Globalization

The expanding interdependencies of the world’s diverse and divided populations have created a world society. To rule these fractious peoples, the d...

Through nine ethnographic case-studies, Edges of Global Transformation explores situations where global transformations associated with neoliberali...

The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination is a groundbreaking collection of essays by a diverse set of leading scholars who examine the ...

Global Issues in the Context of Spaces examines globalization using the concept of space to contextualize discussion of global issues. The manuscri...

A study of the structure, growth, and future of transnational human travel and communicationIncreasingly, people travel and communicate across bord...

Chinese Labor in a Korean Factorydraws on fieldwork in a multinational corporation (MNC) in Qingdao, China, and delves deep into the power dynamics...

Pinder explores how globalization has shaped, and continues to shape, the American economy, which impacts the welfare state in markedly new ways. I...

This multidisciplinary volume highlights the transformed nature of the relationship between higher education and society in the 21st century. In pa...

Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc explores the rise of youth as consumers of popular culture and the globalization of popular music in Russia and E...

The acceleration of media culture globalization processes cross-fertilization and people’s exchange beyond the confinement of national borders, but...

The election of Michelle Bachelet, the first female president of Chile, brought to the public sphere topics such as gender, inequality, and the leg...

Leading economists propose solutions to the problems of globalizationGlobalization has expanded economic opportunities throughout the world, but it...

In Outlaw Paradise, the author argues that countries become tax havens as a conscious economic development strategy. These countries do not have th...

Co-Existing in a Globalized World: Key Themes in Inter-Professional Ethics brings together, and engages with, the scholarly work accomplished indiv...

The first contribution to Global Flashpoints: A Scarecrow Press Series, Christopher Daniels’ Somali Piracy and Terrorism in the Horn of Africa prov...

Shaheed Nick Mohammed's Communication and the Globalization of Culture: Beyond Tradition and Borders provides a unique perspective on the concept o...

The United States has often acted as an empire in Latin America. Nevertheless, there has been an obvious dissimilarity between U.S. actions in Sout...

For many years, political leaders and analysts have debated the impacts of China’s rise on the stability of the existing international system. Inte...

China and East Asia’s Post-Crises Community: A Region in Flux, by Wei Liang and Faizullah Khilji, explores how an East Asian community is taking sh...

Water Resource Conflicts and International Security: A Global Perspective is an edited collection by Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi which analyzes the increa...

China and East Asian Strategic Dynamics: the Shaping of a New Regional Order, edited by Mingjiang Li and Dongmin Lee, examines how China's remarkab...

A groundbreaking historical analysis of how global capitalism and advanced democracies mutually support each otherIt is a widespread view that demo...

Few contemporary societies remain beyond the global reach of today’s fast food industry. In both profound and subtle ways, this style of cuisine an...

In this book Ari Ofengenden examines the ways that Israel’s integration into global economy has affected its main stream culture. Ofengenden uses w...

Presenting the first interdisciplinary consideration of his political thought, Updike and Politics: New Considerations establishes a new scholarly...

Donald Trump and the Trump administration radically altered a number of international policies and behaviors of the United States, and changed the ...

An articulation of any kind of global understanding of belonging, or ways of cosmopolitan life, requires a constant engagement with vulnerability, ...

Defying predictions that the Internet would eventually create a world where nations disappeared in favor of a unified 'global village,' the new mil...

This book articulates a contemporary, globalized world as one in which radical disparities in distribution of wealth are being reproduced as the ba...

A comprehensive look at the world of illicit tradeIn the past three decades, technology has changed the fundamentals of trade, in legitimate and il...

In this fascinating and timely book, Maren Behrensen facilitates a conversation between philosophy and the ‘practitioners’ of identity. What makes ...