Globalization

Why Britain’s attempt at small government proved unable to cope with the challenges of the modern worldIn the nineteenth century, as Britain attain...

This expansive history traces the hidden connections between oil and capitalism from the late 1800s to the current climate crisis. Beyond simplisti...

Borders are known for their paradoxical qualities. Sometimes they are shifting and porous, lines in the sand constituted more by subjective experie...

Edward Ashbee examines the globalizing processes of the past thirty years and considers the extent to which there has been “deglobalization” or “sl...

The world has changed dramatically since the emergence of post-Marxism, and a reassessment is needed to determine its significance in the modern wo...

Q. Who should take the lead in fixing market capitalism?A. Business—not government alone.The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthi...

The future in the Global South is viewed and perceived critically, from the inertia of a present that does not offer peace, justice, wealth and hap...

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...

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...

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

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 migrants—from the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands to the Sahara, images o...

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

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

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

The movement of policy is a core feature of contemporary education reform. Many different concepts, including policy transfer, borrowing and lendin...

Amateurs without Borders examines the rise of new actors in the international development world: volunteer-driven grassroots international nongover...

Home to a rapidly rising superpower and the two largest economies in the world after the US, a global East Asia is seen and felt everywhere. This d...

Middle Eastern Gothics is the first scholarly volume on Gothic literature from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Its nine chapters consider ...

Borderlands are complex spaces that can involve military, religious, economic, political, and cultural interactions—all of which may vary by region...

Today's globalization debates pit neoliberals, who favour even deeper integration into the global economy, against neo-mercantilists, who call for ...

The global order, based on international governance and multilateral trade mechanisms in the aftermath of the Second World War, is changing rapidly...