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Still a Western World? Continuity and Change in Global Order by Sergio Fabbrini
€57.07Today, the debate on world order is intense. As is always the case in times of transition, the global restructuring of international affairs is generating a deep reflection on how the world is, and how it should be reorganized. After the long frozen... -
Globalization and Technocapitalism: The Political Economy of Corporate Power and Technological Domination Luis Suarez-Villa 9781138271661
RRP: €59.49€51.77Globalization and Technocapitalism considers the global reach of a new capitalist era, exploring the nature of 'technocapitalism' as grounded in new forms of accumulation, commodification, and corporate organization. As technological creativity,... -
Growth, Crisis, Democracy: The Political Economy of Social Coalitions and Policy Regime Change by Hideko Magara
RRP: €160.65€139.56Since 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 Inequalities Beyond Occidentalism Manuela Boatca 9781138215573
RRP: €59.49€51.77Based 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,... -
Globalisation, Environment and Social Justice: Perspectives, Issues and Concerns by Manish K. Verma
RRP: €160.65€140.75This volume provides a comprehensive account of the connections between globalisation, environment and social justice. It examines varied dimensions of environmental sustainability; the adverse impact of globalisation on environment and its consequences... -
Rude Awakening: Threats to the Global Liberal Order by Mauro F. Guillen
RRP: €28.55€24.80In the wake of World War II, a number of institutions designed to promote a liberal global economic and geopolitical order were established-the International Monetary Fund, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (forerunner of the World Trade... -
The New Political Islam: Human Rights, Democracy, and Justice by Emmanuel Karagiannis
RRP: €73.78€63.74Explains how various Islamists have endorsed human rights, democracy, and justice to gain influence and mobilize supporters Islamist political parties and groups are on the rise throughout the Muslim world and in Muslim communities in the West. Owing... -
Latin America and Global Capitalism: A Critical Globalization Perspective by William I. Robinson
RRP: €41.65€37.65This 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... -
Global Social Problems by Professor Vic George
RRP: €65.45€56.80In this major new textbook, Vic George and Robert Page provide an original and much--needed introduction to global social problems and the emergence of a global social policy response. In an increasingly globalized world, it is inevitable that many of... -
Globalisation and the Middle Classes in India: The Social and Cultural Impact of Neoliberal Reforms by Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase
RRP: €42.83€37.71This book fills an important gap in the existing literature on economic liberalization and globalisation in India by providing much needed ethnographic data from those affected by neoliberal globalisation. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews,... -
Rethinking Labour in Africa, Past and Present by Lynn Schler
RRP: €148.75€128.35This book offers a broad range of perspectives on major transformations in the research of labor in Africa contexts over the last twenty years. This is a groundbreaking work by social scientists and historians; adopting innovative paradigms in the study... -
Emerging Global Scarcities & Power Shifts by Bernard Berendsen
RRP: €35.69€22.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789068326895Author Bernard BerendsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint KIT PublishersPublisher KIT PublishersWeight(grams) 428g -
Looking behind the Label: Global Industries and the Conscientious Consumer by Tim Bartley
RRP: €26.17€22.84What does it mean when consumers "shop with a conscience" and choose products labeled as fair or sustainable? Does this translate into meaningful changes in global production processes? To what extent are voluntary standards implemented and enforced, and... -
Global Filipinos: Migrants' Lives in the Virtual Village by Deirdre McKay
RRP: €26.17€22.84Contract workers from the Philippines make up one of the world's largest movements of temporary labor migrants. Deirdre McKay follows Filipino migrants from one rural community to work sites overseas and then home again. Focusing on the experiences of... -
Cities and Global Governance: New Sites for International Relations Mark Amen 9781138268364
RRP: €59.49€51.77Case study rich, this volume advances our understanding of the significance of 'the city' in global governance. The editors call for innovation in international relations theory with case studies that add breadth to theorizing the role sub-national... -
Remapping Gender, Place and Mobility: Global Confluences and Local Particularities in Nordic Peripheries by Prof. Stine Thidemann Faber
RRP: €160.65€140.04Enhancing our understanding of how people and places are affected by globalization at the level of everyday interactions within 'Nordic Peripheries', this book sheds light on local particularities as well as global confluences, by illuminating how... -
Community, Competition and Citizen Science: Voluntary Distributed Computing in a Globalized World by Anne Holohan
RRP: €47.59€41.72Voluntary 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... -
Policy Change under New Democratic Capitalism by Hideko Magara
RRP: €52.35€45.74Democratic capitalism in developed countries has been facing an unprecedented crisis since 2008. Its political manageability is declining sharply. Both democracy and capitalism now involve crucial risks that are significantly more serious than those... -
Reconstruction in a Globalizing World by David Prior
RRP: €30.93€26.76As one of the most complexly divisive periods in American history, Reconstruction has been the subject of a rich scholarship. Historians have studied the period's racial views, political maneuverings, divisions between labor and capital, debates about... -
Global Ordering: Institutions and Autonomy in a Changing World by Louis W. Pauly
RRP: €35.69€31.54Despite 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... -
Latin America's Quest for Globalization: The Role of Spanish Firms by Felix E. Martin
RRP: €160.65€140.04Investments by Spanish firms in Latin America have grown since the early 1990s by taking over many of the state-owned firms put out to tender. Second only to the United States, these investments make Spain one of the largest markets of foreign direct... -
An Atlas of World Affairs by Andrew Boyd
RRP: €142.80€123.77The economic, social and environmental systems of the world remain in turmoil. Recent years have seen possibly irrevocable change in the politics of Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. This entirely revised and updated 11th edition describes the... -
Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking by Faranak Miraftab
RRP: €28.55€24.80Global 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... -
Cyberspaces and Global Affairs by Sean S. Costigan
RRP: €160.65€140.75From the "Facebook" revolutions in the Arab world to the use of social networking in the aftermath of disasters in Japan and Haiti, to the spread of mobile telephony throughout the developing world: all of these developments are part of how... -
We Count, We Matter: Voice, Choice and the Death of Distance by Christopher Steed
RRP: €160.65€139.56This book examines the meaning of Brexit, the election of Trump and the rising tide of populist revolt on the right amidst the collapse of the left. Exploring the reaction against the establishment or `the system', the author contends that we are... -
Global Issues: An Introduction Kristen A. Hite (Center for International Environmental Law / School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University) 9781119538509
RRP: €42.78€38.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119538509Author Kristen A. HiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Wiley-BlackwellPublisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd -
Tax Havens: How Globalization Really Works by Ronen Palan
RRP: €128.52€111.15From the Cayman Islands and the Isle of Man to the Principality of Liechtenstein and the state of Delaware, tax havens offer lower tax rates, less stringent regulations and enforcement, and promises of strict secrecy to individuals and corporations alike... -
Public Governance in the Age of Globalization by Karl Heinz Ladeur
RRP: €160.65€140.04Globalization 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... -
Food for the Future: Agriculture for a Global Age by Jose Bove
RRP: €59.50€51.78It's not easy to eat well. To choose food wisely, you need to know where it comes from and how it's produced. As consumers, most of us don't know what we're getting and eating in our supermarkets and restaurants. When rumours and food scares circulate in... -
The Ascent of Globalisation by Harry Blutstein
RRP: €29.75€21.32The ascent of globalisation tells the sweeping historical drama of the development of globalisation, from the Second World War to the present day. The story is told through the richly detailed accounts of eighteen remarkable men and women, describing... -
AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain David Wearing 9781509532032
RRP: €65.45€56.80UK ties with Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf monarchies are under the spotlight as never before. Huge controversy surrounds Britain's alliances with these deeply repressive regimes, and the UK's key supporting role in the disastrous Saudi-led... -
Women, Gender, Remittances and Development in the Global South by Ton van Naerssen
RRP: €52.35€45.74This book endeavours to take the conceptualisation of the relationship between transnational remittance exchanges and gender to a new level. Thus, inevitably, it provides a number of case studies of relationships between gender and remittances from... -
Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations (Version 2.0, with a New Afterword) by Thomas L. Friedman
RRP: €21.42€14.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250141224Author Thomas L. FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm *... -
Globalization and Development Volume II: Country experiences by Shigeru Thomas Otsubo
RRP: €65.44€56.79Globalization and Development is a "cross-national study" on the "interstate dispersion" of the impacts (on growth, inequality and poverty) that international economic integration provides to the economies of the developing countries... -
Transnational Trajectories in East Asia: Nation, Citizenship, and Region by Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal
RRP: €64.25€55.78In recent decades, East Asia has become increasingly interconnected through trade, investment, migration, and popular culture at regional and global levels. At the same time, the region has seen renewed national assertiveness and nationalist impulses... -
Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism: A Chance to Reclaim, Self, Society and Nature by Mark Pelling
RRP: €59.49€51.77Are established economic, social and political practices capable of dealing with the combined crises of climate change and the global economic system? Will falling back on the wisdoms that contributed to the crisis help us to find ways forward or simply... -
A Cosmopolitan Journey?: Difference, Distinction and Identity Work in Gap Year Travel by Helene Snee
RRP: €54.73€47.75Does travel broaden the mind? This book explores this question through an innovative sociological study of gap year travel. Taking a year out overseas between school and university is an increasingly legitimate practice for young people in the UK. But... -
Beyond the Global Capitalist Crisis: The World Economy in Transition by Berch Berberoglu
RRP: €52.35€45.74The deep economic recession that has occurred in all major sectors of the U.S. and global economy is a manifestation of the underlying contradictions of the capitalist system that has resulted in the accumulation of vast fortunes on one side and... -
Families Apart: Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love by Geraldine Pratt
RRP: €23.79€20.87In a developing nation like the Philippines, many mothers provide for their families by traveling to a foreign country to care for someone else's. Families Apart focuses on Filipino overseas workers in Canada to reveal what such arrangements mean for... -
No Man's Land: Globalization, Territory, and Clandestine Groups in Southeast Asia by Justin V. Hastings
RRP: €29.74€25.79The 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...