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Restructuring the Welfare State: Globalization and Social Policy Reform in Finland and Sweden by Virpi Timonen 9781843761242
€119.73What happens to extensive and generous welfare states when they are faced with serious economic crisis and the effects of globalization? This thorough analysis of the processes of social policy restructuring in two Nordic welfare states endeavours to... -
Constructing Realities: Identity, Discourse and Englishness by Stuart Cartland 9781837975464
RRP: €95.20€79.27Dominant discursive representations of belonging and place have become ever-more politicized, led by narratives of fear, uncertainty and anxiety. Grounded in an interdisciplinary and intersectional perspective, Constructing Realities critically examines... -
Introduction to Global Studies by PJ Campbell 9781405187374
RRP: €104.66€92.08Taking an interdisciplinary approach, An Introduction to GlobalStudies presents readers with a solid introduction to thecomplex, interconnected forces and issues confronting today'sglobalized world. * Introduces readers to major theories, key terms,... -
Development Theory: An Introduction by PW Preston 9780631195542
RRP: €142.74€126.76In this invaluable introduction to the major post-Second World War theories of Third World development, Peter Preston takes as his focus the strategies used to analyze change in the Third World and examines the ways in which different conceptions of the... -
Handbook on China and Globalization by Huiyao Wang 9781785366093
RRP: €61.82€55.75An excellent guide for understanding the trends, challenges and opportunities facing China through globalization, this Handbook answers the pertinent questions regarding the globalization process and China's influence on the world. With contributions... -
Peace for our Time: A Reflection on War and Peace and a Third World War Nicholas Hagger 9781785357060
RRP: €20.22€17.39In this remarkable memoir Nicholas Hagger reflects on war and peace and on 'peace for our time', Chamberlain’s haunting words in 1938 that ushered in the Second World War. Peace then turned out to be an illusion shattered by the outbreak of hostilities... -
Globalization – The Making of World Society by F Lechner 9781405169066
RRP: €102.28€91.37Globalization: The Making of World Society is a stimulating, state-of-the-art text for any student of globalization, beginner or advanced. Makes a big, abstract topic very accessible through illustration with everyday experience Thorough and scholarly... -
Seoul, Korea's Global City: A New Urbanism for Upward Mobility by Kyoung-Ho Shin 9781032235745
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book explores the new urbanism in Seoul from the perspective of global political economy, focusing on the contexts in which the city has witnessed the transformation of its population structure, such as the rise of the global urban middle class and... -
Economic Geographies of Globalisation: A Short Introduction by Martin Sokol 9781849801492
€128.06This well-researched book provides a concise contribution to a large-scale debate on economic globalisation. Martin Sokol introduces key theoretical approaches that help us to understand how economies work, why they suffer recessions and crises, and... -
Breaking the Real Axis of Evil: How to Oust the World's Last Dictators by 2025 by Mark Palmer 9780742532557
RRP: €17.84€15.51With the removal of not only Saddam Hussein but also Jean-Betrand Aristide, as well as the ongoing civil war in against Charles Taylor in Liberia, much has changed in the world of dictators since the first publication of this work less than a year ago... -
China's Belt and Road Initiative at Ten: Country Experiences in the Americas, Oceania and Asia by Robert Looney 9780367471231
€54.72This volume assesses China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as it approaches its tenth year in operation. The programme has gone through a difficult transition since its inception in 2013, with an environment developing in a way utterly unanticipated by... -
Post-Colonial Globalization: Law, Power and Actors in the 21st Century by Yonit Manor-Percival 9781138230163
RRP: €103.52€90.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781138230163Author Yonit Manor-PercivalFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd -
The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers by Ngaire Woods 9780801444241
RRP: €76.16€53.91The IMF and the World Bank have integrated a large number of countries into the world economy by requiring governments to open up to global trade, investment, and capital. They have not done this out of pure economic zeal. Politics and their own rules... -
World State: How a democratically-elected World Government can replace the UN and bring peace Nicholas Hagger 9781780999647
RRP: €23.79€20.19Since 1945 the UN has failed to prevent 162 wars and the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and there is talk of a Third World War involving the Middle East, the Baltic states and North Korea. Competing nation-states seem powerless to achieve world peace... -
The Ebb and Flow of Globalization: Chinese Perspectives on China's Development and Role in the World by Huiyao (Henry) Wang 9789811692529
RRP: €65.44€59.32Globalization is an irresistible force. Given the high stakes at hand - for stability, continued growth, and the future of our planet - it is more important than ever that China gain a deeper understanding of the rest of the world, and that the rest of... -
Rethinking Global Governance by Thomas G. Weiss 9781509527236
RRP: €53.55€46.76Rethinking 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... -
Can Democracy Handle Climate Change? Daniel J. Fiorino 9781509523955
RRP: €41.65€36.74Global climate change poses an unprecedented challenge for governments across the world. Small wonder that many experts question whether democracies have the ability to cope with the causes and long-term consequences of a changing climate. Some even... -
The Historical Muhammad Irving M. Zeitlin (University of Toronto) 9780745639994
RRP: €21.41€19.09In his quest for the historical Muhammad, Zeitlin's chief aim is to catch glimpses of the birth of Islam and the role played by its extraordinary founder. Islam, as its Prophet came to conceive it, was a strict and absolute monotheism. How Muhammad had... -
Overcoming Indifference: 10 Key Challenges in Today's Changing World by Klaus Schwab 9780814780367
RRP: €29.74€26.26The end of the Cold War did not, as some might have hoped, simplify the issues facing world leaders. Civil war, famine, overpopulation, chronic unemployment, and an exploding refugee problem continue to plague the world economy, to the point where we... -
Canada's Fluid Borders: Trade, Investment, Travel, Migration by Geoffrey Hale
€8.14Crossing borders involves much more than going through checkpoints. By drawing on an innovative transdisciplinary reconceptualization of the border as elastic or fluid, Canada’s Fluid Borders offers fresh interpretations of the major geopolitical and... -
Reimagining Social Movements: From Collectives to Individuals by Antimo L. Farro
RRP: €59.49€51.77The social scientific study of social movements remains largely shaped by categories, concepts and debates that emerged in North Atlantic societies in the late 1960s and early 1970s, namely resource mobilization, framing, collective identity, and new... -
Civilization And Governance: The Western And Non-western World by Boy Luethje
RRP: €119.00€103.20The rapid rise of emerging economies has produced deep-ranging changes in the global order during recent decades. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the bipolar confrontation of the Cold War seemed to be replaced by a universalized model of... -
China - Central and Eastern Europe Cross-Cultura - Dialogue - Society, Business and Education in Transition by Joanna Wardega
RRP: €53.55€42.51?The spiral of global dependency created by China calls for a comparative approach that draws upon local perspectives in every region of the world. The contributors to this volume analyze the similarities and relations between China and Central and... -
The Trump Paradox: Migration, Trade, and Racial Politics in US-Mexico Integration by Raul Hinojosa Ojeda
RRP: €35.70€20.27The 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... -
Securing the Global Economy: G8 Global Governance for a Post-Crisis World by Andreas Freytag
RRP: €59.49€51.77Securing the Global Economy explores how and why the G8 and other institutions of global governance deal with increasingly comprehensive and complex economic-security connections. These connections are explored from an interdisciplinary perspective, with... -
Borders, Culture and Globalization: A Canadian Perspective: 2021 by Victor Konrad
€34.96Melissa Key a oeuvre dans le projet Borders in Globalization a l'Universite Carleton en tant que chercheuse postdoctorale. Elle detient un doctorat en geographie sociale et economique de l'Universite Uppsala.Book InformationISBN 9780776636733Author... -
The Politics and Culture of Globalisation: India and Australia by Hans Lofgren
RRP: €160.65€139.56We 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... -
Global Exposure in East Asia: A Comparative Study of Microglobalization by Dr. Ming-Chang Tsai
RRP: €47.59€41.72In contrast to speculative, sweeping literature on globalization Global Exposure in East Asia grounds globalization theories in a detailed empirical analysis, providing a systematic investigation of what until now have been grand narratives of huge... -
A Perilous Imbalance: The Globalization of Canadian Law and Governance by Stephen Clarkson
RRP: €35.69€32.73Written primarily with scholars and advanced students of law and politics in mind, this book will also appeal to policy-makers, activists, and general readers interested in the challenges Canada faces in a globalizing world.Book InformationISBN... -
Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Globalization: Citizens without States by Lee Trepanier
€112.73Thanks to advances in international communication and travel, it has never been easier to connect with the rest of the world. As philosophers debate the consequences of globalization, cosmopolitanism promises to create a stronger global community. ... -
Economic Globalization in Asia by Manas Chatterji
RRP: €39.26€34.70This timely volume examines various economic, managerial, social and political aspects of globalization and its impact on local economies. State-of-the-art analytical models and original empirical research is used to understand four key and... -
The Indivisible Globe, the Indissoluble Nation - Universality, Postcoloniality, and Nationalism in the Age of Globalization by Li-chun Hsiao
RRP: €36.89€31.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838215242Author Li-chun HsiaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Ibidem PressPublisher Ibidem Press -
Envisioning the World - Mapping and Making the Global by Karlson Preu
RRP: €52.35€42.77The "global" is permanently made and remade by how it is envisioned in political projects, in language, and in literature. Through a range of case studies, this book shows how practices of referring to the world actually constitute the global... -
When Care Work Goes Global: Locating the Social Relations of Domestic Work by Mary Romero
RRP: €47.59€42.20Women who migrate into domestic labour and care work are the single largest female occupational group migrating globally at present. Their participation in global migration systems has been acknowledged but remains under-theorized. Specifically, the... -
China and Globalization in the Amazon: Workers, Expatriates and the Chinese Production Model by Cleiton Maciel Brito
RRP: €148.75€128.35China and Globalization in the Amazon examines Chinese investment in the Global South, with particular attention to industrial activity in Latin America. Based on ethnographic work conducted in several Chinese factories in the Amazon region of Brazil,... -
Why Islamists Go Green Emmanuel Karagiannis 9781399506229
RRP: €101.15€82.44Investigates the environmental policies of transnational and militant Islamist groups Examines and compares the environmentalism of transnational groups that have been labelled as extremist or militant: the Muslim Brotherhood, Hizb ut-Tahrir, Hamas,... -
Globalization and Identity: Dialectics of Flow and Closure Birgit Meyer (University of Amsterdam) 9780631212386
RRP: €24.69€21.80"Globalization" and "Identity" are an explosive combination, demonstrated by recent outbursts of communalist violence in many parts of the world. Their varying articulations highlight the paradox that accelerating global flows of goods, persons and... -
Bastards of Utopia: Living Radical Politics after Socialism by Maple Razsa
RRP: €28.55€24.80Bastards 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... -
Africa and France: Postcolonial Cultures, Migration, and Racism by Dominic Thomas
RRP: €26.17€22.84Africa and France reveals how increased control over immigration has changed cultural and social production, especially in theatre, literature, film, and even museum construction. A hated of foreigners, accompanied by new forms of intolerance and racism,... -
21st-century Maritime Silk Road Initiative: Aims And Objectives, Implementation Strategies And Policy Recommendations Jianglin Zhao (Chinese Academy Of Social Sciences, China) 9789811206719
RRP: €130.90€113.36The concept of a '21st-Century Maritime Silk Road' refers to the proposed modern-time version of the ancient Maritime Silk Road that connected China with the rest of Asia, and even parts of eastern Africa. It is a strategic initiative designed to...