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Institutions, Partisanship and Credibility in Global Financial Markets by Hye Jee Cho 9780367272821
RRP: €49.97€43.73Increasingly integrated global financial markets have been shaken by a series of severe shocks in recent decades, from Mexico's Tequila crisis to the upheavals in the Eurozone. These crises have demonstrated that signs of uncertain local economic and... -
US Imperialism: The Changing Dynamics of Global Power by James Petras 9780367252755
RRP: €160.65€139.56This book offers a broad and deep examination of the dynamics of US imperialism. Petras analyzes imperialism not only as economic domination, showing that its impact in the world takes many forms, including cultural, political and historical. He points... -
Growth, Crisis, Democracy: The Political Economy of Social Coalitions and Policy Regime Change by Hideko Magara 9780367141905
RRP: €52.35€45.74Since the global financial crisis of 2008, advanced economies have been making various efforts to overcome the economic impasse. While the contrast between the countries that have escaped from the crisis relatively quickly and those still suffering from... -
Global Insurrectional Politics by Nevzat Soguk 9780367029364
RRP: €52.35€45.74The recent Arab uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East have attracted scholarly attention as popular movements with novel transnational and religious dimensions. What became known as the Arab Spring can be read as part of a broader politics of... -
Globalization and Beyond: New Examinations of Global Power and Its Alternatives by Jon Shefner 9780271048857
RRP: €97.52€84.13The enormous turnout in Washington, DC, for Barack Obama's presidential inauguration and the worldwide rejoicing at this signal of change offered a tangible demonstration of people's desire for a new world order. In the waning months of the Bush... -
Stories of Globalization: Transnational Corporations, Resistance, and the State by Alessandro Bonanno 9780271033884
RRP: €86.81€74.34The economic and social outcomes of mid-twentieth-century Fordist capitalism were characterized by a decrease in the significance of distance and a shift in the dynamic of time. This "time-space compression" is one of the defining components of... -
Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking by Faranak Miraftab 9780253019271
RRP: €78.54€67.75Global Heartland is the account of diverse, dispossessed, and displaced people brought together in a former sundown town in Illinois. Recruited to work in the local meat-processing plant, African Americans, Mexicans, and West Africans re-create the town... -
Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability by Peter Newell 9781842775554
€46.11'Development is a process, Amartya Sen famously noted, of 'expanding the real freedoms that people enjoy'. But freedoms depend upon on political and civil rights, or more properly a corpus of rights capable of removing such unfreedoms as tyranny,... -
Towards Corporeal Cosmopolitanism: Performing Decolonial Solidarities by Anjana Raghavan 9781783487950
RRP: €141.61€44.46An articulation of any kind of global understanding of belonging, or ways of cosmopolitan life, requires a constant engagement with vulnerability, especially in a world that is so deeply wounded by subjugation, colonialisms and genocides. And yet... -
Race, Decolonization, and Global Citizenship in South Africa by Chielozona Eze 9781580469333
RRP: €95.20€91.17Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu left an enduring legacy of forgiveness, openness, and solidarity in South Africa. This book looks at how the country's historic transition to democracy has not only changed the negative narrative about South Africa but... -
The Colonial Present: Afghanistan. Palestine. Iraq by Derek Gregory 9781577180890
RRP: €108.23€94.40In this powerful and passionate critique of the 'war on terror' in Afghanistan and its extensions into Palestine and Iraq, Derek Gregory traces the long history of British and American involvements in the Middle East and shows how colonial power... -
The Tribalization of Europe: A Defence of our Liberal Values by Marlene Wind 9781509541676
RRP: €47.60€41.73Tribalization is a global megatrend in today's world. The election of Donald Trump, the Brexit vote, populist movements like Catalan separatism - together with democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe - are all examples of tribalization... -
China's Dream: The Culture of Chinese Communism and the Secret Sources of its Power by Kerry Brown 9781509524563
RRP: €65.45€37.20The Communist Party of China (CPC) is one of the great political forces of modern times. In charge of the destiny of a fifth of humanity, it survives despite the collapse of similar systems elsewhere. Few, however, understand the sources of this... -
Russia's Futures Richard Sakwa 9781509524235
RRP: €59.50€51.78Russia is back as a major force in global politics, but what does this mean? Is Russia the dangerous revisionist foe that meddles in Western elections and tries to subvert the liberal international order? Or is it a country precariously trying to... -
Syria: Hot Spots in Global Politics by Samer N. Abboud 9781509522408
RRP: €71.40€61.82With 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... -
China and Russia: The New Rapprochement Alexander Lukin (National Research University Higher School of Economics) 9781509521708
RRP: €65.45€56.80With many predicting the end of US hegemony, Russia and China's growing cooperation in a number of key strategic areas looks set to have a major impact on global power dynamics. But what lies behind this Sino-Russian rapprochement? Is it simply the... -
Contemporary Politics in the Middle East by Beverley Milton-Edwards 9781509520824
RRP: €80.33€69.82The fourth edition of this dynamic and popular text provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary politics in the Middle East. Fully revised and updated throughout, it features a new chapter on the Arab Spring and its aftermath, plus a wide range... -
Will China's Economy Collapse? by Ann Lee 9781509520138
RRP: €41.65€36.74The recent downturn in the Chinese economy has become a focal point of global attention, with some analysts warning that China is edging dangerously close to economic meltdown. Is it possible that the second largest economy in the world could collapse... -
Can Government Do Anything Right? Alasdair Roberts (University of Massachusetts Amherst) 9781509521517
RRP: €11.89€10.65Across the Western world, people are angry about the inability of government to perform basic functions competently. With widespread evidence of policy failures at home and ill-conceived wars and interventions abroad, it is hardly surprising that... -
Can Government Do Anything Right? by Alasdair Roberts 9781509521500
RRP: €43.44€38.23Across the Western world, people are angry about the inability of government to perform basic functions competently. With widespread evidence of policy failures at home and ill-conceived wars and interventions abroad, it is hardly surprising that... -
World Anthropologies in Practice: Situated Perspectives, Global Knowledge by John Gledhill 9781474252607
RRP: €160.65€140.04In a post-colonial world, the contributions of anthropologists living outside North America and Western Europe can no longer be treated as marginal. World Anthropologies in Practice demonstrates how global dialogues enable us to draw on local knowledge... -
Global Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences: Made in Circulation by Wiebke Keim 9781472426178
RRP: €160.65€140.04An innovative contribution to debates on the internationalization and globalization of the social sciences, this book pays particular attention to their theoretical and epistemological reconfiguration in the light of postcolonial critiques and critiques... -
Contesting the Indian City: Global Visions and the Politics of the Local by Gavin Shatkin 9781444367041
RRP: €71.40€62.30Contesting the Indian City features a collection of cutting-edge empirical studies that offer insights into issues of politics, equity, and space relating to urban development in modern India. * Features studies that serve to deepen our theoretical... -
Globalised Minds, Roots in the City: Urban Upper-middle Classes in Europe by Alberta Andreotti 9781444334845
RRP: €71.40€61.82Globalised 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... -
Global Inequalities Beyond Occidentalism by Dr. Manuela Boatca 9781409442790
RRP: €160.65€140.04Based on theoretical developments in research on world-systems analysis, transnational migration, postcolonial and decolonial perspectives, whilst considering continuities of inequality patterns in the context of colonial and postcolonial realities,... -
Adjusting to Globalization by Professor David Greenaway 9781405131698
RRP: €25.88€22.79This volume investigates the ways in which firms and workers are adjusting to globalization. A collection of cutting-edge essays investigating the ways in which firms and workers are adjusting to globalization. Written by leading researchers in the field... -
An Introduction to Global Studies Patricia J. Campbell (American Public University System, USA) 9781405187367
RRP: €34.45€30.31Taking an interdisciplinary approach, An Introduction to Global Studies presents readers with a solid introduction to the complex, interconnected forces and issues confronting today's globalized world. Introduces readers to major theories, key terms,... -
Grounding Globalization: Labour in the Age of Insecurity by Edward Webster 9781405129152
RRP: €71.40€61.82Winner of the 2009 Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Prize, awarded by the American Sociological Association Labor and Labor Movements section Claims have been made on the emergence of a new labour internationalism in response to the growing insecurity... -
Citizenship: Discourse, Theory, and Transnational Prospects Peter Kivisto (Augustana College) 9781405105521
RRP: €34.45€29.83A significant addition to the growing body of literature on citizenship, this wide-ranging overview focuses on the importance, and changing nature, of citizenship. It introduces the varied discourses and theories that have arisen in recent years, and... -
Citizenship: Discourse, Theory, and Transnational Prospects by Thomas Faist 9781405105514
RRP: €108.23€93.93A significant addition to the growing body of literature on citizenship, this wide-ranging overview focuses on the importance, and changing nature, of citizenship. It introduces the varied discourses and theories that have arisen in recent years, and... -
The Ironic State: British Comedy and the Everyday Politics of Globalization James Brassett (University of Warwick) 9781529208467
RRP: €23.79€18.75What can comedy tell us about the politics of a nation? In this book, James Brassett builds on his prize-winning research to demonstrate how British comedy can provide intimate and vital understandings of the everyday politics of globalization in... -
Russia's War Against Ukraine by Gwendolyn Sasse 9781509560608
RRP: €15.46€10.71On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, giving rise to the deadliest conflict on European soil since the Second World War. How could this happen in twenty-first-century Europe? Why did Putin decide to escalate Russia’s war... -
Russia's War Against Ukraine by Gwendolyn Sasse 9781509560592
RRP: €47.60€31.12On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, giving rise to the deadliest conflict on European soil since the Second World War. How could this happen in twenty-first-century Europe? Why did Putin decide to escalate Russia’s war... -
Getting Russia Right by Thomas Graham 9781509556892
RRP: €29.75€19.49As US-Russian relations scrape the depths of cold-war antagonism, the promise of partnership that beguiled American administrations during the first post-Soviet decades increasingly appears to have been false from the start. Why did American leaders... -
Zelensky: A Biography by Serhii Rudenko 9781509560677
RRP: €15.46€10.23Three years after the political novice Volodymyr Zelensky was elected to Ukraine’s highest office, he found himself catapulted into the role of war-time leader. The former comedian has become the public face of his country’s courageous and bloody... -
Development Perspectives from the Antipodes by Susanne Schech 9781138953871
RRP: €33.31€28.89Development discourses and academic development knowledge reflect to a large extent the interests of the 'North'. The Antipodes - Australia and New Zealand - share an ambivalent location as countries of the 'North' in wealth, development and dominant... -
Transnational Activism and National Movements in Latin America: Bridging the Divide by Eduardo Silva 9781138926394
RRP: €45.21€39.72During the 1990s, as widespread perception spread of declining state sovereignty, activists and social movement organizations began to form transnational networks and coalitions to pressure both intergovernmental organizations and national governments on... -
Public Disorder and Globalization by Sophie Body-Gendrot 9781138925427
RRP: €103.52€89.89The current growth of incidents of public disorder around the world can be seen as symptomatic of major transformations in globalized society, government, and technology. But while disorder is routinely perceived as a disturbing phenomenon, it can also... -
Community, Competition and Citizen Science: Voluntary Distributed Computing in a Globalized World by Anne Holohan 9781138271869
RRP: €15.46€14.21Voluntary distributed computing projects divide large computational tasks into small pieces of data or work that are sent out over the Internet to be processed by individual users, who participate voluntarily in order to provide solutions that would... -
Public Governance in the Age of Globalization by Karl Heinz Ladeur 9781138269309
RRP: €59.49€52.24Globalization and its relationship to public governance is one of the key issues of our time. In this book, experts from a number of disciplines attempt to define what these two terms mean and, perhaps even more importantly, what they do not. Taking as a...