Globalization

This highly-acclaimed, bestselling textbook, quickly established itself as one of the leading texts on the subject worldwide in its 1st edition.

This book offers a comprehensive and insightful reflection on David Ricardo's ingenious theory of international trade.

Writing from the front lines, Starhawk chronicles the global justice movement sparked by Seattle's 1999 anti-World Trade Organization protest.

In August 1999 a forty-six-year-old sheep farmer name Jos Bov was arrested for dismantling the construction site of a new McDonald's restaurant in the south of France.

More than 15 years have passed since the end of the Cold War, but uncertainty persists in the political-economic shaping of the world economy and state system.

This book introduces readers to global brain singularity through a logical meditation on the temporal dynamics of the universal process.

The third edition of this popular core textbook provides wide-ranging coverage of the structure, internal working, policies and performance of international organizations such as the UN, EU, IMF and World Bank.

Offering an accessible introduction to both the historical roots and the contemporary dynamics of today's world economy, this seventh edition equips students with the knowledge required to make sense of the fast-paced discipline of the global political economy.

Uses the framework of ''market in state'', to argue that the Chinese economy is state-centered, dominated by political principles over economic principles.

This book explores the role of capital and labor migration in the expansion of the capitalist world-system.

This volume assesses China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as it approaches its tenth year in operation.

This book breaks new ground, taking business history where it has only reluctantly gone in the past.

This book focuses on the Mediterranean/MENA migration crisis and explores the human security implications for migrants and refugees in this troubled region.

Explores how British and Japanese firms have responded to globalization from a long-term perspective.

In recent years the Russian government, concerned about sustaining its economic performance, has sought to promote more diversified and broader economic growth beyond the profitable natural-resource sector.

This book asks if it is time to "e;reboot"e; the fundamental institutions of global international society.

While there are signs of recovery from recent economic collapses, relatively few protective measures are in place in the United States to prevent future crises and widespread destruction of livelihoods around the globe.

Globalization is undoubtedly the great overarching paradigm of our era.

From the streets of Seattle to corporate boardrooms to new factories in third-world nations, globalization is subject to very different and often explosively divergent interpretations.

Although Al Jazeera English has yet to receive to receive the attention accorded to its Arabic-language elder sibling, it is in many ways the more interesting of the two.

Advocates of higher education have long contended that universities should operate above the crude material negotiations of economics and politics.

This book provides a rich analysis of the actors and organizations to reflect on the antecedents and trajectories of terrorism and insurgency in South Asia, and the different countermeasures adopted by the countries to deal with the security and developmental challenges.

This edited volume focuses on the South Atlantic regional and national issues with maritime implications: naval policy, security, transnational organized crime, and Europe's legacy and current influence.

The dawn of the twenty-first century has been accompanied by an upsurge of anti-capitalist campaigning, challenging the very basis of the New World Economic order.

Co-Winner of the Senior Book Prize, American Ethnological SocietyWhat the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick.

Challenging the main ways we debate globalization, Global Displacements reveals how uneven geographies of capitalist development shape and are shaped by the aspirations and everyday struggles of people in the global South.

Globalization has been traditionally interpreted as a phenomenon that takes place at the macro level and is determined by states and markets.

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Contemporary global politics poses urgent challenges - from humanitarian, migratory and environmental problems to economic, religious and military conflicts - that strain not only existing political systems and resources, but also the frameworks and concepts of political thinking.

Megacities of over 10 million inhabitants are unique entities in their own right, both challenging and supporting the policies, governance and cohesion of states.

Though industrialized countries are usually the ones indicted when environmental pollution is discussed, over the few last years the rate of emissions in developing countries has increased by a startling amount.

The rise of China is the most significant development in world affairs in this generation.

This volume explores the work of Robert W.

Peter Beyer has been a central figure in the debate about religion and globalization for many years, this volume is a collection of essays on the relation between religion and globalization with special emphasis on the concept of religion, its modern forms and on the relation of religion to the state.

This book explores the global development of the production and trade of silk and related industries from a historical perspective.

LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF 2021In this compelling story of lies, greed and tarnished idealism, two Wall Street Journal reporters investigate a man who Bill Gates, Western governments, and other investors entrusted with billions of dollars to make profits and end poverty, but who now stands accused of masterminding one of the biggest, most brazen financial frauds ever.

The history of bourgeois modernity is a history of the Enemy.

Globalization defines our era.

Originally published in 1994, this volume analyses the relationship between political parties and trade unions in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria.

Neoliberalism is fast becoming the dominant ideology of our age, yet politicians, businessmen and academics rarely identify themselves with it and even political forces critical of it continue to carry out neoliberal policies around the globe.

Financialization has become the go-to term for scholars grappling with the growth of finance.

The book breaks new ground in understanding the role of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Africa.

Understanding China's world role has become one of the crucial intellectual challenges of the 21st Century.

In TheDiaspora Strikes Back the eminent ethnic and cultural studies scholar Juan Flores flips the process on its head: what happens to the home country when it is being constantly fed by emigrants returning from abroad?

The globalizing influence of professional sportsProfessional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand.

This book discusses current theories and practices in the field of public procurement.