Globalization

An essential collection at the intersection of globalization, production supply chains, corporate finance regulation, and economic measurement. The substantial increase in the complexity of global supply chains and other production arrangements over the...

Globalised Minds, Roots in the City utilises empirical evidence from four European cities to explore the role of urban upper middle classes in the transformations experienced by contemporary European societies. Presents new empirical evidence collected...

With the collapse of traditional parties around the world and with many pundits predicting a "crisis of democracy", the value of elections as a method for selecting by whom and how we are governed is being questioned. What are the virtues and...

In Global Environmental Challenges, a collection of experts examines globalization's multiple effects on the environments of countries in the Global South, and how they are addressed both domestically and internationally. As the process of globalization...

The coronavirus pandemic that broke out in 2019 has finally calmed down in China, after the bungling occasioned by the iron hand of lockdown. But beginning in March 2020, the disaster spread abroad, and at present there is no end in sight. In this work,...

Between 2000 and 2016, China and the UK acquired large areas of land through investment projects in sub-Saharan Africa. Illustrated by numerous rich and nuanced empirical accounts of such projects, Ariane Goetz explains the global phenomenon of land...

"Global" is everywhere -- recent years have seen a significant proliferation of the adjective "global" across discourses. But what do social actors actually do when using this term? Written from within the political studies and...

Transparency in Global Change examines the quest for information exchange in an increasingly international, open society. Recent transformations in governments and cultures have brought about a surge in the pursuit of knowledge in areas of law, trade,...

Global media and advances in technology have profoundly affected the way people experience events. The essays in this volume explore the dimensions of contemporary spectacles from the Arab Spring to spectatorship in Hollywood. Questioning the effects...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590566954Author Omowale AdewaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,US

This book argues that environmental problems are, first and foremost, political and, therefore, about power. Using a framework of political economy and political ecology, the authors deconstruct current environmental problems to identify root causes and...

National governments are proving ill-equipped to manage an increasingly complicated portfolio of global problems. In The Coming Democracy, political analyst Ann Florini sets forth a compelling new paradigm for transnational governance. It is based on the...

Does globalization menace our cities? Are cities able to exercise democratic rule and strategic choice when international competition increasingly limits the importance of place? Cities in the International Marketplace looks at the political responses of...

"This volume illuminates how families and the communities in which they are enmeshed negotiate everyday lives with the social, cultural, economic, and political resources available to them. It provides an excellent example of how anthropology matters to...

Reflecting on the processes of nation-building and citizenship formation in Africa, Edmond J. Keller believes that although some deep parochial identities have eroded, they have not disappeared and may be more assertive than previously thought,...

This highly original work posits that the changes in the nature of citizenship caused by neoliberal globalization must be understood as the result of an ongoing imperial project. Although they may seem admirable, policies such as humanitarian and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815702962Author Lael BrainardFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789355203915Author Madhav Das NalapatFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815738718Author Ralph C BryantFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Brookings Institution PressPublisher Brookings Institution PressWeight(grams) 140g

The Transnational Capitalist Class provides theoretically informed empirical research to explain the process of globalization from the viewpoint of the corporations themselves. Through personal interviews with executives and managers from over eighty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881322415Author Dani RodrikFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The Peterson Institute for International EconomicsPublisher The Peterson Institute for...

ColdFusion's New Thinking About the Future of Technology and Science"Dagogo has the uncanny ability to take fascinating topics and somehow make them even more interesting." -Adam Sinicki, author and founder of The Bioneer#1 Best Seller in Cold Fusion...

War-torn deserts, jihadist killings, trucks weighted down with contraband and migrants-from the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands to the Sahara, images of danger depict a new world disorder on the global margins. With vivid detail, Ruben Andersson traverses...

With more than 500,000 people killed and at least half the population displaced, Syria's conflict is the most deadly of the twenty-first century. Russia's decision to join the war has broken the long military and political stalemate but it looks unlikely...

This book offers an important chronological perspective on the evolution of multilateralism within Europe and beyond.It provides a critical reconstruction of the history of the idea and praxis of peaceful global governance, a comparative analysis of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781462519552Author Peter DickenFormat PaperbackPage Count 619Imprint Guilford PressPublisher Guilford Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609809799Author Russell JacobyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644210765Author Russell JacobyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Seven Stories PressPublisher Seven Stories PressWeight(grams) 140g

No nonsense solutions from the straight-talking face of British business. IF FUNDAMENTAL REFORM DOES NOT TAKE PLACE THEN WE ARE DEAD IN THE WATER. GLOBALISATION DOES NOT TAKE PRISONERS. BRITAIN MUST BECOME FIT FOR PURPOSE IN THE 21ST CENTURY. This is...

No nonsense solutions from the straight-talking face of British business. IF FUNDAMENTAL REFORM DOES NOT TAKE PLACE THEN WE ARE DEAD IN THE WATER. GLOBALISATION DOES NOT TAKE PRISONERS. BRITAIN MUST BECOME FIT FOR PURPOSE IN THE 21ST CENTURY. This is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978813826Author Pepe EscobarFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Nimble PluribusPublisher Nimble PluribusWeight(grams) 587g

Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class. Meanwhile, the professional elite--journalists, managers, and establishment politicians--is on the outside looking in, and left to argue over the reasons why. In...

The Butterfly Defect addresses the widening gap between the new systemic risks generated by globalization and their effective management. It shows how the dynamics of turbo-charged globalization has the potential and power to destabilize our societies...

In today s uncertain world, the concept of global governance has never been more relevant or widely discussed. But what does this elusive idea really mean, and why has it become so important? This pacey introduction sheds new light on the issues...

At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators thought that neoliberalism itself was in its death throes. And yet it seems that-post-apocalypse-we've awoken into a second nightmare more ghastly than...

The Globalization of International Society re-examines the development of today's society of sovereign states, drawing on a wealth of new scholarship to challenge the landmark account presented in Bull and Watson's classic work, The Expansion of...

Rethinking Global Governance casts fresh eyes upon a once poignant but now languishing concept. Its purpose is to disrupt the simple association between global governance and the actions and activities of international organizations in the post-Cold War...

This provocative and important text offers a new way of thinking about sovereignty, both past and present. Distinguished geographer John Agnew boldly challenges the widely popular story that state sovereignty is in worldwide eclipse in the face of the...

Many of the richest energy-producing regions of the world are wrought with conflict and billions of the world's poorest suffer the daily insecurity of energy poverty. All the while our planet is increasingly under pressure because of our continued...

A Financial Times Book of the YearA Fortune Book of the Year"This book compels us to change our position, move out of our comfort zone, and see the world differently."-Branko Milanovic, author of Capitalism, Alone"A very smart book...not just about...