern and Southern European version.

Christian Berndt investigates how selected corporate actors in German small and medium-sized enterprises and in large companies respond to globalisation and the apparent crisis of the German model.

How has globalization impacted on development?

The impact of globalization on the world's developing economies is not conclusive: studies show conflicting conclusions to the same problems in the context of globalization in developing countries.

Looking at anti-apartheid as part of the history of present global politics, this book provides the first comparative analysis of different sections of the transnational anti-apartheid movement.

O'Manique critically examines the evolution of the policy response to AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa through a feminist political economy lens, focusing on the relationship between neo-liberalism, the spread of AIDS and the hegemonic policy response.

This book focuses on American society as a transglobal nation and examines the temporal dimension of diasporic incorporation in New York City.

This book takes a fascinating look at the role of the Arab-Islamic world in the rise of the West.

Using the cases of Northern Cyprus and Transdniestria, the author examines state-building as practiced by informal states.

The idea of "e;Utopia"e; has made a comeback in the age of globalization, and the bewildering technological shifts and economic uncertainties of the present era call for novel forms of utopia.

This book consists of a collection of essays that deal with glocalization in Europe, including the idea of Europeanization as glocalization.

This book contributes to recent debates in transnationalism, mobilities and migration studies by offering the first in-depth sociological examination of the global phenomenon of action sports and the transnational networks and connections being established within and across local contexts around the world.

Providing critical assessment of the 'globalization thesis' through sustained analysis of the nexus of processes underlying social and cultural relations, this book examines, explores, and teases out the many contradictions embedded within different discourses of globalization.

Jeffrey James develops the insights of the often separate literatures on globalization and information technology and demonstrates their interdependence.

Millions of people around the Asia-Pacific region are suffering from the twin effects of globalization and exclusionary nationality laws.

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Butler sheds light on how American political leaders sell the decision to intervene with military force to the public and how a just war frame is employed in US foreign policy.

To avoid uncontrolled climate change, greenhouse gas emissions will have to be brought under control by major emitters outside the affluent West.

After the introduction of a new economic policy of 1991, India is increasingly portrayed as a big emerging market for consumer goods and for broadcasting and communications services.

Globalization poses a formidable dilemma for the third-world state.

This book attempts to explore the impact of globalization and Europeanization on the development of Scandinavian social democracy.

The process of globalization has had a dramatic impact on the lives of women in developing countries in the past decade.

This volume is about development policy since the end of the Cold War.

Does the EU matter in international security?

It is common to hear that we live in unique, turbulent and crisis-ridden times and this turbulence, transformation and crisis are said to be deeply significant - perhaps threatening - for the human sciences.

Combining studies of demography, climate change, technology and innovation, political development, new actors in international development, and global governance frameworks, this book highlights the major underlying determinants of change in the African context and key uncertainties about the continent's future development prospects.

This book describes and compares how semi-autonomous agencies are created and governed by 30 governments.

This pioneering volume invites scholars from different social science disciplines to contribute their competing perspectives to a far-ranging albeit understudied dimension of globalization.

Adopting a people-centred perspective to globalization, the authors explore complex, counterintuitive and even unintended forms and consequences of bottom-up politics, going beyond simplistic understandings of ordinary people as either victims or beneficiaries of globalization.

This book examines key emergent trends related to aspects of power, sovereignty, conflict, peace, development, and changing social dynamics in the African context.

An engaging assessment of the theoretical debates on the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP).

In order to help the understanding of international campaigning activities of Non-Governmental Organisations, Tepe analyses the domestic politics of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and provides a theoretical framework through which to access these.

Having destabilized dominant assumptions about the nature of religion, there is now a need to develop new ways of thinking about this ever-present phenomenon in global politics.

Using examples of refugee arts and theatrical activity since the 1990s, this book examines how the 'refugee crisis' has conditioned all arts and cultural activity with refugees in a world where globalization and migration go hand in hand.

This book evaluates the extent to which post-conflict reconstruction has addressed problems of horizontal inequalities through country case studies on Burundi, Rwanda, Nepal, Peru, Guatemala, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Afghanistan, and four thematic studies on macro-economic policies, privatisation, PRSP's, and employment generation.

This is a study of great power relations - China, India, and Russia - among themselves and with the hegemon - United States.

In this book, Xiaoke Zhang addresses two fundamental political and policy questions: why do politicians have heterogeneous incentives to pursue public-regarding policies through capital market reforms and why do they differ in their abilities to initiate and implement market reform policies decisively and resolutely?

Clear, concise and easy to read, thisbook explores key debates around global studies today.

Building on the work of philosopher John Dewey, Bray develops an approach to transnational democracy called 'pragmatic cosmopolitanism'.

Presenting International Studies as a wide, plural and inherently interdisciplinary field of research, this book shows its links with philosophy, peace research, history, geography, globalization studies, international political economy, political psychology, sociology and social theory, linguistics, strategic or war studies and anthropology.

Viewing the rise of China from Japan's perspective, the author elucidates Japanese policy responses and their implications for regional institution building.

Calls into question the very universal, unquestioned assumptions about globalization, development, and environmental change that undergird much of development and economic policy.

Wittig presents the first unified coherent framework for the systematic analysis of terrorist finance.

This book critically analyses the ways in which Africa has shifted from the periphery of global trade, international relations and politics to the centre of the world stage because of its existing and potential economic prowess and purchasing power that the continent has to offer.

This book explores the impact of the rise of China on South East Asia, addressing the consequences for some of Asia's key economic sectors, including educational services, bio-technology, financial services, and the food industry, among others.

This book brings together for the first time a large collection of essays (including three new ones) of a leading writer on diplomacy.