Globalization Books

Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xi About the Authors xiii Introduction 1 Part I: Understanding Chinese Tech Companies Chapter 1: The Shark versus the Crocodile 15 Chapter 2: Strategy and Tactics of Chinese Tech Companies 29 Chapter 3: Everyone Is Going Global 39 Part II: Pop- Leadership Chapter 4: Leadership 47 Chapter 5: People 73 Chapter 6: Organization 101 Chapter 7: Product 123 Part III: Resteering the Wheel Chapter 8: The Inflection Point 151 Chapter 9: The Global Chinese Community Fills the Gaps 161 Chapter 10: Connecting the Dots 185 Chapter 11: Cross- Pollination of Global Markets 199 Epilogue 217 Index 219

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Book SynopsisSuccessfully bringing together accessible readings that cover the broad range of issues of importance to those studying politics and society, this new edition of Power and Inequality provides a unique mix of theoretical and empirical pieces, such as state and electoral politics, that address both classic issues in political sociology and more recent developments, such as globalization. With strong integration of race and gender throughout, this collection offers a coherent analysis of power that reflects the contributions of a variety of critical perspectives, including Marxism, feminism, critical race theory, postmodernism, and power structure theory.Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroductionThe End of Capitalism or the End of the World?That's What They Call Democracy: Capitalism, Democracy & the StateSection I. Critical Theories of PowerThe Fetishism of CommoditiesThe New Forms of ControlHegemonyThe Body of the CondemnedRace and CultureWomen as the Subjects of FeminismSection II. The State: TheoryThe State as SuperstructureDefining the Class Dominance ViewA Feminist Theory of the StateRacial Politics and the Racial StateDomhoff, Mills, and Slow PowerSection III. The State: PracticeThe Politics of Income and Wealth InequalityA Right to the City? Race, Class, and Neoliberalism in Post-Katrina New OrleansVoter Suppression: The Attack on RightsThe Construction of ConsentPacification and the Police: A Critique of the Police Militarization ThesisSection IV. Media and IdeologyManufacturing ConsentStill Manufacturing ConsentYellow Ribbons and Spat-Upon Veterans: Making Soldiers the Means and Ends of WarNews for All the PeopleThe Future of Inequality: Polarization, Gridlock, and Global WarmingSection V. The Nation-State and the Global EconomyThe Making of Global CapitalismThe Multipolar MomentThe New ImperialismThe Twin Towers as MetaphorSection VI. War, Genocide, and RepressionWar Making and State Making as Organized Crime 243Getting Away with Murder (Almost): A Genocide PrimerThe New Jim CrowSection VII. Revolution and Social MovementsThe Structuring of ProtestRevolution Against the RevolutionWing Populism in AmericaNoam Chomsky and Charles Derber – Interview

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Introduction PART 1: International Trade Theory 2. World Trade: An Overview 3. Labor Productivity and Comparative Advantage: The Ricardian Model 4. Specific Factors and Income Distribution 5. Resources and Trade: The Heckscher-Ohlin Model 6. The Standard Trade Model 7. External Economies of Scale and the International Location of Production 8. Firms in the Global Economy: Export Decisions, Outsourcing, and Multinational Enterprises PART 2: International Trade Policy 9. The Instruments of Trade Policy 10. The Political Economy of Trade Policy 11. Trade Policy in Developing Countries 12. Controversies in Trade Policy Mathematical Postscripts Postscript to Chapter 5: The Factor-Proportions Model Postscript to Chapter 6: The Trading World Economy Postscript to Chapter 8: The Monopolistic Competition Model

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Book SynopsisMany of the present problems of ''globalization'' are mirrored in the historical expansion of the European state system. This title is a structured, comparative case study analysis of four regions and examines how these regions and their peoples were absorbed into the expanding European-centered state system from roughly the 1400s through to 1800.Trade Review'This work presents a fine addition to the international relations literature and world systems theory. Following in the footsteps of Chase Dunn and Eric Wolf, Carlson offers us a detailed analysis of four 'peripheral' systems that were gradually incorporated into the European world system, and he brings a rich historical perspective to the current discussions around globalization. Contrary to state centric perspectives that dominate neo-liberal and structural realist accounts, the author demonstrates how incorporation into the European world system entailed profound military, political, economic, and social transformations at the micro-level. Thus, to understand the macro-level outcome that led to the creation of the current state system, one needs to understand how all four spheres interacted. From his analysis one must conclude that the current pattern of globalization challenges not merely the Westphalian state system but every aspect of social and political life. As Carlson's narrative shows, all the given assumptions of day-to-day life become malleable and uncertain, and indeed the very understanding of what 'the international system' means should be subject to re-examination.' - Hendrik Spruyt, Norman Dwight Harris Professor of International Relations, Northwestern University 'In this well-written and carefully argued work, Jon D. Carlson forces us to consider, through a comparative examination of how different regions have historically been incorporated into the world system, the representational devices of the myths of expansion. Equally fascinating, creative, and rigorously executed, Carlson's theoretically rich work engages, synthesizes, and implicates a variety of core assumptions centralized by International Relations scholars.' - Brent Steele, associate professor of Political Science, University of Kansas and author of Defacing Power: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics 'A benchmark for addressing issues of incorporation and globalization. The book also has pedagogical value both for explicit content and as a model of how such work can be done. It will have broad appeal to scholars of world history, archaeology, geography, sociology, and international relations.' - Thomas D. Hall, Professor Emeritus, Depauw UniversityTable of ContentsBroadening and Deepening: Systemic Expansion, Incorporation and the Zone of Ignorance New World Empires and Otters: The Scramble for Nootka Sound, the Northwest Passage, and the China Trade West Africa and the Rise of Asante: Rivers of Gold, a Short Route to China, and the Globalization of Labor Ethiopia and the Middle East: The Red Sea Trade, Prester John and Christians in the Muslim World Japan and the Far East: Zipangu, Roofs of Silver and the Lure of the Orient Conclusion: Myths, Incorporation & Systemic Expansion

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Book SynopsisIn today's climate, bringing your fashion brand to new international territories is more challenging than ever. In Global Fashion Business, Byoungho Ellie Jin helps you to take this next step.Diverse examples from large and small companies, developing and developed countries, and online and offline retailers set a precedent for overcoming economic, cultural, legal, and regulatory obstacles. Practical approaches also outline methods of marketing and retailing, while chapters on topics including pricing, entry market selection and product development combine to cover everything you need to know to take your business further than ever before.

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Book SynopsisUroš Cvoro is Associate Professor in Art Theory at UNSW Australia, Arts, Design & Architecture. His research interests include contemporary art and politics, cultural representations of nationalism, post-socialist and post-conflict art. His books include Transitional Aesthetics: Art at The Edge of Europe (2018) and Turbo-folk Music and Cultural Representations of National Identity in Former Yugoslavia (2014). With Kit Messham-Muir, he is co-author of Images of War in Contemporary Art: Terror and Conflict in the Mass Media (Bloomsbury, 2021).Kit Messham-Muir is Professor in Art in the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. His research interests include the art and visual culture of war, as well as the studio practice of contemporary artists. With Uroš Cvoro, he is co-author of Images of War in Contemporary Art: Terror and Conflict in the Mass Media (Bloomsbury, 2021) and author of Trade ReviewThis book analyses the linked world view and aesthetics of the resurgent far right, including the 'paranoid epistemology' of QAnon and the 'gamification' of its propaganda, along with provocative readings about the relation of contemporary art to a consciously performative politics--among leaders and followers alike. * Julian Stallabrass, Professor of Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art, UK *Messham-Muir and Cvoro provide a very useful and highly original contribution to the analysis of the new fascist tendencies and the way these simultaneously contest and uphold a torn democratic public sphere. * Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, Professor of Political Aesthetics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark *An urgent analysis of the Trump effect as a global and American phenomenon. Its unique focus on the power of contemporary aesthetics in social media to mobilise the Right makes for chilling reading in understanding how Trump’s followers almost succeeded in the Capitol Hill Riot of 6 January 2021. * Catherine Speck, Emerita Professor of Art History and Curatorship, University of Adelaide, Australia, and author of Beyond the Battlefield: Women Artists of the Two World Wars (2014) *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Trump Effect Chapter 1: QAnon: ‘Shall We Play a Game?’ Chapter 2: The Critical Race Theory Moral Panic: Dana Schutz’s Open Casket and the Evergreen Affair Chapter 3: #cancel #woke #universities: ‘burn them down and start it all over again!’ Chapter 4: Our Past But Not Our Past: ‘Statue Wars’ and Contemporary Art Chapter 5: Overidentifying with the Strongman: Trump and the Capitol Hill Riot Chapter 6: Delegated Insurrection Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the challenges and possibilities of long-term governance in democratic systems

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Book SynopsisIn this second volume of The Information Age trilogy, with an extensive new preface following the recent global economic crisis, Manuel Castells deals with the social, political, and cultural dynamics associated with the technological transformation of our societies and with the globalization of the economy. Extensive new preface examines how dramatic recent events have transformed the socio-political landscape of our world Applies Castells' hypotheses to contemporary issues such as Al Qaeda and global terrorist networks, American unilateralism and the crisis of political legitimacy throughout the world A brilliant account of social, cultural, and political conflict and struggle all over the world Analyzes the importance of cultural, religious, and national identity as sources of meaning for people, and its implications for social movement Throws new light on the dynamics of global and local change Table of ContentsList of Figures xii List of Tables xiv List of Charts xvi Preface to the 2010 Edition of The Power of Identity xvii Preface and Acknowledgments 2003 xxxvii Acknowledgments 1996 xliii Our World, our Lives 1 1 Communal Heavens: Identity and Meaning in the Network Society 5 The Construction of Identity 6 God's Heavens: Religious Fundamentalism and Cultural Identity 12 Umma versus Jahiliya: Islamic fundamentalism 13 God save me! American Christian fundamentalism 23 Nations and Nationalisms in the Age of Globalization: Imagined Communities or Communal Images? 30 Nations against the state: the breakup of the Soviet Union and the Commonwealth of Impossible States (Sojuz Nevozmoznykh Gosudarstv) 35 Nations without a state: Catalunya 45 Nations of the information age 54 Ethnic Unbonding: Race, Class, and Identity in the Network Society 56 Territorial Identities: The Local Community 63 Conclusion: The Cultural Communes of the Information Age 68 2 The Other Face of the Earth: Social Movements against the New Global Order 71 Globalization, Informationalization, and Social Movements 72 Mexico's Zapatistas: The First Informational Guerrilla Movement 75 Who are the Zapatistas? 77 The value structure of the Zapatistas: identity, adversaries, and goals 80 The communication strategy of the Zapatistas: the Internet and the media 82 The contradictory relationship between social movement and political institution 85 Up in Arms against the New World Order: The American Militia and the Patriot Movement 87 The militias and the Patriots: a multi-thematic information network 90 The Patriots’ banners 95 Who are the Patriots? 98 The militia, the Patriots, and American society 99 The Lamas of Apocalypse: Japan's Aum Shinrikyo 100 Asahara and the development of Aum Shinrikyo 101 Aum's beliefs and methodology 104 Aum and Japanese society 105 Al-Qaeda, 9/11, and Beyond: Global Terror in the Name of God 108 The goals and values of al-Qaeda 111 The evolving process of al-Qaeda’s struggle 115 The mujahedeen and their support bases 119 The young lion of the global jihad: Osama bin Laden 124 From bin Laden to bin Mahfouz: financial networks, Islamic networks, terrorist networks 128 Networking and media politics: the organization, tactics, and strategy of al-Qaeda 135 9/11 and beyond: death or birth of a networked, global, fundamentalist movement? 140 "No Globalization without Representation!": The Anti-globalization Movement 145 "El pueblo desunido jamas sera vencido": the diversity of the anti-globalization movement 147 The values and goals of the movement against globalization 152 Networking as a political way of being 154 An informational movement: the theatrical tactics of anti-globalization militants 156 The movement in context: social change and institutional change 158 The Meaning of Insurgencies against the New Global Order 160 Conclusion: The Challenge to Globalization 166 3 The Greening of the Self: The Environmental Movement 168 The Creative Cacophony of Environmentalism: A Typology 170 The Meaning of Greening: Societal Issues and the Ecologists’ Challenge 179 Environmentalism in Action: Reaching Minds, Taming Capital, Courting the State, Tap-dancing with the Media 186 Environmental Justice: Ecologists' New Frontier 190 4 The End of Patriarchalism: Social Movements, Family, and Sexuality in the Information Age 192 The Crisis of the Patriarchal Family 196 Women at Work 215 Sisterhood is Powerful: The Feminist Movement 234 American feminism: a discontinuous continuity 235 Is feminism global? 243 Feminism: an inducive polyphony 252 The Power of Love: Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements 261 Feminism, lesbianism, and sexual liberation movements in Taipei 266 Spaces of freedom: the gay community in San Francisco 271 Summing up: sexual identity and the patriarchal family 279 Family, Sexuality, and Personality in the Crisis of Patriarchalism 280 The incredibly shrinking family 280 The reproduction of mothering under the non-reproduction of patriarchalism 288 Body identity: the (re)construction of sexuality 294 Flexible personalities in a post-patriarchal world 299 The End of Patriarchalism? 301 5 Globalization, Identification, and the State: A Powerless State or a Network State? 303 Globalization and the State 304 The transnational core of national economies 305 A statistical appraisal of the new fiscal crisis of the state in the global economy 307 Globalization and the welfare state 312 Global communication networks, local audiences, uncertain regulators 316 A lawless world? 321 The Nation-state in the Age of Multilateralism 323 Global Governance and Networks of Nation-states 328 Identities, Local Governments, and the Deconstruction of the Nation-state 332 The Identification of the State 337 The Return of the State 340 The state, violence, and surveillance: from Big Brother to little sisters 340 American unilateralism and the new geopolitics 344 The Iraq War and its aftermath 349 The consequences of American unilateralism 353 The Crisis of the Nation-state, the Network State, and the Theory of the State 356 Conclusion: The King of the Universe, Sun Tzu, and the Crisis of Democracy 364 6 Informational Politics and the Crisis of Democracy 367 Introduction: The Politics of Society 367 Media as the Space of Politics in the Information Age 371 Politics and the media: the citizens’ connection 371 Show politics and political marketing: the American model 375 Is European politics being "Americanized"? 381 Bolivia's electronic populism: compadre Palenque and the coming of Jach'a Uru 386 Informational Politics in Action: The Politics of Scandal 391 The Crisis of Democracy 402 Conclusion: Reconstructing Democracy? 414 Conclusion: Social Change in the Network Society 419 Methodological Appendix 429 Appendix for Tables 5.1 and 5.2 429 Appendix for Figure 6.9: Level of Support for Mainstream Parties in National Elections, 1980–2002 456 Summary of Contents of Volumes I and III 464 References 466 Index 512

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Book SynopsisThis up-to-date text offers a clear and cogent introduction to women in development. Exploring the global structures and processes that impede or support the empowerment of women, Jana Everett and Sue Ellen M. Charlton use a feminist lens to understand contemporary gender roles. Without such a lens, they argue, our understanding of globalization and development is incomplete, resulting in flawed policies that fail to improve the lives of millions of people around the globe. After a set of introductory chapters that conceptually frame the issues, the authors then investigate women's struggles within and against globalization and development through powerful case studies of sex trafficking, water, work, and health. These chapters, by using specific examples, develop the concepts of structure and agency, levels of analysis, and feminist approaches as tools to help students understand the complexities of development and alternative strategies. Through rich interdisciplinary analysis, EveTrade ReviewEverett and Charlton, pioneering feminist scholars of international development and comparative politics, provide a dynamic analysis of the mixed blessings for women of neoliberal globalization—that is, the capitalist marketplace operating within and across spaces of limited governmental regulation. Their writing is conceptually sound, clear, and accessible, with case studies on work, water, health, and human trafficking. While attentive to the big picture of institutions and public policies at national and international levels, the authors highlight women's agency in struggles to make a better and fairer world. -- Kathleen Staudt, University of Texas at El PasoWomen Navigating Globalization is an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the complex interplay between gender relations and globalization that neither neglects the importance of local sites and struggles nor ignores their relevance to international policy. Everett and Charlton adopt a ‘gender-plus focus’ showing the imperative of addressing gender inequalities and injustices in relation to injustices based on race, class, nationality, sexuality, and disability as part of any development scenario—whether that relates to the problems of human trafficking, the management of natural resources such as water, the quality of work, or the conditions for health and well-being. Under the ambit of globalization, this empirically rich book encompasses a broader range of development dilemmas and of country experiences to address global policy debates as well as local struggles and realities. Deploying several feminist perspectives and the inspiration of women’s movements, we see that different ways of framing the problem can lead to different solutions in different development contexts—be it Bangladesh or Russia, India or Brazil, the United States or Chile. Above all, we learn that multilevel strategies are essential for bringing about more gender-equal, inclusive, and balanced global development. -- Jacqui True, Monash UniversityEverett and Charlton have written a clear, comprehensive analysis of globalization and development examined through the lens of feminist analysis. They begin with conceptual analyses of their terms, soundly documented and referenced with key studies. They embrace multiple forms of feminism as practiced differently in diverse world areas. The authors provide a balanced emphasis on top-down structures that shape lives and on the agency that women bring, individually and collectively, to their situations. Everett and Charlton ask and answer their key questions at different levels of analysis, from local and regional to national and international. In four chapters, before their conclusion, they offer innovative applications of these concepts in four areas and eight places: human trafficking (Russia and Bangladesh), water (Peru and South Africa), work (Brazil and India), and women's health (Chile and the African Union) . . . [T]hese experienced researchers/authors . . . analyze the material in a sophisticated yet accessible way, which will be of value to upper-division or graduate students and academics. The book is as comprehensive as Mary Hawkesworth's Globalization and Feminist Activism. Summing Up: Recommended. Undergraduate, graduate, and research collections. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Feminism and Development in a Global World Chapter 2: Navigating Globalization: Feminist Approaches to Development Chapter 3: Development, Globalization, and Power Chapter 4: Debates and Dilemmas: Global Sex Trafficking Chapter 5: Debates and Dilemmas: Water Chapter 6: Debates and Dilemmas: Work Chapter 7: Debates and Dilemmas: Health Chapter 8: Collective Action, Development, and the Challenges of Globalization

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Book SynopsisHistorical figures whose lives help explain today's global economy. From Silk to Silicon presents a future full of human possibility.Trade Review‘This is a tale of globalisation and leadership that is both sweeping and personal. By focusing on ten transformational people, it shows how individuals can affect the flow of history. It’s a guide to the future as well as the past.’ -- Walter Isaacson author of 'Steve Jobs'‘Impressive, fascinating, and very creative. Garten draws on decades of experience in the modern world economy. He not only brings the creation of our present world into focus but also widens our understanding of how the world may well evolve in the future.’ -- Daniel Yergin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Prize, The Quest and co-author of The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy‘From Silk to Silicon creatively combines the impersonal forces of globalisation with the very personal faces of biography in an engaging and thought-provoking story. Ranging over eight centuries of empires, exploration and enterprise, Garten’s colourful histories portray how willpower and persistence can propel societies to new achievements – and he says the best is yet to come.’ * Robert B. Zoellick, former President of the World Bank *‘A tour-de-force – imaginative, informative, and just plain fun to read.’ * Strobe Talbott, president of The Brookings Institution and former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State *‘From Silk to Silicon is a most nifty work, as well as being serious history. Garten persuasively shows how, in the broad unfolding events that brought us from the Dark Ages to the twenty-first century, individuals really did make their own history and changed things irrevocably. Here are case studies for business school, lessons for CEOs, and a good read for the rest of us.’ -- Paul Kennedy, author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

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Book SynopsisIn Judicial Territory, Shaina Potts reveals how the American empire has benefited from the post-World War II expansion of United States judicial authority over the economic decisions of postcolonial governments. Introducing the term “judicial territory” to refer to the increasingly transnational space over which US courts wield authority, Potts argues that law is an essential tool for US geopolitical and economic interests. Through close examination of cases involving private US companies, on the one hand, and foreign state-owned enterprises, nationalizations, and sovereign debt, on the other, she shows that technical changes relating to the treatment of foreign sovereigns in domestic US law allowed the United States to extend its purview over global financial and economic relations, including many economic decisions of foreign governments. Throughout, Potts argues, US law has not become divorced from territoriality but instead actively remapped it; it has not merely

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Book SynopsisRanging from early twentieth century modernist appropriations of non-western art through to the ways in which Mexican muralists in the 1930s negotiated European avant-gardist strategies, and then up to contemporary installation and lens-based practices during the current period of globalisation, this book seeks to understand selected moments in the art of the last one hundred years through the prism of postcolonialism.Table of ContentsIntroduction – Warren Carter1 Modernism and its margins – Paul Wood 2 Mexican muralism reconsidered – Warren Carter3 Artists, institutions and the ‘global contemporary’ – Gill Perry4 Art, movement and migration since 1970 – Amy CharlesworthConclusion – Warren CarterIndex

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Book SynopsisThis bold new book offers an exhaustive diagnosis of global capitalism. Proposing a novel system of economic and political coordination based on a combination of market socialism and state planning, it offers crucial insights for thinking about alternatives to capitalism.

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Book SynopsisThe 21st century has been characterized by great turbulence, climate change, a global pandemic, and democratic decay. Drawing on post-structural political theory, this book explores two dominant concepts used to make sense of our disturbed reality: the state and the network. The book explains how they are inextricably interwoven, while showing why they complicate the way we interpret our present. In seeking a better understanding of today’s world, this book argues that we need to pull apart the familiar lines of our maps. By looking beneath and across these lines, an ‘unmapping’ presents new insights and opportunities for a better future.Trade Review"Michelsen and Bolt’s argument casts a new light on our perception of politics and world order through time and space, and the book certainly deserves close attention." Aleksandra Spalińska, University of Warsaw, Poland for International AffairsTable of ContentsChapter 1: Taking the Lines off the Map Chapter 2: A Great Unmapping Chapter 3: Capitalism and Imperialism Chapter 4: Thinking Like a State Chapter 5: Bureaucracy and Power Chapter 6: The Battle Swarm Chapter 7: Information and the State Chapter 8: Romance of Networks Chapter 9: Borders and Impermanence Conclusion

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Book SynopsisRather than reaching the “end of ideology” predicted only three decades ago, we find ourselves in the throes of an intensifying ideological struggle over the meaning and direction of globalization. Noted scholar Manfred B. Steger introduces readers to the clashing political belief systems of our time: market globalism, justice globalism, and religious globalism. He shows how these “globalisms” have developed and how their competing ideas articulate and legitimize particular political agendas. He focuses especially on the ways this battle of ideas has been extended through the unexpectedly powerful surge of antiglobalist populism, an ideological contender that stands in tension to pluralist values of liberal democracy. Explaining the origins, impacts, and consequences of the recent populist challenge, Steger considers the future prospects for the established globalisms in what promises to be a tumultuous decade—as global problems such as climate change, pandemics, transnational terrorism, financial crises, and cyber-warfare threaten humanity’s collective future.Trade ReviewIn this newly revised edition, Steger examines the relatively rapid rise of national-populism and its anti-globalization rhetoric. Anti-globalist populism is emerging as the latest ideological force to counter the hegemony of neoliberal market globalism. While it is too early to predict its cumulative impact, Steger proposes possible scenarios of the populist backlash. This is an important and timely analysis of an increasingly hostile ideological global battle—a disturbing but essential read. -- Eve Darian-Smith, University of California IrvineManfred Steger offers a thoughtful and well-written analysis of globalization, focused on a frequently overlooked side of the process—the role of ideas. He shows how advocates of the contemporary `market globalism’ use language that makes it appear, falsely, as the only possible option. He points out the contradictions of that form of globalization, which proclaims the ideal of individual freedom while relying on state coercion and newly footloose financial capital to impose cutbacks in wages and social programs on unwilling populations around the world. Steger provides insight into the prospects of the alternatives to market globalism coming from the political left and from the religious and the nationalist right. -- David M. Kotz, University of Massachusetts Amherst; author of The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal CapitalismTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1 Ideology and the Meaning of Globalization 2 The Academic Debate over Globalization 3 The Dominance of Market Globalism in the 1990s 4 First-Wave Challengers in the 2000s: Justice Globalism and Religious Globalism 5 Second-Wave Challengers in the 2010s: Antiglobalist Populism 6 Globalisms in the 2020s: Three Future Scenarios Notes Guide to Further Reading Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThe startling picture of how China’s revolution in finance and technology is changing both Wall Street and the way individuals manage their personal finances.The future of finance – the way Wall Street operates and how individuals manage their money - is on the verge of upheaval. And the force underlying the change comes from China, where finance and technology are being merged into a system with consequences that resonate far beyond China’s border. The changes of this global revolution in finance and technology - fintech - will be as powerful as those wrought in social media, retailing and advertising by giants such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Twitter, which have overturned how we shop and communicate.China reinvented money with lightning speed, transforming a backward, antiquated cash-based finance system into one centered on super-apps created by technology giants Alibaba and Tencent. More powerful than anything available outside of China, they allow their billion users to pay, borrow, invest, buy goods and services, travel, chat (and far more) all fused together in one mobile phone application. Think Facebook, Google, Twitter, Goldman Sachs, Amazon, J.P. Morgan Chase all rolled into one app.We in the West need to understand China’s cashless revolution for reasons ranging from the macroeconomic to issues of personal liberty: The cutting edge of finance is now in China, forcing major financial firms in the United States and the West to figure out how not to be left behind.. China’s cashless revolution is also a harbinger of our future if we let the genie out of the bottle and allow big tech to become big finance. As money goes digital and central banks around the world consider launching digital currencies, we may have both immense convenience and a frightening concentration of power that could violate our privacy, stifle competition, increase financial risk, and give big firms or the government more control over our financial lives. And, once this genie is out of the bottle, the struggle to put it back in may be impossible.

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Book SynopsisDebate style readers can be powerful teaching tools, but they are only effective in so far as the readings really speak to one another. Without readings in true dialogue, the crux of the debate is lost on students, the reader fails to add real depth to the course, and students are left in the lurch. Controversies in Globalization solves this issue by inviting 17 pairs of scholars and practitioners to write specifically for the volume, directly addressing current and relevant questions in international relations through concise "yes" and "no" pieces on topics related to security, political economy, the environment, public health, democracy, demography, and social issues like gender and ethnicity. At the request of reviewers, new to this edition are three chapters covering the financial crisis, maritime security, and international conflict. Providing students with necessary context, the editors offer introductions that effectively frame the debate and make clear what is at stake, both from a theoretical as well as from a practical perspective. Concluding discussion questions in each chapter encourage critical thinking and analysis. Haas and Hird′s edited collection helps readers come to terms with the varying perspectives on globalization, and urges critical reflection and the exploration of alternate views.Table of ContentsPart I: International Political Economy Chapter 1: Trade Liberalization and Economic Growth: Does Trade Liberalization Contribute to Economic Prosperity? - David Dollar and Robert H. Wade Chapter 2: Trade and Equality: Does Free Trade Promote Economic Equality? - L. Alan Winters and Kate Vyborny and Nancy Birdsall Chapter 3: Poverty: Can Foreign Aid Reduce Poverty? - Jeffrey Sachs and George B.N. Ayittey Chapter 4: Financial Crises: Will Preventing Future Financial Crises Require Concerted International Rulemaking? - Jagdish N. Bhagwati and Philip I. Levy Part II: Security Chapter 5: Terrorism and Security: Is International Terrorism a Significant Challenge to National Security? - Charles Duelfer and John Mueller Chapter 6: Nuclear Weapons: Should the United States or the International Community Aggressively Pursue Nuclear Nonproliferation Policies? - Reid B.C. Pauly and Scott D. Sagan and Todd S. Sechser Chapter 7: Military Intervention and Human Rights: Is Foreign Military Intervention Justified by Widespread Human Rights Abuses? - Jack Donnelly and Doug Bandow Chapter 8: Maritime Security: Does Controlling Piracy and Other Criminal Activities Require Systematic State Interventions? - Scott McKenzie and Karl Muth Chapter 9: International Conflict: Is War Likely Between the Great Powers? - John F. Copper and Joshua S. Goldstein Part III: Environment and Public Health Chapter 10: Climate Change and the Environment: Can International Regimes Be Effective Means to Restrain Carbon Emissions? - Brent Ranalli and Samuel Thenstrom Chapter 11: The Future of Energy: Should Governments Encourage the Development of Alternative Energy Sources to Help Reduce Dependence on Fossil Fuels? - Christopher Flavin and Michael Lynch Chapter 12: HIV/AIDS: Should the Wealthy Nations Promote anti-HIV/AIDS Efforts in Poor Nations? - Mead Over and Mark Heywood Part IV: Democracy, Demography, and Social Issues Chapter 13: Gender: Should the United States Aggressively Promote Women’s Rights in Developing Nations? - Isobel Coleman and Marcia E. Greenberg Chapter 14: Immigration: Should Countries Liberalize Immigration Policies? - James F. Hollifield and Philip Martin Chapter 15: Culture and Diversity: Should Development Efforts Seek to Preserve Local Culture? - Elsa Stamatopoulou and Kwame Anthony Appiah Chapter 16: Civil Society: Do NGOs Wield Too Much Power? - Kenneth Anderson and Marlies Glasius Chapter 17: Democracy: Should All Nations Be Encouraged to Promote Democratization? - Francis Fukuyama and Michael McFaul and Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder

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Book SynopsisNew Tools for Succeeding GloballyWhy do so many global strategies fail--despite companies' powerful brands and other border-crossing advantages? Because a one-size-fits-all strategy no longer stands a chance.When firms believe in the illusions of a "flat" world and the death of distance, they charge across borders as if the globe were one seamless marketplace. But cross-border differences are larger than we assume. Most economic activity--including trade, real and financial investment, tourism, and communication--happens locally, not internationally. In this "semiglobalized" approach, companies can cross borders more profitably by basing their strategies on the geopolitical differences that matter; they must identify the barriers their strategies will have to overcome, and they must build bridges to cross those barriers. Based on rigorous research, Pankaj Ghemawat shows how to create successful strategies and provides practical management tools so you can: Assess the cultural, administrative, geographic, and economic differences between regions at the industry level--and decide which ones require attention Track the implications of the specific border-crossing actions that will impact your company's ability to create value the most Generate superior performance through strategies that are optimized for the three A's: adaptation (adjusting to differences), aggregation (overcoming differences), and arbitrage (exploiting differences) Using in-depth examples, Ghemawat reveals how companies such as Cemex, Toyota, Procter & Gamble, Tata Consultancy Services, IBM, and GE Healthcare are adroitly managing cross-border differences. He also shares examples of other well-known companies that have failed at this challenge. Crucial for any business competing across borders, Redefining Global Strategy will help you make the most of our semiglobalized world.Trade ReviewPraise for Redefining Global Strategy:Samuel J. Palmisano, former Chairman of the Board and CEO, IBM Corporation--"Pankaj Ghemawat has created an important strategic guidebook for leaders of the globally integrated enterprises of the twenty-first century. His analytical framework is both visionary and pragmatic—aware of the broad historic trajectories of globalization, but grounded in the real kinds of decisions business leaders have to make now. His caveats about 'semiglobalization' provide a salutary reminder that massive change of this kind doesn't happen overnight. By basing his analysis on real-world case studies and a mastery of economic data, Ghemawat helps CEOs and leaders make smart decisions on one of the most important challenges we all face."Michael Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, Harvard Business School--"Pankaj Ghemawat is one of those rare individuals who combines world-class scholarship with a deep knowledge of business practice. Redefining Global Strategy tackles the crucial balance between local and global that will often define success in an increasingly globalized world economy."Prof. Dr. Ulrich Lehner, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Telekom and Thyssenkrupp AG--"Pankaj Ghemawat's differentiated industry- and company-specific views on globalization offer essential insights and thought-provoking impulses for today's decision makers. For anyone who aims to realize the full potential of globalization, it clearly confirms: the world isn't flat!"Jose Ignacio Goirigolzarri, President, Bankia--"International firms have to reflect more deeply on how to coordinate their commitments around the world. Pankaj Ghemawat's pioneering book offers an innovative approach for how to deal with this critical challenge."Ratan Tata, former Chairman, Tata Group--"Pankaj Ghemawat's Redefining Global Strategy has very appropriately identified the world we live in as only 'semiglobalized.' He builds on this definition to present some very valuable and innovative frameworks for developing strategies for internationalization and global value creation. The book offers a comprehensive treatment of one of the most important issues engaging the business community."

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Book Synopsis‘One of the world’s most prominent radical scientists.’ The Guardian ‘Vandana Shiva is an expert [on the dangers of gobalization] whose analysis has helped us understand this situation much more deeply.’ Russell Brand A powerful new memoir published to coincide with Vandana Shiva’s 70th birthday. Vandana Shiva has been described in many ways: the ‘Gandhi of Grain,’ ‘a rock star’ in the battle against GMOs, and ‘the most powerful voice’ for people of the developing world. For over four decades she has vociferously advocated for diversity, indigenous knowledge, localisation, and real democracy; she has been at the forefront of seed saving, food sovereignty, and connecting the dots between the destruction of nature, the polarization of societies, and indiscriminate corporate greed. In Terra Viva, Dr Shiva shares her most memorable campaigns, alongside some of the world’s most celebrated activists and environmentalists, all working towards a livable planet and healthier democracies. For the very first time, she also recounts the stories of her childhood in post-partition India – the influence of the Himalayan forests she roamed; her parents, who saw no difference in the education of boys and girls at a time when this was not the norm; and the Chipko movement, whose women were ‘the real custodians of biodiversity-related knowledge.’ Throughout, Shiva’s pursuit of a unique intellectual path marrying quantum physics with science, technology, and environmental policy will captivate the reader. Terra Viva is a celebration of a remarkable life and a clear-eyed assessment of the challenges we face moving forward – including those revealed by the Covid crisis, the privatisation of biotechnology, and the commodification of our biological and natural resources. ‘All of us who care about the future of Planet Earth must be grateful to Vandana Shiva.’ Jane Goodall, UN Messenger of PeaceTrade Review“Shiva’s book is a record of a remarkable life and a compelling assessment of the challenges we face. We would all be a little more informed, inspired, perhaps even wise, after reading it.”—Geographical

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Book SynopsisNew York Times bestselling author, accomplished entrepreneur, and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has a plan to save America, and it begins with telling the truth. Today’s conservatives know what they’re against. They’re anti-woke, anti-globalist, anti-big government. But what exactly do they stand for? The fact that this is a hard question to answer is a damning indictment of the modern Republican Party which has abjectly failed to articulate an affirmative alternative to the left’s vision. Ramaswamy calls on the conservative movement to articulate exactly what it stands for, or else warns of another illusory “red wave” in 2024. Vivek Ramaswamy is not a politician. He is a first generation American, the founder of several successful companies, and a bestselling author. Ramaswamy decided he needed to step in the arena to stop the lies and tell the American people the truth. That’s why he ran for president and became a leading voice in the America First movement. In Truths: The Future of America First, Ramaswamy shows exactly how honesty about the most important issues will get our country back on track. The America First movement emphasizes the issues that bring us together, not what divides us. It asks that we put our country over politics, merit over grievance, and truth over lies. Ramaswamy tells us the truth about our political system, and the people who control it, and exhorts us to exercise our right to self-governance again. America First is bigger than any man or woman. It’s a movement. In Truths, Vivek Ramaswamy explains exactly why that movement needs to succeed now more than ever. Our country’s future depends on it.

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Book SynopsisIn this brilliant, very original survey of the politics and meanings of urban landscapes, leading sociologist Göran Therborn offers a tour of the world's major capital cities, and the forces that have shaped them. Through a global, historical lens, and with a thematic range extending from the mutations of modernist architecture to the contemporary return of urban revolutions, Therborn questions received assumptions about the source, manifestations and reach of urban power, combining perspectives on politics, sociology, urban planning, architecture, and urban iconography. With its unique systematic overview, from Washington DC and revolutionary Paris to the flamboyant twenty-first century capital of Kazakhstan, its wealth of urban observations from all the populated continents, and its sharp and multi-faceted analyses, Cities of Power forces us to rethink our urban future, as well as our historically shaped present.Trade ReviewGöran Therborn analyses urban life with sweeping historical and global range. As he shows in tremendous detail, urban history is baked into a place by its streets, its institutions and the cultural outlook of its inhabitants -- Max Holleran * Times Literary Supplement *Should become an early port of call for anyone looking to know more about how urban and national power functions around the world * Irish Times *One of the world's most engaging and intriguing sociologists. Cities of Power helps us understand the current tensions between states and people, capitals and peripheries, populism and elitism, nationalism and globalism -- Felipe Fernández-Armesto, author of Our America: A Hispanic History of the United StatesCities of Power is explicitly a riposte to the idea of the Global City, and the peculiar Monocle-magazine vision of trans-national, interconnected, intangible capitalism that it serves to alternately describe and vindicate. Few thinkers display such a genuinely global range -- Owen Hatherley * New Left Review *One more publication in a sparkling list of career accomplishments, Cities of Power might function as an important resource for many a sociology doctoral student -- Luzia Lodder * PopMatters *

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Book SynopsisIn the 1990s, the “knowledge economy” was hailed by policy-makers in developed democracies as an antidote to the anxieties arising from the era of market liberalization – an era characterized by the decline of skilled blue-collar work, increasing levels of social exclusion and widening regional inequality. The shift to knowledge-driven growth appeared to offer policymakers a way of harnessing technological progress and global economic integration for progressive purposes, and justifying progressive policies in terms of the economic benefits that they would produce. Nick O’Donovan tells the story of how the techno-optimism once associated with the rise of the knowledge economy came to be supplanted by widespread anxiety about technological progress, and how the political consensus that formed around a knowledge-driven growth agenda has unravelled, paving the way for the electoral upheavals experienced by many developed democracies in recent years. By examining the rhetoric and reality of knowledge-driven growth over the last three decades, the book highlights the flawed assumptions underpinning this policy agenda, showing how its economic shortcomings map on to patterns of political discontent evident today. It assesses whether there is scope for rebooting this policy agenda in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, or whether politicians will need to reach beyond it if they are to deliver inclusive prosperity and equitable growth in the future.Trade ReviewAn interesting evaluation of the policy consensus of the 1990s and early 2000s concerning the opportunities afforded by digital technology and globalisation … traces the historical evolution of the ideas … and the way the financial crisis torpedoed any optimism about new opportunities to upskill the workforce and create satisfying new jobs. -- Diane Coyle, enlightenmenteconomics.comRanging widely across politics and economics in lively and highly-accessible prose, this book provides one of the best guides we have to the promise and pitfalls of the knowledge economy – the defining economic development of our time. With discerning judgement and a magisterial command of the subject, it offers an antidote to techno-optimism as well as important recommendations for the future. -- Peter A. Hall, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard UniversityFor decades ‘the knowledge economy’ has been the goal of every left or right centrist democratic government, but as this succinct eye-opener of a book shows, while cadres of the highly skilled, owners of rents and intellectual property, possessors of monopolistic platforms and superstars hoovered up all the growth, the rest dropped back in earnings and status. The pandemic has demonstrated how we rely on those who can’t work from home on laptops – the providers of utilities, services, care, food, health – and this book proves the need to revalue what they do, and to spread the wealth from knowledge economy beneficiaries to people and places left behind. -- Polly Toynbee, columnist, The GuardianThe progressive goal of rising incomes and declining inequality has eluded governments across the developed world in recent decades and Nick O'Donovan provides a thoughtful and challenging account of how the third way 'knowledge economy' consensus failed to live up to its high expectations. With populism on the rise on both sides of the Atlantic, and the quest for 'inclusive growth' even more vital, he argues policy-makers need to challenge their assumptions and look for new solutions. His book is essential reading for anyone who seeks a prosperous, green and fair future for all. -- Ed Balls, former Shadow Chancellor of the ExchequerTable of Contents1. The invention of the knowledge economy 2. Knowledge 2000 3. Taming the market 4. Continuity and change 5. The crisis of growth 6. The crisis of work 7. The crisis of inclusion 8. The new world order 9. Political backlash 10. Paradigm shift

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Book SynopsisWe've all been tourists at some point in our lives. How is it we look so condescendingly at people taking selfies in front of the Tower of Pisa? Is there really much to distinguish the package holiday from hipster city-breaks to Berlin or Brooklyn? Why do we engage our free time in an activity we profess to despise?The World in a Selfie dissects a global cultural phenomenon. For Marco D'Eramo, tourism is not just the most important industry of the century, generating huge waves of people and capital, calling forth a dedicated infrastructure, and upsetting and repurposing the architecture and topography of our cities. It also encapsulates the problem of modernity: the search for authenticity in a world of ersatz pleasures.D'Eramo retraces the grand tours of the first globetrotters - from Francis Bacon and Samuel Johnson to Arthur de Gobineau and Mark Twain - before assessing the cultural meaning of the beach holiday and the 'UNESCO-cide' of major heritage sites. The tourist selfie will never look the same again.Trade ReviewA sophisticated, engaging, clever book -- Sabine Peters * Berliner Zeitung *Provocative and entertaining -- Andrea Dernbach * Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin *A work of intelligence and wit: the history and phenomenology of the tourist, from Hegel to Tripadvisor * La Repubblica *Accumulates surprising and unsettling data, interpretations and testimonies, putting certainties we take for granted into crisis: the distinction between material and immaterial values, between commodities and fetishes, between modernity and post-modernity -- Giuliano Milani * Internazionale, Rome *Chicago, America's megalopolis-as-metaphor, has found its leftward de Toqueville in Marco d'Eramo. His book is as rare as an Indian Head penny and as hard as truth. It is a book that Algren, Dreiser, Altgeld and Darrow would have acclaimed as 'on the button' -- Studs Terkel * for The Pig and the Skyscraper *Fun and challenging, The World in a Selfie mixes the flavors of Mark Twain, Karl Marx, and theme parks to result in a real and welcome trip elsewhere. -- Meredith Grahl Counts * Foreword Reviews *Marco D'Eramo deconstructs the politics of sightseeing, and the search for authenticity within it. * New York Times Book Review *A sophisticated, engaging, clever book * Berliner Zeitung *Surprising and unsettling, putting certainties we take for granted into crisis * Internazionale *Provocative and entertaining * Der Tagesspiegel *A work of intelligence and wit * la Repubblica *The World in a Selfie is digressive, the chapters like a series of meditations that touch on various aspects of travel and tourism. -- Sophie Haigney * The New Republic *Readable, well-researched and well-written. -- Mik Sabiers * Morning Star *Thought-provoking . This is an intriguing book for sociologists and economists, as well as for serious travelers wishing to understand their impact as they once again move about the globe. -- Cindy Pauldine * Shelf Awareness (Starred Review) *A bracing, provocative examination of an all-too-human pastime. -- Benjamin Shull * Wall Street Journal *A fascinating journalistic approach to one the biggest influences on our economy and imaginations, The World in a Selfie spellbinds. A wonderful read for travelers and non-travelers in the new world of a pandemic. * Champagne Living *The truth is that tourists have always been unpopular ... The root of the stigmatisation, argues Marco D'Eramo, is the resentment of rattrapage, one social class catching up with another. -- Tom Robbins * Financial Times *A provocative take on the meanings of contemporary travel. -- Jim Gladstone * Passport Magazine *In a summer when all our assumptions about travel and tourism are being called into question, this engrossing book, newly translated from Italian, is the ideal guide. -- Tom Robbins * Financial Times: Summer books of 2021 *Andras's novel reaches for imaginative inner connections and syntheses across scale and time. He is no stranger to sociological contradiction, nor to psychological complexity. -- Jeffery R. Webber * Spectre *

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the impact of the spread of English on language teaching and learning. It provides a framework for change in English language teaching to better reflect global realities and current research. The authors examine the pedagogical implications of the global spread of English, drawing on world Englishes, English as a lingua franca, and global Englishes research. The book proposes key innovations for teaching English as an international language, and outlines key areas for future classroom-based research. The book is essential reading for postgraduate researchers, teachers and teacher trainers in TESOL and second language education programmes.Trade ReviewThe authors of this book engage in an intellectually-stimulating attempt to tackle important questions surrounding the future of the TESOL profession from a global perspective. It is definitely an enlightening resource for anyone seeking novel pathways to navigate the complexities of teaching English in a changing world. * Ali Fuad Selvi, Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus, Turkey *This is a must-read book for anyone teaching English as an international language in today’s globalised world. Each chapter showcases relevant empirical research to bridge theory and practice and several frameworks are offered to achieve change. Future research directions for research-practitioners are explored, which are invaluable to facilitate change. * Nicola Galloway, University of Edinburgh, UK *A highly teacher-friendly book for language teacher professionals who want to engage with contemporary issues in TESOL education and become active practitioner-researchers in their own classrooms. * Peter De Costa, Michigan State University, USA *[This] is a highly useful resource for TESOL professionals to organize self-guided professional reflections and other development activities when integrating different varieties of English into TESOL. -- Xiaozhou (Emily) Zhou, Shanghai International Studies University, China and Xuesong (Andy) Gao, University of New South Wales, Australia * TESOL Quarterly, 2021 *Table of ContentsTables and Figures About the Authors Section One: Theoretical Foundations Chapter 1. Theorising the Teaching of English in Global Contexts Chapter 2. Models for Teaching English as an International Language Section Two: Global Classrooms and Curricula Chapter 3. Language Norms in the Global TESOL Curriculum Chapter 4. Material Evaluation and Development in Teaching English as an International Language Chapter 5. Testing and Assessing a Global Language Section Three: Teachers and Learners of a Global Language Chapter 6. Learners’ Attitudes and EIL-oriented Activities Chapter 7. Teachers of a Global Language Chapter 8. Global Language and Identity Section Four: Initiating Change in TESOL Chapter 9. Initiating Change: An Invitation to Teachers and Teacher Educators Chapter 10. Initiating Change: An Invitation to Researcher-Practitioners

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Book SynopsisThis book critically analyses early school foreign language teaching policy and practice, foregrounding the influence of the socioeducational and cultural context on how policies are implemented and assessing the factors which either promote or constrain their effectiveness. It focuses on four Asian contexts – Malaysia, South Korea, Sri Lanka and Thailand – while providing a discussion of policy and practice in Canada and Finland as a comparison. Concentrating on the state school sector, it criticises the worldwide trend for a focus on English as the principal or only foreign language taught in primary schools, founded on a rationale that widespread proficiency in English is important for future national success in a globalised economy. It maintains that the economic rationale is not only largely unfounded and irrelevant to the language learning experiences of young children but also that the focus on English exacerbates system inequalities rather than contributing to their reduction. The book argues for a broader perspective on language learning in primary schools, one that values multilingualism and knowledge of regional and indigenous languages alongside a more diverse range of foreign languages. This book will appeal to educational policymakers, researchers and students interested in early foreign language learning in state educational systems worldwide.Trade ReviewHayes’ detailed and critical analyses of early language learning policies in six different countries – Thailand, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Finland, and Canada – beautifully and powerfully illustrate the complex realities and importance of situating policies in specific societal and linguistic contexts. This book is highly recommended for anyone interested in language education policies. * Yuko Goto Butler, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, USA *I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book because it educated me about little-known contexts of early language education, thereby critically analysing – and partly dissecting – the political, economic and educational rationales underlying policies and practice of early language learning. The spirit of equity and justice ingrained in many aspects of the analysis and argumentation in this book is admirable. * Eva Wilden, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany *This book brings alive the vital role of the socio-educational context on the success, or otherwise, of foreign language learning in primary school. The book bristles with research insights from a range of contexts and provides a solid basis for re-imagining language education in state-sector primary education globally. It is a wonderful resource for language policy makers, researchers, teachers, and teacher educators. * Kuchah Kuchah, University of Leeds, UK *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Chapter 1. Rationales for Early Language Learning in State Sector Education Systems Chapter 2. Thailand: An Educational Paradox Chapter 3. South Korea: A Severe Case of ‘English Fever’ Chapter 4. Sri Lanka: Language Education and Peace-Building in Primary Schools Chapter 5. Equity and Multilingual Diversity in Primary School Language Teaching and Learning in Malaysia Chapter 6. Early Language Teaching and Learning in Ontario, Canada and Finland: Experiences of Bilingualism and Multilingualism Chapter 7. Rethinking Early Language Learning in State Sector Education Systems References Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume’s relevance may be explained, first and foremost, during a time of unprecedented loss of life around the world each day. The data, which is oftentimes incomplete and misleading, nonetheless reveals the state as deficient as well as negligent in its response to social healthcare needs. This volume attests to the fact that pressing global public health concerns are ever present as subjects of societal discourse and debate in developed and developing states. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic makes the omission of the ethics of personal data collection analysis in the international relations literature even more salient given the rise of contact tracing and increased uses of mobile phone Apps to track citizens by states and firms across the globe, as this volume’s chapters analyzing the responses to COVID-19 in Iran and Taiwan explain. Trade Review"The Ethics of Personal Data Collection in International Relations is a timely contribution to a most urgent governance challenge of our time. The uses and misuses of data collection are amplified by the globalscale of public policy making in the era of COVID-19. As commercial and political interests assert their agendas, counter-veiling normative duties and restraints remain to be defined and empowered. Mazzucelli, Keith and Hollifield set a new agenda in this wide-ranging and thorough volume, particularly with their focus on the essential issue of inclusionism. This book is sure to guide the field of international relations in a fruitful new direction."– Joel H. Rosenthal, President, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs“This volume represents a tremendously innovative, timely and cutting-edge treatment of one of the most compelling challenges of our day and age: the focus on personal data collection, including geopolitical and cultural contexts, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Taken as a whole, its content is very impressive both in scope and depth. Presenting primarily a non-Western perspective, the volume provides the reader with an important overview framing these challenges cogently and providing an international relations theory foundation that recognizes, synthesizes and amplifies newer approaches in our field. Such approaches bridge a gap between older international relations paradigms and newer concepts that recognize non-state actor as well as non-Western nation roles.” —Nanette Levinson, Co-Director, Internet Governance Lab, School of International Service, American University, USA“Few scholarly collaborations can genuinely work at the intersection of IR and international and human rights law, with the ability to engage the IR literature so robustly. Few volumes can be so thoroughly creative theoretically and yet so grounded in field studies and cases, bringing the details of analysis and context to life. At its core, this volume practices what it preaches—the abject need to shift from a Eurocentric and state-centric default in IR inquiry into a holistic approach to inclusionism. Its content does this on an indisputably urgent topic—the fate of private data collection in a time of COVID-19, a period some fear is a dress rehearsal for increasing government intrusion into long standing human rights and freedoms via emergent technologies. Without the prima facie inclusion of such lenses as gender, geopolitics, culture, concern for nature and climate, and ethnic and religious pluralism into our standard IR theories, it is unlikely that scholars will be able to help decision makers come to the right policies for dealing with personal privacy.” —Corri Zoli, Director of Research, Institute for Security Policy & Law, Syracuse University College of Law / Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public AffairsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Foreword by Prof. Dr. Azza Karam — Secretary-General, Religions for Peace; Word Clouds by Leslie Elizabeth Prosy, New York University; Introduction: Non-Western versus Western Reflections on the Ethics of Personal Data Collection in a Variegated “Chessboard- Web” Ecosystem, Colette Mazzucelli, James Felton Keith, and Andrea Adams; Part I; Chapter 1. Information Technology: National Security Savior or Civil Rights Disaster, Celeste Brevard; Chapter 2. Is This Chapter “Fake News”?: Exploring the Possibilities of Regulating Online Disinformation while Preserving the Right to Freedom of Expression in Europe, Sophia Ehmke; Chapter 3. Geopolitics, Personal Data Collection, and Globalization: Iran’s Response to COVID-19, Megan Cameron; Part II; Chapter 4. Taiwan’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Social Constructivist Analysis of Identity Differentiation with the People’s Republic of China, Jasmine C. Lee; Chapter 5. Reeducation Camps in Xinjiang, China: An Intersectional Constructivist Approach, Mary Davis; Part III; Chapter 6. Smartphones and Data Privacy Ethics: International Regulations in a “Chessboard-Web” Environment, Andrea Adams; Chapter 7. Ethical Considerations around Crowdsourcing Stories of Sexual Abuse and Harassment in Public Spaces: The Safecity India Story, Suzanne Goodney Lea and Elsa Marie D’Silva; Chapter 8. Protecting Privacy in a Sexual Assault Prevention Program, Lynne Chandler-Garcia and John C. Riley; Conclusion, Colette Mazzucelli, James Felton Keith, and Andrea Adams; Afterword by Dean Joshua Cooper; List of Contributors; Index.

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Book SynopsisContestatory and Creative Poetics for a Time of Climate Catastrophe: Volume 1: Per Se is an extended narrative meditation upon the meaning of per se, which generally denotes the thing-in-itself, for its own sake but that, upon closer examination, transpires to be a high tensile composite of the thing' (se) and a relationship (per) that always links it to something else and indeed, in relations of internal complexity, to itself. Per se, in the book's multiple parsings of the term, is a moniker for the infinite relationality of the world and the relationality of each thing in itself. Per se also denotes the endless fractal embedding of bundles of relationality at the successive levels of thing-ness from the infinitesimally minute nano-scale to the unimaginably distant outer reaches of the sideral. Per se becomes an exploration of the way commodities, cut loose from their context of production and floating on sea of oscillating (exchange) values, never cease to morph back into artefacts defined by the socially intensive use-values their fellow actants discover in them.The book thus focalises a politicised effort to revision the rampant multiscalar individualism, solipsism and apartheid-like segregation of our age. Instead, it searches for possibilities or community in every aspect of the world we have learnt to see through a relentlessly atomising and hypostatising filter. The volume claims that every act of perception is political, reestablishing obfuscated connections, thereby seeking to repair the shredded fabric of the ecosphere below the threshold of myopic common-sense. Yet it also celebrates the myriad acts of citizen defiance, visible and invisible, that constitute activist agendas around the world, sending signals both practical and exemplary, symbolic and literary that shore up communities of resistance everywhere. The book does not hesitate to interrogate the fractal responsiveness to its own nature, meditating repeatedly on the political character of writing, and more significantly, of the teaching of writing.Central to its concerns are various avatars of trees, from the pirogue that hangs above a bar in Lille, and one that is crafted as part of an Italian artist's global collaboration on the periphery of this volume's emergence, via the jacarandas of post-apartheid South Africa, to a wood-chipped pine forest that has become a memorial library in Oslo to name only a few of the topics taken up by the book's many silvan micro-fictions. Looming over all these concerns are two contemporary silvan catastrophes: the megablazes that destroyed forests in Amazonia, Australia, California, Siberia and the Mediterranean during the period when the book was being written and the deforestation that has allowed zoogenic diseases to jump from once secluded animal species to the humans that would never have been their neighbours if naturally occurring forest-barriers had been left intact.

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Book SynopsisThis edited book examines the experience of small states in Europe during the 2015–2016 migration crisis. The contributions highlight the challenges small states and the European Union faced in addressing the massive irregular flow of migrants and refugees into Europe and the Schengen Area. Small states adopted a number of coping strategies and proved relatively effective in navigating the storm they faced. Externally they pursued strategies of shelter-seeking, hiding, hedging and norm entrepreneurship, while domestically they tended to securitize migration and to pursue scapegoating by blaming the EU and other states for the nature and magnitude of the crisis. During this crisis management, their small administrations proved resilient and flexible in their responses, despite suffering from limited resources and being subject to the shifting preferences of stronger actors. This book shows that independent of whether we view the migration crisis as a crisis for the European Union or Europe as a whole, or how we interpret the intensity and severity of the crisis, this was a crisis for small states in Europe. The crisis disrupted the liberal and institutionalized order upon which small states in the region had increasingly based their policies and influence for more than 60 years.Table of ContentsPART 1: Introduction and FrameworkSmall States and the Migrant Crisis in ContextAnalysing Small States in Crisis: Fundamental Assumptions and Analytical Starting PointsPART 2: Small States and the Current Political Turmoil Related to ImmigrationImmigration-Integration: A New Opportunity for the EU?Openness Versus Helplessness: Europe’s Border Crisis, 2015-2018PART 3: On the Frontline: The Experiences of the Border StatesThe (De)Europeanisation of Greece: Experience from the Eye of the Storm Migration and Security: The Case of GreeceMalta: A Janus Faced Migration and Integration PolicyPART 4: Waving Them on? The Experiences of Peripheral StatesCoping with the Migration Crisis in a Small States in the European Union: The Experience of SloveniaThe 2015 Migration Crisis as an Identity Crisis for Iceland Small States: “The Gatekeepers” of EU Borders During the Migration CrisisA Small Administration Facing a Complex Policy Challenge: Estonia and the 2015 Refugee CrisisPART 5: ConclusionSmall States and the European Migrant Crisis: New Challenges and Coping Strategies

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Book SynopsisThe Pacific region is expected to contract by 0.6% in 2021, and to grow by 4.7% in 2022.This issue of the Pacific Economic Monitor explores how the region can reopen and rebuild. Besides safely resuming travel and protecting health, a resilient recovery will depend on promoting fiscal sustainability and strengthening economic management, including regional cooperation to revitalize tourism.

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Book SynopsisA beautifully-written, broadly accessible, and forthright argument for a solution to the migration crisis: open the gates.Because of restrictive borders, human beings suffer and die. Closed borders force migrants seeking safety and dignity to journey across seas, trudge through deserts, and clamber over barbed wire. In the last five years alone, at least 60,000 people have died or gone missing while attempting to cross a border. As we deny, cast out, and crack down, we have stripped borders of their creative potential — as lines of contact, catalyst, and blend — turning our thresholds into barricades.Brilliant and provocative, The Case for Open Borders deflates the mythology of national security through border lockdowns by revisiting their historical origins; it counters the conspiracies of immigration’s economic consequences; it urgently considers the challenges of climate change beyond the boundaries of narrow national identities. This book grounds its argument in the experiences and thinking of those on the frontlines of the crisis, spanning the world to do so. In each chapter, through detailed reporting, journalist and translator John Washington profiles a character impacted by borders. He adds to those portraits provocative analyses of the economics and ethics of bordering, concluding that if we are to seek justice or sustainability we must fight for open borders.In recent years, important thinkers have begun to urge a profoundly different approach to migration, but no book has made the argument as accessible or as compelling. Washington’s case shines with the multitudinous voices of people on the move, a portrait in miniature of what a world with open borders will give to our common future.Trade Review“A powerful and convincing case for human solidarity and cooperation for which Washington provides a roadmap. Unlike many commentaries and books about the fraught border, he does not leave out the Indigenous communities whose homelands have existed in the area for centuries before the border was violently imposed by the United States in 1848.” —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Not “A Nation of Immigrants:” Settler-Colonialism , White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion "John Washington makes a strong, eloquent and even inspiring case for the relaxation and ultimately the abolition of border controls." —JM Coetzee"The Case for Open Borders offers an accessible and passionate case against border controls. Highlighting the complex stories and lived experiences of displaced and immobilized migrants in the crosshairs of violent bordering regimes, Washington shows how borders structure global difference across economies and ecosystems and ends with a multi-faceted and air-tight 21 arguments for open borders for people across the political spectrum." —Harsha Walia"John Washington’s The Case for Open Borders is a compelling, empathetic argument, a far-reaching look into the origins of borders. Washington is one of our most thoughtful, creative, and humane journalists, and this new work will make people think differently about what they think they already know, about what divides and unites the world in new, surprising ways. Highly recommended." —Greg Grandin“John Washington provides us with an essential evidence based, politically sophisticated, and ethically compelling tool to address one of the most important issues of our time.” —Alex Vitale, author of The End of PolicingThe Case for Open Borders reveals the extent to which today’s global borders have become, at their very core, irredeemably inhumane. Through riveting reporting and wide-ranging citations and case studies, John Washington deconstructs a host of broken metaphors, facile analogies, and fallacious arguments—deconstructing modern notions of scarcity, enforcement, and “order.” This is essential reading, a powerhouse manual for re-imagining a world without walls." —Francisco Cantú, author of The Line Becomes a River"The Case for Open Borders is an urgently needed and timely appeal for justice for the expanding flows of migrants and refugees falling victim inside a hardened and darkening complex of enforced border walls, perilous waterways, and spirals of razor wire. A fluid blend of historical analysis, investigative journalism, and illustrative storytelling, this book grabs you immediately and turns your attention to these anti-human regimes jutting the global landscape—and won’t let you look away. Read this book that makes the most complete and comprehensive case for opening the borders—and then take action to make it a reality." —Justin Akers Chacón"Perhaps the most profound book you’ll read this year. Washington cleaves through all the cruel obfuscations and militaristic cant that derange our border and immigration politics and offers a better human alternative. Borders will not save us, or our rapidly broiling planet, but Washington's reportorial courage and ethical clarity just might." —Junot DíazTable of ContentsPrelude: What’s at Stake?Chapter One: Abu Yassin and The Friendship DamChapter Two: The Historical ArgumentChapter Three: Shafa and Hard Kinetic SolutionsChapter Four: The Economic ArgumentChapter Five: Never Merely TheaterChapter Six: The Case for Urgency, or The Environmental CaseChapter Seven: What Would Open Borders Look Like?Chapter Eight: How I Came to Open BordersChapter Nine: Josiel and Iron ObelisksChapter Ten: 22 Arguments for Open Borders

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Book SynopsisAuthored by world renowned activist and environmental leader Vandana Shiva, Reclaiming the Commons presents the history of the struggle to defend biodiversity and traditional practices against corporate biopiracy and details efforts to realize legal rights for Mother Earth and achieve the vision of the universal commons and Earth as Family.

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Book SynopsisThis new anthology offers a wide selection of readings addressing the contemporary moral issues that arise from the division between the Global North and South—“the problem of the color-line” that W.E.B. Du Bois identified at the beginning of the twentieth century and which, on a scale that Du Bois could not have foreseen, is the problem of the twenty-first. The book is interdisciplinary in scope. In addition to standard topical essays in ethical theory by philosophers such as Anthony Appiah, Martha Nussbaum, and Peter Singer, it contains essays from economists such as Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, and Thomas DeGregori, as well as current empirical data from the World Bank, IMF, United Nations, and other sources.Trade Review“Globalization and International Development is a superb anthology. Unlike other such collections, it brings together a diversity of philosophical, economic, and anthropological materials, conveniently providing all that one might need for an undergraduate course on global economic justice. The readings are carefully selected, accessible, and certain to stimulate productive classroom discussion. In short, an ideal textbook!” — Frank Lovett, Washington University in St. Louis“Baber and Dimon provide a comprehensive set of readings from a range of disciplines. The book’s organization allows students to work through the positions presented, to see globalization and development beyond narrow disciplinary boundaries, and to challenge their own normative ideas about the issues raised.” — Lisa Glidden, SUNY Oswego“Globalization and International Development is an inspiring and carefully selected anthology of readings for topical-focused courses on international ethics and global justice. The readings explore crucial aspects of the global North–South divide, and voices are represented from both sides. Students are offered a wealth of empirical material, and the readings strike a good balance between articles written by philosophers and those written by social scientists.” — Harry van der Linden, Butler UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionI Ethical TheoryIntroduction John Stuart Mill, “Utilitarianism” (selections from Utilitarianism) John Rawls, “An Egalitarian Theory of Justice” (selections from A Theory of Justice) Robert Nozick, “The Entitlement Theory” (selections from Anarchy, State and Utopia) Peter Singer, “The Right to Be Rich or Poor” Michael J. Sandel, “The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self” Amartya Sen, “Equality of What?”Recommended Reading II PovertyIntroduction Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, “The Economic Lives of the Poor” Rebecca Mead, “Dressing for Lula” Peter Singer, “The Drowning Child and the Expanding Circle” Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, “Toward a Theory of World Inequality” (selections from Why Nations Fail) UN Millennium Project, “Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals” William Easterly, “A Modest Proposal” Paul Collier, “Poverty Reduction in Africa”Recommended Reading III GlobalizationIntroduction IMF Staff, “Globalization: Threat or Opportunity” (selections) Joseph E. Stiglitz, “Do What We Did, Not What We Say” Kevin Watkins, “Making Globalization Work for the Poor” (with a responseby David Dollar and Aart Kraay) Matthew Zwolinski, “Sweatshops, Choice, and Exploitation” (selections) Benjamin R. Barber, “Jihad vs. McWorld”Recommended Reading IV Colonialism, Neo-Colonialism, and AidIntroduction J.L. Holzgrefe, “The Humanitarian Intervention Debate” John Stuart Mill, “A Few Words on Non-Intervention” Dinesh D’Souza, “Two Cheers for Colonialism” Rudyard Kipling, “Lispeth” Clifford Bob, “Merchants of Morality” Muhammad Yunus, “The Grameen Bank” Aneel Karnani, “Employment, Not Microcredit, Is the Solution”Recommended Reading V War, Revolution, and TerrorismIntroduction Frantz Fanon, “Concerning Violence” (selections from The Wretched of the Earth) David Luban, “Just War and Human Rights” Deepak Lal, “In Defense of Empires” (selections) Soran Reader, “Making Pacifism Plausible” Thomas Nagel, “War and Massacre”Recommended Reading VI Population and the EnvironmentIntroduction United Nations Environmental Programme, Global Environment Outlook 4 (selections) Garrett Hardin, “Living on a Lifeboat” Peter Singer, “One Atmosphere” (selection from One World: The Ethicsof Globalization) Vandana Shiva, “An Open Letter to Oxfam” Thomas R. DeGregori, “Shiva the Destroyer?”Recommended Reading VII GenderIntroduction World Bank, Engendering Development (selections) Susan Moller Okin, “Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?” Martha Nussbaum, “Adaptive Preference and Women’s Options” (selections from Women and Human Development) H.E. Baber, “Adaptive Preference”Recommended Reading VIII Cultural Relativism and Its CriticsIntroduction United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, “Anthropologists, Cultural Relativism, and Universal Rights” James Rachels, “The Challenge of Cultural Relativism” (selection from The Elements of Moral Philosophy) Carol J. Williams, “The Price of Freedom, in Blood”Recommended Reading IX Immigration, Integration, and DiversityIntroduction David Goodhart, “Too Diverse?” Robert D. Putnam, “E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century” Alexis Rawlinson, “The Political Manipulation of Ethnicity in Africa” Amartya Sen, “The Uses and Abuses of Multiculturalism: Chili and Liberty” K. Anthony Appiah, “Race, Culture, Identity: Misunderstood Connections”(selections from Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race)Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisAbout our author Dr. James Gerber taught Economics at San Diego State University for more than 3 decades. In addition to his role in the Economics Department, at different times he served as the Director of the university's National Resource Center for Latin American Studies and as the Director of the International Business Program. In 2008 he co-authored the economic history Fifty Years of Change on the US-Mexico Border and his most recent book, A Great Deal of Ruin: Financial Crises since 1929 was published in 2019. His current research is primarily focused on the history of US-Mexico economic relations. He has been a visiting professor in universities in Canada and Mexico.Table of ContentsPART 1: INTRODUCTION AND INSTITUTIONS An Introduction to the World Economy International Economic Institutions Since World War II PART 2: INTERNATIONAL TRADE Comparative Advantage and the Gains from Trade Comparative Advantage and Factor Endowments Beyond Comparative Advantage The Theory of Tariffs and Quotas Commercial Policy International Trade and Labor and Environmental Standards PART 3: INTERNATIONAL FINANCE Trade and the Balance of Payments Exchange Rates and Exchange Rate Systems An Introduction to Open Economy Macroeconomics International Financial Crises PART 4: REGIONAL ISSUES IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY The United States in the World Economy The European Union: Many Markets into One Trade and Policy Reform in Latin America Export-Oriented Growth in East Asia China and India in the World Economy

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Book SynopsisDoes globalization help everyone or just the rich? Is it the enemy of sustainability or the only hope against climate change? Rival camps are dug in, but Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp find points of agreement. Isolating the value conflicts that drive the globalization debate, they show where consensus lies and argue for achievable policy change.Trade ReviewSix Faces of Globalization is a very smart book, and not just for people interested in globalization. The authors manage to help readers understand the many faces of globalization by identifying multiple narratives that fuel different political movements and perspectives of the punditocracy. Ultimately, however, this is a book not just about globalization, but also about the power and importance of narrative: how it is constructed and how it can contribute to a far more nuanced and complex understanding of the forces of change. Highly recommended. -- Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO, New AmericaAt a time when many of us have only one view of the world, so much so that we only read the books and watch the media that support our vision, Roberts and Lamp present us with a real challenge: they lay out convincingly and comprehensively many different narratives of globalization and its political and economic effects. The book thus implicitly challenges the narrative that each of us finds most compelling. Like in a movie by Kurosawa, our view of events depends on our position. This book compels us to change our position, move out of our comfort zone, and see the world differently and more broadly. -- Branko Milanovic, author of Capitalism, AloneAnthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp have written a brilliant and extremely valuable book. They process an enormous amount of information but also, crucially, narratives and storylines about economic globalization and offer us a new way to sort and evaluate the various claims that circulate. The debates about ‘winners and losers’ explored in Six Faces of Globalization will be with us for years and will be the stuff of headlines for the foreseeable future. -- Quinn Slobodian, author of Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of NeoliberalismAs in the proverbial story of five blind men trying to make sense of an elephant, globalization presents itself in different forms to its proponents and opponents. This immensely useful book clarifies the debates around globalization by developing six narratives rooted in contending values and perceptions of reality. It helps us not only understand the best version of other sides’ narratives, but also move beyond our own conceptual straitjackets. -- Dani Rodrik, Harvard UniversitySix Faces of Globalization is not one more big-think, grand-vision book on the world’s problems and how to solve them. Instead, it is an indispensable guide to how and why many people have abandoned the old, time-tested ways of thinking about politics and the economy. This is the book the world needs to read now. It deserves a spot on every shelf of books about globalization. -- Richard Baldwin, Graduate Institute, GenevaRoberts and Lamp give their readers a useful framing to understand today’s—and tomorrow’s—fights about the world economy. * Fortune *Policymakers and business leaders will appreciate this levelheaded and wide-ranging look at a hot-button issue. * Publishers Weekly *Roberts and Lamp set out to disrupt our intellectual inertia, first by mapping out the six major Western narratives of globalization, then exploring how those narratives drive policies, for better or worse. -- James Herndon * Asian Review of Books *This book is highly informative and will certainly appeal to a wide audience interested in identifying the main themes driving the US attitude towards free trade and confrontation with China. -- Enrico Colombatto * Journal of Economics *

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Book SynopsisAs railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogle’s chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to 1950 highlights the many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced.Trade ReviewThe powerful lesson of Ogle’s book is how the gradual global transformation of time over the course of the twentieth century came to suit many different parties, all of whom thought they had something to gain from new modes of integration and connectivity. The process we anachronistically call ‘globalization,’ Vanessa Ogle shows, was made up of forces that often used international means to solve national or parochial problems. -- Thomas Meaney * Times Literary Supplement *Ogle is more interested in the ways in which the concept of global time helped create what she calls a ‘global imagination,’ in which peoples and societies could be understood as parts of a single, developing world system. In this way, Ogle argues, the standardization of time reflected and reproduced the world’s European-led power hierarchies. International clocks and calendars united the world, but they also revealed and sometimes reinforced its inequities. -- G. John Ikenberry * Foreign Affairs *Today, we take our global system of timekeeping largely for granted… Yet in her imaginative and thought-provoking new book The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950, Vanessa Ogle reminds us that standardization and simultaneity had to be invented… Ogle’s formidable work contributes to a new history of political economy which takes seriously the ideas, values, and acts of violence behind the emergence of global capitalism. -- Ian P. Beacock * The Atlantic *How exactly horological chaos gave way to order is the subject of Ogle’s accessible and prodigiously researched book…Ogle has insightful things to say about many topics, from the role of cosmopolitan ports in disseminating new kinds of timepieces, to Islamic calendars, to the curiously moralizing tone of early discussions of using daylight savings schemes to prevent people from squandering precious sunshine hours. Perhaps her most important contribution is to show, via discussion of the various ways that power relations shaped debates relating to time, how foolish it is to view globalization, in any period, as a smooth, value-free process of flattening out. -- Jeffrey Wasserstrom * Financial Times *With impressive breadth, imagination, and originality, Ogle has produced an important and genuinely global history of time that reveals the rhythms, directions, unevenness, and contradictory consequences of what we now call globalization. -- Geoff Eley, University of MichiganWriting global history is still a high-stakes venture, and Ogle’s The Global Transformation of Time is an impressive testimony to the potential of the genre. We get a deep sense of the talk about time and calendars among transnational experts and politicians as well as the everyday intelligence that produced differentiated time regimes—times for travel, for work, for leisure, for religious practice or, as may be, for milking cows—across the globe in Berlin and Beirut, London and Bombay, and their rural hinterlands. Reading this book is a tremendous intellectual pleasure from beginning to end. -- Michael Geyer, University of ChicagoGlobalization is all the rage in the 21st century. What technology and cultural factors led to this shrinking world? One of the factors often overlooked, even taken for granted, is our system of uniform time…The progressives who advocated for uniform time found themselves dealing with nationalism, regionalism, and colonialism, as well as resistance from labor, religion, and other groups with a vested interest in the status quo. Ogle provides an intriguing glimpse into the machinations that led to the globalization of time. -- T. Timmons * Choice *

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Book SynopsisIn a time of great gloom and doom internationally and of major global problems, this book offers an invaluable contribution to our understanding of alternative societies that could be better for humans and the environment. Bringing together a wide range of approaches and new strands of economic and social thinking from across the US, Mexico, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Middle East and Africa, Luke Martell critically assesses contemporary alternatives and shows the ways forward with a convincing argument of pluralist socialism. Presenting a much-needed introduction to the debate on alternatives to capitalism, this ambitious book is not about how things are but how they can be!Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Alternative Economies 2. Social Alternatives 3. Utopianism and its Critics 4. Socialism and its Critics 5. The Democratic Economy 6. Alternative Globalization Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAs our workplaces become increasingly global and diverse, being a culturally intelligent leader isn''t just a bonus—it''s essential. Whether you''re negotiating a contract with a supplier on the other side of the world, managing an increasingly diverse workforce, expanding your business across borders, or developing and applying cultural intelligence (CQ), this classic resource provides you with the adaptability you need to motivate, negotiate, and accomplish results with anyone, anywhere. Having done consulting and research with leaders in more than 100 countries, David Livermore, founder of the Cultural Intelligence Center and professor at Boston University, has detailed the four CQ skills that are proven to maximize your leadership success in today’s diverse, global business environment: Drive—build your motivation and confidence to address cultural dilemmas Knowledge—learn how to read any cultura

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Book SynopsisThomas Friedman has won the Pulitzer Prize three times for his work at The New York Times. He is the author of two best-selling books, From Beirut to Jerusalem, and The Lexus and the Olive Tree.

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Book SynopsisFiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina. The extreme volatility in contemporary economic fortunes seems to mock our best efforts to understand the forces that drive development in the world economy.David Harvey, the single most important geographer writing today and a leading social theorist of our age, offers a comprehensive critique of contemporary capitalism. In this fascinating book, he shows the way forward for just such an understanding, enlarging upon the key themes in his recent work: the development of neoliberalism, the spread of inequalities across the globe, and 'space' as a key theoretical concept.Both a major declaration of a new research programme and a concise introduction to David Harvey's central concerns, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students across the humanities and social sciences.Trade ReviewHarvey is a scholarly radical; his writing is free of journalistic clichés, full of facts and carefully thought-through ideas. -- Richard SennettDavid Harvey provoked a revolution in his field and has inspired a generation of radical intellectuals. -- Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough and This Changes Everything

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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. Trade ReviewEnergies Beyond the State is a compendium of 10 chapters addressing broad issues, such as an anarchist ecology of environmental displacement and the international impact of capital and more specific issues, such as those relating to uranium and dams. Editors Mateer, Springer, Locret-Collet, and Acker include thought-provoking, relatively radical anarchist/neo-Marxist perspectives regarding environmental problems and potential solutions to those problems. The volume also introduces and applies a novel perspective, the TORSO (TerritOry-Resources-Societal Organization) framework, to analyze various environmental problem areas. * Choice Reviews *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 ParentChapter 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 SynopsisDisruptions in the global supply chain put companies at a standstill.Supply and demand shocks. Labor shortages. International trade wars. As businesses and customers struggle to get the products they need from across the globe, manufacturers must reassess how they operate, from considering domestic suppliers to exploring new technologies. In Supply Chain: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review, articles by experts and researchers will help you understand the risks and identify solutions to these disruptions so that you can ensure a more resilient supply chain—without sacrificing competitive advantage.Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind?Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues—blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more—each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow.You can't afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas—and prepare you and your company for the future.

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Book SynopsisGlobalisation has created a whole new working class - and they are reliving stories that were first played out a century ago. In Live Working or Die Fighting, Paul Mason tells the story of this new working class alongside the epic history of the global labour movement, from its formation in the factories of the 1800s through its near destruction by fascism in the 1930s and up to today''s anti-globalisation movement.Blending exhilarating historical narrative with reportage from today''s front line, he links the lives of 19th-century factory girls with the lives of teenagers in a giant Chinese mobile phone factory; he tells the story of how mass trade unions were born in London''s Docklands - and how they''re being reinvented by the migrant cleaners in skyscrapers that stand on the very same spot. It is a story of urban slums, self-help co-operatives, choirs and brass bands, free love and self-education by candlelight. And, as the author shows, in the developingTrade ReviewVividly accessible... required reading for the Seattle brigade * Guardian *Mason, using an impressive range of primary sources, recounts nine of the great stories of working-class revolts * Irish Times *This book tells stories of our past that are indispensable to understanding the present. it is a good answer to all who ask where the working class has gone. Brilliant -- Ken Loach'Don't die stupid. If you haven't read Mason's book, you know nothing about how this planet works... breathtaking, fascinating, perceptive... Damn, I wish I'd written this book -- Greg Palast, author of the New York Times bestseller Armed MadhouseThis is micro-historical writing at its best -- Walden Bello, author of Dilemmas of Domination

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection provides the most comprehensive thematic analysis of capital flight from Africa, covering economic and institutional aspects, as well as domestic and global dimensions. It is organized in three parts. The first part discusses the importance of capital flight in the context of the development policy discourse at national and international level. This part takes stock of the existing evidence on the nature, causes, and consequences of capital flight. It provides the most recent data on the magnitude of capital flight from 39 African countries, and a detailed analysis of the impact of capital flight on economic development in general and on poverty reduction in particular. The second part examines economic factors and impacts of capital flight. It presents analysis of capital flight in a flow of funds context, the impact of capital flight on macroeconomic outcomes with a focus on growth, and the linkages between capital flight and monetary policy, financial liberaliTable of ContentsPART I: WHY CARE ABOUT CAPITAL FLIGHT?; PART II: ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS; PART III: INSTITUTIONAL DIMENSIONS; PART IV: CONCLUSION

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