Globalization

The decision of the British people to leave the EU was a political earthquake. A seemingly never-ending round of challenges from the migration cri...

In The Globalization of Inequality, distinguished economist and policymaker Francois Bourguignon examines the complex and paradoxical links between...

Orientalist discourses in Brazilian culture are an expression of anxieties about the re-structuring of time and space in the network age. The book ...

In this edited volume, scholars from Latin America and the United States will analyze how US foreign policy making circles have applied the concept...

This book investigates key issues facing leaders in increasingly complex decision-making environments as a result of globalization. It presents a s...

Many warn that the next stage of globalization--the offshoring of research and development to China and India--threatens the foundations of Western...

Theories of Globalization offers students and scholars a comprehensive and critical introduction to the concept of globalization. Barrie Axford exp...

The end of the Cold War has seen an international proliferation of parliamentary bodies of all types and at all levels. How can this process of par...

Providing a thorough and novel account of US and Japanese foreign policymaking toward regional institution-building in post-Cold War Asia, this stu...

Today, extensive interconnected global processes provide non-state actors with a degree of agency that a 'System of States' paradigm cannot account...

Do participatory processes open a political space to marginalized groups and individuals? Or do they co-opt and coerce groups to reinforce existing...

Barack Obama has faced many challenges in reversing U.S. policy on the Middle East. This book highlights points of resistance to Obama's efforts re...

In this concise introduction to the complexities of contemporary western intelligence and its dynamics during an era of globalization, Adam Svendse...

This study considers the recent surge of science fiction narratives from the postcolonial Third World as a utopian response to the spatial, politic...

Wittig presents the first unified coherent framework for the systematic analysis of terrorist finance. With empirical examples from around the glob...

A state of the discipline approach to teaching and learning in Politics and IR including contributions which discuss the most cutting-edge approach...

Drastic changes in the career aspirations of women in the developed world have resulted in a new, globalised market for off-the-peg designer clothe...

Presenting International Studies as a wide, plural and inherently interdisciplinary field of research, this book shows its links with philosophy, p...

Science and politics are closely connected in today's global environmental issues. This book focuses on these links in relation to climate change, ...

Analyzes the notion of the French exception and the ways in which it has informed both academic analysis and political commentary on France today. ...

Globalization and changes to statehood challenge our understanding of space and territory. This book argues that we must understand that both the m...

This work highlights the Black American community's transition from a pathological-pathogenic community to an intersectional one, a model which dom...

A comprehensive look at the world of illicit trade Though mankind has traded tangible goods for millennia, recent technology has changed the fundam...

After decades of missed opportunities, the door to a sustainable future has closed, and the future we face now is one in which today's industrial c...

Wastelands is an exploration of trash, the scavengers who collect it, and the precarious communities it sustains. After enduring war and persecutio...

War-torn deserts, jihadist killings, trucks weighted down with contraband and migrantsfrom the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands to the Sahara, images of...

This book analyzes the justification of preventive war in contemporary asymmetrical international relations. It focuses on the most crucial aspect ...

What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two sticks together...

A valuable handbook for entering, launching, and growing business in the United States The U.S. is the best place for business. It has the biggest ...

The rise of populism in the West and the rise of China in the East have stirred a rethinking of how democratic systems workand how they fail. The i...

The author provides a theoretical framework of the global political economy of banking regulation and analyses the policies and politics of the Bas...

This book focuses on the role of translation in a globalising world. It presents a series of case studies that explore the ways in which translatio...

Challenging the main ways we debate globalization, Global Displacements reveals how uneven geographies of capitalist development shapeand are shape...

Challenging the main ways we debate globalization, Global Displacements reveals how uneven geographies of capitalist development shapeand are shape...

This volume is the result of a 2013 conference held by the Asan Institute for Policy Studies (South Korea) on the 'middle power' countries of Mexic...

A.Kadir Yildirim and other scholars have used the term Muslim Democrat to describe moderate Islamist political parties, suggesting a parallel with ...

Media do not reflect: media refract. In the United States, established and enduring prisms of prejudice about the projected Middle East are mediate...

Through their part in some huge controversies, conspiracy theorists are being branded the Number One Enemies of our times the new heretics. They a...

Presenting a critical overview of what 'emerging multipolarity' means for the world's foremost global trading bloc and economic power, the European...

Using a framework of norm diffusion to determine the EU's international actorness in the context of its relations with ASEAN, this book provides a ...

Comparing the experience of East Asia and Latin America since the mid-1970s, Elson identifies the key internal factors common to each region which ...

The contributors assess to what extent regional organizations in Europe and Latin America provide a space for the regulation and provision of socia...

This book reviews bureau-type organizations delivering network goods, documenting how most global institutions greatly improved their effectiveness...

The post-Yugoslav states have developed very differently since Yugoslavia dissolved in the early 1990s. This book analyzes the foreign policies of ...

The use of regional organizations to mitigate and respond to disasters has become a global trend. This book examines the role regional organization...