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  • Globalization and Postcolonialism

    Hegemony and Resistance in the Twenty-first Century

    Serien series Globalization
    Globalization has become a widely used buzzword, yet popular discussions often miss its deeper realities. This book offers the first clear explanation of the impact of colonialist legacies in a globalized world in an era defined by the "War on Terror." Sankaran Krishna explores the history of the relationship between Western dominance and the forms of resistance that have emerged to challenge it. Lesen Sie mehr

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  • The Great Escape

    Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality

    von Angus Deaton
    The world is a better place than it used to be. People are wealthier and healthier, and live longer lives. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many have left gaping inequalities between people and between nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty--tells the remarkable story of how, starting 250 years ago, some parts of the Lesen Sie mehr

    40,22 €

  • Murder City

    Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields

    von Charles Bowden
    Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad.In Murder City, Charles Bowden-one of the few journalists who spent extended periods of time in Juarez-has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city Lesen Sie mehr

    9,49 €

  • Strategic Vision

    America and the Crisis of Global Power

    Eminent scholar Zbigniew Brzezinski's New York Times bestselling blueprint for American foreign policy strategy in the twenty-first centuryThe world today faces a crisis of power, caused by the dramatic shift in its center of gravity from the West to the East, by the dynamic political awakening of people worldwide, and by the deterioration of America's performance both domestically and Lesen Sie mehr

    7,99 €

  • Hopes and Prospects

    von Noam Chomsky
    Hopes and Prospects is Noam Chomsky's indispensable analysis of the world at present and a roadmap for the futureIn Hopes and Prospects, Noam Chomsky examines the challenges of our early twenty-first century. He explores obstacles and threats such as the widening gap between North and South America, US exceptionalism (which continues under Obama), the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the US Lesen Sie mehr

    9,49 €

  • World-Systems Analysis

    An Introduction

    Serien series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In World-Systems Analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach that he pioneered thirty years ago to understanding the history and development of the modern world. Since Wallerstein first developed world-systems analysis, it has become a widely utilized methodology within the historical social sciences and a common point of reference in Lesen Sie mehr

    17,32 €

  • The Deadly Life of Logistics

    Mapping Violence in Global Trade

    von Deborah Cowen
    In a world in which global trade is at risk, where warehouses and airports, shipping lanes and seaports try to guard against the likes of Al Qaeda and Somali pirates, and natural disaster can disrupt the flow of goods, even our “stuff” has a political life. The high stakes of logistics are not surprising, Deborah Cowen reveals, if we understand its genesis in war.In The Deadly Life of Logistics, Lesen Sie mehr

    18,07 €

  • Global Unions, Local Power

    The New Spirit of Transnational Labor Organizing

    News about labor unions is usually pessimistic, focusing on declining membership and failed campaigns. But there are encouraging signs that the labor movement is evolving its strategies to benefit workers in rapidly changing global economic conditions. Global Unions, Local Power tells the story of the most successful and aggressive campaign ever waged by workers across national borders. It begins Lesen Sie mehr

    21,39 €

  • The GCC and the International Relations of the Gulf

    Diplomacy, Security and Economic Coordination in a Changing Middle East

    von Matteo Legrenzi
    The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), made up of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is one of the most resilient sub-regional organizations in the world, and the most successful in the Arab world. it has been the forum through which much security cooperation in this volatile sub-region has taken place, as well as the main representative for the UAE's Lesen Sie mehr

    31,45 €

  • From Communists to Foreign Capitalists

    The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Postsocialist Europe

    von Nina Bandelj
    From Communists to Foreign Capitalists explores the intersections of two momentous changes in the late twentieth century: the fall of Communism and the rise of globalization. Delving into the economic change that accompanied these shifts in central and Eastern Europe, Nina Bandelj presents a pioneering sociological treatment of the process of foreign direct investment (FDI). She demonstrates how Lesen Sie mehr

    57,34 €

  • After Fukushima

    The Equivalence of Catastrophes

    The renowned philosopher offers "a powerful reflection on our times . . . and the fate of our civilization, as revealed by the catastrophe of Fukushima" (François Raffoul, Louisiana State University).In 2011, a tsunami flooded Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, causing three nuclear meltdowns, the effects of which will spread through generations and have an impact on all living things. Lesen Sie mehr

    14,43 €

  • Myths, State Expansion, and the Birth of Globalization

    A Comparative Perspective

    von J. Carlson
    Serien series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Many of the present problems of 'globalization' are mirrored in the historical expansion of the European state system. This title is a structured, comparative case study analysis of four regions and examines how these regions and their peoples were absorbed into the expanding European-centered state system from roughly the 1400s through to 1800. Lesen Sie mehr

    53,49 €