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Amy Myers Jaffe provides an expert look at the promises and challenges of the future of energy, highlighting... Læs mere
Volume 14 focusses on: the environmental influence of globalization and China, environmental impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on host countries,... Læs mere
This book argues for an original, unorthodox conception about the relationship between globalization and contemporary nationalism, challenging prevailing academic and popular assumptions about these two forces.
This work is the result of the Forum 2000 conferences initiated by Václav Havel and Elie Wiesel. The book is based mainly on the first five conferences which were held in Prague from 1997.
Examines the intersection of globalization issues with core-periphery dynamics, exploring how the relationships between metropolitan centers and their peripheries shape our understanding of what constitutes globalization and its potential effects.
One of the greatest assets of the World Bank is its accumulated knowledge and experience of the development process. This book proposes reorganisation as a... Læs mere
The essays in this 1997 book analyse how German and American views of each other developed and periodically shifted, providing a fresh... Læs mere
Human language has changed in the age of globalization: no longer tied to stable and resident communities, it moves across the globe, and it changes in the process. In this book Jan Blommaert constructs a theory of changing language in a changing society.
As the world faces the prospect of climate change, nuclear disasters, and water scarcity, it is clear... Læs mere