Globalization : State of the Art and Perspectives
ISBN: 9780415405669 / Angielski / Twarda / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Globalization is the first volume which systematically encompasses the debates and the results of research of political scientists on all core aspects of the interrelation between politics and economics in the process of globalization. This volume shows how research on globalization has reached a degree of differentiation and depth that makes it necessary and attractive to assess the state-of-the-art and perspectives for further research. With contributions from international experts including Andreas Busch, Nadine Haase and Edgar Grande. Globalization is the first volume which systematically encompasses the debates and the results of research of political scientists on all core aspe... |
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752,62 zł |
Globalising Intellectual Property Rights: The Trips Agreement
ISBN: 9780415406581 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Globalising Intellectual Property Rights, Matthews looks at various aspects of the TRIPS Agreement: agenda-setting, legal interpretation, implementation, enforcement and revision - from the viewpoint of global business interests and developing countries. It is argued that the Agreement was largely the result of an initiative by multinational companies who sought to protect their own intellectual property through international law, and, furthermore, that it is these multinational companies who are now its main guardians. The book concludes that the history of the TRIPS Agreement...
In Globalising Intellectual Property Rights, Matthews looks at various aspects of the TRIPS Agreement: agenda-setting, legal interpretation, ...
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270,89 zł |
Land, Poverty and Livelihoods in an Era of Globalization: Perspectives from Developing and Transition Countries
ISBN: 9780415414494 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A host of internationally eminent scholars are brought together here to explore the structural causes of rural poverty and income inequality, as well as the processes of social exclusion and political subordination encountered by the peasantry and rural workers across a wide range of countries. This volume examines the intersection of politics and economics and provides a critical analysis and framework for the study of neo-liberal land policies in the current phase of globalization. Utilizing new empirical evidence from ten countries, it provides an in-depth analysis of key country... A host of internationally eminent scholars are brought together here to explore the structural causes of rural poverty and income inequality, as we... |
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878,05 zł |
The Globalization of Political Violence: Globalization's Shadow
ISBN: 9780415425339 / Angielski / Twarda / 12 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The events of the 11th of September 2001 revealed most dramatically that globalization has a shadow. While large sections of the world's population enjoy the perceived benefits of globalization, others seek to utilize globalization for their own politically violent purposes. If 9/11 demonstrated anything, it is that globalization can as readily facilitate violence and insecurity as it can produce stability, prosperity and political order. This edited volume offers important new methodological and multi-disciplinary insights into the study of globalization and political... The events of the 11th of September 2001 revealed most dramatically that globalization has a shadow. While large sections of the world's... |
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752,62 zł |
The Globalization of Political Violence: Globalization's Shadow
ISBN: 9780415425346 / Angielski / Miękka / 12 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The events of the 11th of September 2001 revealed most dramatically that globalization has a shadow. While large sections of the world's population enjoy the perceived benefits of globalization, others seek to utilize globalization for their own politically violent purposes. If 9/11 demonstrated anything, it is that globalization can as readily facilitate violence and insecurity as it can produce stability, prosperity and political order. This edited volume offers important new methodological and multi-disciplinary insights into the study of globalization and political... The events of the 11th of September 2001 revealed most dramatically that globalization has a shadow. While large sections of the world's... |
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230,75 zł |
Globalization and Geopolitics in the Middle East: Old Games, New Rules
ISBN: 9780415426329 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining globalization in the Middle East, this book provides a much needed assessment of the impact of globalization in the greater Middle East, including North Africa, in the context of the powerful geopolitical forces at work in shaping the region today.
Written by a well-known authority in this area, this book demonstrates that, unlike in other regions, such as East Asia, geopolitics has been a critical factor in driving globalization in the Middle East. The author argues that whereas elsewhere globalisation has opened up the economy, society, culture and attitudes to the environment;... Examining globalization in the Middle East, this book provides a much needed assessment of the impact of globalization in the greater Middle East, inc...
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727,52 zł |
The Network Society: A New Context for Planning
ISBN: 9780415701501 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a clear and rewarding style, Albrechts and Mandelbaum consider the challenges that the new paradigm of the Network Society creates for Urban and Regional Planning. Chapters grouped into five themes discuss theoretical and practical perspectives on the contemporary organization of social, economic, cultural, political and physical spaces. These sections are:
In a clear and rewarding style, Albrechts and Mandelbaum consider the challenges that the new paradigm of the Network Society creates for Urban and... |
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702,44 zł |
The Network Society: A New Context for Planning
ISBN: 9780415701518 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a clear and rewarding style, Albrechts and Mandelbaum consider the challenges that the new paradigm of the Network Society creates for Urban and Regional Planning. Chapters grouped into five themes discuss theoretical and practical perspectives on the contemporary organization of social, economic, cultural, political and physical spaces. These sections are:
In a clear and rewarding style, Albrechts and Mandelbaum consider the challenges that the new paradigm of the Network Society creates for Urban and... |
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245,81 zł |
Globalization, Governmentality and Global Politics: Regulation for the Rest of Us?
ISBN: 9780415701594 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Globalization is moving fast, impacting on the life of all nations with accelerating force. In this new study Ronnie Lipschutz shows how it is being handled by specific groups seeking positive outcomes for the people and causes they represent. Globalization, Governmentality and Global Politics details how the widespread failure of states and corporations to regulate the impact of increased globalization has given rise to non-governmental organizations and movements, aiming to influence corporations regarding social responsibilities and address key issues such as human... Globalization is moving fast, impacting on the life of all nations with accelerating force. In this new study Ronnie Lipschutz shows how it is bein... |
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652,27 zł |
Globalization, Governmentality and Global Politics: Regulation for the Rest of Us?
ISBN: 9780415701600 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Globalization is moving fast, impacting on the life of all nations with accelerating force. In this new study Ronnie Lipschutz shows how it is being handled by specific groups seeking positive outcomes for the people and causes they represent. Globalization, Governmentality and Global Politics details how the widespread failure of states and corporations to regulate the impact of increased globalization has given rise to non-governmental organizations and movements, aiming to influence corporations regarding social responsibilities and address key issues such as human... Globalization is moving fast, impacting on the life of all nations with accelerating force. In this new study Ronnie Lipschutz shows how it is bein... |
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185,60 zł |
Trouble in Paradise : Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America
ISBN: 9780415929790 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental degradation in Latin America has become one of the most pressing issues on the international agenda. The volume began to crescendo when space shuttle astronauts photographed five thousand fires on a single night in the Brazilian Amazon state of Rondonia in 1985, and grew shrill when rubber tapper Chico Mendes was shot in 1988 trying to stop ranchers from clearing rainforests near his home in Acre. Since the early 80s, we've heard pleas from rock stars, environmental groups and scientists, asking us to focus our attention on environmental destruction in Latin America: oil spills,...
Environmental degradation in Latin America has become one of the most pressing issues on the international agenda. The volume began to crescendo when ...
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878,05 zł |
The Globalization of Contentious Politics : The Amazonian Indigenous Rights Movement
ISBN: 9780415944267 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work argues that due to domestic blockages presented to them in their respective countries, the Amazonian indigenous peoples organized via trans-national networks. Through a comparative historical analysis of five Ecuadorian-Amazonian indigenous organizations and two trans-national Amazonian social movement organizations, Pamela Martin illustrates the process of trans-national collective action and its outcomes.
This work argues that due to domestic blockages presented to them in their respective countries, the Amazonian indigenous peoples organized via trans-...
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652,27 zł |
Human Rights and Private Wrongs : Constructing Global Civil Society
ISBN: 9780415944762 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Human Rights and Private Wrongs breaks new ground by considering a series of fascinating issues that are normally ignored by human rights specialists because they are too "private" to consider as policy issues: children's labor migration; refugee policy towards unaccompanied minors; financial matters of investor and business responsibility; and complex questions involving access to the benefits of pharmaceutical research, transnational organ trafficking, and the control over genetic research.
Human Rights and Private Wrongs breaks new ground by considering a series of fascinating issues that are normally ignored by human rights specialists ...
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727,52 zł |
Human Rights and Private Wrongs: Constructing Global Civil Society
ISBN: 9780415944779 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Human Rights and Private Wrongs breaks new ground by considering a series of fascinating issues that are normally ignored by human rights specialists because they're too private to consider as policy issues.
Human Rights and Private Wrongs breaks new ground by considering a series of fascinating issues that are normally ignored by human rights specialists ...
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230,75 zł |
Australia: Nation, Belonging, and Globalization
ISBN: 9780415944977 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tracing the development of modern Australian society in the global age, this text focuses on key areas, such as settler/indigenous relations, economics and culture since the 1980s, and the effects of the growing diversity caused by globalization.
Tracing the development of modern Australian society in the global age, this text focuses on key areas, such as settler/indigenous relations, economic...
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225,73 zł |
De-Coca-Colonization: Making the Globe from the Inside Out
ISBN: 9780415945370 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A novel theoretical account of globalization, De-Coca-Colonization argues that we must move away from top-down visions of the processes at work and concentrate on how ordinary people who are locked out of power structures create "globalities" of their own.
A novel theoretical account of globalization, De-Coca-Colonization argues that we must move away from top-down visions of the processes at wo...
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652,27 zł |
De-Coca-Colonization: Making the Globe from the Inside Out
ISBN: 9780415945387 / Angielski / Miękka / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. De-Coca-Colonization is a novel theoretical account of globalization, one that has the potential to shake up the very large field of globalization studies. Steven Flusty argues that, in studying the phenomenon, we have to move away from top-down visions of the processes at work and concentrate on how ordinary people who are by and large locked out of the power structure create other 'globalities' on their own. He contrasts 'Globalization' with little-g 'globalization', maintaining that the latter is where much of the action that is transforming global social life is happening. He closes with...
De-Coca-Colonization is a novel theoretical account of globalization, one that has the potential to shake up the very large field of globalization stu...
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215,70 zł |
Iberian Worlds
ISBN: 9780415947718 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Iberian Worlds is an imaginative, short text that dramatically depicts important globalization themes and processes through the important flows and impacts Spain and Portugal have had with many important regions of the world for many centuries. Spain and Portugal have long histories at the cutting-edge of world relations, managing far-flung empires, and author Gary McDonogh stresses this historical perspective as well as foregrounding the vast present world fostered by the "Iberian project" - Latin America, Southern Europe, parts of Asia and Africa, in which Spain and Portugal... Iberian Worlds is an imaginative, short text that dramatically depicts important globalization themes and processes through the important ... |
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476,61 zł |
Globalization or Empire?
ISBN: 9780415948487 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this smart and concise examination of the trends driving contemporary globalization, Jan Nederveen Pieterse argues that the United States' pursuit of global primacy is based upon a complex melding of neoliberal economics and hegemonic politics. Do alternate capitalisms offer viable alternatives to the American way? Globalization or Empire? looks at globalization with acuity and thoughtfulness and uncovers its underlying dramas.
In this smart and concise examination of the trends driving contemporary globalization, Jan Nederveen Pieterse argues that the United States' pursuit ...
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727,52 zł |
Globalization or Empire?
ISBN: 9780415948494 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many commentators have said the cultural process of globalization is really just the Americanization of the globe. The world economic order has also moved toward America's chosen rules. However, since September 11th, the Bush administration has produced new foreign policy guidelines that have openly decided that the world must accept America as the only legitimate military power as well. Is this globalization, or is this just empire? In this smart, brief book, Pieterse systematically confronts many of the most important issues surrounding these questions, eventually coming down on the side of...
Many commentators have said the cultural process of globalization is really just the Americanization of the globe. The world economic order has also m...
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270,89 zł |