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Global Leadership in Transition: Making the G20 More Effective and Responsive by Colin I. Bradford
RRP: $63.00$56.03Global Leadership in Transition calls for innovations that would "institutionalize" or consolidate the G20, helping to make it the global economy's steering committee. The emergence of the G20 as the world's premier forum for international... -
Global Trade and Poor Nations: The Poverty Impacts and Policy Implications of Liberalization by Marcelo Olarreaga
RRP: $63.00$56.03This thoughtful volume assesses the likely impact of reformed trade policies on the poorest of the poor -those on the bottom economic rungs in developing nations. The focus on a spectrum of poor nations across different regions provides some helpful and... -
Oil and American Identity by Sebastian Herbstreuth
RRP: $252.00$250.99American dependence on foreign oil has long been described as a serious threat to U.S. national security, and continues to be a political flashpoint even as domestic fracking eases the US' reliance on imported energy. Oil and American Identity offers a... -
Sino-Russian Oil and Gas Cooperation: The Reality and Implications by Keun-Wook Paik
$141.27This book analyses the evolution of Sino-Russian oil and gas cooperation during the 1990s and 2000s. It describes how China has become a large importer of Russian oil, but not of its gas, and gives an explanation as to why this curious contrast has... -
Forced to Be Good: Why Trade Agreements Boost Human Rights by Emilie M. Hafner-Burton
RRP: $56.68$48.97Preferential trade agreements have become common ways to protect or restrict access to national markets in products and services. The United States has signed trade agreements with almost two dozen countries as close as Mexico and Canada and as distant... -
Services Trade in the Western Hemisphere: Liberalization, Integration, and Reform by Sherry M. Stephenson
RRP: $41.98$36.98The services sector -including financial services, telecommunications, transportation, tourism, and professional services -has become critical to the continued economic dynamism in the Americas. And the quality and competitiveness of this sector are... -
Illicit Flows and Criminal Things: States, Borders, and the Other Side of Globalization by Willem van Schendel
RRP: $44.08$38.58Illicit Flows and Criminal Things offers a new perspective on illegal transnational linkages, international relations, and the transnational. The contributors argue for a nuanced approach that recognizes the difference between "organized" crime and the... -
Climate Change, Trade, and Competitiveness: Is a Collision Inevitable? Brookings Trade Forum 08/09 by Lael Brainard
RRP: $73.50$65.00Brookings Trade Forum provides comprehensive analysis on current and emerging issues of international trade and macroeconomics. Practitioners and academics contribute to each volume, with papers that provide an in-depth look at a particular topic. The... -
How Much Do National Borders Matter? by John F. Helliwell
RRP: $37.78$33.47It is widely believed that globalization has proceeded to the point where international economic linkages are as strong as those within nations. Struck by research suggesting that this perception is dramatically mistaken, John Helliwell spent three years... -
The New Great Game: Blood and Oil in Central Asia by Lutz Kleveman
$23.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802141729Author Lutz KlevemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 291Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
The Political Power of Global Corporations John Mikler (University of Sydney, Australia) 9780745698465
RRP: $39.38$35.03We have long been told that corporations rule the world, their interests seemingly taking precedence over states and their citizens. Yet, while states, civil society, and international organizations are well drawn in terms of their institutions,... -
Trading with the Enemy: The Making of US Export Control Policy toward the People's Republic of China by Hugo Meijer 9780190889173
RRP: $90.28$67.60In light of the intertwining logics of military competition and economic interdependence at play in US-China relations, Trading with the Enemy examines how the United States has balanced its potentially conflicting national security and economic... -
The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter by Shannon K O'Neil 9780300274110
RRP: $27.28$24.07A 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... -
The Expendables: how the middle class got screwed by globalisation by Jeff Rubin
RRP: $20.98$14.07We are constantly being told that globalisation is good for the economy and good for us, but it's actually the opposite, argues bestselling author Jeff Rubin in this provocative, timely book. In the pre-coronavirus world, governments and economists... -
Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy by Kishore Mahbubani
RRP: $31.48$25.37The twenty-first century's great geopolitical contest has begun. A major trade war has broken out. American and Chinese naval vessels are having close encounters in the South China Sea. American congressmen and businessmen are cheering their government's... -
Trade Is Not a Four-Letter Word: How Six Everyday Products Make the Case for Trade by Fred P Hochberg
RRP: $35.70$21.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982127374Author Fred P HochbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Avid Reader Press / Simon & SchusterPublisher Avid Reader Press / Simon &... -
The China Triangle: Latin America's China Boom and the Fate of the Washington Consensus by Kevin P. Gallagher 9780190246730
RRP: $49.33$35.78In less than a quarter century, China has gone from one of the poorest to one of the largest economies in the world. As China grew from a rural economy to the largest industrial powerhouse since the Industrial Revolution, it demanded more and more steel... -
Open for Business: Building the New Cuban Economy by Richard Feinberg
$53.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815727675Author Richard FeinbergFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 626gDimensions(mm)... -
Shadow Courts: The Tribunals that Rule Global Trade by Haley Sweetland Edwards 9780997126402
RRP: $20.98$14.18International trade deals have become vastly complex documents, seeking to govern everything from labor rights to environmental protections. This evolution has drawn alarm from American voters, but their suspicions are often vague. In this book,... -
Sweet Talk: Paternalism and Collective Action in North-South Trade Relations by J. P. Singh
RRP: $50.38$43.76Developed nations strive to create the impression that their hearts and pockets bleed for the developing world. Yet, the global North continues to offer unfavorable trade terms to the global South. Truly fair trade would make reciprocal concessions to... -
Dark Commerce: How a New Illicit Economy Is Threatening Our Future by Louise I. Shelley
RRP: $52.50$41.98A comprehensive look at the world of illicit trade Though mankind has traded tangible goods for millennia, recent technology has changed the fundamentals of trade, in both legitimate and illegal economies. In the past three decades, the most advanced... -
Europe and Northern Ireland's Future by Mary C. Murphy
RRP: $52.48$48.85The implications of Brexit for Northern Ireland are profound, given its history and geographical position as a land border with the European Union. Four decades of sectarian violence have been replaced by a period of sustained peace, economic growth and... -
Trade Is Not a Four-Letter Word: How Six Everyday Products Make the Case for Trade by Fred P Hochberg 9781982127367
RRP: $58.80$35.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982127367Author Fred P HochbergFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Avid Reader Press / Simon & SchusterPublisher Avid Reader Press / Simon &... -
Bioinformation Bronwyn Parry 9781509505463
RRP: $31.48$28.52From DNA sequences stored on computer databases to archived forensic samples and biomedical records, bioinformation comes in many forms. Its unique provenance - the fact that it is 'mined' from the very fabric of the human body - makes it a mercurial... -
Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil by John Ghazvinian 9780156033725
RRP: $52.48$36.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156033725Author John GhazvinianFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co IncPublisher Cengage Learning, IncWeight(grams)... -
Is the American Century Over? Joseph S. Nye, Jr. 9780745690063
RRP: $84.00$54.92For more than a century, the United States has been the world's most powerful state. Now some analysts predict that China will soon take its place. Does this mean that we are living in a post-American world? Will China's rapid rise spark a new Cold War... -
Dark Commerce: How a New Illicit Economy Is Threatening Our Future by Louise I. Shelley 9780691209760
RRP: $42.00$33.37A comprehensive look at the world of illicit tradeIn the past three decades, technology has changed the fundamentals of trade, in legitimate and illegal economies. The most advanced forms of illicit trade have broken with all historical precedents and... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of Development by Carol Lancaster 9780199845156
RRP: $325.50$230.37In many discussions of nations' development, we often focus on their economic and social development. Is it becoming wealthier? Is its society modernizing? Is it becoming more technologically sophisticated? Are social outcomes improving for the broad... -
In the Jaws of the Dragon: America's Fate in the Coming Era of Chinese Dominance by Eamonn Fingleton 9780312561628
$25.98Long-time Asia scholar and economist Eamonn Fingleton sounds an alarming wake-up call to those who dream that China will embrace the American values of free-market capitalism. With cool precision, Fingleton reveals that, despite the appealing "World Is... -
Outside the EU: Options for Britain by Professor Martin Westlake 9781788213134
RRP: $52.48$48.85In the debates about the UK's future relationship with the European Union, all sorts of possible alternatives have been bandied about, from "Singapore on the Thames" to "Canada Plus", from "Switzerland" to "Ukraine", from "Norway" to "Australia". But... -
Relocating Middle Powers: Australia and Canada in a Changing World Order by Andrew Cooper 9780774804509
RRP: $62.98$55.65The fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the Soviet Union were only two of the many events that profoundly altered the international political system in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In a world no longer dominated by Cold War tensions,... -
Dragonomics: How Latin America Is Maximizing (or Missing Out on) China's International Development Strategy by Carol Wise
RRP: $68.25$58.70An insightful examination of the political and economic ties between China and Latin America from the 1950s to the present This book explores the impact of Chinese growth on Latin America since the early 2000s. Some twenty years ago, Chinese... -
Winners and Losers: The Psychology of Foreign Trade by Diana C. Mutz
RRP: $58.80$45.78From acclaimed political scientist Diana Mutz, a revealing look at why people's attitudes on trade differ from their own self-interestWinners and Losers challenges conventional wisdom about how American citizens form opinions on international trade... -
Is the EU Doomed? Jan Zielonka 9780745683973
RRP: $31.48$28.52The European Union is in crisis. Crippled by economic problems, political brinkmanship, and institutional rigidity, the EU faces an increasingly uncertain future. In this compelling essay, leading scholar of European politics, Jan Zielonka argues that... -
Contested Global Governance Space and Transnational Agrarian Movements by Mauro Conti 9781773636337
RRP: $46.20$44.50This book is the first scholarly study of the new transnational agrarian movements (TAMs) from their perspective. It explores how they strategize against the global governance of agriculture to confront neoliberal aims of expanding capital penetration in... -
Trump's Foreign Policies Are Better Than They Seem by Robert D Blackwill 9780876097632
$18.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876097632Author Robert D BlackwillFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Council on Foreign Relations PressPublisher Council on Foreign Relations... -
Current Debates in International Relations by Eric Shiraev 9780190855406
RRP: $146.96$143.62Ideal for introductory courses, the second edition of Current Debates in International Relations presents more than forty readings drawn from major scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, International... -
Business Cycles and Equilibrium Ken Black (Formerly of Goldman, Sachs and Co, New York) 9780631174936
RRP: $69.28$61.24Throughout his career Fisher Black has described a view of business fluctuations based on the idea that a well-developed economy will be continually in equilibrium. In the essays that constitute this book he explores this idea thoroughly and reaches some... -
Handbook of International Trade Agreements: Country, regional and global approaches by Robert E. Looney 9780367580551
RRP: $90.28$79.78International trade has, for decades, been central to economic growth and improved standards of living for nations and regions worldwide. For most of the advanced countries, trade has raised standards of living, while for most emerging economies, growth... -
Shrewd Sanctions: Statecraft and State Sponsors of Terrorism by Meghan L. O'Sullivan
RRP: $41.98$37.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815706014Author Meghan L. O'SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 454g