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This book provides a new methodological approach to money and macroeconomics. Realizing that the abstract equilibrium models lacked descriptions of fundamental issues of a modern monetary economy, the focus of this book lies on the (stylized) balance sheets of the main actors. Money, after all, is born on the balance sheets of the central bank or commercial bank. While households and firms hold accounts at banks with deposits, banks hold an account at the central bank where deposits are called reserves. The book aims to explain how the two monetary circuits â central bank deposits and bank deposits â are intertwined. It is also shown how government spending injects money into the economy.Modern Monetary Theory and European Macroeconomics covers both the general case and then the Eurozone specifically. A very simple macroeconomic model follows which explains the major accounting identities of macroeconomics. Using this new methodology, the Eurozone crisis is examined from a fr

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Book SynopsisDrawing on Australian and comparative case studies, this volume reconceptualises non-metropolitan creative economies through the qualities of place'.This book examines the agricultural and gastronomic cultures surrounding native' foods, coastal sculpture festivals, universities and regional communities, wine in regional Australia and Canada, the creative systems of the Hunter Valley, musicians in outback' settings, Fab Labs as alternatives to clusters, cinema and the cultivation of authentic' landscapes, and tensions between the representational' and non-representational' in the cultural economies of the Blue Mountains. What emerges is a picture of rural and regional places as more than the other' of metropolitan creative cities. Place itself is shown to embody affordances, unique institutional structures and the invisible threads that hold communities together'.If, in the wake of the publication of Florida's Rise of the Creative Class, creative industries modelTable of ContentsList of contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Problematising regional creativity and innovation in Australia and beyond: landscapes, economies, identities, imaginariesEDUARDO DE LA FUENTE AND ARIELLA VAN LUYNSECTION 1Landscapes, tastescapes and sensescapes: Creatively responding to place1 Fruit forward? Wine regions as geographies of innovation in Australia and CanadaJULIE MCINTYRE, DONNA SENESE AND JOHN S. HULL2 There’s no taste like home: Histories of native food on the changing tastescape of the Northern RiversADELE WESSEL3 Terraform and Terra Firma: Transnational economies of image, landscape and location in screen production in QueenslandALLISON CRAVEN4 Landscape as tension: The Blue Mountains and cultural economies of placeEDUARDO DE LA FUENTE5 Deck-chair innovation: Innovation within arm’s reach for regional Australian architecture: A little of what we found when we rode the Grand Section across Australia’s girth in 2017BOBBIE BAYLEY AND OWEN KELLY, INSPIRED BY AND CO-AUTHORED WITH JOHN ROBERTSSECTION 2Placing knowledge and innovation economies: Regional universities, ecosystems and Fab Labs6 The troubling third tier: Small cities, small universities and an ambivalent knowledge economyTARA BRABAZON7 Locating knowledge in Australian cities: The Knowledge City Index LAWRENCE PRATCHETT, MICHAEL JAMES WALSH, RICHARD HU AND SAJEDA TULI8 Universities and regional creative economiesDONNA HANCOX, TERRY FLEW, SASHA MACKAY AND YI WANG9 The role of Fab Labs and Living Labs for economic development of regional AustraliaANA BILANDZIC, MARCUS FOTH AND GREG HEARNSECTION 3Regional creative industries and their potentials: Case studies and comparative perspectives10 The Hunter Region: A creative system at workPHILLIP MCINTYRE, SUSAN KERRIGAN, EVELYN KING AND CLAIRE WILLIAMS11 “Anything that’s not in London”: Regions, mobility and spatial politics in contemporary visual artEMMA COFFIELD12 Sculptural coastlines: Site-specific artworks, beachscapes, and regional identitiesELIZABETH ELLISON AND MICHELLE THOMPSON13 One piece blokes: On being a performing musician in regional QueenslandANDY BENNETT, DAVID CASHMAN AND NATALIE LEWANDOWSKI14 Positive deviance: Stories of regional social innovations from the Big Stories, Small Towns projectMARTIN POTTERIndex

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Book SynopsisConsumer capitalism arose with the second industrial revolution, the application of continuous-mass production to consumer goods during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book adopts a Veblenian, Keynesian viewpoint, presenting an evolutionary view of consumption combined with the need to increase demand to match increases in production. The book traces the history of consumer capitalism, examining the paradox posed by applying continuous-mass production to produce armaments for dynastic ambitions versus consumer goods for the masses, manifesting itself in the world wars of the twentieth century. Multiple paradoxes at the heart of the story address booms leading to busts, over-producing countries in Asia relying on over-consuming countries in the West, and the expansion of demand depending on increasingly inventive ways of liquefying assets, in light of stagnant incomes. The book persuasively argues that these paradoxes result from capitalism's incessant drive tTrade Review"John P. Watkins’ new book constructs a coherent historical narrative of the emergence of modern mass consumer capitalism out of late nineteenth-early twentieth century capitalism. It is masterfully written, and hopefully, will be read by many economists and, most importantly, by the next generation."William Waller, Hobart and William Smith College"In his new book, John P. Watkins has utilized the insights of two of the greatest analysts of the paradoxical nature of American economic development, Thorstein Veblen and John Maynard Keynes, to interpret the key moments of the last one hundred and fifty years of American capitalism. Thus, this volume will be useful for those teaching or researching U.S. economic history as well as those seeking texts that present an alternative perspective to economic theory."Janet T. Knoedler, Bucknell UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPrefaceChapter 1: The Paradoxes of Consumer CapitalismChapter 2: Towards an Evolutionary Theory of Consumer Capitalism: Thorstein Veblen and John Maynard KeynesChapter 3: Continuous-mass Production and The Rise of the Modern CorporationChapter 4: How to Absorb the Output? Consumerism versus Militarism: Veblen, Hobson, and PolanyiChapter 5: Keynes and The Great Depression: Poverty in the Midst of PlentyChapter 6: The Myopic Consumer and the Rational Economist: The Institutional Pattern of Consumption and Theories of Consumer ChoiceChapter 7: The Liquefication of Everything: Corporate Power and the Evolution of Consumer CreditChapter 8: America’s Perpetual Trade DeficitChapter 9: The Great Financial Crisis--A Test of Two Models: Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis and the Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium ModelChapter 10: Quantitative Easing versus Modern Monetary Theory: Overcoming the Limits of the Private Domestic EconomyChapter 11: The Darwinian Dilemma: Winning the Struggle, Making the World UninhabitableChapter 12: Conclusion: The Civilization of Consumer Capitalism

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Book SynopsisThis collection offers a powerful and coherent study of the transformation of the multinational enterprise as both an object and subject of law within and beyond States. The study develops an analysis of the large firm as being a system of organization exercising vast powers through various instruments of private law, such as property rights, contracts and corporations.The volume focuses on the firm as the operational unit of governance within emerging systems of globalization, whilst exploring in-depth the forms within which the firm might be regulated as against the inhibiting parameters of national law. It connects, through the ordering concept of the firm in globalization, the distinct regimes of constitutionalization, national and international law.The study will be of interest to students and academics in globalization and the regulation of multinational corporations, as well as law, economics and politics on a global scale. It will also interest government leadeTrade Review‘Building on a legal pluralist theoretical framework, this study makes a stimulating contribution to the growing body of scholarship dedicated to the private international legal dimension of global governance through its focus on the multinational firm as a power system interacting with a characteristically complex and reflexive regulatory environment.’Horatia Muir Watt, Sciences-Po, FranceTable of ContentsForeword: constitutionalization and the regulation of transnational firms, John Gerard Ruggie; Introduction, Jean-Philippe Robé, Antoine Lyon-Caen and Stéphane Vernac. Part I Firms and Power: Globalization and constitutionalization of the world-power system, Jean-Philippe Robé; Constitutionalizing financial power: the corporation and the new aristocracy of finance, Paddy Ireland; Corporate power in the global economy: an evolutionary perspective, Ronen Palan; Powers and responsibilities in multi-member organizations, Elsa Peskine and Stéphane Vernac. Part II The Concept of Constitutionalization: Reflections on the constitutionalization of the world power system, Gunther Teubner; Law in the global age: heading toward a societal constitutionalism, Jean De Munck; Constitutionalization outside of the state? A constitutionalist's point of view, Véronique Champeil-Desplat; The concept of constitutionalization and the multi-corporate enterprise in the 21st century - the body corporate from incarnation to ensoulment to ministry (but whose?), Larry Catá Backer. Part III The Concept of Constitutionalization Applied to the Firm: Human rights and the constitutionalized corporation, Sheldon Leader; The responsibility of multinational enterprises: a constitutionalization process in action, Antoine Lyon-Caen and Tatiana Sachs; ‘Constitutionalization’ and the status of the director: the test of ‘say on pay’, Charley Hannoun; Can states regain fiscal sovereignty over globalized business?, Christian Chavagneux. Afterword; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Dynamics of EU External Energy Relations examines the behaviour of the European Commission in EU external energy relations paying particular attention to the dynamics existing between the Commission and the member states. It examines the Commission as a constrained policy-entrepreneur trying to expand its power, budget and competences, yet frustrated by member states protective of their national sovereignty.Analysing the Commission as agent and the member states as its principals, the book proposes a more nuanced examination of behaviour where the agent tries to satisfy its own interests but is still responsive to the preferences of the principals. Using a wide range of original primary and secondary data, the book argues that EU external energy relations reflect the dynamics of the relations between the Commission and the member states.This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Union studies and politics, EU energy and foreign Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Energy Policy of the EU and its External Dimension2. Conceptualizing the Commission Behaviour3. When the Commission asks Too Much: The legislative Process Leading to Decision 994/2012 on Intergovernmental Agreements in the Field of Energy4. Unbundling the Internal Market in Gas: A Contested Process5. The Energy Community Treaty (EnCT): A Common Energy Market with South East Europe6. The Energy Charter Treaty: Creating a Legal Framework for Trade and Investment in Energy7. Conclusion: The Principal Agent Model and the External Dimension of EU Energy Policy

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Book SynopsisThis title was first published in 2001. An important critical study of the theories of dependency both past and present. Since the theories of dependency are based on the Marxian notion of exploitation and backwardness, the book starts with the elaboration of the Marxian theory of development and underdevelopment. The book analyses various concepts and precepts of dependency as well as critically discussing the individual theories of Baran, Frank, Amin, Emmanuel, Prebisch and Singer. The contributions of more recent writers including Furtado, Kay, Wallerstein and Marini are also considered. The main focus of the book lies in the thorough analysis of all the important traditional as well as modern theories of dependency. The main message of the present book is that the phenomenology of dependency is still relevant as a methodology of study of development and underdevelopment. The book incorporates some pressing contemporary issues to give fresh flavour to the old dependency debate. A spTrade Review’The fundamental message of the present book is that the theory of dependency is still relevant, alive and kicking...a real contribution.’ Associate Professor Mohd. Isa Haji Bakar, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia '...Ghosh has produced a very useful eclectic study of dependency, which is jargon free and therefore accessible to undergraduates, whilst postgraduates will find it an invaluable text...the last chapter is the most original chapter in the book, and here he is able to link the various theoretical issues discussed in earlier chapters, with issues confronting Third World governments...' Democracy and DevelopmentTable of ContentsThe ontology of dependency; Karl Marx on development and underdevelopment; Paul Baran’s analysis of economic backwardness and economic growth; Andre Gunder Frank’s analysis of development of underdevelopment; Samir Amin on unequal development; The structuralist models; The theories of unequal exchange; The peripheral writers on dependency; Contemporary issues in the dependency debate; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisSport is frequently considered to be an aspect of popular culture that is, or should be, untainted by the political. However, there is a broad consensus among academics that sport is often at the heart of the political and the political is often central to sport. From the 1936 Olympic Games in Nazi Germany to the civil unrest that preceded the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, sport and politics have remained symbiotic bedfellows. The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Politics goes further than any other book in surveying the complex, embedded relationships between sport and politics. With sections addressing ideologies, nation and statehood, corporate politics, political activism, social justice, and the politics of sports events, it introduces the conceptual foundations that underpin our understanding of the sport-politics nexus and examines emergent issues in this field of study. Including in-depth case studies from North America, South America, Europe, the Middle EaTable of ContentsPart 1: Sport and The Study of Politics Part 2: Sport, Politics and Ideologies Part 3: Sport, Nation and Statehood Part 4: Sport, Corporate Politics and the Global Community Part 5: Sport, Political Activism and Social Justice Part 6: Politics and Sporting Events

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Book SynopsisThe present macroeconomic crisis has demonstrated that a deeper understanding of the importance of relevant macroeconomic theories and methods is wanting. Additionally, lack of methodological awareness is behind much of the disagreement within macroeconomics which, looked upon from outside, often appears incomprehensible.The Handbook gives a structured presentation of the study of principles and procedures by which macroeconomics is researched, taught and communicated both within academia and to a wider audience, and why specific theories, research strategies and teaching are preferred. The principles of selecting theory relevant to real-world problems are the core of methodology. This book contains a broad range of arguments behind theory construction and appraisal and the consequences of these choices within the field of macroeconomics.An international range of experts provide clear analysis of key concepts, ideas and principles to give academics, studeTrade Review“Within the bulk of the existing literature on economic methodology the distinctive methodological questions concerning the methodology of macroeconomics, despite their relevance, have been so far comparatively neglected. This comprehensive Handbook eventually fills the gap in a way that would be hard to beat. It deserves, therefore, to be warmly recommended to all readers with an interest in the methodology and philosophy of economics, in the history of economic thought and, last but not least, in macroeconomics per se.”Andrea Salanti, University of Bergamo“Due to the economic crises of recent years there is an increasing interest by students to look for answers outside the mainstream macroeconomic understanding. As such, students are not only looking for an alternative theoretical macroeconomic universe, they are also increasingly interested in methodological aspects of macroeconomic theory. With the publication of Routledge Handbook of Macroeconomic Methodology students with an interest in Macroeconomic Theory and the History of Economic Thought are offered an updated advanced book on a huge number of relevant methodological questions.”Finn Olesen, Aalborg University, DenmarkTable of ContentsIntroduction: The scope and content of the Handbook I. Philosophy of Science Perspectives I.1. Methodological Individualism and Macroeconomics I.2. Deduction, Induction and Abduction I.3. Instrumentalism I.4 From positivism to naturalism in macroeconomics I.5. Holism & Fallacy of Composition I.6. Macroeconomics and Ethics II. Concepts II.1 Time in Macroeconomics II.2 Uncertainty and Macroeconomic Methodology II.3 Path dependency II.4 Equilibrium II.5 Causality and macroeconomics II.6 Microeconomic foundation of macroeconomics II.7 Open and closed systems II.8. Money and Macroeconomic Methodology III. Schools of Thought III.1. Classical Political Economy III.2. Neoclassical Macroeconomics III.3. Keynes’s Macroeconomic Method III.4. Post Keynesian Methodology III.5. The Austrian Denial of Macroeconomics III.6. What was Marx’s Method, actually? III.7. Methodological Pluralism in Macroeconomics IV. Models, Econometrics and Measurement IV.1. Use of Mathematics in macroeconomic analysis IV.2. Explanation and Forecasting IV.3. Using macroeconomic models in policy practice IV.4. Traditional Methods of Macroeconometrics IV.5. Macroeconometrics: Cointegrated VAR Method IV.6. National Accounts and Macroeconomic Methodology V. Communicating Macroeconomics V.1. The rhetorical perspective on macroeconomics V.2. Teaching Macroeconomic Methodology

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics presents a comprehensive overview of the latest work on economic theory and policy from a pluralistic' heterodox perspective. Contributions throughout the Handbook explore different theoretical perspectives including: Marxian-radical political economics; Post Keynesian-Sraffian economics; institutionalist-evolutionary economics; feminist economics; social economics; Régulation theory; the Social Structure of Accumulation approach; and ecological economics. They explain the structural properties and dynamics of capitalism, as well as propose economic and social policies for the benefit of the majority of the population. This book aims, firstly, to provide realistic and coherent theoretical frameworks to understand the capitalist economy in a constructive and forward-looking manner. Secondly, it delineates the future directions, as well as the current state, of heterodox economics, and then provides botTable of ContentsPart I: Introduction The State of the Art and Challenges for Heterodox Economics Tae-Hee Jo, Lynne Chester, and Carlo D’Ippoliti Part II: The Theoretical Cores of Heterodox Economics Social Provisioning Process: A Heterodox View of the Economy Tae-Hee Jo and Zdravka Todorova The Social Surplus Approach: Historical Origins and Present State Nuno Ornelas Martins Accumulation Regimes Agnès Labrousse and Sandrine Michel Monetary Theories of Production Marco Veronese Passarella The Principle of Effective Demand: Marx, Kalecki, Keynes, and Beyond Eckhard Hein Heterodox Theories of Value: A Brief History Ajit Sinha Theories of Prices and Alternative Economic Paradigms Carlo D’Ippoliti Heterodox Theories of Distribution Scott Carter The Micro-Macro Link in Heterodox Economics Claudius Gräbner and Jakob Kapeller Part III: The Anatomy of Capitalism Society and Its Institutions John F. Henry Heterodox Economics and Theories of Interactive Agency Mary V. Wrenn Households in Heterodox Economic Theory Zdravka Todorova A Heterodox Theory of the Business Enterprise Tae-Hee Jo Heterodox Theories of Business Competition and Market Governance Tuna Baskoy A Marxian Understanding of the nature and Form of Dominant Capitalist Legal Institutions Lorraine Talbot Money and Monetary Regimes Pavlina R. Tcherneva Banks in Developing Countries Radha Upadhyaya Shadow Banking Benjamin Wilhelm The Informal Economy in Theory and Policy: Prospects for Well-being Elizabeth Hill Inequality and Poverty Marcella Corsi and Giulio Guarini Part IV: The Dynamics of the Capitalist Socio-Economic Structure The Accumulation of Capital: An Analytical and Historical Overview Ramaa Vasudevan A Heterodox Reconstruction of Trade Theory Yan Liang Analyzing the Organization of Global Production: Thoughts from the Periphery Víctor Ramiro Fernández and Gabriel Brondino Labor Processes and Outcomes: An Institutional-Heterodox Framework Siobhan Austen Heterodox Theories of the Business Cycle Matías Vernengo Heterodox Theories of Economic Growth Özgür Orhangazi Financialization and the Crises of Capitalism Petra Dünhaupt Theories of International Development: The Post Keynesian and Marxian Alternatives John Marangos Energy, Environment, and the Economy Anders Ekeland and Bent Arne Sæther Part V: Transforming the Capitalist Social Provisioning Process An Exit Strategy from Capitalism’s Ecological Crisis Lynne Chester Restructuring Financial Systems with Human Advancement in Mind Wesley C. Marshall Rethinking the Role of the State Anna Klimina The Twenty-First Century Capitalist Revolution: How the Governance of Large Firms Shapes Prosperity and Inequality Jordan Brennan Achieving Full Employment: History, Theory, and Policy John Marsh, Timothy Sharpe, and Bruce Philp Social Welfare and Social Control Andrew Cumbers and Robert McMaster Part VI: Conclusion Heterodox Economics as a Living Body of Knowledge: Community, (In)Commensurability, Critical Engagement, and Pluralism Jamie Morgan and John Embery

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Book SynopsisInternational economic theories emerged within particular social, economic and political frameworks and were developed as solutions to the problems of contemporary economics. In order to understand the increasingly complex and interdependent state of today's international economy, we need to realise the importance of those theories that came before. However, many international economics textbooks do not place the theories they discuss within this historical context.Theories of International Economics aims to redress the balance by taking a pluralistic approach, presenting with authority both orthodox and heterodox international economic theories. Each chapter shows the necessarily interdependent nature of schools of international economic theories by including an historical component that shows how each school of thought developed, why it developed and what it has to say about the contemporary world. This text examines a wide range of theories with an emphasis on theTrade Review'This remarkable book sets out the theories of international trade of no fewer than eleven schools of thought, from mercantilism to feminism, taking in Ricardo, Marx, Veblen, Hayek, Keynes, Krugman and many others on the way. It is an outstanding example of what can be achieved by taking a pluralist approach to economic theory, and it should be read by anyone with the slightest interest in international economics.' — John E. King La Trobe University and Federation University Australia‘Theories of International Economics offers a masterly and comprehensive guide in clear and accessible terms. It's quite a journey - from mercantilism to feminism - but in contrast with other surveys Lichtenstein keeps past histories and global diversities well in mind. In that way his book is balanced, critical and highly recommended.’ — Terrell Carver, Professor of Political Theory, University of Bristol, UK‘This text is a rare gem. It has everything you need: historical context, thorough coverage of contemporary issues, careful treatment of orthodox and heterodox approaches and lucid prose throughout.’ — William M. Dugger, Professor of Economics, The University of Tulsa, USA'This is just the type of pluralist textbook that is now increasingly in demand. Peter Lichtenstein offers an admirably broad-ranging account of several different approaches to international economics, building on an account of the history of thought in this area and of the real economic context. The text will be welcome, not only to students seeking an accessible pluralist text, but also to the general reader.' — Sheila Dow, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Stirling and Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of Victoria, UK‘The financial crisis has given support to the suspicion that economic orthodoxy has become stagnant and irrelevant. Lichtenstein’s book offers a unique and sorely-needed alternative that not only does a marvelous job in capturing the essence of mainstream and heterodox theory, but in a manner that is clear and set in the relevant historical, institutional, and social context. It should be on every pluralist's bookshelf.’ — John T. Harvey, Professor of Economics, Texas Christian University, USATable of Contents1 Introduction 2 Mercantilism and Neo-Mercantilism 3 Classical Trade Theory –Smith and Ricardo 4 Neoclassical Trade Theory 5 The New Orthodoxy – Trade Theory Recast 6 Classical and Keynesian International Economics 7 Austrian International Economics 8 Institutionalist International Economics 9 Post Keynesian International Economics 10 Marxian Theories of Imperialism and Capitalist Development 11 Marxian and Sraffian Theories of Unequal Exchange 12 Gender and Feminist Trade Theory

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Book SynopsisHousing more than half of the global population, Asia is a region characterised by increasingly diverse forms of migration and mobility. Offering a wide-ranging overview of the field of Asian migrations, this new handbook therefore seeks to examine and evaluate the flows of movement within Asia, as well as into and out of the continent. Through in-depth analysis of both empirical and theoretical developments in the field, it includes key examples and trends such as British colonialism, Chinese diaspora, labour migration, the movement of women, and recent student migration.Organised into thematic parts, the topics cover: The historical context to migration in Asia Modern Asian migration pathways and characteristics The reconceptualising of migration through Asian experiences Contemporary challenges and controversies in Asian migration practice and policy Contributing to the retheorising of the subject area of internaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Asian Migrations and Mobilities: Continuities, Conceptualisations and Controversies, Gracia Liu-Farrer and Brenda S. A. Yeoh Part I: Asian Migrations in The Historical Context 1. Colonial and Postcolonial Migrations, Sunil S. Amrith 2. The Changing Meanings of Diaspora: the Chinese in Southeast Asia, Els van Dongen and Hong Liu Part II: Asian Migration Regimes and Pathways 3. Temporary labor migration, Michiel Baas 4. Intimate Migrations: The Case of Marriage Migrants and Sex Workers in Asia, Maria Cecilia Hwang and Rhacel Salazar Parrenas 5. Intra-Asia Higher Education Mobilities, Rochelle Yun Ge and Kong Chong Ho 6. Diaspora Engagement and State Policies of Return Migration in Asia, Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho and Madeleine Lim Pei Wei 7. Ethnic Return Migration in East Asia: Japanese Brazilians in Japan and Conceptions of Homeland, Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda 8. Conceptualising Asian Medical Travel as Medical Migrations, Andrea Whittaker 9. From Asia with Money: the Emigration of the Wealthy, Gracia Liu-Farrer Part III: Re-Conceptualizing Migration Through Asian Experiences 10. Migration and the Production of Migrant Mobilities, Weiqiang Lin and Marielle Stigum Gleiss 11. The Infrastructural Turn in Asian Migration, Johan Lindquist and Biao Xiang 12. The Cultural and Economic Logics of Migration, Jamie Coates 13. Internal and international migration: Separate or integrated system?, Ronald Skeldon 14. Human Trafficking or Voluntary Migration? Lessons Learned from Across Asia, Pardis Mahdavi 15. Critical Expatriate Studies: Changing Expatriate Communities in Asia and the Blurring Boundaries of Expatriate Identity, James Farrer PART IV: Challenges in Asian Migration 16. Migration, Poverty and Source Communities, Robert Cole and Jonathan Rigg 17. Remittances, Migration, and Trade, Philip Martin 18. Transnational Migrations and Plural Diversities: Encounters in Global Cities, Brenda S.A. Yeoh 19. Growing Up in Transnational Families: Children’s Experiences and Perspectives, Theodora Lam, Shirlena Huang, Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Jocelyn O. Celero 20. Noncitizen Political Engagement, Erin Aeran Chung and Rameez Abbas 21. Irregular Migration in Asia: Are New Solutions in Sight?, Marujia M.B. Asis and Graziano Battistella 22. Mobilities on Edge: Migration at the Margins of Nation-States, Juan Zhang

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Book SynopsisThis book is designed to familiarise students with leading International Relations (IR) theories and their explanation of political events, phenomena, and processes which cross the territorial boundaries of the state. Thus, students will be exposed to the interplay between power, interest, ideas, identity, and resistance, in explaining continuity and change in international relations. Developed to provide students with the analytical tools and intellectual frameworks needed to understand the behaviour of different international actors in contemporary global affairs. This textbook responds to the challenges of a dynamic job market by assisting students to gain both thorough theoretical knowledge and training them to apply this knowledge to real world problems. In short, this textbook delivers: A comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the examination of national, regional and global trends in politics, economics and socio-cultural developments allowing students to understand: Trade Review’Finally a comprehensive and serious approach to International Relations that pays necessary homage to its theories and frameworks as a discipline while striving to acquaint readers to the topicality, relevance, and impact of what an IR scholar actually empirically studies and why it MATTERS in the real world. This is a welcome novel engagement of the discipline that should attract many new young minds to our field.’ Matthew Crosston, Bellevue University, USA ’International Relations is a young discipline. This textbook is an innovative attempt at exploring this young discipline in all its complexities and contradictions. A very useful book to inform the beginners and to engage the scholars. Rigorous as well as accessible!’ Harsh V. Pant, King's College London, UK ’In this excellent and innovative volume Kavalski has assembled scholars working at the forefront of contemporary international relations. All of the chapters provide surprising insights and unique perspectives on the contemporary practice and theory of international relations. It is refreshing to find a textbook that challenges long held assumptions in this way. A must read for all introductory courses on global politics.’ Colin Wight, University of Sydney, AustraliaTable of ContentsContentsPrologueObserving and encountering global life – Emilian KavalskiPart I: Perspectives and frameworksChapter 1The history of global politics – Kevin MarshChapter 2Theories of world affairs – Mark Chou and Avery Dorothy Howard Poole Chapter 3Ethics and morality in international relations – Lavina LeeChapter 4The levels of analysis of the international system – Taku TamakiPart II: ActorsChapter 5The state on the world stage – Theresa CallanChapter 6Individuals in international politics – David WaltonChapter 7Transnational actors in world politics – Brian KingChapter 8Nature as an Actor in International politics – Stephen HobdenPart III: Topics and issuesChapter 9The international economy of world politics – Greg AndersonChapter 10Conflict and in/security in global life – Sandra Popiden Chapter 11Global inequality – Eunyoung Ha and Julia Hyeyong KimChapter 12Shifts in world power – Lui Hebron Chapter 13Identity politics on the world stage – David Siroky and David Muchlinski Chapter 14Imposing Internal Order on States – Chris WilsonChapter 15Borders, Immigration and State Transformation – Alex BalchChapter 16The Media and International Relations – Anne AllyChapter 17Global governance – Sandra Popiden Chapter 18Religion and international relations – Nilay Saiya EpilogueWhat next for the study and practice of world affairs? – Emilian Kavalski

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Book SynopsisContemporary Regional Development in Africa interrogates well-known concerns in the areas of regionalism and economic integration in contemporary Africa, while offering an added uniqueness by highlighting the capacity imperatives of the issues, and proposing critical policy guideposts. The volume juxtaposes a set of 'dynamic' entanglements - new and micro-regionalism, informal cross-border trade, intra-African and African FDI plus cross-border investments, infrastructure development, science and technology, regional value-chains, conflict management and regional security - with fluid interpretations of regional development. The chapters provide snapshots of the several emerging and complex regionalisms and highlight a set of relevant and often overlapping analyses - drawing on authors' nuanced and granular understanding of the African landscape. The varied, yet interlinked, nature of issues covered in this study make the book valuable and attractive to academics, researchers, policymakTrade Review’At a time when regionalism seems increasingly caught between micro-regional initiatives and mega-regional negotiations, this timely discussion of contemporary regional development in Africa helps to clarify the issues involved. The thematic approach adopted by Kobena Hanson and his co-authors ensures a systematic discussion of the stakes associated with the shift from new regionalism towards twenty-first-century regionalism.’ Daniel Bach, University of Bordeaux, France ’African leaders, scholars and informed citizens see deeper regional integration as the pathway to a more secure and prosperous future. This book, balancing theory and practice, and drawing on different disciplines and regions, provides valuable, and at times controversial, contributions as to how different regional integration arrangements - from the new regionalism to micro-regionalism - may improve the facilitation of human interactions as well as economic productivity and exchanges across borders so as to improve the overall African human condition.’ Moses N. Kiggundu, Carleton University, CanadaTable of ContentsChapter 1 Contemporary Regional Development in Africa, Kobena T.Hanson, Vanessa T.Tang; Chapter 2 Regionalism, Globalization and Economic Integration in Africa, Korbla P.Puplampu; Chapter 3 “New” Regionalisms in Africa, PeterArthur; Chapter 4 Micro-regionalisms in Africa, JonUnruh; Chapter 5 The Impact of Informal Cross-border Trade on Regionalism and Poverty Reduction in West Africa, BarassouDiawara, Kwabena AgyeiBoakye; Chapter 6 Enhancing Regionalism for Intra-African and African Inward Foreign Direct Investment, Abbi M.Kedir; Chapter 7 Infrastructure and Capacity Development as a Catalyst for Regionalism and Economic Integration in Africa, Kobena T.Hanson, FrancisOwusu, Korbla P.Puplampu; Chapter 8 Innovation, Science and Technology, Joseph R.Oppong; Chapter 9 Regional Value Chains and Productivity Enhancement in Africa, William G.Moseley; Chapter 10 The Boko Haram Insurgency and the Changing Patterns of Regional Security Arrangements in Africa, OlawaleIsmail; afterword Afterword“African Agency” to Maximize the Continent’s Policy Choices after a Decade of the BRICS, Timothy M.Shaw;

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Book SynopsisGlobalization has become one of the most important topics within politics and economics. This new title explains some of the related terminology, summarizes the surrounding theories and examines the international organizations involved.With the proliferation of communications and the rise of the multi-national corporation, the concept of globalization is vitally important to the modern political environment. The structure of the modern economy, based on information production and diffusion, has made national boundaries largely irrelevant. A Dictionary of Globalization explains theories, philosophies and ideologies, and includes short biographies of leading activists, theorists and thinkers such as Noam Chomsky, Karl Marx and Josà BovÃ. Concepts, issues and terms key to the understanding of globalization also have clear and concise definitions, including democracy, civil society, non-governmental organizations and ethnicity.Cross-referenced for ease of u

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Book SynopsisThis work addresses new directions in research on the economic theory of conflict, the cost of war, and the benefits of peace. A collection of 17 papers drawing on contributors from all continents, the volume is divided into four sections. The first discusses novel ways to think about the economics of conflict and peace from theory perspectives. These include discussions of conflict from the perspectives of standard neoclassical analysis and economic geography. An especially interesting paper in this section addresses conflict in the context of the emerging theory of international public finance. A second section deals with military expenditures, economic/human development and economic growth in the US and developing nations of Asia and Africa. The volume enters new territory in sections three and four. Section three contains a set of papers on the economic cost of war and war’s aftermath, significantly expanding economists’ rather modest efforts to date. Section four is concerned with how the concepts of economics might be operationalized and institutionalized to foster security.Trade Review’...to be congratulated for organizing and tying together a thoughtful collection of essays on an important subject.’ Ruben Mendez, New York and Yale Universities, USATable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Theory-Approaches and Approaches to Theory: Economics and peace-theory on the eve of World War I; More with less: economics of non-offensive defense, with special reference to Argentina; The economics of conflict, production and exchange; The distribution of military expenditures in the United States: spatial, sectoral, technological and occupational. The Opportunity Costs of Military Expenditures: Human Development, and Economic Development and Growth: Opportunity costs of military expenditures: evidence from the United States; Military expenditures and fiscal constraints in Pakistan; Peace in Guatemala? The story of San Lucas Tolimán; From apartheid to democracy: the economic dimensions of demilitarizing South African society; Do military expenditures create net employment? the case of US military-nuclear production sites. The Economic Cost of War and its Aftermath: The Sudan: the cost of the second civil war (1983-1993); That splendid little wa: the costs of the Spanish-American war; Estimates of the economic cost of armed conflict: the Iran-Iraq war and the Sri Lankan civil war; Research note: costing the direct health burden of political violence in developing countries. Securing Security: War and peace from a perspective of international public economics; A world treasury; Policies for peace: an analysis of the causes of military expenditures and the means to disarmament; Creating global security: Japan as a potential catalyst.

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