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Globalization / Anti-Globalization: Beyond the Great Divide David Held (London School of Economic and Political Science) 9780745639116
RRP: €20.22€18.11Is globalization being eclipsed by a resurgent geopolitics? Does the war on terror denote the end of globalization or a new phase of militarized globalization? Empire or globalization - are these the right terms to describe the current global order? The... -
The Killing Fields of Inequality Goeran Therborn (University of Cambridge) 9780745662596
RRP: €17.84€16.16Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets. It is a socio-cultural order which, for most of us, reduces our capabilities to function as human beings, our health, our dignity, our sense of self, as well as our resources to act and participate in... -
A Patriot's History of Globalism: Its Rise and Decline by Larry Schweikart 9781648210051
RRP: €23.80€15.30Larry Schweikart has won wide acclaim for his number one New York Times bestseller, A Patriot's History of the United States. Now, with A Patriot's History of Globalism, Schweikart shows that globalism, or the attempt to form a one-world government is... -
License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport by Patrick Bixby
RRP: €24.99€18.79This surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to define the modern world. In License to Travel, Patrick Bixby takes the reader on a captivating journey... -
Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment by Imre Szeman
RRP: €35.69€32.01How has our relation to energy changed over time? What differences do particular energy sources make to human values, politics, and imagination? How have transitions from one energy source to another-from wood to coal, or from oil to solar to whatever... -
A Righteous Smokescreen: Postwar America and the Politics of Cultural Globalization by Sam Lebovic
RRP: €33.32€27.69An examination of how the postwar United States twisted its ideal of "the free flow of information" into a one-sided export of values and a tool with global consequences. When the dust settled after World War II, the United States stood as the world's... -
Russia's Futures Richard Sakwa 9781509524242
RRP: €19.03€17.15Russia 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... -
The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter by Shannon K O'Neil 9780300274110
RRP: €15.46€13.64A case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the past forty years The conventional wisdom about globalization is wrong. Over the past forty years as companies, money, ideas, and people went abroad, they... -
BrexLit: The Problem of Englishness in Pre- and Post- Brexit Referendum Literature Dulcie Everitt 9781789047370
RRP: €17.84€15.51In this highly readable and convincing exploration of Englishness as a problematic concept, Dulcie Everitt combines historical, political, and literary analysis to re-examine the nature of Englishness. BrexLit offers readers the opportunity to step... -
Syrian Refugees, Applied Theater, Workshop Facilitation, and Stories: While They Were Waiting by Fadi Skeiker 9780367654054
RRP: €23.79€21.05This book analyzes and theorizes the efficacy of using applied theater as a tool to address refugee issues of displacement, trauma, adjustment, and psychological well-being, in addition to split community belonging.Fadi Skeiker connects refugee... -
Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy by Dani Rodrik 9780691196084
RRP: €19.03€13.83An honest discussion of free trade and how nations can sensibly chart a path forward in today's global economyNot so long ago the nation-state seemed to be on its deathbed, condemned to irrelevance by the forces of globalization and technology. Now it is... -
The Afghan Papers: Committing Britain to War in Helmand, 2005-06 by Michael Clarke
RRP: €45.21€39.72In 2006, British forces entered the Helmand Province of Afghanistan in what would become one of the defining military campaigns of the decade. At great cost in blood and treasure, the UK waged a protracted counter-insurgency against a resurgent Taliban... -
Why Globalization Works for America: How Nationalist Trade Policies are Destroying Our Country by Edward Goldberg 9781640123014
RRP: €28.55€21.81Blue-collar job loss, immigration, trade deficits-Americans blame globalization for a host of problems. Indeed, even in a political system split by fundamental divisions, populists and progressives alike belong to a chorus that decries globalization's... -
We Are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anti-Capitalism by Notes From Nowhere 9781859844472 [USED COPY]
RRP: €36.88€2.83We Are Everywhere is a whirlwind collection of writings, images and ideas for direct action by people on the frontlines of the global anticapitalist movement. This is a movement of untold stories, because those from below are not those who get to write... -
Global Governance: Why? What? Whither? Thomas G. Weiss (City University of New York) 9780745660462
RRP: €21.41€19.09Friends and foes of international cooperation puzzle about how to explain order, stability, and predictability in a world without a central authority. How is the world governed in the absence of a world government? This probing yet accessible book... -
World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability by Amy Chua
RRP: €22.61€16.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385721868Author Amy ChuaFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Transcending the Climate Change Deception Toward Real Sustainability by Mark-Gerard House of Keenan 9781739372026
RRP: €20.22€14.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739372026Author Mark-Gerard House of KeenanFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint By: Mark-Gerard; I Reserve All RightsPublisher By: Mark-Gerard; I... -
Can Democracy Handle Climate Change? Daniel J. Fiorino 9781509523962
RRP: €17.84€16.16Global 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... -
Global Poverty: A Theological Guide by Justin Thacker 9780334055150
RRP: €33.32€32.64While a number of secular philosophers have written on global poverty, theologians have either steered clear entirely or simply mimicked the political analysis currently on offer. Christian authors have argued either for a free market solution to global... -
Indefensible: Democracy, Counter-Revolution, and the Rhetoric of Anti-Imperialism by Rohini Hensman 9781608469116
RRP: €26.17€17.65Using an analysis of imperialism and case studies of Syria, Iran, Iraq, Bosnia, Russia and Ukraine, Global Democracy and the Crisis of Anti-Imperialism shows that the purported anti-imperialism of many self-professed socialists amounts to explicit or... -
Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link by Cynthia Enloe 9781442265448
RRP: €41.65€36.83Militarism is being globalized today not only in war zones such as Ukraine and Syria, but in "peaceful" arenas such as families and football stadiums. Ideas and practices of masculinities and femininities are fuel for this global militarization. Who is... -
The Blind Guardians of Ignorance: Covid-19, Sustainability, and Our Vulnerable Future by Mats Larsson
€21.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788360487Author Mats LarssonFormat PaperbackImprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 330gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 14mm -
After Europe by Ivan Krastev 9780812249439
RRP: €19.03€16.02In this provocative book, renowned public intellectual Ivan Krastev reflects on the future of the European Union-and its potential lack of a future. With far-right nationalist parties on the rise across the continent and the United Kingdom planning for... -
Globalization and the Environment: Capitalism, Ecology and Power Pete Newell (University of Sussex, UK) 9780745647234
RRP: €20.22€18.11Globalization and the Environment critically explores the actors, politics and processes that govern the relationship between globalization and the environment. Taking key aspects of globalisation in turn - trade, production and finance - the book... -
What Is Globalization? by Ulrich Beck 9780745621265
€21.53This important new book offers an engaging and challenging introduction to the thorny paths of the globalization debate.Book InformationISBN 9780745621265Author Ulrich BeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Polity PressPublisher Polity... -
Aid Effectiveness in Africa: Developing Trust between Donors and Governments by Phyllis R. Pomerantz 9780739110034
RRP: €47.60€41.91A significant contribution to the ongoing debate on aid effectiveness, Aid Effectiveness in Africa starts from the premise that money alone will not bring sustained development to Africa. With grounding in years of experience and fieldwork, Phyllis R... -
Why Bother With Elections? by Adam Przeworski 9781509526604
RRP: €17.84€16.16With 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 weaknesses... -
City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism by Jim Krane
RRP: €24.99€14.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312655433Author Jim KraneFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 141mm... -
After Europe by Ivan Krastev 9780812252422
RRP: €23.79€17.65A impassioned defense of the European Union and a concise analysis of its present challenges and future In this provocative book, renowned public intellectual Ivan Krastev reflects on the future of the European Union-and its potential lack of a future... -
Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages by Saskia Sassen
RRP: €41.65€33.49Where does the nation-state end and globalization begin? In Territory, Authority, Rights, one of the world's leading authorities on globalization shows how the national state made today's global era possible. Saskia Sassen argues that even while... -
Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the 21st Century by Giovanni Arrighi
€34.83In the late eighteenth century, the political economist Adam Smith predicted an eventual equalization of power between the West and the territories it had conquered. In this magisterial new work, Giovanni Arrighi shows how China's extraordinary rise... -
The Puzzle of Twenty-First-Century Globalization: An International Economics Primer by Patrice Franko 9780742556928
RRP: €53.55€46.99The Puzzle of Twenty-First-Century Globalization explores the opportunities and challenges of our international economic system. Patrice Franko and Stephen Stamos clearly trace how the ways we produce, finance, and trade goods and services are profoundly... -
Globalization and Urbanization: The Global Urban Ecosystem by James H. Spencer 9781442214750
RRP: €41.65€36.83During the past decade, the world reached the point of becoming more urban than not, as the majority of people on the planet now live not in small towns or villages but in provincial, national, and global cities. Scholars have long been fascinated by... -
The Puzzle of Twenty-First-Century Globalization: An International Economics Primer by Patrice Franko 9780742556911
RRP: €116.62€102.46The Puzzle of Twenty-First-Century Globalization explores the opportunities and challenges of our international economic system. Patrice Franko and Stephen Stamos clearly trace how the ways we produce, finance, and trade goods and services are profoundly... -
Making Feminist Sense of the Global Justice Movement by Catherine Eschle 9780742555938
RRP: €51.17€44.96In recent years, the global justice movement has grabbed headlines and reshaped political imaginations worldwide. Surprisingly, however, feminism is largely absent from accounts of the movement-despite the fact that feminists are extensively involved on... -
Civilization: Global Histories of a Political Idea by Patricia Chiantera-Stutte 9781793645821
RRP: €96.39€84.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793645821Author Patricia Chiantera-StutteFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington BooksWeight(grams) 152g -
Global Servant-Leadership: Wisdom, Love, and Legitimate Power in the Age of Chaos by Philip Mathew 9781793621887
RRP: €41.65€36.83In Global Servant-Leadership: Wisdom, Love and Legitimate Power in the Age of Chaos, leadership scholars and practitioners from around the globe share their insights on servant-leadership philosophy, representing diverse contexts and cultures, and... -
Inhabiting the Earth: Anarchist Political Ecology for Landscapes of Emancipation by Martin Locret-Collet 9781538162170
RRP: €35.70€31.75Over the last several decades, scholars and practitioners have progressively acknowledged that we cannot consider cities as the place where nature stops anymore, resulting in urban environments being increasingly appreciated and theorized as hybrids... -
Emergent Brazil: Key Perspectives on a New Global Power by Jeffrey D. Needell 9780813060675
€98.01For decades, scholars and journalists have hailed the enormous potential of Brazil, which has for the last twenty years been one of the world’s largest economies. But its promise has too often been curtailed by dictatorship, racism, poverty, and violence... -
Women Navigating Globalization: Feminist Approaches to Development by Jana Everett 9781442225770
RRP: €47.60€41.91This up-to-date text offers a clear and cogent introduction to women in development. Exploring the global structures and processes that impede or support the empowerment of women, Jana Everett and Sue Ellen M. Charlton use a feminist lens to understand...