Global Political Economy in the Information Age: Power and Inequality
ISBN: 9780415384063 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Introduction: 20th-21st century imaginings and realities Section 1: Time/Space Frameworks 1. States and Markets: understanding geospatial time 2. Virtual Realities: exploring sociospatiality 3. The Political Economy of Time: historical time, speed and mobility Section 2: Borders and Inequality 4. Transcendence and Communication 5. Inequality as Driver 6. Embedding Patriarchy: feminism and inequality in the Internet era Section 3: Technofutures and Power 7. Complex Hegemony in the 21st Century: power and inequality Conclusion Introduction: 20th-21st century imaginings and realities Section 1: Time/Space Frameworks 1. States and Markets: understanding geo... |
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Globalization, Labour Markets and Inequality in India
ISBN: 9780415436113 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. India started on a program of reforms, both in its external and internal aspects, sometime in the mid-eighties and going on into the nineties. This book examines the aspects of post-reform India and discerns the changes and trends which these developments
India started on a program of reforms, both in its external and internal aspects, sometime in the mid-eighties and going on into the nineties. This bo...
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Hiv/Aids: Global Frontiers in Prevention/Intervention
ISBN: 9780415953825 / Angielski / Twarda / 578 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. HIV/AIDS: Global Frontiers in Prevention/Intervention provides a comprehensive overview of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. The unique anthology addresses cutting-edge issues in HIV/AIDS research, policymaking, and advocacy. Key features include: - Nine original essays from leading scholars in public health, epidemiology, and social and behavioral sciences - Comprehensive information for individuals with varying degrees of knowledge, particularly regarding methodological and theoretical perspectives - A look into the future progression of HIV... HIV/AIDS: Global Frontiers in Prevention/Intervention provides a comprehensive overview of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. The unique anthology addre... |
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810,77 zł |
India - From Regional to World Power
ISBN: 9780415448024 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the rise of India to the status of a world power capable of dealing with the full spectrum of international and regional issues in a critical part of the world. It traces the evolution of Indian diplomacy in the hands of key Indian practitioners comparing Nehru, the founder of Indian diplomacy with his successors, the Nehruvians up to 1998, and finally, Vajpayee, the leader of the BJP (1998-2004). Its main purposes are to explain the strategic and ideological context in which Indian diplomacy was framed, the character of India's foreign policy problems, the nature and... This book examines the rise of India to the status of a world power capable of dealing with the full spectrum of international and regional issues ... |
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The Postcolonial Politics of Development
ISBN: 9780415773980 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book uses a postcolonial lens to question development's dominant cultural representations and institutional practices, investigating the possibilities for a transformatory postcolonial politics. Ilan Kapoor examines recent development policy initiatives in such areas as 'governance, ' 'human rights' and 'participation' to better understand and contest the production of knowledge in development - its cultural assumptions, power implications, and hegemonic politics. The volume shows how development practitioners and westernized elites/intellectuals are often complicit in this... This book uses a postcolonial lens to question development's dominant cultural representations and institutional practices, investigating the possi... |
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217,84 zł |
Multilingual Identities in a Global City: London Stories
ISBN: 9780230554344 / Angielski / Miękka / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Opening with a discussion of the key issues of globalization, migration, multiculturalism, multilingualism and global cities, David Block then turns to four detailed case studies: East Asian students living and working in London; foreign language teachers from France; London's growing Latino community; and second generation South Asian university students. Via these case studies the book explores the ambivalent and multi-layered identities of individuals who have crossed geographical and psychological borders during the course of their lifetimes and settled in London, the quintessential...
Opening with a discussion of the key issues of globalization, migration, multiculturalism, multilingualism and global cities, David Block then turns t...
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Fort Pillow Massacre (1864)
ISBN: 9780548624784 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Globalization in 2020
ISBN: 9781594546815 / Angielski / Twarda / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents an analysis of globalisation as it is projected to be in 2020. Based on a Report of the National Intelligence Council's 2020 Project, this work is founded on consultations with non-governmental experts around the world.
Presents an analysis of globalisation as it is projected to be in 2020. Based on a Report of the National Intelligence Council's 2020 Project, this wo...
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268,52 zł |
Treadmill of Production: Injustice and Unsustainability in the Global Economy
ISBN: 9781594515071 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Schnaiberg's concept of the treadmill of production is arguably the most visible and enduring theory to emerge in three decades of environmental sociology. Elaborated and tested, it has been found to be an accurate predictor of political-economic changes in the global economy. In the global South, it has figures prominently in the work of structural environmental analysts and has been used by many political-economic movements. Building new extensions and applications of the treadmill theory, this new book shows how and why northern analysts and governments have failed to protect our...
Schnaiberg's concept of the treadmill of production is arguably the most visible and enduring theory to emerge in three decades of environmental socio...
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273,59 zł |
International Political Economy and Globalization (2nd Edition)
ISBN: 9789812818720 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Includes material on trade, monetary, and environmental issues. This book provides a comprehensive treatment of major developments in the global economy. It takes a stand that is supportive of globalization in principle, while acknowledging that there are many areas of inequity that disadvantage developing countries.
Includes material on trade, monetary, and environmental issues. This book provides a comprehensive treatment of major developments in the global econo...
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Globalization's Contradictions : Geographies of Discipline, Destruction and Transformation
ISBN: 9780415770613 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the 1980s, globalization and neoliberalism have brought about a restructuring of everyone’s lives. This collection of treatments of such a complex set of processes unearths the contradictions in the impacts of globalization.
Since the 1980s, globalization and neoliberalism have brought about a restructuring of everyone’s lives. This collection of treatments of such a com...
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Globalisation, Public Opinion and the State: Western Europe and East and Southeast Asia
ISBN: 9780415399883 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first integrated account of citizen responses to the new global order. Based on a comprehensive survey administered at the end of 2000 in nine European and nine Asian countries, it demonstrates the diverse responses to globalization, within, and between, two of the world's major – and most globally integrated – regions.
This is the first integrated account of citizen responses to the new global order. Based on a comprehensive survey administered at the end of 2000 in ...
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709,42 zł |
Globalization as Evolutionary Process: Modeling Global Change
ISBN: 9780415773607 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The term globalization has gained widespread popularity; yet most treatments are either descriptive and/or focused on changes in economic interconnectivity. In this volume the concept is seen in broader terms as leading international experts from a range of disciplines develop a long-term analysis to address the problems of globalization. The editors and contributors develop a framework for understanding the origins and trajectory of contemporary world trends, constructing testable and verifiable models of globalization. They demonstrate how the evolutionary... The term globalization has gained widespread popularity; yet most treatments are either descriptive and/or focused on changes in economic i... |
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Global Knowledge Networks and International Development
ISBN: 9780415433730 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A much-needed examination of the impact of transnational knowledge networks in the formulation of local, national and global policy in the field of international development and transition studies.
A much-needed examination of the impact of transnational knowledge networks in the formulation of local, national and global policy in the field ...
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227,98 zł |
Beyond Borders: Environmental Movements and Transnational Politics
ISBN: 9780415464390 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, by leading scholars of environmental movements, examines how trans-national politics is changing the nature of environmentalism through examining both wider theoretical and comparative questions derived from case studies grounded in Europe, Africa, America, Asia and the Middle East. This book, by leading scholars of environmental movements, examines how trans-national politics is changing the nature of environmentalism through ... |
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709,42 zł |
Africa Today : Culture, Economics, Religion, Security
ISBN: 9780415418836 / Angielski / Twarda / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the post 9/11 global environment Africa is standing at a crossroads in international affairs as the combined issues of politics, religion and security attract renewed interest. Africa Today provides students with an introduction to the key contemporary issues that this continent faces. In the post 9/11 global environment Africa is standing at a crossroads in international affairs as the combined issues of politics, religion and se... |
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The International Organization for Standardization (Iso): Global Governance Through Voluntary Consensus
ISBN: 9780415774291 / Angielski / Twarda / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is the first full-length study of the largest nongovernmental, global regulatory network whose scope and influence rivals that of the UN system.
Much of the interest in the successes and failures of global governance focuses around high profile organisations such as the United Nations, World Bank and World Trade Organisation. This volume is one of few books that explore both the International Organization for Standardization's (ISO) role as a facilitator of essential economic infrastructure and the... The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is the first full-length study of the largest nongovernmental, global reg... |
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684,09 zł |
Governance and Regionalism in Asia
ISBN: 9780415456999 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the decade since the Asian financial crisis the ten states of Southeast Asia that form ASEAN, together with China, Japan and South Korea have formed the basis of a community intended to support the well-being of its member states, markets and peoples. This highly successful regionalisation was not anticipated by the region's leaders, however, and as a result, policy makers are increasingly talking about 'meeting fatigue' and the need to find a better way to govern regional affairs. Among the reforms being considered is a shift towards a more rules-based culture as well as the more... In the decade since the Asian financial crisis the ten states of Southeast Asia that form ASEAN, together with China, Japan and South Korea have fo... |
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202,64 zł |
Indigenous Diplomacies
ISBN: 9780230613072 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume explores broad conceptual questions raised by the 'discovery' of indigenous peoples as increasingly important global political actors - questions made all the more urgent by the sudden recognition that indigenous diplomacies are not at all new, but merely newly noticed.
This volume explores broad conceptual questions raised by the 'discovery' of indigenous peoples as increasingly important global political actors - qu...
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194,97 zł |
Globalization
ISBN: 9781590331286 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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222,92 zł |