Globalization Books

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Globalization, Political Economics, grade: 2,0, University of Leicester (Department of Politics and International Relations), language: English, abstract: On September 11,...

This anthology brings together a diversity of key texts in the emerging field of Existential Risk Studies. It serves to complement the previous volume The Era of Global Risk: An Introduction to Existential Risk Studies by providing open access to...

A case study of how a Caribbean nation may achieve political but not economic independenceTennyson S. D. Joseph builds upon current research on the anticolonial and nationalist experience in the Caribbean. He explores the impact of global transformation...

The accumulation of wealth, power and resources in ever fewer hands, a process that has been going on since the dawn of history, has produced poverty, war and degradation and has led us to the threshold of an unprecedented social, political and...

A Journal Of The Proceedings In Georgia, Beginning October 20, 1737 (1906) is a historical account written by William Stephens. The book chronicles the events that occurred in the colony of Georgia from October 20, 1737, to May 28, 1740. The author was...

""A History of Currency in the United States"" is a comprehensive book written by Alonzo Barton Hepburn in 1915. The book provides a detailed account of the currency systems that existed in the United States from the colonial era to the early 20th...

The Soviet health care infrastructure and its tuberculosis-control system were anchored in biomedicine, but the dire resurgence of tuberculosis at the end of the twentieth century changed how experts in post-Soviet nations--and globally--would treat the...

This book is the first in English to examine irregular migration from post-Soviet states, focusing in particular on migration to the United States. Due to globalization and the end of the Cold War, citizens of the former Soviet Union are on the move as...

East Asia is widely regarded as the main "winner" in contemporary globalization, unscathed by the economic crisis of 2008, with its leading new industrializing nations and emerging economies. While 20th-century globalization was mainly led by the West,...

Julie Mertus' highly acclaimed text continues to be the only completely up-to-date comprehensive yet succinct guide to the United Nations human rights system. Today, virtually all UN bodies and specialized agencies are undertaking efforts to incorporate...

This textbook provides a historical survey of economic and political development theory and practice from 1945. Against the background of changes in global politics, it explores how the project of international development has been shaped in a series of...

Intensifying Interimperialist Contradictions contains Jose Maria Sison's writings from 1989 to 2021 on the economic, political and military interactions among imperialist powers as they rise and decline and how these could develop and lead to...

The Chapters in this book are written by Chinese and Indian academics and researchers from United Service Institution of India and Sichuan University, explaining the inter-disciplinary approaches and comparative perspectives, that may help to understand...

A popular myth maintains that Indo-EU relations are best viewed through the British prism. This disregards the historical evidence of Alexander's march to India and the Roman Empire's trade with India. In more recent times cultural icons like...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Politik - Internationale Politik - Thema: Globalisierung, pol. Ökonomie, Note: 1,7, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Geschwister-Scholl-Institut für Politische Wissenschaft), Veranstaltung:...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Politik - Thema: Globalisierung, pol. Ökonomie, Note: 1,3, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: FragestellungDie zentrale Frage dieser Arbeit soll sein, warum in der Doha-Runde,...

The old philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), now more than 100 years ago, prognotized that mankind would now and then enter into what is known as “Crazy Epochs” and, perhaps we are in such a one now? Aren’t our times, rather...

Ecumenical & Interreligious Perspectives: Globalization in Theological Education is a collection of articles on the wide-ranging effects of ecumenism on theological education. Fifteen eminent historians, theologians, missiologists, Christian educators,...

Challenges conventional narratives of the Civil War era that emphasize Irish Americans' unceasing opposition to Black freedomEmbracing Emancipation tackles a perennial question in scholarship on the Civil War era: Why did Irish Americans, who claimed to...

Does travel broaden the mind? This book explores this question through an innovative sociological study of gap year travel. Taking a year out overseas between school and university is an increasingly legitimate practice for young people in the UK. But...

Christian Berndt investigates how selected corporate actors in German small and medium-sized enterprises and in large companies respond to globalisation and the apparent crisis of the German model. By exploring the role of economic and non-economic...

This book critically engages with the proliferation of literature on postcapitalism, which is rapidly becoming an urgent area of inquiry, both in academic scholarship and in public life. It collects the insights from scholars working across the field of...

Africa and the Global System of Capital Accumulation offers a groundbreaking analysis of the strategic role Africa plays in the global capitalist economy.　　The exploitation of Africa's rich resources, as well as its labor, make it possible for major...

The Wealth of Nations offers one of the world's first connected accounts of what builds nations' wealth, and has become a fundamental work in classical economics.It influenced a number of authors and economists, as well as governments and organizations...

The globalized world has witnessed the development of a number of economic integration projects, including at least two Eurasian projects: the Eurasian Union and the Belt and Road Initiative. These initiatives blur the European Union Global Strategy...

Over time, public goods, services, and policies have been developed for the welfare of people all over the world, and public finance in particular focuses on challenging issues that are significantly important for the common good of humanity. It is a...

Cross-border business transactions have become increasingly important due to new norms of conducting business. Cross-border business has led to the emergence of multiple business opportunities and challenges to various stakeholders. Such global reality...

With the world becoming increasingly interconnected and complex, traditional means are no longer sufficient to address complex global issues. Scholars often struggle to navigate the intricate web of interdisciplinary research and theory. This gap in...

FasTrack Export provides a solution that will maximize a company's success in export markets. The Phase 1 manual defines the FasTrack process, provides guidance in organizing or reorganizing a company's market expansion program, and assists in...

Discover the Threats Lurking Behind Global InitiativesHave you ever wondered what the future holds for your personal freedom? Dive deep into "The 2030 Agenda and the Death of Freedom", a compelling exploration that reveals the hidden dangers behind...

Many of the nations of the Caribbean that have become independent states have maintained as a central, organizing, nationalist principle the importance in the beliefs of the ideals of sovereignty, democracy, and development. Yet in recent years,...

This is a book about the difficulties of thinking and acting politically in ways that refuse the politics of nationalism. The book offers a detailed study of how contemporary attempts by theorists of cosmopolitanism, citizenship, globalism and...

Rising as a global power and regarding the existing world order unjust and unreasonable enough to meet the interests of both itself and other emerging powers, China has demanded reform to global governance, and taken new initiatives using its new...

The transformation of the Vietnamese economy from socialist planning to a market economy has led to Vietnam having one of the fastest economic growth rates in the world; and to also to Vietnam engaging much more with the international economy, joining...

The complexities of defining 'the South' and of determining what is unique about Southern-led and South-South relations, will be critically examined throughout the Handbook, which will offer both a state-of-the art review of key academic and policy...

The complex relationship between globalization and European integration was largely shaped in the 1970s. During this decade, globalization began, for the first time, to threaten Western European prosperity. Using an innovative approach, the book shows...

Across the world the Western dominated international aid system is being challenged. The rise of right-wing populism, de-globalisation, the advance of illiberal democracy and the emergence of non-Western donors onto the international stage are...

Since the global financial crisis of 2008, advanced economies have been making various efforts to overcome the economic impasse. While the contrast between the countries that have escaped from the crisis relatively quickly and those still suffering from...

Globalization is a term that describes the contradictory economic, political, and cultural processes of world capitalist integration. Although capitalism has been of a global character since the 1400s, the current phase of globalization is manifest by...

Why is it that our highly-interconnected and globalized world seems more chaotic and dangerous than ever? Have you ever wondered why the world seems to lurch from seemingly unconnected crisis to crisis? From the pandemic to climate change and net-zero...

The development of international affairs from realms to countries addresses a significant change in the worldwide scene, denoting a progress from immense magnificent spaces to the mind boggling transaction of sovereign states. This change has formed the...

As more companies shift their operations between countries to take advantage of lower costs and greater profit, the global market continues to change rapidly, resulting in global hypercompetition that can be detrimental to a business. Firms must remain...

There was a time in international relations, when in spite of the regular interests and intrigues used to seek them, some were able to keep the fundamentals of decency, truth, conscience, the respect for facts, traditions and history, and the search for...

This book investigates the concept of colonial globalization to show how knowledge, information, technology, capital, and labour have the potential to move freely across the world. It focuses on the impact of colonial globalization on the people of...