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Cambridge University Press The Asian Financial Crisis and the Architecture of Global Finance
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Cambridge University Press Globalization and the American Century
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Cambridge University Press Languages in a Globalising World
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Cambridge University Press NGOs and Organizational Change
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Cambridge University Press Restructuring Territoriality
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Cambridge University Press Globalization and State Transformation in China
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Cambridge University Press The Role of Business in Fostering Peaceful Societies
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Cambridge University Press Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights
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Cambridge University Press Global Collective Action
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Cambridge University Press The INSEADWharton Alliance on Globalizing
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Cambridge University Press Power in Global Governance Cambridge Studies in International Relations Series Number 98
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Cambridge University Press Remapping Global Politics Historys Revenge and Future Shock Cambridge Studies in International Relations Series Number 97
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Cambridge University Press Globalization and the International Financial System
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Cambridge University Press Law and Globalization from Below
Book SynopsisThis book is an unprecedented attempt to analyze the role of the law in the global movement for social justice. Case studies in the book are by leading scholars from both the global South and the global North, and combine empirical research with innovative sociolegal theory on various topics.Trade Review"Law and Globalization from Below is a collection of deeply insightful and challenging essays." Benedict Sheehy, The Law and Politics Book ReviewTable of ContentsNotes on the contributors; 1. Law, politics, and the subaltern in counter-hegemonic globalization Boaventura de Sousa Santos and César A. Rodríguez-Garavito; Part I. Law and the Construction of a Global Economy of Solidarity: 2. Beyond neoliberal governance: the World Social Forum as subaltern cosmopolitan politics and legality Boaventura de Sousa Santos; 3. Nike's law: the anti-sweatshop movement, transnational corporations, and the struggle over international labor rights in the Americas César A. Rodríguez-Garavito; 4. Corporate social responsibility: a case of hegemony and counter-hegemony Ronen Shamir; 5. Campaigning for life: building a new transnational solidarity in the face of HIV/AIDS and TRIPS Heinz Klug; 6. Negotiating informality within formality: land and housing in the Texas colonias Jane E. Larson; 7. Local contact points at global divides: labor rights and immigrant rights as sites for cosmopolitanism legality Fran Ansley; Part II. Transnational Social Movements and the Reconstruction of Human Rights: 8. Limits of law in counter-hegemonic globalization: the Indian Supreme Court and the Narmada Valley struggle Balakrishnan Rajagopal; 9. The Movement of the Landless (MST), juridicial field, and legal change in Brazil Peter P. Houtzager; 10. Indigenous rights, transnational activism, and legal mobilization: the struggle of the U'wa people in Colombia César A. Rodríguez-Garavito and Luis Carlos Arenas; 11. Defensive and oppositional counter-hegemonic uses of international law: from the International Criminal Court to the common heritage of humankind José Manuel Pureza; Part III. Law and Participatory Democracy: Between the Local and the Global: 12. Political and legal struggles over resources and democracy: experiences with gender budgeting in Tanzania Mary Rusimbi and Marjorie Mbilinyi; 13. Two democracies, two legalities: participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil Boaventura de Sousa Santos; 14. Life, life world and life chances: vulnerability and survival in Indian constitutional law Shiv Visvanathan and Chandrika Parmar; 15. Bottom-up environmental law and democracy in the risk society: Portuguese experiences in the European context João Arriscado Nunes, Marisa Matias and Susana Costa; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Territoriality and Conflict in an Era of Globalization
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Cambridge University Press Conflict of Laws in a Globalized World
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Cambridge University Press Cultural Products and the World Trade Organization Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law Series Number 54
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Cambridge University Press The Globalization of Ethics
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Cambridge University Press The Sociolinguistics of Globalization
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Cambridge University Press Globalisation Regionalism and Economic Interdependence
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Cambridge University Press Civilising Globalisation
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Cambridge University Press Globalization and the Poor
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Cambridge University Press Global Civil Society Contemporary Political Theory
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Cambridge University Press West European Politics in the Age of Globalization
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Cambridge University Press Global Policymaking
Book SynopsisBy unpacking the practices and the values that have prevailed in three recent UN initiatives, this book demonstrates how global policymaking forms a patchwork pervaded by improvisation and social conflict. The book will appeal to students and scholars of global governance, international organizations and global policy studies.Trade Review'In this superb book, the dynamic and fluid character of global policymaking is captured by treating global governance as an 'unscripted process' – one that is defined by seemingly undirected and impromptu practices of bricolage. Pouliot and Thérien take the UN as one important site of global policy processes to provide a rich and conceptually sophisticated illustration of their 'practice approach' to the analysis of global governance. This approach brings to the fore the inclusionary as well as exclusionary 'politics' and value debates behind the 'patchwork' of global policymaking.' Diane Stone, Chair of Global Policy, School of Transnational Governance, EUI'This ambitious and innovative book aims to refocus the study of global governance on the process of global policymaking. Far from technical problem-solving, this is a messy, deeply political process, characterized by improvisation, recombination, and ambiguous compromise, and shaped by inescapable value cleavages and governance practices that include or exclude particular actors and interests. The book also offers a valuable 'how-to' guide to analyzing governance practices and value conflicts.' Kenneth W. Abbott, Jack E. Brown Chair in Law Emeritus, Arizona State University'Vincent Pouliot and Jean-Philippe Thérien show convincingly that global policymaking can be understood not as functional responses to global problems but as the outcome of struggles about transboundary practices and universal values. Seeing global governance as a bricolage of global policymaking allows a better understanding of the intricate relationship of common goods justifications and power relations. Global Policymaking is one of the most important books on global governance.' Michael Zürn, Director at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), and Professor, Freie Universität BerlinTable of ContentsIntroduction: the politics of global governance; 1. Global policymaking: from public goods to bricolage; 2. The making of global policies: analytical framework and methodology; 3. The sustainable development goals: planning without a blueprint; 4. The Human Rights Council: institution-building by doing; 5. The protection of civilians: policymaking by fits and starts; 6. Key Trends in the Making of Global Policies: A Comparative Synthesis; Conclusion: grasping the patchwork of global governance.
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Cambridge University Press Planetary Pynchon
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Cambridge University Press The Demise of the Global Ice Industry
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Cambridge University Press The Demise of the Global Ice Industry
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Cambridge University Press Have Repertoire Will Travel
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Cambridge University Press Have Repertoire Will Travel
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Cambridge University Press Global Chinas Shadow Exchange
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Cambridge University Press The Anarchist Turn in TwentyFirst Century Leftwing Activism
Book SynopsisThis Element suggests that the very crises that generated radical mobilizations since the turn of the millennium have both led activists to reject other strategies for social transformation and to see anarchist practices as appropriate to our time. It suggests the need for research on social movements as important sources of theory.
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Cambridge University Press The Anarchist Turn in TwentyFirst Century Leftwing Activism
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Cambridge University Press Globalization in Latin America
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Cambridge University Press Global China for Africas Industrialization
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Cambridge University Press Globalization and Mass Politics Retaining the Room to Maneuver Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Book SynopsisThis book analyzes how increases in international trade, finance, and production have altered voter decisions, political party positions, and the types of public issues that parties focus on in postindustrial democracies. Although many studies interrogate whether internationalization matters in regard to policy outcomes and how globalization relates to mass protest, few examine globalization and mass politics more generally. This book argues that by reducing the room in which to maneuver in policy making, globalization reduces the importance of economic-based issues while increasing the electoral importance of non-economic issues. The argument is tested on original and existing data sources.Trade Review'Timothy Hellwig draws several new and fascinating implications from his pioneering argument that globalization reduces the propensity of an electorate to reward and punish incumbent politicians for the state of the domestic economy. Here, we have a convincing explanation for the reorientation of domestic political competition around noneconomic issues in Western democracies: globalization crowds out contestation over economic policy. This is the rare work that will attract interest from both voting behavior scholars and political economists.' Andy Baker, University of Colorado, Boulder'Economic globalization doesn't so much constrain democracy as transform it, shifting the locus of politics from economic to more noneconomic issues of voter and policy maker contestation. This is the central, controversial message of Hellwig's important book, which promises to be seminal in debates on the future of democratic politics in our globalization age.' Brian Burgoon, University of AmsterdamTable of Contents1. Globalization and democracy in advanced industrial societies; 2. Theoretical framework: political demand and supply in globalized economies; 3. The world economy and the composition of policy demands; 4. Globalization and the attribution of responsibility; 5. Globalization and the shifting bases of retrospective voting; 6. Position issues and voter choice in open economies; 7. Representational linkages and the room to maneuver; 8. Credible responses: globalization, parties, and the supply side; 9. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Global Powers
Book SynopsisMichael Mann is a central figure in contemporary sociology. His analysis of how the four sources of social power - ideological, economic, military and political - have shaped world history is a major contribution to social science. In this volume, distinguished scholars assess Mann''s work, focusing on his final two volumes of Sources of Social Power, which deal with the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. They tackle some of the major themes in Mann''s work including globalisation, American empire and the recent financial crisis. They also question his stance on some perennial topics in sociology: is the trajectory of American society ''exceptional''? How is military power different from the other sources of power? What is the role of agency and ideology in social change? How do the relations between states affect domestic social development? Global Powers will provoke debate among all those interested in understanding the next phase of globalisation.Table of Contents1. Introduction Ralph Schroeder; Part I. Theory and History: 2. The evolution of the sources of social power and some extensions Risto Heiskala; 3. The return of big historical sociology Dennis Smith; 4. Taming the chief: from evolutionary theory to political ideology Georgi Derluguian, Timothy Earle and Will Reno; Part II. Political, Economic, Military and Ideological Questions: 5. On political decency John A. Hall; 6. Mann on neoliberalism Monica Prasad; 7. Nationalism and military power in the twentieth century and beyond Siniša Malešević; 8. History, historical sociology and the problem of ideology: the cases of communism and neoliberalism David Priestland; 9. Mann's globalisations and their limits Ralph Schroeder; Part III. American Exceptionalism: 10. Ethnicity, class and the social sources of US exceptionalism Liliana Riga; 11. Mann's big picture of US social citizenship: 'Road to World Empire' with Bob Hope Edwin Amenta; Part IV. Empire: 12. Mann and the problem of Empire John Darwin; 13. Hegemonic power during the Cold War and beyond Odd Arne Westad; 14. The last Empire? American power, liberalism and world order G. John Ikenberry; Part V. Response: 15. Response to the critics Michael Mann.
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Cambridge University Press Connecting the NineteenthCentury World The Telegraph And Globalization
Book SynopsisBy the end of the nineteenth century the global telegraph network had connected all continents and brought distant people into direct communication 'at the speed of thought' for the first time. Roland Wenzlhuemer here examines the links between the development of the telegraph and the paths of globalization, and the ways in which global spaces were transformed by this technological advance. His groundbreaking approach combines cultural studies with social science methodology, including evidence based on historical GIS mapping, to shed new light on both the structural conditions of the global telegraph network and the historical agency of its users. The book reveals what it meant for people to be telegraphically connected or unconnected, how people engaged with the technology, how the use of telegraphy affected communication itself and, ultimately, whether faster communication alone can explain the central role that telegraphy occupied in nineteenth-century globalization.Trade Review'Wenzlhuemer's Connecting the Nineteenth-Century World is an important and useful book for historians of technology and capitalism. I wish it had been available when I wrote my own on the American telegraph industry.' David Hochfelder, ICON: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology'… a well written and entertaining story about the technological development and the sociocultural impact of the actors and the structures of the telegraph in a globalising world in the second half of the nineteenth century.' Michael Mann, H-Soz-u-KultTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The telegraph and globalization; 3. The technological history of telegraphy; 4. Telegraphy in context; 5. The global telegraph network; 6. Global centres and peripheries; 7. The British telegraph network; 8. The British Indian telegraph network; 9. Conclusion; Bibliography; Appendix.
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Cambridge University Press Microinstitutional Foundations of Capitalism
Book SynopsisWhat is the relationship between internal development and integration into the global economy in developing countries? How and why do statemarket relations differ? And do these differences matter in the post-cold war era of global conflict and cooperation? Drawing on research in China, India, and Russia and examining sectors from textiles to telecommunications, Micro-institutional Foundations of Capitalism introduces a new theory of sectoral pathways to globalization and development. Adopting a historical approach, the book''s Strategic Value Framework shows how state elites perceive the strategic value of sectors in response to internal and external pressures. Sectoral structures and organization of institutions further determine the role of the state in market coordination and property rights arrangements. The resultant dominant patterns of market governance vary by country and sector within country. These national configurations of sectoral models are the micro-institutional foundatTrade Review'Roselyn Hsueh has produced a major work featuring an inventive model, the Strategic Value Framework. This schema collapses an array of factors into a powerful template that explicates how three seemingly disparate states variously govern what their leaders perceive to be strategic versus non-strategic industrial sectors. The patterns she uncovers will surely be useful for researchers investigating other countries and other sectors.' Dorothy J. Solinger, Professor of Political Science, School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine'Roselyn Hsueh's book is a tour de force that elevates the standards of comparative political economy. Her argument develops a synoptic and comparative perspective on state priorities, combined with an interactive framework of microlevel sectoral structures and distribution of interested actors. What distinguishes her argument is attention to multiple faces of a state, the perceived value accorded to sectors, combined with governance micro-institutions that vary by sector. It is a must read for scholars of China, India and Russia and of comparative political economy.' Aseema Sinha, Wagener Chair of South Asian Politics and George R. Roberts Fellow, Claremont McKenna College'Micro-institutional Foundations of Capitalism is a highly original, sophisticated, and well-researched study of three large non-Western economies, each analyzed at the sectoral level using Hsueh's Strategic Value Framework. This book offers a compelling example of how to conduct in-depth research on important cases from different world regions while generating novel theoretical implications for comparative political economy.' Rudra Sil, Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business, University of Pennsylvania'Roselyn Hsueh has developed an interesting strategic value framework and produced an enormously important book on the state, industrial sectors, and development. She applies her framework in meticulous studies of China, India, and Russia. The resulting comparison of these countries is a feast for the mind.' Dali L. Yang, William C. Reavis Professor of Political Science, The University of Chicago'Hsueh's new book on comparative economic governance is brilliant. The book's analysis of multiple sectors in China, India and Russia builds on but goes well beyond existing scholarship on state capacity and economic performance. Its sophisticated analytical framework integrates sectoral and sub-sectoral characteristics with national elites' intersubjective responses to external and internal pressures. The book's rigorous, grounded research sets a high standard for qualitative analysis. This is a must read for anyone interested in the political economy of development.' Richard Doner, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Emory University'Roselyn Hsueh's book achieves quite a few remarkable feats by underlining the significance of the perception of strategic value of a sector within the state. The book brings ideas and the state back in without undermining the importance of material factors. It is a remarkable feat to compare China, India and Russia in a historically serious way, without compromising methodological rigor. Hsueh is one of those rare scholars who have demonstrated that comparative area studies can marry richness with rigor, without compromising either.' Rahul Mukherji, Professor and Chair, Modern Politics of South Asia, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg UniversityTable of ContentsPart I. Politics of Market Governance: 1. Understanding varieties of market governance in the age of globalization; 2. Perceived strategic value and sectoral structures and organization of institutions; Part II. Nations and Sectors: Patterns of Market Governance: 3. China and sectoral variation: evolution of techno-security developmentalism and the rise of bifurcated capitalism; 4. Security imperatives, infrastructural development, and high-tech sectors: centralized governance in Chinese telecommunications; 5. Political stability, local goals, and labor-intensive sectors: decentralized governance in Chinese textiles; 6. India and sectoral variation: evolution of neoliberal self-reliance and the rise of bifurcated liberalism; 7. Pro-liberalization transnational business and high-tech services: regulated governance in Indian telecommunications; 8. Political legitimacy, economic stability, and labor-intensive small-scale sectors: centralized governance in Indian textiles; 9. Russia and sectoral variation: evolution of resource security nationalism and the rise of bifurcated oligarchy; 10. National security and infrastructure and resource sectors: centralized governance in Russian telecommunications; 11. Regional development and labor-intensive sectors: private governance in Russian textiles; Part III. National Configurations of Sectoral Models: 12. Development, new capitalisms, and future of global conflict and cooperation.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Revolt
Book SynopsisA well-written and thought-provoking account of the current crisis of globalization. Not everyone will agree with Eyal''s interpretation, but few will remain indifferent. —Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens An eye-opening examination of nationalism’s spread around the world as the promise of globalism wanesRevolt is an eloquent and provocative challenge to the prevailing wisdom about the rise of nationalism and populism. With a vibrant and informed voice, Nadav Eyal illustrates how modern globalization is not sustainable. He contends that the collapse of the current world order is not so much about the imbalance between technological achievement and social progress or the breakdown of liberal democracy as it is about a passion to upend and destroy power structures that have become hollow, corrupt. or simply unresponsive to urgent needs. Eyal illuminates t
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Harper Business The Key Man
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The University of Chicago Press Raising Cane in the Glades The Global Sugar
Book SynopsisThe Everglades underwent a metaphorical and ecological transition from impenetrable swamp to endangered wetland. This study situates the environmental transformation of the Everglades within the economic and historical geography of global sugar production and trade.Trade Review"Raising Cane in the 'Glades argues that the transformation of Florida's Everglades was less a result of changing cultural values and more an outcome of political struggles that involved international competition, regional political interest, and local struggles. Hollander's method is innovative in the way that regional transformation is traced out through a single commodity in a specific time and place." - Altha Cravey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"
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The University of Chicago Press International Trade in Services and Intangibles
Book SynopsisQuantitative measures of international exchange have historically focused on trade in tangible products or capital. However, services have become a larger portion of developed economies and international trade. This book examines patterns of trade, especially the importance of transactions involving services or intangible assets.
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The University of Chicago Press Building Globalization Transnational
Book SynopsisFrom the years 2004 to 2008, Beijing and Shanghai witnessed the construction of an extraordinary number of new buildings, many of which were designed by architectural firms overseas. This title scrutinizes the phenomenon of transnational architecture and its profound effect on the development of urban space.
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The University of Chicago Press Birth of Hegemony
Book SynopsisWith American leadership facing increased competition from China and India, the question of how hegemons emerge - and are able to create conditions for lasting stability - is of utmost importance in international relations. The author draws attention to the critical role played by finance in the emergence of these liberal hegemons.Trade Review"As the United States faces both military and economic challenges to its international status, Birth of Hegemony speaks to important and timely debates. Drawing on the insights of political science, history, finance, and economics, Andrew C. Sobel provides a masterly critique of existing hegemonic theories, extending our understanding of how states develop into international leaders and how they stabilize the global system." (William T. Bernhard, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)"
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The University of Chicago Press Globalization and New Geographies of Conservation
Book SynopsisExamining the geographical dimensions of environmental management and conservation activities implemented on landscapes worldwide, this title collects case studies to explore the interaction of humans and their environment. Bridging the gap between geography and life science, it is of interest to students of the environment.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Rethinking Regionalism 14 Rethinking World
Book SynopsisFredrik Söderbaum is Professor of Peace and Development Research in the School of Global Studies (SGS), University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and an Associate Senior Research Fellow at the United Nations University Institute of Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), Belgium. He has been published widely in the areas of Comparative Regionalism, African Politics, Interregionalism and the European Union as a global player.Trade ReviewThe book is an excellent guide for newcomers to regionalism as well as established scholars or researchers … Rethinking Regionalism is a persuasive intellectual piece, as well as being a good guide for established and early career researchers in the field of regionalism or global politics. * Oluwabamidele Kogbe, University of Dundee UK *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Learning from History 3. Learning from Theory 4. The Richness of Comparative Regionalism 5. Obviating the Gap Between Formal and Informal Regionalism 6. Organizing Regional Space 7. Multidimensional Regionalism 8. Civil Society in Regionalism 9. External Actors in Regionalism 10. Regionness: The Solidification of Regions 11. Regions in Interregionalism 12. Regions in Global Governance 13. Conclusion.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Thank You for Being Late
Book Synopsis#1 New York Times Bestseller Los Angeles Times BestsellerOne of The Wall Street Journal''s 10 Books to Read Now One of Kirkus Reviews''s Best Nonfiction Books of the Year One of Publishers Weekly''s Most Anticipated Books of the YearShortlisted for the OWL Business Book Award and Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardVersion 2.0, Updated and Expanded, with a New AfterwordWe all sense itsomething big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your kids. You can't miss it when you read the newspapers or watch the news. Our lives are being transformed in so many realms all at onceand it is dizzying.In Thank You for Being Late, version 2.0, with a new afterword, Thomas L. Friedman exposes the tectonic movements that are reshaping the world today and explains how to
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