Civil Society: A Reader in History, Theory and Global Politics
ISBN: 9781403915436 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the last two decades, civil society has re-emerged as a popular notion amongst academics and politicians alike. John A. Hall and Frank Trentmann provide the first critical selection of texts on the evolution of civil society as a seminal and hotly debated idea from the seventeenth century to the present. Combining European texts with global debates about civil society, including texts about Islam, China, and human rights, this critical edition is essential reading for students and academics in history, sociology, politics, and international relations as well as social activists interested...
In the last two decades, civil society has re-emerged as a popular notion amongst academics and politicians alike. John A. Hall and Frank Trentmann pr...
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Urban Multiculturalism and Globalization in New York City: An Analysis of Diasporic Temporalities
ISBN: 9781403915511 / Angielski / Twarda / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on American society as a transglobal nation and examines the temporal dimension of diasporic incorporation in New York City. It argues that immigrant neighbourhoods are faced not only with issues of economic and political integration, but also are engaged in a sublime and relentless effort of harmonizing the cultural rhythms of their daily life with the hegemonic temporality of mainstream society. Although much energy has been spent in explaining the segregated or ghettoized space of ethnic communities, there is, in contrast, a dearth of data on the subalternization,...
This book focuses on American society as a transglobal nation and examines the temporal dimension of diasporic incorporation in New York City. It argu...
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Market Matters: Exploring Cultural Processes in the Global Marketplace
ISBN: 9781403917577 / Angielski / Twarda / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Globalization of trade and organizational change increase the impact of markets in peoples' lives. But in what ways do markets matter? This book is about how financial analysts, marketing people, corporate leaders and other actors in Western market economies perceive, model, and use markets. It provides an ethnographic window into the cultural processes of contemporary markets; how people employ the market to solve problems, create capital, gain political ends, challenge economic processes, and delineate moral values and responsibilities.
Globalization of trade and organizational change increase the impact of markets in peoples' lives. But in what ways do markets matter? This book is ab...
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389,09 zł |
What Global Economic Crisis?
ISBN: 9781403934963 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Economics has become an excessively esoteric discipline. Opportunities to bridge the gap between theorizing and policymaking are becoming increasingly limited. One issue of great importance to modern policymakers is the relationship between globalization and economic crisis. With unprecedented trends towards globalization (in part propelled by developments in information technology), the repercussions of economic crisis are more profound than ever before, particularly for developing countries. What Global Economic Crisis? bridges the gap between theory and policy by examining the...
Economics has become an excessively esoteric discipline. Opportunities to bridge the gap between theorizing and policymaking are becoming increasingly...
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Levels of Corporate Globalization: Developing a Measurement Scale for Global Customer Management
ISBN: 9781403936257 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a new and practical segmentation approach to be used in global customer management in the form of a scale by which to measure the level of corporate globalization. This is a tool that will help companies segment their customers and enable them to adapt customer management strategies when dealing with increasingly global customers. This in turn helps determine the company's own strategic position, thereby enhancing corporate performance.
This book presents a new and practical segmentation approach to be used in global customer management in the form of a scale by which to measure the l...
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389,09 zł |
Managing FDI in a Globalizing Economy: Asian Experiences
ISBN: 9781403936554 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The rapid growth of developing Asia has attracted, and been facilitated by, foreign direct investment (FDI). Potential benefits of FDI inflows extend far beyond financial resources, but costs may entail as well. Governments throughout the region have been striving to find an appropriate policy mix for FDI that will maximize the net benefits for their economies. There is considerable variation in policies and experiences with FDI across countries. This study looks at FDI flows, consequences, and policies in developing Asia. It focuses on a diverse set of six Asian countries and draws lessons...
The rapid growth of developing Asia has attracted, and been facilitated by, foreign direct investment (FDI). Potential benefits of FDI inflows extend ...
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Debates on European Integration: A Reader
ISBN: 9781403941039 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a major new reader that brings together and assesses the most influential scholarly contributions that have fashioned the debate on European integration over the past 50 years. It includes an original contribution reflecting on key issues in integration theory by Ben Rosamond.
This is a major new reader that brings together and assesses the most influential scholarly contributions that have fashioned the debate on European i...
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755,61 zł |
The New Global Regulatory Landscape: Impact on Finance and Investment
ISBN: 9781403942814 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The New Global Regulatory Landscape provides a benchmark tool for financial intermediaries and Institutional Investors. Covering 24 international regulations across the UK, Europe, Asia/Pacific and the USA, the authors provide practical compliance tips for financial intermediaries and guidance on best practice for investors. The book highlights eight areas of critical overlap where regulatory requirements conflict and give rise to potential risk and liability. The authors use the historical perspective of some regulations to paint a picture of the future convergence of international...
The New Global Regulatory Landscape provides a benchmark tool for financial intermediaries and Institutional Investors. Covering 24 international regu...
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Temptations of Power: The United States in Global Politics After 9/11
ISBN: 9781403946768 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Temptations of Power examines the new security dilemma which confronted George W. Bush when terrorists proved on 9/11 that they could seriously wound a great military powers on home ground. The authors argue that the response was influenced by neo-conservative exaggeration of the efficacy of military power and belief in the US ability.
Temptations of Power examines the new security dilemma which confronted George W. Bush when terrorists proved on 9/11 that they could seriously wound ...
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Temptations of Power: The United States in Global Politics After 9/11
ISBN: 9781403946775 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Temptations of Power examines the new security dilemma which confronted George W. Bush when terrorists proved on 9/11 that they could seriously wound a great military powers on home ground. The authors argue that the response was influenced by neo-conservative exaggeration of the efficacy of military power and belief in the US ability.
Temptations of Power examines the new security dilemma which confronted George W. Bush when terrorists proved on 9/11 that they could seriously wound ...
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Dialogue and Difference: Feminisms Challenge Globalization
ISBN: 9781403967633 / Angielski / Twarda / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Calling for inclusion and dialogue, these essays by an international group of feminist scholars and activists stress the need to put into relation seemingly discrepant approaches to reality and to scholarship in order to build coalitions across the usual North/South and East/West divides. This diverse group of authors, who spent fourteen weeks working collaboratively, dispense with unity and seek instead to use dialogue and difference in their production of knowledge about effective political action. The dialogues materialized here among women's movements that have emerged within different...
Calling for inclusion and dialogue, these essays by an international group of feminist scholars and activists stress the need to put into relation see...
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Educational Import: Local Encounters with Global Forces in Mongolia
ISBN: 9781403968104 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses students, practitioners and scholars in educational policy studies. The authors use Mongolia as a case to illustrate how global influences shape domestic developments in education, and how imported education reforms are locally modified, re-contextualized, or 'Mongolized'.
This book addresses students, practitioners and scholars in educational policy studies. The authors use Mongolia as a case to illustrate how global in...
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The Geopolitics of Europe's Identity: Centers, Boundaries, and Margins
ISBN: 9781403982056 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book pursues an original perspective on Europe's shifting extent and geopolitical standing: how countries and spaces marginal to it impact on Europe as a center. A theoretical discussion of borders and margins is developed, and set against nine studies of countries, regions, and identities seen as marginal to Europe.
This book pursues an original perspective on Europe's shifting extent and geopolitical standing: how countries and spaces marginal to it impact on Eur...
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330,72 zł |
The Politics of Developmentalism in Mexico, Taiwan and South Korea: The Midas States of Mexico, South Korea and Taiwan
ISBN: 9781403986115 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Minns argues that the industrial transformations of Mexico, South Korea and Taiwan were based on the existence of powerful developmentalist states in each. It explores the origins of such states and their dynamics and connects the form of autonomy they enjoy within their countries to the policies they pursue.
Minns argues that the industrial transformations of Mexico, South Korea and Taiwan were based on the existence of powerful developmentalist states in ...
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Development Models, Globalization and Economies: A Search for the Holy Grail?
ISBN: 9781403991683 / Angielski / Twarda / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text considers different economic models available in the global market. The US or Anglo-Saxon model is often portrayed as the best but now Asia is again on a roll. The book analyzes how these models have influenced both regional and global development, and engages in discussions upon alternatives and the search for the 'grail'.
This text considers different economic models available in the global market. The US or Anglo-Saxon model is often portrayed as the best but now Asia ...
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The Multinational Enterprise and the Globalization of Knowledge
ISBN: 9781403991690 / Angielski / Twarda / 359 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the role of knowledge within multinational enterprises and their global networks. It introduces the concept of 'Global Factory', a framework for the understanding of spatially distributed activities under the control of a focal firm, and it focuses on the role of foreign direct investment in the transformation of China.
This book examines the role of knowledge within multinational enterprises and their global networks. It introduces the concept of 'Global Factory', a ...
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Understanding Conflict Between Russia and the EU: The Limits of Integration
ISBN: 9781403996893 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Understanding Conflict between Russia and the EU addresses the conflictual issues in EU-Russian relations and presents an innovative theory for the understanding of their emergence. Drawing on up-to-date research data, the author argues that conflicts in EU-Russian relations are generated by the clash of principles of state sovereignty and international integration, which characterize the policies of both sides.
Understanding Conflict between Russia and the EU addresses the conflictual issues in EU-Russian relations and presents an innovative theory for the un...
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The New Political Economy of Development: Globalization, Imperialism, Hegemony
ISBN: 9781403999962 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This major new text analyses changes and continuities in the current international order and their implications for understanding international development in the 21st century. The author assesses the extent and impact of globalization and the emergence of a more aggressive stance by the U.S and the subsequent debates.
This major new text analyses changes and continuities in the current international order and their implications for understanding international develo...
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705,23 zł |
Citizenship
ISBN: 9781405105521 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A significant addition to the growing body of literature on citizenship, this wide-ranging overview focuses on the importance, and changing nature, of citizenship. It introduces the varied discourses and theories that have arisen in recent years, and looks toward future scholarship in the field.
A significant addition to the growing body of literature on citizenship, this wide-ranging overview focuses on the importance, and changing nature, of...
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153,51 zł |
Adjusting to Globalization
ISBN: 9781405131698 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume investigates the ways in which firms and workers are adjusting to globalization.
This volume investigates the ways in which firms and workers are adjusting to globalization.
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115,33 zł |