Globalization and Insecurity: Political, Economic and Physical Challenges

ISBN-13: 9781349664269 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 245 str.

Barbara Harriss-White

Opis

Although the word globalization is still not received English, many books now celebrate the global integration of trade, finance, culture and telecommunication.

Spis treści

Globalization, Insecurities and Responses: An Introductory Essay; B.Harriss-White Economic Globalism and Political Universalism: Conflicting Issues?; S.Amin Global Capitalism and National Politics; C.Leys Globalization and Sustainability; W.Sachs The Peaceful Settlement of Disputes between States and the Problems of Globalization; I.Browlie The Security of International Finance; V.Fitzgerald Global Business in Search of Security; J.Kay Globalization and the Means of Destruction: Physical Security and Weapons at the Turn of the Millennium; S.WIllett Labour in the Age of Globalization; R.Cohen The Sustainability of Welfare States: Reshaping Social Protection; G.Esping-Anderson Index

O autorze

SAMIR AMIN Professor of Economics and Director of the Third World Forum's Africa Office, Dakar IAN BROWNLIE, CBE, FBA, QC Emeritus Chichele Professor of Public International Law and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University ROBIN COHEN Professor of Sociology and Senior Research Fellow, Centre of the Study of Globalization and Regionalization, University of Warwick GOSTA ESPING-ANDERSON Professor of Political Science, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona VALPY FITZGERALD Professorial Fellow, St Antony's College and Director of the Finance and Trade Policy Research Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University JOHN KAY FBA Fellow of St John's College, Oxford COLIN LEYS Emeritus Professor of Politics, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada WOLFGANG SACHS Senior Research Fellow, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environmental and Energy and Chair of Greenpeace in Germany SUSAN WILLETT Director of the Cost of Disarmament Programme, United Nations Organization, Geneva