Rethinking Globalizations
About the Book Series
This series is designed to break new ground in the literature on globalisation and its academic and popular understanding. Rather than perpetuating or simply reacting to the economic understanding of globalisation, this series seeks to capture the term and broaden its meaning to encompass a wide range of issues and disciplines and convey a sense of alternative possibilities for the future.
Global Restructuring, Labour and the Challenges for Transnational Solidarity
1st Edition
Edited
By Andreas Bieler, Ingemar Lindberg
April 10, 2011
Globalisation has put national labour movements under severe pressure, due to the increasing transnationalisation of production, with the production of many goods being organised across borders, and the informalisation of the economy. Through a range of case studies, this volume examines the ...
Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia: The Social Production of Civic Spaces
1st Edition
Edited
By Mike Douglass, K.C. Ho, Giok Ling Ooi
September 30, 2010
Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia presents a detailed examination of the underlying issues of urban life in the Far East. Leading authorities on globalization and politics in the region cover key themes of continuity and change: relationships between civil society and the ...
The Global Governance of Food
1st Edition
Edited
By Sara R. Curran, April Linton, Abigail Cooke, Andrew Schrank
July 21, 2010
Food provides a particularly exciting and grounded research site for understanding the mechanisms governing global transactions in the 21st century. While food is intimately and fundamentally related to ecological and human well-being, food products now travel far flung trade routes to reach us. ...
Dying Empire: U.S. Imperialism and Global Resistance
1st Edition
By Francis Shor
November 23, 2009
By the 1970s the global hegemony established by an American Empire in the post-World War II period faced increasing resistance abroad and contradictions at home. Contextualizing that hegemony, resistance and contradictions is the focus of Dying Empire. Presenting a wide-ranging synthesis of ...
Limits to Globalization: North-South Divergence
1st Edition
By William R. Thompson, Rafael Reuveny
August 25, 2009
In the post-Cold War era, economic globalization has loomed, at least for some, as the world system's next crisis carrier, creating winners and losers and trampling on the distinctiveness of local cultures. Yet the liberal assumption is that if the market does its job, the poor will catch up to the...
Global Poverty, Ethics and Human Rights: The Role of Multilateral Organisations
1st Edition
By Desmond McNeill, Asunción Lera StClair
March 04, 2009
Severe poverty is one of the greatest moral challenges of our times. But what place, if any, do ethical thinking and questions of global justice have in the policies and practice of international organizations? This books examines this question in depth, based on an analysis of the two major ...
The Global Politics of Globalization: Empire vs Cosmopolis
1st Edition
Edited
By Barry K. Gills
February 20, 2009
Are we moving inexorably towards a ‘new empire’ or is global civil society transforming global politics into a ‘new cosmopolis’? In The Global Politics of Globalization, the alternatives of ‘Empire’ and ‘Cosmopolis’ are counter-poised as representative of two antithetical conceptions and practices ...
Globalization and the Global Politics of Justice
1st Edition
Edited
By Barry K. Gills
October 21, 2008
This book brings together a set of distinguished academics and activists to analyze, critique, and debate the global politics of poverty and justice and the contemporary nature of globalization. It examines the connections between ‘really existing globalization’, global capitalism, and global ...
Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence: Beyond Savage Globalization?
1st Edition
Edited
By Damian Grenfell, Paul James
September 09, 2008
Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence: Beyond Savage Globalization? is a collection of essays by scholars intent on rethinking the mainstream security paradigms. Overall, this collection is intended to provide a broad and systematic analysis of the long-term sources of political, military and ...
The Political Economy of Global Security: War, Future Crises and Changes in Global Governance
1st Edition
By Heikki Patomäki
July 21, 2008
What are the possibilities for and conditions of global security in the 21st century? This book provides an innovative study of future wars, crises and transformations of the global political economy. It brings together economic theory, political economy, peace and conflict research, philosophy ...
Global Economy Contested: Power and Conflict across the International Division of Labour
1st Edition
Edited
By Marcus Taylor
June 25, 2008
Although much has been written on the topic of economic globalization, few volumes examine the social foundations of the global economy in a way that puts power and contestation at the forefront of the analysis. This book addresses this gap by emphasizing the contested social processes that ...
Globalization as Evolutionary Process: Modeling Global Change
1st Edition
Edited
By George Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas, William R. Thompson
February 19, 2008
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 ...