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Contemporary capitalism has disrupted the conventional pattern of revolutionary upheaval, civil wars and pacification in Central America. This study maps the transnational processes that have shaped the region's past and its possible futures.
China and the UK in Sub-saharan Africa: International land acquisitions from the perspective of investors and home country development.
Globalization has become one of the most important topics within politics and economics. This title explains some of the related terminology, summarizes the surrounding theories and examines the international organizations involved.
This is a broad and comprehensive collection that shows how women activists across the globe are responding to the forces of the "new world order" in their communities. The first person accounts and regional case studies provide a truly global view of women.
Power in the Global Information Age collects together many of Joseph S. Nye Jr's key writings for the first time as well as some important new material.
Authorative and comprehensive, this book makes clear that there are links between global scale processes and local experiences of disaster, but underlies the difficulty of attributing blame for individual disasters on specific global pressures.
This study shows how globalization is ‘contestable’ in many different ways and how the counter-movements we have seen emerging over the last decade also ‘bear witness’ on behalf of an alternative human future.
Focusing on Europe's impact on the world, Jeremy Black analyses European attitudes, exploration, trade and acquisition of knowledge. Europe and the World, 1650-1830 is an important thematic study of the first age of globalisation.
This new volume looks at how and why United Nations organizations and the World Bank are increasingly... Læs mere
Globalisation and neo-liberalism have generated rapid economic growth and technological progress, but... Læs mere