Globalization Books
Editorial A Contracorriente Urgencias del latinoamericanismo en tiempos de
Book SynopsisUrgencias del Latinamericanismo en tiempos de globalizacion conflictiva. Tributo a John Beverley, es un libro colectivo escrito al calor de los desafios que la actual reconfiguracion mundial le esta planteando al latinoamericanismo, empujandolo a incorporarse en el horizonte de lo que ya es un mundo conflictivamente globalizado y desentendido de las fracturas que el mismo genera. Discutir con que estrategias, incertidumbres, voluntad autocritica y carga historica camina el latinoamericanismo hacia este devenir-global del mundo, orienta el proyecto del libro y permite abordar algunas de las cuestiones mas acuciantes del pensamiento critico latinoamericano en torno a la viabilidad/inviabilidad de las utopias sociales y soberanias culturales que (todavia) se disputan en la region. Crucial en el proyecto de este libro es un dialogo critico con los debates, polemicas y construcciones teoricas que plantea la obra del desafiante latinoamericanista que es John Beverley.
£23.96
Business Expert Press New Insights into Prognostic Data Analytics in Corporate Communication
Book SynopsisThis book advances diagnosis-prognosis models that mark antecedent frames in various commercial forms of communication—annual reports, investigative fiction–Poirot series, Sci-Fi, and advertisements.The authors thereby develop a study of narrative markets by proposing the narrative of things as the next innovative mega trend in business analytics. A unique feature of the book is the special section dedicated to industry-academic practitioners, who have offered a bird’s-eye view in the Review Speak section of every chapter of this book.
£21.80
Business Expert Press Global Sustainable Capitalism
Book SynopsisSustainable capitalism knowledge is often assumed for exclusively association with information about some forms of environmental crises. When we speak of sustainable, and unsustainable, we speak of a systemic crisis of both long-term dimension in the economy and business models, on all levels. We talk of local to the global crisis, with detrimental effects on humans and the environment, as well as economic organizations, of various kinds, often forfeiting any economic, social, and environmental future. The long-term crisis is a crisis of long-term investment, but it is also a crisis of human and ecological capital. The authors propose a new conceptual business model, polycentric at many levels. This research is an attempt to contribute to the global alliance for such sustainable capitalism in the making. In part, this is an ambitious undertaking, as the authors analyzed vital United Nations (UN) documents on sustainable development, as part of what they advocate as sustainable capitalism, as a systemic response to existing shortcomings of the present model. This text attempts to educate global stakeholders about the importance, the rationale, and the pathway to introduce sustainable capitalism into global economics and business models.
£21.80
Business Expert Press Global Trade Strategies: Interacting with Trade Institutions and Businesses
Book SynopsisDeveloping global business strategies in today’s competitive and disruptive environment calls for greater interaction between the business sector and government. Among the instruments available today are various market analytic tools. These tools coupled with new business models not only provide a competitive edge but also becomes a necessity to survive in the global ever changing trade environment.This book concerns everyone dealing with market selection, market strategies, and trade policy. The reader will be able to develop global strategies based on trade information and trade flows analysis. An analysis of the most competitive countries in world trade shows the importance of pro-business policies, access to modern infrastructures, investment in research, and increased productivity. The authors explain how to design practical strategies in a global context, greater competition and uncertainty due to the introduction of new business models.
£25.16
Business Expert Press Innovative Selling: A Guide to Successful Corporate Professional Selling
Book SynopsisInnovative Selling is a unique book for corporate sales professionals and their sales leaders about how to prepare, manage, cope, and succeed at corporate global sales.Recent research has discovered concerning underlying discontent with professional sales people who represent global sales organizations. This book assists the sales professionals with navigating the dilemmas and pitfalls that confront today’s corporate sellers so they emerge at the other end mentally healthy, skilled, and sane.The book also tackles and simplifies the basic steps of the overall sales process, territory planning, and product training, so as to ultimately improve your sales results.Many sales people today are looking for a simple and concise book to guide them through the corporate sales process–this is the book for you.
£28.45
Rutgers University Press Transnational Korean Cinema: Cultural Politics,
Book SynopsisIn Transnational Korean Cinema author Dal Yong Jin explores the interactions of local and global politics, economics, and culture to contextualize the development of Korean cinema and its current place in an era of neoliberal globalization and convergent digital technologies. The book emphasizes the economic and industrial aspects of the story, looking at questions on the interaction of politics and economics, including censorship and public funding, and provides a better view of the big picture by laying bare the relationship between film industries, the global market, and government. Jin also sheds light on the operations and globalization strategies of Korean film industries alongside changing cultural policies in tandem with Hollywood’s continuing influences in order to comprehend the power relations within cultural politics, nationally and globally. This is the first book to offer a full overview of the nascent development of Korean cinema.Trade Review"The most comprehensive book available on South Korean Cinema, covering the complexities of the Korean film industry from 1919 onwards, both as an art form and as a business. It is destined to become required reading for anyone interested in Korean cinema especially in relation to the link between politics, economics and cultural expression." -- Colette Balmain * author of Introduction to Japanese Horror Film *"An ambitious, well-researched book that details how the complex interplay between cultural policy, socioeconomic development, competition with Hollywood and technological change led to the remarkable growth and increasing global reach of Korean cinema." -- Darcy Paquet * author of "New Korean Cinema: Breaking the Waves" *"Recommended." * Choice *"Although Transnational Korean Cinema: Cultural Politics, Film Genres, and Digital Technologies is concise, it contains a vast amount of information...a comprehensive review of various historical and social factors influencing [the] evolution [of South Korea films.” * Asiascape: Digitial Asia *Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. The Emergence of Contemporary Korean Cinema Chapter 2. State Film Policy and the Politicization of Censorship Chapter 3. Screen Quotas in the Era of the U.S.-Korea FTA Chapter 4. Conglomeration, Screen Oligopolu, and Cultural Diversity Chapter 5. Public Film Funding and Transnational Production Chapter 6. Coproduction and Transnationalization of Korean Cinema Chapter 7. Transnationalization of Film Genres Chapter 8. Transmedia Storytelling of Webtoons in Films in the Digital Era Chapter 9. Conclusion: Korean Cinema's Future in Digital Technologies Notes References Index About the Author
£26.99
Rutgers University Press Transnational Korean Cinema: Cultural Politics,
Book SynopsisIn Transnational Korean Cinema author Dal Yong Jin explores the interactions of local and global politics, economics, and culture to contextualize the development of Korean cinema and its current place in an era of neoliberal globalization and convergent digital technologies. The book emphasizes the economic and industrial aspects of the story, looking at questions on the interaction of politics and economics, including censorship and public funding, and provides a better view of the big picture by laying bare the relationship between film industries, the global market, and government. Jin also sheds light on the operations and globalization strategies of Korean film industries alongside changing cultural policies in tandem with Hollywood’s continuing influences in order to comprehend the power relations within cultural politics, nationally and globally. This is the first book to offer a full overview of the nascent development of Korean cinema.Trade Review"The most comprehensive book available on South Korean Cinema, covering the complexities of the Korean film industry from 1919 onwards, both as an art form and as a business. It is destined to become required reading for anyone interested in Korean cinema especially in relation to the link between politics, economics and cultural expression." -- Colette Balmain * author of Introduction to Japanese Horror Film *"An ambitious, well-researched book that details how the complex interplay between cultural policy, socioeconomic development, competition with Hollywood and technological change led to the remarkable growth and increasing global reach of Korean cinema." -- Darcy Paquet * author of "New Korean Cinema: Breaking the Waves" *"Recommended." * Choice *"Although Transnational Korean Cinema: Cultural Politics, Film Genres, and Digital Technologies is concise, it contains a vast amount of information...a comprehensive review of various historical and social factors influencing [the] evolution [of South Korea films.” * Asiascape: Digitial Asia *Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. The Emergence of Contemporary Korean Cinema Chapter 2. State Film Policy and the Politicization of Censorship Chapter 3. Screen Quotas in the Era of the U.S.-Korea FTA Chapter 4. Conglomeration, Screen Oligopolu, and Cultural Diversity Chapter 5. Public Film Funding and Transnational Production Chapter 6. Coproduction and Transnationalization of Korean Cinema Chapter 7. Transnationalization of Film Genres Chapter 8. Transmedia Storytelling of Webtoons in Films in the Digital Era Chapter 9. Conclusion: Korean Cinema's Future in Digital Technologies Notes References Index About the Author
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of
Book SynopsisWriting the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization theorizes the city as a generative, “semicircular” social space, where the changes of globalization are most profoundly experienced. The fictive accounts analyzed here configure cities as spaces where movement is simultaneously restrictive and liberating, and where life prospects are at once promising and daunting. In their depictions of the urban experiences of peoples of African descent, writers and other creative artists offer a complex set of renditions of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Black urban citizens’ experience in European or Euro-dominated cities such as Boston, London, New York, and Toronto, as well as Global South cities such as Accra, Kingston, and Lagos—that emerged out of colonial domination, and which have emerged as hubs of current globalization. Writing the Black Diasporic City draws on critical tools of classical postcolonial studies as well as those of globalization studies to read works by Ama Ata Aidoo, Amma Darko, Marlon James, Cecil Foster, Zadie Smith, Michael Thomas, Chika Unigwe, and other contemporary writers. The book also engages the television series Call the Midwife, the Canada carnival celebration Caribana, and the film series Small Axe to show how cities are characterized as open, complicated spaces that are constantly shifting. Cities collapse boundaries, allowing for both haunting and healing, and they can sever the connection from kin and community, or create new connections.Trade Review"Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization is a defining book for our times. Carol Bailey offers a fresh analysis of the ways the racist underpinnings of globalized capitalism work to systemize the erasure of black lives dispersed, corralled, and active within urban geographies. The book’s meticulous attention to particularity and difference in different locales and texts—a wide sweep from Kingston to Antwerp, Lagos to New York, London to Toronto—is what makes its argument most compelling. Writing the Back Diasporic City is a salutary antidote to prevailing activist discourses of black victimhood." -- Curdella Forbes * author of From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the Cultural Performance of Gender *"Carol Bailey’s Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization is a powerful, nuanced, and ground-breaking interrogation of the gendered experiences—challenges and triumphs—of people of African descent in global cities. It is a brilliant and indispensable addition to the literature of the Black diaspora. Bailey seamlessly merges history, theory, and close textual reading in an accessible way.""Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization is a defining book for our times. Carol Bailey offers a fresh analysis of the ways the racist underpinnings of globalized capitalism work to systemize the erasure of black lives dispersed, corralled, and active within urban geographies. The book’s meticulous attention to particularity and difference in different locales and texts—a wide sweep from Kingston to Antwerp, Lagos to New York, London to Toronto—is what makes its argument most compelling. Writing the Back Diasporic City is a salutary antidote to prevailing activist discourses of black victimhood." -- Curdella Forbes * author of From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the Cultural Performance of Gen *"Carol Bailey’s Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization is a powerful, nuanced, and ground-breaking interrogation of the gendered experiences—challenges and triumphs—of people of African descent in global cities. It is a brilliant and indispensable addition to the literature of the Black diaspora. Bailey seamlessly merges history, theory, and close textual reading in an accessible way." -- Katwiwa Mule * author of Women's Spaces, Women's Visions: Politics, Poetics, and Resistance in African Women's Dram *Table of Contents Introduction 1 “Natty Dread Rise Again”: The Haunting City and the Promise of Diaspora in Man Gone Down 2 “Putting the Best Outside”: A Genealogy of Self-Fashioning in Call the Midwife and NW 3 The Transnational Semicircle and the “Mobile” Female Subjectin Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon and Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters Street 4 “Writing the Sprawling City”: The Transatlantic Drug Trade in A Brief History of Seven Killings 5 A Door Ajar: Reading and Writing Toronto in Cecil Foster’s Sleep On, Beloved Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
£25.19
Rutgers University Press Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of
Book SynopsisWriting the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization theorizes the city as a generative, “semicircular” social space, where the changes of globalization are most profoundly experienced. The fictive accounts analyzed here configure cities as spaces where movement is simultaneously restrictive and liberating, and where life prospects are at once promising and daunting. In their depictions of the urban experiences of peoples of African descent, writers and other creative artists offer a complex set of renditions of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Black urban citizens’ experience in European or Euro-dominated cities such as Boston, London, New York, and Toronto, as well as Global South cities such as Accra, Kingston, and Lagos—that emerged out of colonial domination, and which have emerged as hubs of current globalization. Writing the Black Diasporic City draws on critical tools of classical postcolonial studies as well as those of globalization studies to read works by Ama Ata Aidoo, Amma Darko, Marlon James, Cecil Foster, Zadie Smith, Michael Thomas, Chika Unigwe, and other contemporary writers. The book also engages the television series Call the Midwife, the Canada carnival celebration Caribana, and the film series Small Axe to show how cities are characterized as open, complicated spaces that are constantly shifting. Cities collapse boundaries, allowing for both haunting and healing, and they can sever the connection from kin and community, or create new connections.Trade Review"Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization is a defining book for our times. Carol Bailey offers a fresh analysis of the ways the racist underpinnings of globalized capitalism work to systemize the erasure of black lives dispersed, corralled, and active within urban geographies. The book’s meticulous attention to particularity and difference in different locales and texts—a wide sweep from Kingston to Antwerp, Lagos to New York, London to Toronto—is what makes its argument most compelling. Writing the Back Diasporic City is a salutary antidote to prevailing activist discourses of black victimhood." -- Curdella Forbes * author of From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the Cultural Performance of Gender *"Carol Bailey’s Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization is a powerful, nuanced, and ground-breaking interrogation of the gendered experiences—challenges and triumphs—of people of African descent in global cities. It is a brilliant and indispensable addition to the literature of the Black diaspora. Bailey seamlessly merges history, theory, and close textual reading in an accessible way.""Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization is a defining book for our times. Carol Bailey offers a fresh analysis of the ways the racist underpinnings of globalized capitalism work to systemize the erasure of black lives dispersed, corralled, and active within urban geographies. The book’s meticulous attention to particularity and difference in different locales and texts—a wide sweep from Kingston to Antwerp, Lagos to New York, London to Toronto—is what makes its argument most compelling. Writing the Back Diasporic City is a salutary antidote to prevailing activist discourses of black victimhood." -- Curdella Forbes * author of From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the Cultural Performance of Gen *"Carol Bailey’s Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization is a powerful, nuanced, and ground-breaking interrogation of the gendered experiences—challenges and triumphs—of people of African descent in global cities. It is a brilliant and indispensable addition to the literature of the Black diaspora. Bailey seamlessly merges history, theory, and close textual reading in an accessible way." -- Katwiwa Mule * author of Women's Spaces, Women's Visions: Politics, Poetics, and Resistance in African Women's Dram *Table of Contents Introduction 1 “Natty Dread Rise Again”: The Haunting City and the Promise of Diaspora in Man Gone Down 2 “Putting the Best Outside”: A Genealogy of Self-Fashioning in Call the Midwife and NW 3 The Transnational Semicircle and the “Mobile” Female Subjectin Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon and Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters Street 4 “Writing the Sprawling City”: The Transatlantic Drug Trade in A Brief History of Seven Killings 5 A Door Ajar: Reading and Writing Toronto in Cecil Foster’s Sleep On, Beloved Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
£107.20
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Non-Western Global Theories of International
Book SynopsisThis book seeks to reposition international relations (IR) theory by providing insights into non-Western concepts and theories. By engaging with understandings of power, identity, the state and the individual from a range of states outside of the Western hemisphere, the contributors to this book introduce new methods for understanding aspects of IR in context considerate ways. Engagements with Western theories and cases highlight how we need to reposition traditional understandings to allow non-Western approaches to IR develop alongside and inform their Western counterparts. Moreover, the book reinforces the need to move beyond the traditionally used Western-centric lenses without removing them completely, instead it advocates a harmonisation between them to reduce generalisations across the local, state and regional levels.Table of ContentsTable of Contents1. IntroductionSamantha CookeSection 1: Internationalising International Relations Theory2. Decentralising Europe: Harnessing alternative theories of IRTareq Sydiq & Maria Ketzmerick3. Reorienting Theory: Latin American perspectives on International RelationsKarolina Baraniak4. Foreign Policy Analysis: Engagements outside of the WestChris Featherstone5. Reimagining the Global Order: China in history and theoryCalvin Xin LiuSection 2: Decentralising the West: Redefining Key Concepts in IR6. An Asian Theory of DemocracyOlivia Cheung7. Understanding People and the State: A Liberal and Neo-Confucian comparisonWilliam Barclay8. Decolonising Empowerment in Africa: Illustration as a toolChesney McOmberSection 3: Changing Frameworks: Re-imagining Political Issues9. Theorising Emotions in IR: A Maghrebi perspective on inter-state rivalry and the failure of regional integrationYasmine Zarhloule10. Gendered Activism and Political Participation: A Latin American perspectiveEmanuela Buscemi11. Jihadi Terrorism and Hybrid Security Threats in Asia: Lessons from PakistanMudassir Farooqi12. Moving Beyond Global Hierarchies: Is a synthesis possible?Evren Altinkas
£104.49
Springer International Publishing AG Violent Non-State Actors in Africa: Terrorists,
Book SynopsisThis book explores the rise and impact of violent non-state actors in contemporary Africa and the implications for the sovereignty and security of African states. Each chapter tackles a unique angle on violent organizations on the continent with the view of highlighting the conditions that lead to the rise and radicalization of these groups. The chapters further examine the ways in which governments have responded to the challenge and the national, regional and international strategies that they have adopted as a result. Chapter contributors to this volume examine the emergence of Islamist terrorists in Nigeria, Mali and Libya; rebels in DR Congo, Central African Republic, Ethiopia and Rwanda; and warlords and pirates in Somalia, Uganda and Sierra Leone.Table of Contents1. IntroductionCaroline Varin PART 1: TERRORISTS 2. From Sectarianism to Terrorism in Northern Nigeria: A Closer Look at Boko HaramDauda Abubakar 3. Nationalist Sentiment, Terrorist Incursions and the Survival of the Malian StateJude Cocodia 4. Islamic State in LibyaLarissa JaegerPART 2: REBELS 5. ‘Islamist’ rebels in DRC – the Allied Democratic ForcesJesper Cullen 6. The Séléka and anti-Balaka rebel movements in the Central African Republic Wendy Isaacs-Martin7. Rebel Movements in EthiopiaBerouk Mesfin8. Rebel Victory and the Rwandan GenocideJennifer MelvinPART 3: WARLORDS 9. Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance ArmyJo-Ansie van Wyk10. The Revolutionary United Front, Liberian Warlords and Civil War in Sierra LeoneUsman A. Tar and Sharkdam Wapmuk11. Al-Shabaab: State Collapse, Warlords and Islamist Insurgency in SomaliaUsman A Tar and Mala Mustapha12. Pirates in West Africa and SomaliaClayton D. Allen13. ConclusionCaroline Varin
£75.99
Campus Verlag Crossing Borders, Shifting Boundaries: National
Book SynopsisThe articles in this volume investigate the topic of ethnic, national, and transnational identities. Using a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches, they discuss the impact of cross-national migration, changes in political borders, collective memories, the formation of transnational political entities, and the process of cultural, economic, and institutional globalization. Through these different theories and empirical analyses, this volume offers a multifaceted discussion and new insights concerning the challenging social and political issues of changing collective identities.
£50.35
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Internationale Drogenpolitik: Herausforderungen
Book SynopsisRobert Lessmann umreißt in diesem essential nach einer Darstellung der juristischen und politischen Grundlagen der internationalen Drogenkontrolle ihre Erfolge und Defizite – eine Sondergeneralversammlung der Vereinten Nationen (UNGASS) zum Thema Drogen vom April 2016 beispielsweise wird vom Reformlager als Enttäuschung gewertet. Der Autor zeigt mittels der Diskussionen vor und bei der UNGASS-Konferenz, in welche Richtung und mit welchen Perspektiven die Debatte weitergehen könnte. Der gültige Rechtsrahmen der UN-Drogenkonventionen stößt angesichts neuer Herausforderungen an Grenzen. Begleitprobleme wie die Finanzierung der Internationalen Organisierten Kriminalität, bewaffneter Aufständischer, Terrorgruppen und „Neuer Kriege“ rücken zunehmend in den Fokus der Aufmerksamkeit.Table of Contents„War for Drugs“ als Prototyp der angebotsorientierten Drogenkontrolle.- Neue Unübersichtlichkeit: Drogen und organisierte Kriminalität.- Neue organisatorische und regionale Unsicherheit.- Neue regionale Unsicherheit: Drogen, Aufständische und „Neue Kriege“.- UNGASS 2016 und die Reformdebatte.
£11.77
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Globalisierung: Geschichte der internationalen
Book SynopsisDieses Buch gibt einen Überblick über die drei zentralen Phasen der Globalisierung in der Moderne: 16. bis 18. Jahrhundert, zweite Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg und zweite Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts bis in die 2010er Jahre. Die internationalen Wirtschaftsbeziehungen werden anhand der Güter-, Arbeits- und Finanzmärkte, der Weltwirtschafts- und Weltwährungsordnungen einschließlich der Handels- und Geldpolitiken sowie der Organisationsformen und Marktstrategien der wirtschaftlichen Akteure, d.h. der Kaufleute, Handelskompanien und internationalen Unternehmen, dargestellt. Das Buch ist chronologisch aufgebaut, wobei die Darstellung der unterschiedlichen Epochen der gleichen Systematik folgt. Damit liegt zum ersten Mal eine Gesamtdarstellung der internationalen Wirtschaftsbeziehungen seit dem 16. Jahrhundert vor, die einen strengen Vergleich zwischen unterschiedlichen Zeitabschnitten ermöglicht und gleichzeitig die übergreifenden Entwicklungslinien beim Handel, bei der Migration und beim Geld- und Kapitalverkehr, bei den politischen Außenwirtschaftsregimen und wirtschaftlichen Unternehmensführungen herausarbeitet. Table of ContentsVorbemerkungenI. 16 bis 18. Jahrhunder A. Transportträger und Routent B Politik und Recht C.Wirtschafts und Markt 1.Gütermärkte 2. Arbeitsmärkte 3. Finanzmärkte 4. Integration D. Ordnung und Steurung 1. Handel und Zoll 2. Geld un d Währung E. Kaufleute und Unternehmen II. Zweite Hälfte 19. Jahrhundert bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg I. 16 bis 18. Jahrhunder A. Transportträger und Routent B Politik und Recht C.Wirtschafts und Markt 1.Gütermärkte 2. Arbeitsmärkte 3. Finanzmärkte 4. Integration D. Ordnung und Steurung 1. Handel und Zoll 2. Geld un d Währung E. Kaufleute und Unternehmen III. Zweite Hälfte 20. Jahrhundert bis 2010er Jahre I. 16 bis 18. Jahrhunder A. Transportträger und Routent B Politik und Recht C.Wirtschafts und Markt 1.Gütermärkte 2. Arbeitsmärkte 3. Finanzmärkte 4. Integration D. Ordnung und Steurung 1. Handel und Zoll 2. Geld un d Währung E. Kaufleute und Unternehmen Nachbemerkungen
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Handbuch Krisenforschung
Book SynopsisDas Handbuch untersucht interdisziplinär einen Schlüsselbegriff der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften. Es arbeitet für verschiedene Bereiche den Forschungsstand zu ‚Krisen‘ als politischen Handlungssituationen auf und betont zugleich die enge Verbindung zur politischen Praxis, die sich in der Verwendung des Krisenbegriffs beobachten lässt. Während die Erforschung einzelner Krisenereignisse und -phänomene in vielen Disziplinen zum Tagesgeschäft gehört, sind übergreifende konzeptionelle Überlegungen zu Krisen meist auf organisatorische Aspekte des Krisenmanagements oder auf Krisendiskurse beschränkt. An diese Forschungsstände anknüpfend, aber über sie hinausweisend, bearbeitet das Handbuch ‚Krisenforschung‘ aus verschiedenen konzeptionellen und methodischen Perspektiven und plädiert dabei für einen reflexiven Ansatz, der den Begriff der ‚Krise‘ selbst als zu beobachtenden Begriff versteht.Table of ContentsZugänge zum Krisenbegriff.- Perspektivierungen von Krisen.- Felder der Krisenbewältigung.- Techniken der Krisenbewältigung.
£52.24
Springer Verknüpfte Welten: Notizen aus 235 Ländern und
Book SynopsisDie Aufzeichnungen, die Ludger Kühnhardt in 235 Ländern und Territorien der Erde verfasst hat, lassen ein faszinierendes Panorama entstehen, gespiegelt in persönlichen Eindrücken, Begegnungen und Erfahrungen eines in aller Welt tätigen Politikwissenschaftlers und Publizisten. Das Buch rekonstruiert die Verknüpfungen zwischen den Transformationen Europas und dem entstehenden globalen Zeitalter während sechs Jahrzehnten ab 1960 bis zur Schwelle der post-Corona-Welt 2020.Table of ContentsEuropa und der global turn: Ohnmachtserfahrungen und Inspirationsquelle der Welt (2000er Jahre) .- Gefährdete Globalisierung und Europas Selbstbehauptung (2010er Jahre).- Erste Ausblicke auf die Post-Corona-Welt (2020er Jahre).
£36.09
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Musik & Marken
Book SynopsisSpätestens seit den frühen Formationen einer auf Notendrucken basierenden Musikindustrie unterhalten musikferne Unternehmen Beziehungen zu Musik und ihren Akteur*innen. Damals wurden vornehmlich Kosmetik und Tabakprodukte in Notenbüchern beworben. Heute jedoch haben sich die Formen, bei denen Musik in den kommerziellen Aktivitäten musikferner Akteur*innen eine Rolle spielt, ausdifferenziert. Gleichzeitig hat der Markt für Aktivitäten wie Sponsoring oder Werbung an Volumen zugenommen. Hierbei spielen Marken eine besondere Rolle. Um Marken aufzubauen publizieren Unternehmen Musikmagazine, vertreiben Tonträger, organisieren und streamen Konzerte oder nehmen gar Künstler*innen mit eigenen Labels unter Vertrag. Gleichzeitig werden auch Künstler*innen und Bands durch die Musikindustrie immer stärker als Marken aufgebaut. Das Jahrbuch der GMM „Musik & Marken“ sondiert die Forschung zu Musik und Marken, versammelt empirische Befunde und zeigt neue Forschungsperspektiven in der Untersuchung von „Musik & Marken“ auf.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Analysen.- Young Scholars.- Veranstatlungsbesprechungen.- Rezensionen.
£49.49
Tulika Print Communication Services Flexibility of Labour in Globalizing India – The
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£19.80
Leiden University Press South Asia Unbound: New International Histories
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£99.45
Springer Verlag, Singapore Iberian World Empires and the Globalization of
Book SynopsisThis open access book analyses Iberian expansion by using knowledge accumulated in recent years to test some of the most important theories regarding Europe’s economic development. Adopting a comparative perspective, it considers the impact of early globalization on Iberian and Western European institutions, social development and political economies. In spite of globalization’s minor importance from the commercial perspective before 1750, this book finds its impact decisive for institutional development, political economies, and processes of state-building in Iberia and Europe. The book engages current historiographies and revindicates the need to take the concept of composite monarchies as a point of departure in order to understand the period’s economic and social developments, analysing the institutions and societies resulting from contact with Iberian peoples in America and Asia. The outcome is a study that nuances and contests an excessively-negative yet prevalent image of the Iberian societies, explores the difficult relationship between empires and globalization and opens paths for comparisons to other imperial formations.Trade Review“The description of the Habsburg defensive barrier against the Ottoman Empire, as well as a section comparing and contrasting the Ottoman and Iberian empires, are innovative as well as informative; most researchers limit their focus to the English and sometimes the French empires. The fact that this is an open-access book electronically makes it an even more valuable addition to the literature.” (Robin Grier, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 51 (1), 2020)“The book provides an excellent graduate-level survey. … Graduate students and scholars rewriting their lecture courses will profit from perusing this ambitious volume.” (Stuart M. McManus, Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 100 (3), 2020)Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Part I The Iberian Grounds of the Early Modern Globalization of Europe.- Global Context and the Rise of Europe. Iberia and the Atlantic.- Iberian Overseas Expansion and European trade networks.- Domestic Expansion in the Iberian Kingdoms.- Conclusions Part I.- Part II State Building and Institutions.- The Empires of a Composite Monarchy (1521-1598): Problem or Solution?.- The Christalization of a Political Economy, c. 1580-1630.- Conclusions Part II.- Part III Organizing and Paying for Global Empire, 1598-1668.- Global Forces and European Competition.- The Luso-Spanish Composite Global Empire, 1598-1640.- Ruptures, Resilient Empires and Small Divergences.- Conclusions Part III.- Epilogue.
£42.74
Springer Verlag, Singapore The Change of Global Economic Governance and
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on global economic governance covering the following five areas: the theoretical and historical evolution of global economic governance, international financial governance, international trade and investment governance, global climate change and sustainable development governance, and international macroeconomic policy coordination. On the one hand, this book aims to provide a general analytical framework for studying global economic governance. On the other hand, the study on global economic governance involves understanding its historical development, exploring its emergence and evolution, analyzing what challenges global economic governance faces in the context of a new globalization, looking into its future development trends, and proposing the direction of the reform of global economic governance system on the above basis, and finally providing theoretical references and policy advice for China’s better participation in global economic governance. Table of ContentsConnotation of Global Governance.- Definition of Global Economic Governance.- Historical Evolution of the Global Economic Governance Structure.- Impetus for Evolution of the Global Economic Governance Structure.- Reform Orientation of Global Economic Governance.- Overview of the Evolution and Reform of International Financial Governance.- Factors Influencing the Evolution of International Financial Governance.- Defects and Challenges of Current International Financial Governance.- Reform Direction of International Financial Governance.- Countermeasures for China’s Better Participation in International Financial Governance.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore China’s New Development Strategies: Upgrading
Book SynopsisThis book examines China’s new development policies, which seek to reposition China from export platform for a diverse array of low-cost consumer goods to technological leader in sectors linked to advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, e-commerce, and new internet-related production networks oriented to China’s large domestic market. Focusing on the post-2010 period, the book shows how China’s central government programs and reforms (“upgrading from above”) are coupled with a wide variety of local government policies, firm strategies, and domestic economy shifts (“upgrading from below”) that link China’s top-down programs into industrial growth on the ground. Placing China’s current development push within a global value chain (GVC) context shows how Chinese development strategies and the global economy remain intertwined. This volume brings together international GVC experts and China-based researchers who have carried out detailed fieldwork and industry specific quantitative analyses of GVCs and development with important implications for policymakers in both developed and developing economies.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction. - Part 1. Upgrading from Above: Industry 4.0 and China’s New Development Strategies. - Chapter 2. Made in China 2025: Advanced Manufacturing and Transformation of Production Networks. - Chapter 3. Alibaba’s Distribution-Driven Approach Towards the Industrial Internet: A Chinese Approach to Industry 4.0? - Chapter 4. Reorganization of Global Value Chains in the Digital Economy: China's Response. - Chapter 5. Industry 4.0: China’s Path to the Adoption of Digitalization and Automation Technologies. - Part 2. Upgrading from Below: Active Local Governments and Firms and the Reconfiguration of Value Chains in China. - Chapter 6. Industrial Upgrading from Below: Can Chinese Local Manufacturing Firms Reconfigure Global Value Chains? - Chapter 7. Objective and Subjective Social Upgrading and Downgrading of Technical Workers in China’s Transitional Economy. - Chapter 8. Active local government and new Chinese firms in the emerging industries in Kunshan. - Chapter 9. Small City, Big Wisdom: Urban Transformation and Industrial Upgrading Strategies for Kunshan in the Changing Globalization Era. - Part 3. China’s Shifting Role in Regional and Global Value Chains. - Chapter 10. China’s Shifting Roles in Asian Electronics Trade Networks: Implications for Regional Value Chains. - Chapter 11. Chinese Cities in ICT Manufacturing Value Chains: A Multi-Product Analysis. - Chapter 12. Whither Global Value Chains: The Shifting Role of Taiwanese FDI in Mainland China. - Chapter 13. China’s Energy Policy: Implications of ‘Green or Brown’ Recovery for China’s Role in Manufacturing GVCs. - Chapter 14. Concluding Note.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Understanding Globalization, Global Gaps, and
Book SynopsisThis book aims to help readers make sense of our changing world by sharing the views of global thought leaders on some of the most important issues of our time, from US-China relations and global governance to climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. The ten dialogues in this book were part of the “China and the World” series of online discussions hosted by the Center for China and Globalization (CCG). The series features CCG President Huiyao Wang in conversation with experts from a range of fields, from renowned scholars of international relations, economics, and history, to journalists, policymakers, and business leaders. The speakers featured in this book are Graham Allison, David Blair, Kerry Brown, Anne Case, Li Chen, Wendy Cutler, Angus Deaton, Thomas L. Friedman, Valerie Hansen, Pascal Lamy, Kishore Mahbubani, Joseph S. Nye Jr., Adam Posen, J. Stapleton Roy, John L. Thornton, Huiyao Wang, Martin Wolf, and Zhu Guangyao. These wide-ranging discussions offer unique insights and perspectives on key trends shaping our world in the 21st century. These include the rise of China and shifts in geopolitics, as well as the evolving nature of globalization, transnational threats, and multilateralism.This is an open access book.This is an open access book.Table of ContentsChapter 1: China and the World in an Era of Crisis and Renewal - Dialogue with Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator at FTChapter 2: The World is Faster, Deeper, More Fused and Open, also Fragile - Dialogue with Thomas L. Friedman, bestselling author, reporter, New York Times columnist, and three-time Pulitzer Prize winnerChapter 3: US-China Balance of Power - Dialogue with Joseph S. Nye Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor and former Dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, coiner of the concept of “soft power”.Chapter 4: China and the World in an Era of Crisis and Renewal - Dialogue with Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator and Associate Editor at the Financial TimesChapter 5: Understanding inequality in a globalizing world: lessons for the 21st century - Dialogue with Nobel Laureate Sir Angus Deaton, Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University and Prof. Anne Case, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University.Chapter 6: The World a Thousand Years Ago: How Globalization Has Changed Human Society - Dialogue with Valerie Hansen, Historian, Sinologist and the Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Brazil—Japan Cooperation: From Complementarity to
Book SynopsisThis is an open access book. Relations between Brazil and Japan progressed dynamically in the 1960s and 1970s, centering on the substantial complementarity between Japan’s needing primary goods to sustain high economic growth and Brazil’s seeking non-hegemonic investment to invigorate its resource potential. Now that this complementarity has lost significance, the two countries are restructuring their relations to protect shared values of democracy, freedom, the rule of law, and the need for maintaining good relations with both China and the United States. Analyzed here is the development of this renewed bilateral relationship in multiple directions: productivity, global environment and health, migration, and triangular cooperation in third countries’ development. Facing the prospect of a declining population, Japan may become more open to international migration, but the experience with Japanese-descent Brazilian workers since the amendment of the migration control law in 1990 presents many lessons and challenges for the symbiosis of multicultural groups. Brazil, for its part, needs to address social inequality. To this end, it is fundamental to improve the quality of work.This book argues that Brazil and Japan can benefit from cooperation in managing those country-specific issues. It also discusses ways that Brazil and Japan can profit from coordinating action on global problems such as greenhouse gas reduction, mitigation of tropical diseases, healthy community building, and high-quality infrastructure for poverty reduction.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Nobuaki Hamaguchi and Danielly Ramos) Part I: Brazil-Japan Cooperation from Global Perspective Chapter 1 Brazil - Japan Relationship: A Partnership? (Henrique Altemani de Oliveira and Antonio Carlos Lessa) 1. Introduction 2. From an economic standpoint to a political perspective: basis for a strategic partnership? 3. Phases of the bilateral relationship during the Cold War 4. First attempts to resume the relationship and the importance of the Asian Crisis 5. Conclusion Chapter 2 Global Environmental Governance and ODA from Japan to Brazil (Shuichiro Masukata, Cristina Y. A. Inoue, and Nanahira de Rabelo e Sant’Anna) 1. Introduction 2. Multilateral-global dimension/level 3. Japan’s cooperation trajectory and “green” ODA to Brazil 4. Subnational-local: Prodecer in Paracatu and Agroforestry Systems in Tomé-Açu 5. Conclusion Lessons learned from cooperation in environmental sustainability Chapter 3 Global Health (Rodrigo Pires de Campos and Saori Kawai) Contents to be added Chapter 4 Trilateral Cooperation for Infrastructure (Akiko Koyasu and Danielly Ramos) Contents to be added Part II: Brazil-Japan Cooperation from Bilateral Perspective Chapter 5 Brazilian Workers in Japan and Public Policies for Promoting their Social Integration with a Focus on Basic Education to the Children (Mauricio Bugarin and Keiichi Yamazaki) 1. Recent trends of the Brazilian workers and their families in Japan 2. Challenges faced by the children 3. Public intervention 4. Formal modeling: Schooling choices and government intervention 5. Conclusions Chapter 6 Dissemination of Japanese Quality Control in Brazil (Nobuaki Hamaguchi and Silvio Miyazaki) 1. Introduction 2. Japanese TQC transfer to Brazil until the 1980s 3. Japanese-style TQC in Brazil since the 1990s 4. Contemporary cases of TQC in Brazil 5. Final remarks: TQC in Japan-Brazil relation in the next stage Conclusion: Structuring Brazil-Japan Cooperation from Complementarity to Shared Value (Nobuaki Hamaguchi and Danielly Ramos)
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Springer Verlag, Singapore The Digital Global Condition
Book SynopsisThis book explores how globalization and ubiquity of digital technology combine to create specific global impacts, challenges and opportunities. Although globalization is already associated with the speeding up of interactions and change, digital globalization is characterized by immediacy. The utter pervasiveness opens new global vulnerabilities at international, national, social and personal levels. The Digital Global Condition examines the nature of digital globalization, enabling us to not only inhabit a digital world, but also to understand it, even to live well in it.Table of ContentsChapter 1 - The Digital Global Condition.- Chapter 2 - The Imagined Latent Zone: How the myth of cultural authenticity survived the Covid-19 lockdowns.- Chapter 3 - Disruptive Technologies and New Threat Multipliers.- Chapter 4 - Digital ‘Natives’: Unsettling the Colony through Digital Technology.- Chapter 5 - Dangerous Misogyny of the Digital World.- Chapter 6 - Technology and lawyering: On legal practice and value in a digital age.- Chapter 7 - The Digital Power Paradox: US-China Competition, Semiconductors, and Weaponized Interdependence.- Chapter 8 - The political economy of digital educational content and the transformation of learning and teaching in global higher education.- Chapter 9 - Becoming Digital? University Learning and Teaching in the Digital Information Ecology.- Chapter 10 - Digital Inter-est: On being together in a global digital world.
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The Chinese University Press Globalization After the Pandemic – Thoughts on
Book SynopsisThe coronavirus pandemic that broke out in 2019 has finally calmed down in China, after the bungling occasioned by the iron hand of lockdown. But beginning in March 2020, the disaster spread abroad, and at present there is no end in sight. In this work, Qin Hui offers a bracing examination of the impact of coronavirus pandemic on political institutions in both China and the West. Deliberating on the contradiction between "human rights" and "human survival," he contends that China has achieved success in imposing coercive lockdowns to control the virus, but it will be a challenge to prevent the normalization of emergency measures from worsening human right conditions. The West, in contrast, must learn how democracies can efficiently enter a state of emergency and put an end to these measures at the proper time.Trade ReviewQin Hui is one of the most original thinkers and commentators active in China today. In this wide?ranging and meticulously researched book he argues that the COVID?19 pandemic reveals decisive weaknesses in both the Chinese and European/American political systems. While not everyone will agree with Qin's conclusions, the rigor of his arguments, the broad historical and geographical range of his examples, and his commitment to defending human dignity around the world make for a compelling read and challenge all forms of pandemic complacency."- Sebastian Veg, School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), ParisTable of Contents Foreword by David Ownby Chapter One: What if "Human Rights" Means "No Humans Left"? Chapter Two: "Human Rights Derogations" during States of Emergency, and the Definition of Human Rights Chapter Three: States of Emergency and Political Institutions Notes Bibliography
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Oxford University Press, USA Policing World Society
Book SynopsisThis book offers a sociological analysis of the history of international police cooperation in the period from the middle of the 19th century until the end of World War II. It is a detailed exploration of international cooperation strategies involving police institutions from the United States and Germany as well as other European countries. The study provides a rich empirical account of many dimensions in the history of international policing, including the role of police in the 19th-century movement towards nationalindependence; evolution from political cooperationtowards international criminal enforcement; international policing aspects of the outbreak of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution; the early history of international police organizations, including Interpol; the international implications of the Nazification of the German police; and the rise on the international scene of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.To account for these historical transformations, this book devTrade Review... a notable contribution to the ongoing debate regarding the nature and origins of globalization ... very rich in important details and can also be read as a parallel history of German and US police institutions. * Law and Politics Book Review *Mathieu Deflem's Policing World Society is a highly scholarly and groundbreaking book on a subject largely neglected by social science - the globalization of police work. The book is impressive along various dimensions, including its resourceful historical research and analysis, scientific rigor, theoretical sophistication, and rich and illuminating empirical detail. Without a doubt it will be the premier work on the subject for many years to come. * Donald Black, University Professor of the Social Sciences at the University of Virginia *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL POLICE COOPERATION ; 1. The Rise of International Policing ; 2. The Expansion of World Society ; 3. Towards an International Criminal Police ; 4. War and Revolution ; 5. The Origins of Interpol ; 6. Policing Across National Borders ; 7. On the Road to War: The Control of World Policing ; 8. Policing the Peace and the Restoration of World Order ; CONCLUSION: PATTERNS AND DYNAMICS OF INTERNATIONAL POLICING ; APPENDIX 1: A CHRONOLOGY OF INTERNATIONAL POLICING ; APPENDIX 2: A GERMAN-US DIALOGUE ON POLICING AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE ; APPENDIX 3: ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES
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