Globalization Books

Book SynopsisDebates about globalization and the European Union are at the forefront of current affairs in the UK, Europe and in North America. In My Vision of Europe and Globalization, the French Prime Minister, Lionel Jospin, tackles head--on the crucial issues for the Left and the anti--globalization movement.Trade Review"Lionel Jospin is a modern thinker of the Left in Europe, as this book reveals, whose record shows his ability to translate confident analysis into practical policy. In his vision of a "market economy not a market society" he has broken new ground in combining an economy of enterprise and a society of social justice." Peter Mandelson, MP and Chair of the Policy NetworkTable of ContentsPreface. My Vision of Europe and Globalisation: Lionel Jospin.. 2. The Europe We Want: Pascal Lamy and Jean Pisani-Ferry with an introduction by Peter Mandelson.

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Book SynopsisA critical overview of the cultural innovations emerging from the two major national cultures of the former communist world.Trade Review"Interesting, timely, and valuable, this book bridges a noticeable gap between Slavic studies in North America and Western discourse on postmodernism and postcolonialism. I can think of no other book that offers such a multifaceted and thorough comparative analysis of contemporary literary trends in Russia and Ukraine." Marko Robert Stech, Canadian Institute of Ukraine Studies Press, University of Toronto

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Book SynopsisIn this new and expanded edition of Chossudovsky's international best-seller, the author outlines the contours of a New World Order which feeds on human poverty and the destruction of the environment, generates social apartheid, encourages racism and ethnic strife and undermines the rights of women. The result as his detailed examples from all parts of the world show so convincingly, is a globalisation of poverty. This book is a skilful combination of lucid explanation and cogently argued critique of the fundamental directions in which our world is moving financially and economically. In this new enlarged edition -- which includes ten new chapters and a new introduction -- the author reviews the causes and consequences of famine in Sub-Saharan Africa, the dramatic meltdown of financial markets, the demise of State social programs and the devastation resulting from corporate downsizing and trade liberalisation. The book has been published in 11 languages. Over 100,000 copies sold world-

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Book Synopsis Global Problems, Global Solutions: Prospects for a Better Worldapproaches social problems from a global perspective with an emphasis on using one's sociological imagination. Perfect for instructors who involve students in research, this text connects problems borne by individuals to regional, global and historical forces, and stresses the importance of evidence in forming opinions and policies addressing social issues. The Second Edition explores three broad themes--nourishing human capital, restoring civility, and sustaining natural and manufactured environments--as it examines the causes and consequences of a range of problems related to economic inequality, discrimination and persecution, war and violence, food production, population flows, health and longevity, the environment, and other issues that we encounter in our lives. The book concludes with a chapter on politics and government, underscoring the need for good governance at all levelsan

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Book SynopsisOne of the most important figures in global politics during the second half of the 20th century; Deng Xiaoping is generally considered the central figure behind China's economic liberalization programme that produced historically unprecedented growth rates and development beginning in the late 1970s. Lifting nearly a billion people out of poverty, Deng Xiaoping's 'Four Modernisations' called for reform in agriculture, industry, military, and science and technology. Today these reforms are considered to be the crucial turning point in modern Chinese history, enabling China to effectively harness its previously-latent power in its quest to become a global economic superpower. Just ten years after this tremendous achievement, Deng's brutal suppression of the democracy movement at Tiananmen Square severely undermined his international and domestic reputation. To explain the seeming contradictions between Deng Xiaoping's desire for economic liberalization and political conservatism, Michael Dillon's biography utilizes recently-released Chinese sources to detail Deng Xiaoping's emergence from a minority, second-class community in the Sichuan province, via education in France, to his meteoric rise to the top of the CCP's political hierarchy, illustrating the ways in which his life of struggle and survival shaped his political career. Dillon's biography addresses Xiaoping as both an intensely committed communist capable of playing a principal role in the Great Leap Forward from 1958 to 1961, while incurring the wrath of Mao only ten years later as he was exiled and purged during the Cultural Revolution. Emphasizing Deng Xiaoping's effectiveness as a party operator and political bruiser rather than an intellectual capable of formulating the reforms for which he eventually took credit, this book sheds light on Deng's ability to capitalize upon the planning expertise of other party members. This biography of the central figure in China's economic liberalization is essential for any reader interested in or affected by China's rise to global prominence.Trade Review'A well paced, and judicious account, well written and very easy to read. It's strength is in giving equal weight to the various phases of Deng's career, rather than focussing too much on the post 1978 period. It also captures something of the complexity and contradictoriness of Deng' Kerry Brown, author of The New Emperors 'Through this fascinating and clearly written biography of Deng Xiaoping, Michael Dillon shows us how different Chinese power politics works from our economic and political world. Economic liberalisation that seems capitalist to the extreme, is combined with state interference and ideological conservatism. In this respect Xi Jinping can be seen as a straight continuation of Deng Xiaoping's reform agenda.' Barend Ter Haar, Run Run Shaw Professor of Chinese, University of Oxford.Table of Contentsintroduction Sichuan and France Red Army Days and the Long March With Liu Shaoqi in Government after 1949 Outcast in the Cultural Revolution Return from Limbo and Struggle for Reform after the Death of Mao Economic Progress and Political Stagnation Deng Xiaoping and the 1989 Democracy Movement Southern Tour of 1992 and the End of Obstacles to Economic Reform Retirement, Bridge Player and CCP ‘Immoral’

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Book SynopsisDoes recognition of the basic human right to subsistence imply that the needy are morally permitted to take and use other people’s property to get out of their plight? Should we respect the exercise of this right of necessity in a variety of scenarios – from street pickpocketing and petty theft to illegal squatting and encamping? In this concise and accessible book, Alejandra Mancilla addresses these complex and controversial moral questions. The book presents a historical account of the concept of the right of necessity—from the medieval writings of Christian canonists and theologians to seventeenth century natural law theory. The author then goes on to ground this right in a minimal conception of basic human rights, and proposes some necessary and jointly sufficient conditions for its exercise. She confronts the main objections that may be posed against this principle and ultimately concludes that the exercise of this right should be considered as a trigger to secure a minimum threshold of welfare provisions for everyone, everywhere.Trade ReviewA valuable and thought-provoking book. * Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy *This is a theoretically sophisticated and conceptually innovative book which posits a cosmopolitan right of necessity and explores what responses are permissibly available to the poor in forcing change to unjust structures of poverty. This is a truly groundbreaking book that will no doubt arouse cosmopolitan reflection and debate about one of the most pressing issues facing the human condition. -- Garrett Wallace Brown, Reader in Political Theory, Global Ethics and Global Health Policy, University of SheffieldIn contexts where unjust structures perpetuate deprivation or those who have responsibilities to assist fail to do so, what may those in need do to satisfy their basic right to subsistence? In this impressive work Alejandra Mancilla explores this question of high contemporary relevance and provides a welcome contribution to current debates on global justice. -- Gillian Brock, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland, New ZealandThe Right of Necessity is philosophical argument at its best: direct, challenging, clearly written, and focused on an issue of utmost importance. Mancilla revives a traditional ethical view and shows its relevance to the world today. Future discussions about an ethical response to global poverty will need to take account of The Right of Necessity. -- Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University and author of The Life You Can SaveThis text aims to prove the existence of one basic right – a right of necessity – derivable both from our understanding of natural rights and from prevailing theories of property rights. The right has the direct implications of permitting the taking and using of others’ property for survival. And it can be treated as an anchoring-point for cosmopolitan political theory and theories of global justice. The argument is persuasive ad the text itself is a model of methodological and argumentative economy. The book will be o interest to those working on human rights, cosmopolitanism, global justice and political theory. * Ethical Perspectives, Issue 24, September 2017 *[...] an engaging book which brings a very worthwhile idea with real world implications to a debate of utmost urgency. […] The book delivers a very clearly argued case for a right that has been neglected for too long, a right that should be high on the agenda for all moral cosmopolitans. Highly recommended. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments/ 1. Reviving the Right of Necessity / Part I: Historical Accounts of the Right of Necessity / 2. The Right of Necessity as a Retreat to the Right of Common Use / 3. The Right of Necessity and the Pull of Self-preservation / Part II: The Right of Necessity and Global Poverty / 4. Justifying the Right of Necessity / 5. Content, Form and Conditions / 6. The Overdemandingness Objection / 7. The Right of Necessity within Moral Cosmopolitanism / Bibliography / Index

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Book SynopsisSozialpolitik im Globalen Süden.- Umfang sozialpolitischer Aktivitäten im Globalen Süden.- Die Finanzierung der sozialen Sicherung.- Ursachen sozialpolitischer Aktivität im Globalen Süden.- Rentenversicherung.

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Book SynopsisThe idea of the "global city," which focuses on globalisation's impact on the social, financial, and political reality of cities in advanced economies, has become widely influential in the decades since its introduction-and yet the major issues in the "global city debate" remain unresolved. This book provides a systematic overview of the debate and competing theoretical notions, as well as an argument for the need to test the framework's empirical validity before the unresolved questions can be fruitfully addressed. By testing data from the Netherlands in the 1990s and 2000s, the author demonstrates the value of rigorous empirical scrutiny while offering fresh insights for the global city debate as a whole.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Introduction 1.1 Reconsidering the global city debate 1.2 Scrutinizing the global city debate: major issues 1.2.1 The changing economic base of cities 1.2.2 Advanced producer services and labour demand 1.2.3 The new international division of labour and immigration 1.3 Scrutinizing the global city debate: blind spot 1.4 Research questions 1.5 Research framework 2. The changing economic base of cities 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Three scenarios on employment growth in the advanced producer services 2.2.1 The two clustering arguments in the global city theoretical framework 2.2.2 The clustering argument in the global city debate 2.3 Assessing employment growth in the advanced producer services 2.4 What drives deindustrialization and a growth in services? 2.5 Conclusions 3. Advanced producer services and labour demand 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Polarization, professionalization and mismatch 3.2.1 The polarization thesis 3.2.2 The professionalization thesis 3.2.3 Polarization and professionalization in Dutch cities 3.3 Assessing the impact of advanced producer services on labour demand 3.4 A consumerist alternative: cultural amenities and demand for low-skilled labour 3.5 Disentangling a productivist and consumerist explanation for unemployment among less-educated urbanites 3.6 Conclusions 4. Foreign direct investment and immigration 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Immigration in the global city theoretical framework 4.3 Assessing the push and pull factors of the new immigration 4.3.1 Assessing Dutch FDI as a push factor for immigration 4.3.2 Assessing the growth of advanced producer services as a pull factor for immigration 4.4 Conclusions 5. Immigration and unemployment 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The substitution thesis 5.2.1 The substitution thesis: theory and evidence 5.2.2 The substitution thesis and the urban economy 5.3 Assessing the substitution thesis on unemployment 5.4 Conclusions 6. Conclusions and discussion 6.1 Introduction 6.2 After the unravelling: theoretical and empirical implications 6.2.1 The changing economic base of cities 6.2.2 Advanced producer services and labour demand 6.2.3 The new international division of labour and immigration 6.2.4 The impact of immigration on urban labour markets 6.3 The new conceptual architecture reconsidered 6.4 Globalization or neo-liberalization? On science versus politics Epilogue: The current financial crisis and its aftermath Appendix A: Polarization and professionalization studies Appendix B: Data & operationalization Variables introduced in Chapter 2 Variables introduced in Chapter 3 Variables introduced in Chapter 4 Variables introduced in Chapter 5 Appendix C: The employment shares in manufacturing for each metropolitan area 1995-2007 Appendix D: Robustness checks Robustness checks on the findings in Table 3.1 Robustness checks on the findings in Table 3.3 Robustness checks on the findings in Table 5.1 Notes

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Book SynopsisMuch has been said regarding the global flows of information that are characteristic of modernity; it has been frequently stressed that these conduits are so deeply embedded that local or national environments may be imagined as having a global span. Thus, while we are now well aware that the imagination is integral to global cultural processes, questions still arise about how the imagination of life with a global span is made possible at the level of everyday social practices. This book examines performative interventions that can generate a re-imagining of local publics — both spatially grounded and mediatized — and help to renegotiate the connection between the local and the global. After the ‘performative turn’ of the 1960s, it has been understood that shared experience of performance as event or spectacle can transform interpretations of the global and the local and create new meanings, and this book continues in the direction of this important tradition, while also fully expanding on its consequences.Trade Review"The authors provide perceptive and provocative analyses as well as intriguing discussions of performance examples that are not frequently recognized ... The plurality of voices, from various disciplines, allows for a rich and enlightening diversity of views, and the book’s interdisciplinary scope allows it to be an important work for scholars in Asian studies, theatre and performance studies, and critical globalization studies."- Marcus Cheng Chye Tan, Pacific Affairs, Volume 93, No. 3, September 2020 "The reader will be rewarded with rich accounts of a range of performative practices, some of which are more obviously of an artistic bend, and some which are perhaps more imaginative in their use of the idea of performative moments. The volume is to be recommended for advanced students in search of a fresh and promising take on matters of globalisation and modernity in Asia."- Ivan Kwek, Asian Journal of Social Science, Winter 2019 "Thanks to its cross-disciplinary approach, this anthology would work in courses in a variety of subject areas, including theater, communications, cultural studies, and the visual arts. It would also be appropriate for upper-level undergraduate research seminars or for a graduate-level survey course on performance studies. It should also appeal to scholars interested in expanding their knowledge of performance studies framed through the lens of globalization."- Andrea Schmidt. Situations 12.1 (2019)Table of ContentsChapter 1 Global Imaginaries and Performance in Asia Chris Hudson and Bart Barendregt Chapter 2 Globalizing the Imagination: Introductory Reflections Terrell Carver Chapter 3 Weddings, Yoga, Hookups: Performed Identities and Technology in Bali Craig Latrell Chapter 4 Super Premium Soft Double Vanilla Rich and the ideal of convenience in Japan Peter Eckersall Chapter 5 Unearthing the past and re-imagining the present: Contemporary art and Muslim politics in post-9/11 Indonesia Leonie Schmidt Chapter 6 Keeping Communists Alive in Singapore Chua Beng Huat Chapter 7 Performative pedagogies: lifestyle experts on Indian television Tania Lewis Chapter 8 Performing Cities: The Philippines Pavilion at the Shanghai International Exposition William Peterson Chapter 9 Mobile Performance and the In-between: Yogyakarta comes to Melbourne Chris Hudson Chapter 10 An Islamist Flash mob in the Streets of Shah Alam Bart Barendregt Chapter 11 Pure Love? Sanitized, Gendered and Multiple Modernities in Chinese Cinemas Jeroen de Kloet Chapter 12 Yogya on Stage Barbara Hatley

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Book SynopsisTransnational Play approaches gameplay as a set of practices and a global industry that includes diverse participation from players and developers located within the global South, in nations outside of the First World. Players experience play in game cafes, through casual games for regional and global causes like environmentalism, through piracy and cheats, via cultural localization, on their mobile phones, and through urban playful art in Latin America. This book offers a reorientation of perspective on the global developers who make games, as well as the players who consume games, while still acknowledging geographically distributed socioeconomic, racial, gender, and other inequities. Over the course of the inquiry, which includes a chapter dedicated to the cartography of the mobile augmented reality game Pokémon Go, the author develops a theoretical line of argument critically informed by gender studies and intersectionality, postcolonialism, geopolitics, and game studies, problematizing play as a diverse and contested transnational domain.Trade Review"Anne Marie Schleiner’s Transnational Play: Piracy, Urban Art, and Mobile Games (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) makes steps to shift and broaden the ways in which videogames and videogame play are approached and understood within game studies. [...] Transnational Play remains timely and relevant."- John Sharp, Game Studies, Volume 21, Issue 1, May 2021"Anne Marie Schleiner’s Transnational Play: Piracy, Urban Art, and Mobile Games (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) makes steps to shift and broaden the ways in which videogames and videogame play are approached and understood within game studies. [...] Transnational Play remains timely and relevant."- John Sharp, Game Studies, Volume 21, Issue 1, May 2021Table of ContentsIntroduction: Transnational Play Section One: Reorienting Player Geographies Chapter 1: Tilting the Axis of Global Play: From East/West to South/North Chapter 2: Venues for Ludoliteracy: Arcades, Game Cafes, and Street Pirates Chapter 3: The Free-to-play Time of Women in Brazil: Localized Mobile and Casual Games Section Two: Ludic Perspectives from South of the Border Chapter 4: Ludic Recycling in Latin American Art: From Remixing the City to Sampling Nature Chapter 5: The Geopolitics of Pokémon Go: Navigating Bordering Cities with a Mobile Augmented Reality Game Section Three: From Global to Local Game Development Chapter 6: The Absence of the Oppressor: Games for Change and Californian Happiness Engineers Chapter 7: Game Studios in Southeast Asia: Outsourced to Culturally Customized Games Conclusion: Play Privilege Bibliography Index

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