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The Tropical Silk Road: The Future of China in South America by Paul Amar 9781503633803
RRP: £24.99£21.67This book captures an epochal juncture of two of the world's most transformative processes: the People's Republic of China's rapidly expanding sphere of influence across the global south and the disintegration of the Amazonian, Cerrado, and Andean biomes... -
The Tropical Silk Road: The Future of China in South America by Paul Amar 9781503633193
RRP: £79.00£68.71This book captures an epochal juncture of two of the world's most transformative processes: the People's Republic of China's rapidly expanding sphere of influence across the global south and the disintegration of the Amazonian, Cerrado, and Andean biomes... -
Western Higher Education in Asia and the Middle East: Politics, Economics, and Pedagogy by Kevin Gray 9781498526005
RRP: £95.00£83.12This multidisciplinary volume highlights the transformed nature of the relationship between higher education and society in the 21st century. In particular, it argues that the development of the global university, especially in the non-western world, has... -
Remaindered Life by Neferti X. M. Tadiar 9781478015147
RRP: £99.00£86.14In Remaindered Life Neferti X. M. Tadiar offers a new conceptual vocabulary and framework for rethinking the dynamics of a global capitalism maintained through permanent imperial war. Tracking how contemporary capitalist accumulation depends on producing... -
The Politics and Culture of Globalisation: India and Australia by Hans Löfgren 9781032653051
RRP: £39.99£35.46We experience the culture of globalisation every time we visit a Tandoori restaurant in Chicago, or a Pizza Hut in Hyderabad, or as we watch Bollywood films in Australia. Globalisation is a label used for a wide range of political, social and cultural... -
Questioning Globalized Militarism: Nuclear and Military Production and Critical Economic Theory by Peter Custers 9780850365955
RRP: £25.00£22.43In this wide-ranging study, Peter Custers seeks to highlight the importance of the production and consumption of arms as a form of social waste within the capitalist world order.Book InformationISBN 9780850365955Author Peter CustersFormat PaperbackPage... -
People: From Impoverishment to Empowerment by Uner Kirdar 9780814746707
£90.28People, A Global Agenda discusses the social impact of global transformations. A collaborative effort of more than fifty thinkers from countries throughout the world, the book contains specific proposals intended to address several of the major problems... -
Import Safety: Regulatory Governance in the Global Economy by Cary Coglianese 9780812242225
RRP: £62.00£53.96On World Food Day in October 2008, former president Bill Clinton finally accepted decade-old criticism directed at his administration's pursuit of free-trade deals with little regard for food safety, child labor, or workers' rights. "We all blew it,... -
What Holds Us Together: Social Cohesion in South Africa by David Chidester 9780796920300
RRP: £29.95£13.32In this collection of essays, leading South African intellectuals in government, organised labour, business, and local communities examine social cohesion and globalisation in contemporary South Africa. From fruit pickers to multinational corporations... -
Two Mediterranean Worlds: Diverging Paths of Globalization and Autonomy by William D. Coleman 9780774823197
RRP: £27.99£24.54This book will appeal to students and scholars of globalization,politics, and sociology and to anyone interested in the future ofdemocracy in the Mediterranean and the Near East.Book InformationISBN 9780774823197Author William D. ColemanFormat... -
Property, Territory, Globalization: Struggles over Autonomy by William D. Coleman 9780774820189
RRP: £27.99£24.14This interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to students andscholars in diverse disciplines, including globalization studies,anthropology, political science, native studies, geography, and law.Book InformationISBN 9780774820189Author William D... -
Unsettled Legitimacy: Political Community, Power, and Authority in a Global Era by Steven Bernstein 9780774817189
RRP: £29.99£26.50Globalization has challenged taken-for-granted relationships of rulein local, regional, national, and international settings. Thisunsettling of legitimacy raises questions. Under what conditions doindividuals and communities accept globalized decision... -
Empires and Autonomy: Moments in the History of Globalization by Stephen M. Streeter 9780774815994
RRP: £87.00£75.93Globalization is one of the most significant developments of ourtime. But what distinguishes the present era from the Age of Empirethat spanned the decades leading up to the First World War? Whichelements of contemporary globalization and forms of... -
Global Ordering: Institutions and Autonomy in a Changing World by Louis W. Pauly 9780774814331
RRP: £87.00£75.93Despite myriad global forces influencing the lives of individuals,societies, and polities, people continue to value their personal andcommunal independence. They insist on shaping the conditions of theirexistence to the fullest extent possible. At the... -
From World Order to Global Disorder: States, Markets, and Dissent by Dorval Brunelle 9780774813600
RRP: £87.00£75.53Anti-globalization activism world-wide attests to the tensionsbetween globalization and civil society. To better understand thisfraught relationship, Dorval Brunelle compares two social ordersseparated by a half-century. The post-World War II order... -
Globalization and Emerging Trends in African Foreign Policy by Korwa G. Adar 9780761832874
RRP: £48.00£42.05This essay collection examines the emerging trends in foreign policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation in post Cold War Africa. Editors, Adar and Schraeder, have gathered thirteen essays that analyze existing foreign policy, propose changes to... -
Flip-Flop: A Journey Through Globalisation's Backroads by Caroline Knowles 9780745334127
RRP: £85.00£65.36*Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2015* This book follows the global trail of one of the world's most unremarkable and ubiquitous objects - flip-flops. Through this unique lens, Caroline Knowles takes a ground level... -
Globalization and the Environment by Peter Christoff 9780742556584
RRP: £98.00£85.70This book by two leading scholars offers the first systematic analysis of the relationship between globalization and the environment from the early Modern period to the present. Peter Christoff and Robyn Eckersley develop a broad conceptual framework for... -
Co-Existing in a Globalized World: Key Themes in Inter-Professional Ethics by Hassan Bashir 9780739181201
RRP: £78.00£68.48Co-Existing in a Globalized World: Key Themes in Inter-Professional Ethics brings together, and engages with, the scholarly work accomplished individually under the banner of professional ethics in various fields. The overarching theme of the volume is... -
The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination by Steven Best 9780739136980
RRP: £45.00£39.49The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination is a groundbreaking collection of essays by a diverse set of leading scholars who examine the entangled and evolving global array of corporate-state structures of hegemonic power-what the editors refer... -
Greater China in an Era of Globalization by Sujian Guo 9780739135341
RRP: £98.00£85.70China's growth in the past few decades has been unprecedented, and continues to stay strong as it expands its influence around the globe. However, in many ways, the once insular China is still looking to find its footing as an international player in the... -
All Politics Is Global: Explaining International Regulatory Regimes by Daniel W. Drezner 9780691096421
RRP: £30.00£27.39Has globalization diluted the power of national governments to regulate their own economies? Are international governmental and nongovernmental organizations weakening the hold of nation-states on global regulatory agendas? Many observers think so. But... -
The Trump Paradox: Migration, Trade, and Racial Politics in US-Mexico Integration by Raul Hinojosa Ojeda 9780520302563
RRP: £80.00£62.29The Trump Paradox: Migration, Trade and Racial Politics in US-Mexico Relations explores one of the most complex and unequal cross-border relations anywhere in the world, in the light of a twenty-first century political economy generally and the rise of... -
Rooted Globalism: Arab-Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries by Kevin Funk 9780253062543
RRP: £24.99£21.67Does the concept of nationality apply to the economic elite, or have they shed national identities to form a global capitalist class?In Rooted Globalism, Kevin Funk unpacks dozens of ethnographic interviews he conducted with Latin America's urban-based,... -
An Archipelago of Care: Filipino Migrants and Global Networks by Deirdre McKay 9780253024671
RRP: £70.00£60.31Focusing on the experience of Filipino caregivers in London, some of whom are living and working illegally in their host country, Deirdre McKay considers what migrant workers must do to navigate their way in a global marketplace. She draws on interviews... -
Bastards of Utopia: Living Radical Politics after Socialism by Maple Razsa 9780253015839
RRP: £66.00£56.93Bastards of Utopia, the companion to a feature documentary film of the same name, explores the experiences and political imagination of young radical activists in the former Yugoslavia, participants in what they call alterglobalization or... -
Globalization Challenged: Conviction, Conflict, Community by George Rupp 9780231139304
RRP: £70.00£54.30In Globalization Challenged, George Rupp, president of the International Rescue Committee, outlines the steps necessary to engage the contemporary conflict between traditional religious belief and Western secularism. According to Rupp, the key objective... -
Indigenous Peoples and Autonomy: Insights for a Global Age by Mario Blaser 9780774817936
RRP: £29.99£26.50When the UN adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, it brought the negative effect of globalization on the lives of Indigenous peoples to the centre of public debate. The contributors to this innovative collection extend the... -
Nation-State in Transformation: Economic Globalisation, Institutional Mediation & Political Values by Michael Boss 9788779344921
RRP: £29.95£25.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788779344921Author Michael BossFormat PaperbackPage Count 401Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press -
Micronesia & the Marshall Islands: A Review of their Use of Compact Funds by Brendan E Montague 9781629485898
RRP: £159.99£105.36The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) and the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) are located in the Pacific Ocean just north of the equator, about 3,000 miles south-west of Hawaii and about 2,500 miles south-east of Japan. The FSM is a federation... -
Globalization & Africa by James L. Maruba 9781604564242
RRP: £97.99£65.09Globalisation can be described as a process by which the people of the world are unified into a single society. This process is a combination of economic, technological, sociocultural and political forces. Looking specifically at economic globalisation;... -
Globalizaiton in World History by AG HOPKINS 9780393979428
RRP: £40.75£30.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393979428Author AG HOPKINSFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & Co -
The Idea of Civilization and the Making of the Global Order by Andrew Linklater 9781529213874
RRP: £79.99£60.86The idea of civilization recurs frequently in reflections on international politics. However, International Relations academic writings on civilization have failed to acknowledge the major 20th-century analysis that examined the processes through which... -
Globalization and Security: An Encyclopedia [2 volumes] G. Honor Fagan 9780275996925
£117.30A unique set provides an up-to-date overview of the impact of globalization on international security by examining how the interrelationships of economics, politics, and culture determine levels of stability within regions around the world. ... -
Globalization and Culture: Global Melange by Jan Nederveen Pieterse 9781538115220
RRP: £81.00£71.06Now updated with new chapters on culture and on populism, this seminal text disputes the view that we are experiencing a "clash of civilizations" as well as the idea that globalization leads to cultural homogenization. Instead, Jan Nederveen... -
The University, State, and Market: The Political Economy of Globalization in the Americas by Robert A. Rhoads 9780804751698
RRP: £27.99£24.14This volume explores the complex relationships among universities, states, and markets throughout the Americas in light of the growing influence of globalization. It offers a biting critique of neoliberal globalization and its anti-democratic elements... -
Latin America and Global Capitalism: A Critical Globalization Perspective by William I. Robinson 9780801890390
£54.53This ambitious volume chronicles and analyzes from a critical globalization perspective the social, economic, and political changes sweeping across Latin America from the 1970s through the present day. Sociologist William I. Robinson summarizes his... -
No Man's Land: Globalization, Territory, and Clandestine Groups in Southeast Asia by Justin V. Hastings 9780801448898
RRP: £108.00£93.40The increased ability of clandestine groups to operate with little regard for borders or geography is often taken to be one of the dark consequences of a brave new globalized world. Yet even for terrorists and smugglers, the world is not flat; states... -
Property, Territory, Globalization: Struggles over Autonomy by William D. Coleman 9780774820172
RRP: £87.00£75.93This interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to students andscholars in diverse disciplines, including globalization studies,anthropology, political science, native studies, geography, and law.Book InformationISBN 9780774820172Author William D... -
Unsettled Legitimacy: Political Community, Power, and Authority in a Global Era by Steven Bernstein 9780774817172
RRP: £87.00£75.93Globalization has challenged taken-for-granted relationships of rulein local, regional, national, and international settings. Thisunsettling of legitimacy raises questions. Under what conditions doindividuals and communities accept globalized decision...