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  • Globalization and Human Security

    Serier serie Globalization
    This concise text presents a focused, well-rounded, and clear-eyed introduction to the concept of human security. Questioning the utility of traditional national-security frameworks in the post–Cold War era, Paul Battersby and Joseph M. Siracusa argue that we must urgently reconsider the principle of state sovereignty in a global world where threats to humanity are beyond the capacity of any one ... Læs mere

    234,49 kr.

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  • The Great Convergence

    Information Technology and the New Globalization

    An Economist Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Economics Book of the YearA Fast Company “7 Books Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says You Need to Lead Smarter”Between 1820 and 1990, the share of world income going to today’s wealthy nations soared from twenty percent to almost seventy. Since then, that share has plummeted to where it was in 1900. As the renowned economist Richard Baldwin ... Læs mere

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  • Globalization

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    Serier serie Themes for the 21st Century
    'Globalization' is a word that is currently much in use. This book is an attempt to show that there is far more to globalization than its surface manifestations. Unpacking the social roots and social consequences of globalizing processes, this book disperses some of the mist that surrounds the term.Alongside the emerging planetary dimensions of business, finance, trade and information flow, a ... Læs mere

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  • The End of the American Era

    U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century

    Refuting the conventional wisdom that the end of the Cold War cleared the way for an era of peace and prosperity led solely by the United States, Charles A. Kupchan contends that the next challenge to America’s might is fast emerging. It comes not from the Islamic world or an ascendant China, but from an integrating Europe that is rising as a counterweight to the United States. Decades of ... Læs mere

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  • Virtual Migration

    The Programming of Globalization

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  • A Glance in the Rear View Mirror

    Neoliberal Ideology From its Origins to the Present

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  • Summary and Analysis of The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

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  • Peace Education and the Adult Learner

    Educational Trends in a Globalized World

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