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Book SynopsisThe fully updated fourth edition of this lively and accessible book argues for the central role of media in understanding and shaping globalization. By breaking down the economic, cultural, and political impact of media, and through a rich set of case studies, Jack Lule describes a divided global village, its destiny shaped by strife.

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Book SynopsisThe fully updated fourth edition of this lively and accessible book argues for the central role of media in understanding and shaping globalization. By breaking down the economic, cultural, and political impact of media, and through a rich set of case studies, Jack Lule describes a divided global village, its destiny shaped by strife.

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates the meteoric rise of mobile webtoons – also known as webcomics – and the dynamic relationships between serialised content, artists, agencies, platforms and applications, as well as the global readership associated with them. It offers an engaging discussion of webtoons themselves, and what makes this new media form so compelling and attractive to millions upon millions of readers. Why have webtoons taken off, and how do users interact with them? Each of the case studies we explore raises interesting questions for both general readers and scholars of new media about how webtoons have become a modern form of popular culture. The book also addresses larger questions about East Asia’s contributions to global popular culture and Asian society in general, as well as South Korea’s rapid social and cultural transformation since the 1990s. This is a significant – and understudied – aspect of the new screen ecologies and their role in a new wave of media globalisation.Table of ContentsList of TablesList of AbbreviationsChapter 1: Introducing Webtoons and the Expansion of Korea’s Creative IndustriesChapter 2: Conceptualizing the Impact of Japanese Manga in Korea and the Pre-history of WebtoonsChapter 3: Policy Intervention and the Formation of the Webtooniverse Chapter 4: Daum and Naver: The Portals Underpinning Korea’s Transnational Webtoon IP EnginesChapter 5: Asia’s New Titans of Paid Content: Second-generation Webtoon Platforms KakaoPage and Lezhin ComicsChapter 6: Webtoons and Technological Innovation: Pushing the Envelope of the WebtooniverseChapter 7: The Branded Webtoon and its Soft Power AppealChapter 8: K-pop Webtoons and the Transmedia-IP Nexus in the BTS UniverseBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book contends that the quest to secure community self-rule represents a central human value - the belief in a basic and fundamental right to local autonomy. The universal nature of this value suggests that a right to local control should be accepted and embraced as an international human right. Perspectives from different academic fields of study are woven together to show how rural villagers, residents of large cities, environmental defenders and ‘home rule’ proponents have struggled to oppose the forces of globalization and of nation-state predominance.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Local Control, Human Rights and Globalization Chapter 2. The Moral and Legal Case: Human Rights, Community Rights and Legal Pluralism Chapter 3. Territory and Social Values in Global HistoryChapter 4. Local Environmental Autonomy vs. ‘Monumentalism’ Chapter 5. Towards Agrarian AutonomyChapter 6. Weak States, Strong Localities: Do Localities Benefit from State Fragility? Chapter 7. The Decentralization Fix? Chapter 8. Home Rule in the U.S.; The Local Dynamics of Fracking Chapter 9. Large Cities as Power BrokersChapter 10. Towards Micro-local Policy Influence: Participatory BudgetingChapter 11. Conclusion: Local Control as Social ValueBibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a generous immanent description of liberalism, but also works against and looks beyond it. It engages liberalism and its variants in IPE at a moment in time when liberalism and liberal internationalism are experiencing something of a crisis of confidence. Though we are deeply critical of liberalism, especially the variant that dominates in IPE, we picture liberalism as variegated and rife with doubt and tensions that potentially open it to traditions of thinking beyond itself. We also show how these tensions and doubts often prompt attempts at closure in the form of defensive maneuvers, like Eurocentric conceptions of development that justify Western dominance and the condemnation of scholarship that exposes relations of domination and subordination as violating the precepts of unit-level positive science. But recognizing these maneuvers as defensive reactions may help us grasp the moments of greater openness within liberalism that connect to traditions that think against and beyond its central tenets.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. Liberal Fundamentals: Invisible, Invasive, Artful and Bloody HandsChapter 2. Global Capitalism, Inequality, and PovertyChapter 3. Liberal IPE as Colonial ScienceChapter 4. Levels, Eurocentrism and Positive ScienceChapter 5. Units, Markets, Relations and FlowChapter 6. Complex Societies and Alternative Worlds: Whither the Right to a Share?EpilogueBibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a generous immanent description of liberalism, but also works against and looks beyond it. It engages liberalism and its variants in IPE at a moment in time when liberalism and liberal internationalism are experiencing something of a crisis of confidence. Though we are deeply critical of liberalism, especially the variant that dominates in IPE, we picture liberalism as variegated and rife with doubt and tensions that potentially open it to traditions of thinking beyond itself. We also show how these tensions and doubts often prompt attempts at closure in the form of defensive maneuvers, like Eurocentric conceptions of development that justify Western dominance and the condemnation of scholarship that exposes relations of domination and subordination as violating the precepts of unit-level positive science. But recognizing these maneuvers as defensive reactions may help us grasp the moments of greater openness within liberalism that connect to traditions that think against and beyond its central tenets.

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Book SynopsisGeopolitics is not dead, but nor does it involve the same old logic of a world determined by physical geography in a competition between Great Powers. Hidden Geopolitics recaptures the term to explore how the geography of power works both globally and nationally to structure and govern the workings of the global political economy. Globalization, far from its antithesis, is tightly wound up in the assumptions and practices of geopolitics, relating to the scope of regulatory authority, state sponsorship, and the political power of businesses to operate worldwide. Agnew shows how this “hidden” geopolitics and globalization have been vitally connected. He focuses on three moments: the origins of contemporary globalization in the policies pursued by successive US governments and allies after 1945 and its continued relevance even as the US role in the world changes; the close connection between geopolitical history and status of different countries and their relative capacities to exploit the possibilities and limit the costs of globalization; and new regulatory and standard-setting agencies which emerged under the sponsorship of major geopolitical powers but have grown in power and authority as the dominant states have become limited in their ability to manage the explosion of transnational transactions on their own.Agnew argues that it is time to move on from the narrow inter-imperial cast of geopolitics and the foolish policy advice it produces. The old perspective on geopolitics has taken on new life with the rise of national-populist movements in Europe and the United States and the reinvigoration of territorial-authoritarian regimes in Russia and China. Notwithstanding this trend, we must see the contemporary world through the lens of these complex, “hidden” geopolitical underpinnings that Agnew seeks to expose.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionWhat is Geopolitics?Hidden Geopolitics is Not NewGlobalizing GovernanceThe Logic of the BookPart I: Hidden GeopoliticsChapter 1: Geopolitics in a Globalized WorldGeopolitics versus GlobalizationGeopolitics of GlobalizationGeopolitics of DevelopmentGeopolitics of RegulationConsequences for Hidden GeopoliticsConclusionChapter 2: Beyond Territorial GeopoliticsThe United States from the Perspective of Land- versus Sea- PowersHegemony versus EmpireGlobalization and the Current Global Geopolitical OrderUS Hegemony and the Roots of GlobalizationConclusionChapter 3: Making the Strange FamiliarGeographical Analogy and FamiliarizationWhy Balkan Analogies?The Two Examples: Macedonian Syndrome and BalkanizationConclusionPart II: Geopolitics of GlobalizationChapter 4: The Asymmetric Border: The US Place in the World and the Refugee Panic of 2018The US Place in the World and the Asymmetric BorderThe US Refugee Panic of 2018The US Immigration “Debate”ConclusionChapter 5: Putting China in the World“Familiar” Analogies and the Limited Geographic Origins of Thinking about World PoliticsThe Making and the Travels of Dominant Perspectives on World PoliticsChina’s Hidden GeopoliticsChinese Narratives on World PoliticsThe Politics of the Narratives about World PoliticsConclusionPart III: Geopolitics of DevelopmentChapter 6: Territorial Politics after the Financial CrisisThe Geography of the 2007-8 Financial CrisisSpatial Uncertainties of Contemporary GovernanceWorld Cities versus State TerritoriesDevolution to Local and Regional GovernmentsConclusionChapter 7: Anti-Federalist FederalismDualism versus Polyphony in Federal GovernanceDonald Trump and National-PopulismThe Retreat of the Federal Government since the 1980sThe Spatial Paradox of Trump’s “Populism” and the Covid-19 PandemicConclusionPart IV: Geopolitics of Global RegulationChapter 8: Global RegulationThe Rise of Credit-Rating Agencies in Rating Sovereign DebtHow Are Ratings Done?Private Authority and State SovereigntyGeopolitical ConsequencesConclusionChapter 9: Managing the Eurozone CrisisPopular Accounts of the Eurozone CrisisAnalyzing the Eurozone CrisisWhat is Ordnungspolitik?The Limits of Ordnungspolitik in Variegated CapitalismThe Territorial Mismatch Thesis and the Eurozone CrisisConclusionPart V: Hidden No More?Chapter 10: ConclusionBibliographyAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisOver the last several decades, scholars and practitioners have progressively acknowledged that we cannot consider cities as the place where nature stops anymore, resulting in urban environments being increasingly appreciated and theorized as hybrids between nature and culture, entities made of socio-ecological processes in constant transformation. Spanning the fields of political ecology, environmental studies, and sociology, this new direction in urban theory emerged in concert with global concern for sustainability and environmental justice. This volume explores the notion that connecting with nature holds the key to a more progressive and liberatory politics.Table of ContentsPreface, John P. ClarkIntroduction: The Political Inhabiting the Earth, Simon Springer, Martin Locret-Collet, and Jennifer MateerChapter 1. An Effective Approach to Circular Economy within the Domain of Social Ecology, Andrej FideršekChapter 2. Heritage as a ‘Common’: Exploring Alternative Approaches for Degrowth, Elizabeth AuclairChapter 3. Local Resistance to Mega-Infrastructure Projects as a Place of Emancipation: Land Use Conflits, Radical Democracy and Oppositional Public Spaces, Jérome Pélenc, Anahita Grisoni, Julien Milanesi, Léa Sébastien, and Manuel Cervera MarzalChapter 4. Agri(Cultural) Resistance: Food Sovereignty and Anarchism in Response to the Socio-Biodiversity Crisis - Cassidy Thomas and Leonardo E. Figueroa-HellandChapter 5. Our Graves Above the Timberline: Urban Green Commons, Intergenerational Justice and Diachronic Environmental Politics, Martin Locret-ColletChapter 6. An Anarchist Landscape? Rethinking Landscape and ‘Other’ Geographies, Gerónimo Barrera de la TorreChapter 7. Kenneth Rexroth and Paul Goodman: Poets, Writers Anarchists and Political Ecologists, Gregory KnappChapter 8. The Prefigurative Politics of Going Off-Grid: Anarchist Political Ecology and Socio-Material Infrastructures, Ryan Alan Sporer and Kevin SuemnichtChapter 9. Escape from Ecology: Necrophilia and the Left’s Internalized Green Scare, Dan FischerChapter 10. Are the State and Public Institutions Compatible with Degrowth? An Anarchist Perspective, Francisco J. Toro

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Book SynopsisResource and environmental management generally entail an attempt by governing authorities to dominate, reroute, and tame the natural flows of water, the growth of forests, manage the populations of non-human bodies, and control nature more generally. Often this is done under the mantle of conservation, economic development, and sustainable management, but still involves a quest to “civilize” and control all aspects of nature for a specific purpose. The results of this form of environmental management and governance are many, but by and large, across the globe, it has meant governments construct a specific idea regarding nature and the environment. These forms of control also extend beyond the natural environment, allowing for particular methods of managing human and non-human populations in order to maintain power and enact sovereignty. This volume contributes to advancing an ‘ecology of freedom,’ which can critique current anthropocentric environmental destruction, as well as focusing on environmental justice and decentralized ecological governance. While concentrating on these areas of anarchist political ecology, three major themes emerged from the chapters: the legacies of colonialism that continue to echo in current resource management and governance practices, the necessity of overcoming human/nature dualisms for environmental justice and sustainability, and finally discussions and critiques of extractivism as a governing and economic mentality. Table of ContentsPreface, John P. ClarkIntroduction: The Political Ecology of Resource and Energy Management Beyond the State, Jennifer Mateer, Simon Springer, and Martin Locret-ColletChapter 1. Panoptic Geography: Man and Nature under Surveillance, Sotiris Lycourghiotis and George PouladosChapter 2. Uranium: Capitalism, Colonialism, and Ecology, Chris ColellaChapter 3. Moving Beyond borders: Anarchist Political Ecology and Evironmental Displacement, Nicolas Parent and Jirón Mariscal José Antonio de SucreChapter 4. Questioning Capitalistic Power Structures: A Way to Reconnect People with Lands? Simon Maraud and Etienne DelayChapter 5. When the Wolf Guards the Sheep: Confronting the Industrial Machine through Green Extractivism in Germany and Mexico, Alexander Dunlap and Andrea BrockChapter 6. Dismantling the Dam Hierarchies, Jennifer MateerChapter 7. The Conservation of Anarchy: Ethnographic Reflections on Forest Policies and Resource Use, Philipp ZehmischChapter 8. Blockading Hamburg: Green Syndicalism vs. G20, Ryan ThompsonChapter 9. Rising Above the Thinking Behind Climate Change: World Ecology and Workers' Control, Ben DebneyChapter 10. The Soft Hand of Capital, Deric Shannon and Clara Perez-Medina

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Book SynopsisDiplomatic efforts to ease tensions around the governance of transnational digital infrastructure is increasingly at the centre of global politics. However, the translation of this new dimension of diplomacy into a tangible concept is still limited and vague. For some, digital diplomacy is restricted to the use of digital means, especially social networks, by diplomats to practice a kind of “Public Diplomacy 2.0”. This collection approaches digital diplomacy beyond the instrumental use of digital technologies for diplomatic practices. It consider digital infrastructure generating new spaces of conflicts as such, where new diplomatic practices take space in order to facilitate the negotiations among parties about the governance, policy developments and technical solutions of the internet. The approach to digital diplomacy extends to foreign affairs and international relations, and with regard to all emerging international tensions clustered around digital environments, including cybersecurity and internet governance. This collection unfolds the concept of digital diplomacy to understand and formalize digital diplomacy across all its dimensions and from multiple interdisciplinary perspectives, and includes contributions addressing diplomacy around the international debate on the governance of the internet. A special emphasis is given to the role of the European Union, its member states and its neighborhood in a field historically dominated by US voices in the debate, due to its crucial role in the history of the internet but also because of the leading position of US internet giants in the global digital market. This book approaches the topic from an interdisciplinary perspective, by including contributions from leading scholars in the field of internet governance, approaching the topics from multiple backgrounds and disciplines, combining complementary novel theoretical approaches and empirically grounded research in the field of the governance of the internet as a diplomacy issue.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Global Internet Governance: an Unchartered Diplomacy Terrain?, Meryem Marzouki and Andrea CalderaroPart I: Internet Governance as a Diplomacy Issue Chapter 1 - Undiplomatic Ties: When Internet Blocks Intermediation, Yves SchemeilChapter 2 - Diplomacy and Internet Governance: a conceptual re-assessment, Katharina HöneChapter 3 - Discourse Coalitions in Internet Governance: Shaping Global Policy by Narratives and Definitions, Mauro Santaniello and Nicola Palladino Part II: Internet Governance as a Science Diplomacy Area Chapter 4 - Science Diplomacy and Internet Governance: Opportunities and Pitfalls, Robin E. MansellChapter 5 - Crafting Science Diplomacy In Comparative Perspective: The Case of U.S. Internet Governance, Nanette S. LevinsonChapter 6 - Modes of Internet Governance as Science Diplomacy: What Might the EU Learn from the US Cyber Security Policy?, Francesco Amoretti and Domenico FracchiollaPart III: Case Studies of Internet Governance Diplomacy Chapter 7 - Trade Agreements and Internet Governance: Data Flow and Politics in the TiSA’s Governmental Rationality, Maria Francesca De Tullio and Giuseppe MicciarelliChapter 8 - National Sovereignty, Global Policy, and the Liberalization of Telecommunications Markets, Claire PetersChapter 9 - In this bright future you can’t forget your past: debating the ‘right to be forgotten’ in Latin America, Jean-Marie ChenouChapter 10 - Policy diffusion and Internet governance: reflections on copyright and privacy, Krisztina Rozgonyi, Olga Kolokytha and Katharine Sarikakis

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Book SynopsisOver the last several decades, scholars and practitioners have progressively acknowledged that we cannot consider cities as the place where nature stops anymore, resulting in urban environments being increasingly appreciated and theorized as hybrids between nature and culture, entities made of socio-ecological processes in constant transformation. Spanning the fields of political ecology, environmental studies, and sociology, this new direction in urban theory emerged in concert with global concern for sustainability and environmental justice. This volume explores the notion that connecting with nature holds the key to a more progressive and liberatory politics.Table of ContentsPreface, John P. ClarkIntroduction: The Political Inhabiting the Earth, Simon Springer, Martin Locret-Collet, and Jennifer MateerChapter 1. An Effective Approach to Circular Economy within the Domain of Social Ecology, Andrej FideršekChapter 2. Heritage as a ‘Common’: Exploring Alternative Approaches for Degrowth, Elizabeth AuclairChapter 3. Local Resistance to Mega-Infrastructure Projects as a Place of Emancipation: Land Use Conflits, Radical Democracy and Oppositional Public Spaces, Jérome Pélenc, Anahita Grisoni, Julien Milanesi, Léa Sébastien, and Manuel Cervera MarzalChapter 4. Agri(Cultural) Resistance: Food Sovereignty and Anarchism in Response to the Socio-Biodiversity Crisis - Cassidy Thomas and Leonardo E. Figueroa-HellandChapter 5. Our Graves Above the Timberline: Urban Green Commons, Intergenerational Justice and Diachronic Environmental Politics, Martin Locret-ColletChapter 6. An Anarchist Landscape? Rethinking Landscape and ‘Other’ Geographies, Gerónimo Barrera de la TorreChapter 7. Kenneth Rexroth and Paul Goodman: Poets, Writers Anarchists and Political Ecologists, Gregory KnappChapter 8. The Prefigurative Politics of Going Off-Grid: Anarchist Political Ecology and Socio-Material Infrastructures, Ryan Alan Sporer and Kevin SuemnichtChapter 9. Escape from Ecology: Necrophilia and the Left’s Internalized Green Scare, Dan FischerChapter 10. Are the State and Public Institutions Compatible with Degrowth? An Anarchist Perspective, Francisco J. Toro

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Book SynopsisStories of humans striving for the good life are the focus of this new text from Roni Kay M. O’Dell and Devin K. Joshi, grounding students’ understanding of globalization and international development in real human and practical experience. Globalization and Human Development provides a new history and focus to the study of international development, with a concern for how people have been included, or continue to be left out, of the center of development thinking and practice. While many books on international relations ignore the contributions and influence of the Global South, this book incorporates their important contributions, while at the same time recognizing the continued inequalities, and disproportionate power and wealth of these marginalized nations.This book is the first to examine the globalization of the human development and capability approach (HDCA) as an ideology of international development and an ideology of globalization. It explores the relationship between HDCA and globalization, and the extent to which the HDCA has been globalizing. Further, the authors’ analysis looks at: How certain HDCA ideas are promoted, discussed, and cited more often than those stemming from neoliberalism and other development paradigms How the HDCA was influenced by development thinking in the Global South during the Cold War, along with mobilizations to end all forms of colonialism, neocolonialism, and imperialism Why the HDCA has re-oriented global development thinking and practice away from state-centric and profit-focused development models fixated on GDP growth to prioritize individual well-being and freedoms. Table of ContentsList of Figures and TablesList of AcronymsChapter 1: Introducing Globalization and Human DevelopmentOur Contribution to Understanding Human Development and GlobalizationTheories and History of GlobalizationThe Contemporary Era of GlobalizationA Short Overview of Human DevelopmentHistorical Development Thinking and PracticeHuman Development as an Alternative Theoretical and Practical ApproachHuman Development GlobalizedGlobalization and Human Development (Cause and Effect)Globalization as Human Development (Linking or Equivalence of the Concepts)Globalization with Human Development (Capabilities Globalism) The Dimensions and Processes of Globalization through which Human Development is GlobalizingChapter OrganizationChapter 2: Human Development as an Ideology of GlobalizationDefining and Explaining IdeologyCompeting Ideologies of GlobalizationHuman Development as an Ideology of GlobalizationParticularism and the Concern for Capabilities, Freedom, and DemocracyUniversalism, Human Flourishing, and CapabilitiesLocating the Human Development Paradigm as an IdeologyComparing Human Development to NeoliberalismHuman Development as a Forward-Looking IdeologyChapter 3: The Role of Intellectuals in Globalizing Human DevelopmentAcademics on the Human Development and Capability ApproachAmartya SenMartha NussbaumMahbub ul HaqAssessing the Academic Globalizing of the HDCA by Sen, Nussbaum, and ul HaqThe Human Development and Capability AssociationThe Dramatic Rise in Academic Publications on Human DevelopmentPublications on the Human Development Reports and IndexPublications on HDCA Themes and Development ConceptsThe Significance of Intellectuals in Globalizing the Human Development IdeologyChapter 4: The Role of Mass Media in Globalizing Human DevelopmentWho’s Reporting on Human Development? Coverage of the HDRs and HDIsPolitical Communication on the HD Ideology (Framing and Agenda Setting)The Dramatic Rise in Media Reporting on the HDRs and HDICredibility and Resonance in Media Reporting Persistence in Reporting Decentralization in Reporting: Local and Global Newspaper AudiencesReflections on the Human Development Paradigm and the Mass MediaChapter 5: The United Nations and the Globalization of Human DevelopmentHuman Development from the League of Nations to the United NationsConference Diplomacy and Human Development Ideas, Concepts, and Theoretical FoundationsHuman Development and UN Conferences to Support the EnvironmentHuman Development and UN Conferences to Support WomenHuman Development and UN Conferences to Support the Least Developed CountriesThe UNDP Defines Human Development through the Human Development Reports The Human Development Reports Office at the UNDPDimensions of Globalization Addressed in the HDRsNext Steps for Human Development and International CooperationChapter 6: The Role of the Global South in Globalizing Human DevelopmentThe Global South and Human DevelopmentInternational Development and the Global SouthThe Global South and the United NationsThe Global South and the Non-Aligned MovementPostcolonialism and the Human Development IdeologyProgress, Setbacks, Possibilities on Achieving Human Development in the Global SouthEducationLife ExpectancyIncome and InequalityMultidimensional PovertyGender EqualityGlobal South Progress on MDGs and SDGsThe Future of Global South and Human DevelopmentChapter 7: Globalizing Human Development: A Success Story or a Work in Progress?Reviewing Human Development Worldwide: Growths and GapsHuman Development Compared to Alternative ApproachesLocating the Human Development Approach on the Left-Right Spectrum Evaluating the Human Development Approach as an IdeologyStrengths of the Human Development IdeologyWeaknesses of the Human Development IdeologyHuman Development in the Present and FutureBibliographyAbout the Authors

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Book SynopsisStories of humans striving for the good life are the focus of this new text from Roni Kay M. O’Dell and Devin K. Joshi, grounding students’ understanding of globalization and international development in real human and practical experience. Globalization and Human Development provides a new history and focus to the study of international development, with a concern for how people have been included, or continue to be left out, of the center of development thinking and practice. While many books on international relations ignore the contributions and influence of the Global South, this book incorporates their important contributions, while at the same time recognizing the continued inequalities, and disproportionate power and wealth of these marginalized nations.This book is the first to examine the globalization of the human development and capability approach (HDCA) as an ideology of international development and an ideology of globalization. It explores the relationship between HDCA and globalization, and the extent to which the HDCA has been globalizing. Further, the authors’ analysis looks at: How certain HDCA ideas are promoted, discussed, and cited more often than those stemming from neoliberalism and other development paradigms How the HDCA was influenced by development thinking in the Global South during the Cold War, along with mobilizations to end all forms of colonialism, neocolonialism, and imperialism Why the HDCA has re-oriented global development thinking and practice away from state-centric and profit-focused development models fixated on GDP growth to prioritize individual well-being and freedoms. Table of ContentsList of Figures and TablesList of AcronymsChapter 1: Introducing Globalization and Human DevelopmentOur Contribution to Understanding Human Development and GlobalizationTheories and History of GlobalizationThe Contemporary Era of GlobalizationA Short Overview of Human DevelopmentHistorical Development Thinking and PracticeHuman Development as an Alternative Theoretical and Practical ApproachHuman Development GlobalizedGlobalization and Human Development (Cause and Effect)Globalization as Human Development (Linking or Equivalence of the Concepts)Globalization with Human Development (Capabilities Globalism) The Dimensions and Processes of Globalization through which Human Development is GlobalizingChapter OrganizationChapter 2: Human Development as an Ideology of GlobalizationDefining and Explaining IdeologyCompeting Ideologies of GlobalizationHuman Development as an Ideology of GlobalizationParticularism and the Concern for Capabilities, Freedom, and DemocracyUniversalism, Human Flourishing, and CapabilitiesLocating the Human Development Paradigm as an IdeologyComparing Human Development to NeoliberalismHuman Development as a Forward-Looking IdeologyChapter 3: The Role of Intellectuals in Globalizing Human DevelopmentAcademics on the Human Development and Capability ApproachAmartya SenMartha NussbaumMahbub ul HaqAssessing the Academic Globalizing of the HDCA by Sen, Nussbaum, and ul HaqThe Human Development and Capability AssociationThe Dramatic Rise in Academic Publications on Human DevelopmentPublications on the Human Development Reports and IndexPublications on HDCA Themes and Development ConceptsThe Significance of Intellectuals in Globalizing the Human Development IdeologyChapter 4: The Role of Mass Media in Globalizing Human DevelopmentWho’s Reporting on Human Development? Coverage of the HDRs and HDIsPolitical Communication on the HD Ideology (Framing and Agenda Setting)The Dramatic Rise in Media Reporting on the HDRs and HDICredibility and Resonance in Media Reporting Persistence in Reporting Decentralization in Reporting: Local and Global Newspaper AudiencesReflections on the Human Development Paradigm and the Mass MediaChapter 5: The United Nations and the Globalization of Human DevelopmentHuman Development from the League of Nations to the United NationsConference Diplomacy and Human Development Ideas, Concepts, and Theoretical FoundationsHuman Development and UN Conferences to Support the EnvironmentHuman Development and UN Conferences to Support WomenHuman Development and UN Conferences to Support the Least Developed CountriesThe UNDP Defines Human Development through the Human Development Reports The Human Development Reports Office at the UNDPDimensions of Globalization Addressed in the HDRsNext Steps for Human Development and International CooperationChapter 6: The Role of the Global South in Globalizing Human DevelopmentThe Global South and Human DevelopmentInternational Development and the Global SouthThe Global South and the United NationsThe Global South and the Non-Aligned MovementPostcolonialism and the Human Development IdeologyProgress, Setbacks, Possibilities on Achieving Human Development in the Global SouthEducationLife ExpectancyIncome and InequalityMultidimensional PovertyGender EqualityGlobal South Progress on MDGs and SDGsThe Future of Global South and Human DevelopmentChapter 7: Globalizing Human Development: A Success Story or a Work in Progress?Reviewing Human Development Worldwide: Growths and GapsHuman Development Compared to Alternative ApproachesLocating the Human Development Approach on the Left-Right Spectrum Evaluating the Human Development Approach as an IdeologyStrengths of the Human Development IdeologyWeaknesses of the Human Development IdeologyHuman Development in the Present and FutureBibliographyAbout the Authors

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Book SynopsisThe governance of the internet has gained a central role in global politics. International cooperation is increasingly mobilized to ensure that the expansion of connectivity infrastructure, digital services and their usages also safeguards security, human rights, and economic benefits. The field is truly transnational, including a vibrant stakeholder community that plays an active role in building sustainable ‘digital sovereignty’. Over the past decade, novel diplomatic practices have been adopted in negotiating technical standards, norms, regulations, and policies in the intersection of national and global priorities. This book defines this novel tool for diplomatic dialogue as Internet Diplomacy, a concept that entails the broad range of emerging international practices clustered around digital environments, including cybersecurity and internet governance. In broadening our view of diplomacy in the digital age, the book includes a comprehensive collection of contributions and cases addressing Internet Diplomacy. Collectively, it expands our understanding of transformations in international diplomacy and transnational digital governance, their drivers and their nature, their capacity to challenge power relations, and, ultimately, the values they carry and channel onto the global scene.Trade ReviewDigital infrastructure transcends sovereign boundaries and has become a new space for all manner of global conflict. This thought-provoking, insightful book explains how these Internet governance concerns require a new paradigm of diplomacy—Internet Diplomacy—with high stakes for global politics and the future of the Internet itself. -- Laura DeNardis, American University, Washington DCA most welcome exploration of new diplomatic practices in transnational politics. World-leading scholars of Internet governance combine rich empirical studies with broader analytical insights and normative reflections. -- Jan Aart Scholte, Leiden University and University of Duisburg-Essen

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Book SynopsisThe fate of globalization in the 21st century hangs in the balance. Although recent data show that most global integration has been on the rebound after the 2008-9 global financial meltdown and the COVID-19 pandemic, public sentiments about globalization have soured. The neoliberal glorification of globalization as beneficial market integration is running out of steam, while national-populist visions of “deglobalization” exert significant mass appeal. Today’s ostensible globalization backlash scenario seems to be confirmed by soaring inflation rates, global supply chain disruptions, accelerating climate change and ecological deterioration, lagging transitions to greener forms of energy, escalating economic inequality, and rising geopolitical competition among the Great Powers, especially the United States-China rivalry and the protracted Russian-Ukrainian war. On the flipside, however, such grim scenarios reinforce the fact that most of today’s problems are global in nature. This book provides an accessible assessment of 21st-century globalization that draws on global theory and history to engage pressing issues such as digitization, ideological polarization, higher education, demographics, human development, and the environment. Assembling such a big picture of globalization in this young century supports the practical efforts of setting the globe on a more equitable and sustainable path.Table of ContentsPreface & AcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesPART I: HISTORIES & THEORIES A Genealogy of “Globalization”The Four Meaning Branches of the Family Tree Called “Globalization”The Neoliberal Revolution and the “Globalization of Markets”Concluding Reflections on the Meaning of “Globalization” in this BookFour Ages of Globalization Periodizing Globalization: Perilous PitfallsPeriodizing Globalization: Alternative ModelsThe Age of the Embodied Globalization (10000BCE–3000BCE)The Age of Institutional Globalization (3000BCE – 1600CE)The Age of Objectified Globalization (1600–1914)The Age of Disembodied Globalization (1914–2000)Concluding ReflectionsA Critical Appraisal of Globalization TheoryGlobalization Theory: The BasicsThe Dominant Framework of Globalization TheoryAn Alternative Framework of Globalization TheoryThe Generalizing ModeThe Domain ModeThe Complexity ModeConcluding RemarksPART II: IDEOLOGIES & MOVEMENTSContending GlobalismsPolitical Ideologies and Social ImaginariesIdeological Struggles of the 21st CenturyConcluding ReflectionsThe Challenge of Antiglobalist PopulismThe Significance of Global CrisesWhat Is National-Populism?Mapping Trump’s Antiglobalist PopulismThe Populist ParadoxConcluding Reflections of the Future of Antiglobalist PopulismPART III: ISSUES & PROBLEMSThe Rise of Global Studies in Higher EducationThe Institutional Evolution of Global StudiesThe Global Studies Story at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB)The First Pillar of Global Studies: GlobalizationThe Second Pillar of Global Studies: TransdisciplinarityThe Third Pillar of Global Studies: Space & TimeThe Fourth Pillar of Global Studies: Critical ThinkingConcluding Remarks: Critiques of Global StudiesDigital Globalization in the COVID-19 EraFour Social Formations of GlobalizationDigitization and Disjunctive GlobalizationThe Production of the Unhappy ConsciousnessConcluding Reflections on the Impact of COVID-19Globalization in 2040: Environment, Population, DevelopmentEnvironmentPopulationDevelopmentConcluding ReflectionsNotesIndexAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisThe fate of globalization in the 21st century hangs in the balance. Although recent data show that most global integration has been on the rebound after the 2008-9 global financial meltdown and the COVID-19 pandemic, public sentiments about globalization have soured. The neoliberal glorification of globalization as beneficial market integration is running out of steam, while national-populist visions of “deglobalization” exert significant mass appeal. Today’s ostensible globalization backlash scenario seems to be confirmed by soaring inflation rates, global supply chain disruptions, accelerating climate change and ecological deterioration, lagging transitions to greener forms of energy, escalating economic inequality, and rising geopolitical competition among the Great Powers, especially the United States-China rivalry and the protracted Russian-Ukrainian war. On the flipside, however, such grim scenarios reinforce the fact that most of today’s problems are global in nature. This book provides an accessible assessment of 21st-century globalization that draws on global theory and history to engage pressing issues such as digitization, ideological polarization, higher education, demographics, human development, and the environment. Assembling such a big picture of globalization in this young century supports the practical efforts of setting the globe on a more equitable and sustainable path.Table of ContentsPreface & AcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesPART I: HISTORIES & THEORIES A Genealogy of “Globalization”The Four Meaning Branches of the Family Tree Called “Globalization”The Neoliberal Revolution and the “Globalization of Markets”Concluding Reflections on the Meaning of “Globalization” in this BookFour Ages of Globalization Periodizing Globalization: Perilous PitfallsPeriodizing Globalization: Alternative ModelsThe Age of the Embodied Globalization (10000BCE–3000BCE)The Age of Institutional Globalization (3000BCE – 1600CE)The Age of Objectified Globalization (1600–1914)The Age of Disembodied Globalization (1914–2000)Concluding ReflectionsA Critical Appraisal of Globalization TheoryGlobalization Theory: The BasicsThe Dominant Framework of Globalization TheoryAn Alternative Framework of Globalization TheoryThe Generalizing ModeThe Domain ModeThe Complexity ModeConcluding RemarksPART II: IDEOLOGIES & MOVEMENTSContending GlobalismsPolitical Ideologies and Social ImaginariesIdeological Struggles of the 21st CenturyConcluding ReflectionsThe Challenge of Antiglobalist PopulismThe Significance of Global CrisesWhat Is National-Populism?Mapping Trump’s Antiglobalist PopulismThe Populist ParadoxConcluding Reflections of the Future of Antiglobalist PopulismPART III: ISSUES & PROBLEMSThe Rise of Global Studies in Higher EducationThe Institutional Evolution of Global StudiesThe Global Studies Story at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB)The First Pillar of Global Studies: GlobalizationThe Second Pillar of Global Studies: TransdisciplinarityThe Third Pillar of Global Studies: Space & TimeThe Fourth Pillar of Global Studies: Critical ThinkingConcluding Remarks: Critiques of Global StudiesDigital Globalization in the COVID-19 EraFour Social Formations of GlobalizationDigitization and Disjunctive GlobalizationThe Production of the Unhappy ConsciousnessConcluding Reflections on the Impact of COVID-19Globalization in 2040: Environment, Population, DevelopmentEnvironmentPopulationDevelopmentConcluding ReflectionsNotesIndexAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisInternational Economics in the Age of Globalization provides the intellectual basis for an understanding of the increasingly integrated world economy. The requisite background is not solely economic theory, but includes the history and the purposes and workings of the organizations, laws, instruments, and customary practices in the international economy. Economic theory is not limited to the abstract; its concern with institutions has both a practical and theoretical base. How can one evaluate a criticism of the World Trade Organization, a fear of the dangers of financial derivatives, the supposed freedom of a multinational firm, or the presumed unfairness of dumping without knowing both theory and institutions? Where did these institutions come from? What problems are they solving-as well as creating? This book's balance between theory and institutions is akin to texts in Public Expenditure or Money and Banking. The leading international economics texts, in contrast, push the real world into the background and present the subject as a more specialized intermediate theory course, accessible only to people who have a solid theoretical background. The result is that good discussions of many of the key issues in modern international economics simply are not available in the curriculum, or accessible to any but economics majors. This book aims to remedy that failing, challenging economics majors and non-majors alike. It will also be of value to students of business and public affairs and to the economic-literate general public.Table of Contents1. The Nature of International Economics Globalization International Economics in Daily Life The Growth of Economic Interdependence Statistics with Some Grains of Salt Looking Forward Vocabulary and Concepts / Questions Notes Part I: International Trade 2. The Theory of Comparative Advantage The Gains from Trade in General Equilibrium The Gains from Trade in Partial Equilibrium Relaxing the Assumptions Conclusion Appendix: Offer Curves Vocabulary and Concepts / Questions Notes 3. The Sources of Comparative Advantage Factor Proportions: The Heckscher-Olin Model Two Challenges to the Heckscher-Olin Model Why Trade Arises among Similar Countries Segmented Markets as an Explanation for Trade What Could Trigger the Direction of Specialization? Dislocation and Intraindustrial Trade Conclusion Vocabulary and Concepts / Questions Notes 4. Tariffs, Quotas, and VERs Tariffs Analysis of Tariffs: Their Effects Quotas and Their Economic Effects Voluntary Export Restraints Appendix: The Terms-of-Trade Effect in General Equilibrium Vocabulary and Concepts / Questions Notes 5. The Face of Modern Protectionism Subsidy and Tax Issues Administrative Protection Technical, Health, Safety, and Environmental Standards How Can Distortions To Trade Be Compared? Playing the Protectionist Instruments Conclusion Vocabulary and Concepts / Questions Notes 6. The Political Economy of Trade Barriers A Short History of Trade Policy The Uruguay Round and the World Trade Organization Why Do Countries Persist in Protectionism? The Arguments for Trade Barriers Conclusion Vocabulary and Concepts / Questions Notes 7. Unfair Trade Practices Dumping Subsidies Other Unfair Trade Practices Conclusion Vocabulary and Concepts / Questions Notes 8. National Trade Policies Managed Trade Strategic Trade Policy Japanese Use of a National Trade Strategy Adjusting to Trade as a National Strategy Trade Sanctions Vocabulary and Concepts / Questions Notes 9. Economic Integration The Types of Economic Integration The Great Debate: Trade Creation or Trade Diversion Dynamic Effects of Economic Integration A Checklist of Conditions for Welfare Improvement The Major Examples of Economic Integration Very Large PTAs PTAs with a Rich Patron Regional Trade Arrangements in the LDCs Foreign Trade Zones: Little Bits of Free Trade Conclusion Vocabulary and Concepts / Questions Notes Part II: International Macroeconomics: Saving, Growth, and Finance 10. Saving, Investment, and the Trade Balance How Can Countries Have Trade Imbalances? The Three Real Imbalances: Imports-Exports, Saving-Investment, and Output-Absorption Financial Markets: Borrowing and Lending Trade Imbalances as Problems and Symptoms Total Investment Equals Total Savings The International Capital Market and National Saving Government Savings and Trade Deficits: The Twin Deficit Question Private Saving Conclusion Appendix: Where to Find the Numbers Vocabulary and Concepts / Questions Notes 11. The Balance of Payments Why Study the Balance of Payments? What a Balance-of-Payments Statement Shows Balance-of-Payments Accounting The Structure of the Balance of Payments Using Balance-of-Payments Statements as Analytical Tools The World Deficit Conclusion Vocabulary and Concepts / Questions Notes 12. Income and Price Effects Income and Price Changes Income Effects Some International Implications Price and Income: Two Intriguing Cases Conclusion Vocabulary and Concepts / Questions Notes 13. Interest Rates, Prices, and Foreign Exchange The Foreign Exchange Market The Vast Sums Traded Interest Rate Parity The Longer Run: Price Levels and Purchasing Power Parity International and Domestic Financial Markets Conclusion Vocabulary and Concepts / Questions Notes 14. Money in the Global Economy Three Ways of Looking at Money's Relation to Real Output Modeling the Effects of Money Supply Markets for Funds and Markets for Liquidity Monetary Policy National Money Supplies and Global Flows The Role of Money in Correcting Serious Balance-of-Payments Difficulties The Problem of Large Capital Flows Monetary and Fiscal Policy Together Conclusion Vocabulary and Concepts / Questions Notes 15. Exchange Rate Adjustment What Countries Really Do The Role of the Exchange Rate in Adjusting to Payments Difficulties Exchange Control The Once-and-for-all Devaluation after Great Inflation Revaluation (Upward Valuation) Price Sensitivity: What Happens When Price Effects Work Slowly Exchange Rate Changes and the EXIN Model Conclusion Vocabulary and Concepts / Questions Notes 16. International Financial Markets The Functions of Financial Markets The Advantages of Large Markets An Overview of the International Markets Eurodollars, T-accounts, and Monetary Expansion Derivative and Swap Markets Continuing Changes in the International Capital Market Implications of the Changes Conclusion Vocabulary and Concepts / Questions Notes 17. International Monetary Institutions (I) The International System under the Gold Standard The 1920s: Pegged Exchange Rates The Great Depression The Bretton Woods System: 1947-1973 Reserve Currencies Special Drawing Rights Borrowing Swap Lines The End of the Bretton Woods System The Bretton Woods System: An Assesment Vocabulary and Concepts / Questions Notes 18. International Monetary Institutions (II) The Oil Crises Floating Exchange Rates The Debt Crisis Currencies and Governments: How Many Currencies? Deja Vu All Over Again Vocabulary and Concepts / Questions Notes 19. Multinational Firms, Foreign Direct Investment, and Globalization Foreign Direct Investment and the Multinational Firm FDI in Recent Years The Theory of Foreign Direct Investment Possible Reasons for the Recent Increase in FDI Extent of the Firm's Freedom from Market Constraints Issues MNFs Raise Conclusion Vocabulary and Concepts / Questions Notes Index

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Book SynopsisDebunking the common perception that immigrants are admitted into a new country because of the host country`s generosity and willingness to provide refuge and security, this collection of immigrant case studies suggests that immigrants are admitted to serve a host country`s economic interests or to make good on a national debt. The firsthand experiences of Ghanaian women, migrant sex-workers, foreign-trained professionals, and Canadian aid workers reveal that the host country often reaps benefits from immigration. The impact of policies and regulations on real people are thoughtfully explored in this biting indictment of the selfish motivations that power admittance and rejection cater to in the immigration process.

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Book SynopsisIn this comprehensive glossary, the reader will find the necessary definitions needed to navigate the labyrinth of terms and phrases used in development literature. Unlike traditional dictionaries, this guide explains the origin of terms and places definitions within the historical context of the literature. It provides an up-to-date guide to all the terms and definitions dealing with development studies. Mason has also included information on development institutions and many of the journals and publications that have emerge from the development field. Here the reader will find clear definitions for concepts such as "dependency theory," "democratization," "gender and development," "globalization," "participation" and "patriarchy." For all those who have had to grapple with this terminology, the explanations can now be found in this complete guide.

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Book SynopsisRooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America, Blood of Extraction examines the increasing presence of Canadian mining companies in Latin America and the environmental and human rights abuses that have occurred as a result. By following the money, Gordon and Webber illustrate the myriad ways Canadian-based multinational corporations, backed by the Canadian state, have developed extensive economic interests in Latin America over the last two decades at the expense of Latin American people and the environment.Latin American communities affected by Canadian resource extraction are now organized into hundreds of opposition movements, from Mexico to Argentina, and the authors illustrate the strategies used by the Canadian state to silence this resistance and advance corporate interests.

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Book SynopsisThis book is about the need for an alternative to capitalism. But what does that alternative look like? And given the ever-increasing wealth and power of the 1 percent and the fact that corporations are given carte blanche to turn natural resources into profit, is an alternative possible?Tom Webb argues that a massive shift to social enterprise, primarily co-operatives, is required. More than 250 million people around the world work for co-operatives, and co-operatives impact the lives of three billion people. This model reduces almost every negative impact of capitalism - it is a model that works.Webb outlines the principles co-operatives need to hold to if they are to be a successful alternative to capitalism and examines the public-policy changes needed to nurture such a transition, but he remains neither wildly optimistic nor unduly pessimistic. A better world is possible, but it is not inevitable.

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Book SynopsisIn this updated edition, the authors explore ways which human beings have evolved beyond their needs, trampling other species, believing they can make the Earth work the way they want it to. The book offers strategies for making the right turn at this crosswords and prospering by reshaping the place of humanity in nature.

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Book SynopsisThis study is the outcome of empirical research on the development and decay tendencies of the capitalist world economy since the early 1980s and the role that Europe will play in these constellations. Over these years the conclusion was reached that the logic of capitalist world development changes with the ups and downs of longer Kondratieff cycles, and that different periods of hegemony and of world political constellations, connected with these Kondratieff cycles, in turn give rise to different constellations of world economic ascent and decline. Those that hoped that world trade and open financial markets would shift incomes in favour of the poor, must now recognise that -- however we look at the figures -- there is a tendency towards rising poverty on a global scale, especially after the Asian crash of 1997.

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Book SynopsisEvery time you use a cell phone or log on to a computer, you could be contributing to the death toll in the bloodiest, most violent region in the world: the eastern Congo. Rich in “conflict minerals”--valuable resources mined in the midst of armed conflict and egregious human rights abuses--this remote and lawless land is home to deposits of gold and diamonds as well as coltan, tin, and tungsten, all critical to cell phones, computers, and other popular electronics.In Consuming the Congo, veteran journalist and author Peter Eichstaedt goes into these killing fields to find what is behind the bloodshed, hearing the stories of those who live this nightmarish reality. He talks with survivors of villages decimated by war and miners slogging knee-deep in muck, desperately digging up the gold, tin, and coltan on which Western culture depends. While these men work with picks, shovels, and iron bars, marauding militias and renegade army units who control the mines roam the jungles, killing and raping with impunity, taking their profits, and leaving villagers to a life of grueling manual labor, brutality, and disease.Some five million Congolese have died unnecessarily, the worst loss of human life since World War II, yet the pillaging and bloodletting continue at a frightening pace. Consuming the Congo not only explores the violence suffered by the Congolese but also examines how we, as part of the problem, can become part of the solution.Trade Review"A powerful and long-overdue expose of greed and violence in the battle over Africa's mineral wealth. . . . A harrowing and important work that shows yet again that far-flung conflicts touch closer to home that we may imagine."-- Greg Campbell , author of Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones"An exceptional book that opens up the complicated and brutal reality of life in the Democratic Republic of Congo. By explaining and connecting the violence that occurs on the ground to the products it facilitates, Eichstaedt serves up a devastating global insight into the perpetuation of violence in the DRC." -- Sarnata Reynolds , Amnesty International USA"Eichstaedt provides counterpoint and a glimmer of hope in the form of possible reforms and legislations that could restore order to a devastated region." -- Publishers Weekly

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Book Synopsis In recent years, several influential commentators have stated or strongly implied that the advanced industrial democracies are today being overwhelmed by a host of problems - including rapid population growth, the breakup of multi-ethnic states, environmental degredation, and increasing economic differentials between the "developing" and "developed" worlds - for which no effective solutions are at hand. The migration-inducing potential of these post-Cold War developments has been a particular source of concern. This volume provides a counter-catastrophic view of developments and a more sober and balanced assessment of the challenges the United States and other industrial democracies face in the sphere of international migration than that offered in recent years. The first part is devoted to a diagnosis of the problem, revalution of the notion of a "migration crisis" by examining the likely consequences of population growth, environmental degredation, and political conflict in the developing and post-communist worlds. Special attention is also given to the manifestations of these forces in the western hemisphere where they may have direct consequences for immigration to the United States. In the second part the implications for U.S. policy are considered, ranging from promotion of democracy and development of strategies for minimizing international migrations and refugee flows to the intricacies of humanitarian relief and intervention when preventive measures prove ineffective.Trade Review "This is a well-researched and thought-provoking book, which should be read by all those who study or manage migration flows. It makes it clear that there are no easy solutions but that panic reactions are counter-productive and lead to bad policies." · Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies "This a responsible scholarly project: responsible in the sense of rigorous social science and policy analysis, and responsible in identifying empirically grounded policy and programmatic options ... Scholarship such as that represented by Zolberg, Benda and their colleagues will be essential to reasoned and effective migration policy-making in the United States and elsewhere." · Population, Space and Place

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Book Synopsis In recent years, several influential commentators have stated or strongly implied that the advanced industrial democracies are today being overwhelmed by a host of problems - including rapid population growth, the breakup of multi-ethnic states, environmental degredation, and increasing economic differentials between the "developing" and "developed" worlds - for which no effective solutions are at hand. The migration-inducing potential of these post-Cold War developments has been a particular source of concern. This volume provides a counter-catastrophic view of developments and a more sober and balanced assessment of the challenges the United States and other industrial democracies face in the sphere of international migration than that offered in recent years. The first part is devoted to a diagnosis of the problem, revalution of the notion of a "migration crisis" by examining the likely consequences of population growth, environmental degredation, and political conflict in the developing and post-communist worlds. Special attention is also given to the manifestations of these forces in the western hemisphere where they may have direct consequences for immigration to the United States. In the second part the implications for U.S. policy are considered, ranging from promotion of democracy and development of strategies for minimizing international migrations and refugee flows to the intricacies of humanitarian relief and intervention when preventive measures prove ineffective.Trade Review "This is a well-researched and thought-provoking book, which should be read by all those who study or manage migration flows. It makes it clear that there are no easy solutions but that panic reactions are counter-productive and lead to bad policies." · Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies "This a responsible scholarly project: responsible in the sense of rigorous social science and policy analysis, and responsible in identifying empirically grounded policy and programmatic options ... Scholarship such as that represented by Zolberg, Benda and their colleagues will be essential to reasoned and effective migration policy-making in the United States and elsewhere." · Population, Space and PlaceTable of ContentsAristide R. Zolberg Professor of Political Science and Director of the International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship at the Graduate Faculty, New School University, New York. Peter M. Benda is Associate Director of the Center on Policy Attitudes and the Program on International Policy Attitudes, Washington D.C.

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Book Synopsis The rapid postwar economic growth in the Southeast Asia region has led to a transformation of many of the societies there, together with the development of new types of anthropological research in the region. Local societies with originally quite different cultures have been incorporated into multi-ethnic states with their own projects of nation-building based on the creation of "national cultures" using these indigenous elements. At the same time, the expansion of international capitalism has led to increasing flows of money, people, languages and cultures across national boundaries, resulting in new hybrid social structures and cultural forms. This book examines the nature of these processes in contemporary Southeast Asia with detailed case studies drawn from countries across the region, including Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. At the macro-level these include studies of nation-building and the incorporation of minorities. At the micro-level they range from studies of popular cultural forms, such as music and textiles to the impact of new sects and the world religions on local religious practice. Moving between the global and the local are the various streams of migrants within the region, including labor migrants responding to the changing distribution of economic opportunities and ethnic minorities moving in response to natural disaster.Trade Review "This book is a useful resource…one of its more important contributions is that it presents valuable insights into the notion of globalising Southeast Asia and how people deal with this in different parts of Southeast Asia, including the confusion experienced in facing it." · The Asia-Pacific Journal of Anthropology "The papers are well written and as a whole relate well to the overall theme of the book. In this regard, the book is a fine example of how much anthropology has to offer studies of globalization." · Asian Anthropology "For those who treasure the diversity and richness of Southeast Asian cultures, and relish the vitality, ingenuity and perseverance of its peoples, the collective message [of this book] is very encouraging ... It makes great ‘escapist reading’ from the currently depressing international scene, and deserves a wide readership by all concerned with the risks, uncertainties and threats of volatile (and manipulated) globalization. All Southeast Asian aficionados can look forward to a smorgasbord of inspiration from this collection, and hopefully from the future volumes in this series." · Pacific AffairsTable of Contents Preface A Note on Names and Transliteration Chapter 1. Introduction: “Glocalizing” Southeast Asia Shinji Yamashita Part I: Southeast Asia in Globalizing Perspectives Chapter 2. Is Southeast Asia a Jigsaw Puzzle or a Collage? Fernando N. Zialcita Chapter 3. Cultural Knowledge, Nation-States, and the Limits of Globalization in Southeast Asia Tong Chee Kiong and Lian Kwen Fee Part II: The Local, the National, and the Transnational in Southeast Asia Chapter 4. How to Live a Local Life: Balinese Responses to National Integration in Contemporary Indonesia Haruya Kagami Chapter 5. The Impact of Tourism in Three Tourist Villages in Bali Wayan I. Geriya Chapter 6. Gamelan Degung: Traditional Music in Contemporary West Java Shota Fukuoka Chapter 7. Batik as a Commodity and a Cultural Object Teruo Sekimoto Chapter 8. Globalization and the Dynamics of Culture in Thailand Anan Ganjanapan Part III: The Periphery of Nation States Chapter 9. “Center” and “Periphery” in Oral Historiography in a Peripheral Area in Southeast Indonesia Eriko Aoki Chapter 10. Transformation of Shamanic Rituals among the Sama of Tabawan Island, Sulu Archipelago, Southern Philippines Ikuya Tokoro Chapter 11. Diaspora and Ethnic Awakening: The Formation of Cultural Consciousness among the Ayta of Mt. Pinatubo after the Eruption of 1991 Hiromu Shimizu Chapter 12. Cultural and Religious Identities in Okinawa Today: A Case Study of Seventh-Day Adventist Proselytization in a Northern Okinawan Village Bachtiar Alam Chapter 13. Ethnographies of the Vanishing? Global Images and Local Realities among the Aborigines of Taiwan, 1600–2000 J.S. Eades Index

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Book Synopsis The rapid postwar economic growth in the Southeast Asia region has led to a transformation of many of the societies there, together with the development of new types of anthropological research in the region. Local societies with originally quite different cultures have been incorporated into multi-ethnic states with their own projects of nation-building based on the creation of "national cultures" using these indigenous elements. At the same time, the expansion of international capitalism has led to increasing flows of money, people, languages and cultures across national boundaries, resulting in new hybrid social structures and cultural forms. This book examines the nature of these processes in contemporary Southeast Asia with detailed case studies drawn from countries across the region, including Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. At the macro-level these include studies of nation-building and the incorporation of minorities. At the micro-level they range from studies of popular cultural forms, such as music and textiles to the impact of new sects and the world religions on local religious practice. Moving between the global and the local are the various streams of migrants within the region, including labor migrants responding to the changing distribution of economic opportunities and ethnic minorities moving in response to natural disaster.Trade Review "This book is a useful resource…one of its more important contributions is that it presents valuable insights into the notion of globalising Southeast Asia and how people deal with this in different parts of Southeast Asia, including the confusion experienced in facing it." · The Asia-Pacific Journal of Anthropology "The papers are well written and as a whole relate well to the overall theme of the book. In this regard, the book is a fine example of how much anthropology has to offer studies of globalization." · Asian Anthropology "For those who treasure the diversity and richness of Southeast Asian cultures, and relish the vitality, ingenuity and perseverance of its peoples, the collective message [of this book] is very encouraging ... It makes great ‘escapist reading’ from the currently depressing international scene, and deserves a wide readership by all concerned with the risks, uncertainties and threats of volatile (and manipulated) globalization. All Southeast Asian aficionados can look forward to a smorgasbord of inspiration from this collection, and hopefully from the future volumes in this series." · Pacific AffairsTable of Contents Preface A Note on Names and Transliteration Chapter 1. Introduction: “Glocalizing” Southeast Asia Shinji Yamashita Part I: Southeast Asia in Globalizing Perspectives Chapter 2. Is Southeast Asia a Jigsaw Puzzle or a Collage? Fernando N. Zialcita Chapter 3. Cultural Knowledge, Nation-States, and the Limits of Globalization in Southeast Asia Tong Chee Kiong and Lian Kwen Fee Part II: The Local, the National, and the Transnational in Southeast Asia Chapter 4. How to Live a Local Life: Balinese Responses to National Integration in Contemporary Indonesia Haruya Kagami Chapter 5. The Impact of Tourism in Three Tourist Villages in Bali Wayan I. Geriya Chapter 6. Gamelan Degung: Traditional Music in Contemporary West Java Shota Fukuoka Chapter 7. Batik as a Commodity and a Cultural Object Teruo Sekimoto Chapter 8. Globalization and the Dynamics of Culture in Thailand Anan Ganjanapan Part III: The Periphery of Nation States Chapter 9. “Center” and “Periphery” in Oral Historiography in a Peripheral Area in Southeast Indonesia Eriko Aoki Chapter 10. Transformation of Shamanic Rituals among the Sama of Tabawan Island, Sulu Archipelago, Southern Philippines Ikuya Tokoro Chapter 11. Diaspora and Ethnic Awakening: The Formation of Cultural Consciousness among the Ayta of Mt. Pinatubo after the Eruption of 1991 Hiromu Shimizu Chapter 12. Cultural and Religious Identities in Okinawa Today: A Case Study of Seventh-Day Adventist Proselytization in a Northern Okinawan Village Bachtiar Alam Chapter 13. Ethnographies of the Vanishing? Global Images and Local Realities among the Aborigines of Taiwan, 1600–2000 J.S. Eades Index

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Book Synopsis Like many other indigenous groups, the Huaorani of eastern Ecuador are facing many challenges as they attempt to confront the globalization of capitalism in the 21st century. In 1991, they formed a political organization as a direct response to the growing threat to Huaorani territory posed by oil exploitation, colonization, and other pressures. The author explores the structures and practices of the organization, as well as the contradictions created by the imposition of an alien and hierarchical organizational form on a traditionally egalitarian society. This study has broad implications for those who work toward "cultural survival" or try to "save the rainforest."Trade Review “…excellent ethnography…this work provides an interesting and important account of one indigenous people’s political struggles in contemporary Amazonia.” · Journal of Latin American Studies "... a good book ... clearly written ... that raises a number of important general issues relevant to the contemporary political, cultural and economic struggles of indigenous peoples of the Amazon and elsewhere." · Terence Turner, Cornell UniversityTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. History and Background Chapter 2. Onhae: Structures and Achievements Chapter 3. Practice and Praxis: Onhae in Action Chapter 4. Toward an Organizational Evaluation Chapter 5. Conclusion Works Cited Index

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