Catálogo de libros: Globalización

2801 Catálogo de libros: Globalización

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  • Globalisation Impacts
    Amitendu Palit
    The book reviews globalisation by identifying causes behind the discontent it has produced in recent years. It variously engages in economics, political economy, development and policy discourses to study experiences of countries and institutions in managing and adjusting to globalisation. Extending the analysis to latest global developments, including the remarkable advance of...
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    148,29 €

  • Handbook of Research on Developments and Future Trends in Transnational Higher Education
    Higher education has embraced a period of increasingly rapid development due to the speed of technological advances, increased global competition, an ever more astute and savvier consumer base, and ethical planetary responsibilities. One such educational development is transnational education (TNE). The global pandemic has made TNE a timely topic because traditional internation...
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    354,53 €

  • The Weak Man
    J.D. Nüremberg
    Behind the fine words of the 2030 Agenda lies a plan, a dictatorial plan that will gradually eliminate your rights and freedoms. In this book, I tell the truth about everything that has happened with the pandemic and what will happen in a short time. Soon you will have nothing but you will not be happy either, you will be their slave, without leisure, without being able to rela...
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    17,31 €

  • Beyond 2%-NATO Partners, Institutions & Burden Management
    Anessa L. Kimball
      This book advances North Atlantic Treaty Organization (henceforth, NATO) burden analysis through a decomposition of the political, financial, social, and defense burdens members take on for the institution. The overemphasis of committing a minimum of 2% of member state Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to defense spending, as a proxy indicator of alliance commitment does not prope...
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    146,80 €

  • Raimo Väyrynen
    Raimo Väyrynen
    This book provides a broad overview of Professor Raimo Väyrynen’s academic work, his role in international research organizations, and his contributions to policy debates. It offers an interesting review of important political issues during the time span of half a century, from disarmament in Europe to the changing relationship between state sovereignty and transnational forces...
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    46,11 €

  • Beyond 2%-NATO Partners, Institutions & Burden Management
    Anessa L. Kimball
      This book advances North Atlantic Treaty Organization (henceforth, NATO) burden analysis through a decomposition of the political, financial, social, and defense burdens members take on for the institution. The overemphasis of committing a minimum of 2% of member state Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to defense spending, as a proxy indicator of alliance commitment does not prope...
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    48,13 €

  • International Trade Fairs and Inter-Firm Knowledge Flows
    Rachael Gibson
    Against a backdrop of economic uncertainty caused by a shift toward protectionism and the COVID-19 pandemic among other issues, this book suggests that international trade fairs (ITFs) represent a vital source of economic dynamism that can support national and regional economies by creating opportunities for firms to access new markets, network with key actors in their industry...
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    48,15 €

  • Rebooting Global International Society
    This book asks if it is time to 'reboot' the fundamental institutions of global international society. The volume revisits Hedley Bull’s seminal contribution The Anarchical Society by exploring the interconnected nature of change, contestation and resilience for maintaining order in today’s uncertain and complex environment. The volume adds to Bull’s theorizing by recognizing t...
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    132,12 €

  • The Geography of Trade Liberalization
    Omar Awapara
    This book answers why anti-trade forces in developing countries sometimes fail to effectively exert pressure on their governments. The backlash against globalization spread across several Latin American countries in the 2000s, yet a few countries such as Peru doubled down on their bets on free trade by signing bilateral agreements with the US and the EU. This study uses evidenc...
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    156,96 €

  • Bordering and Governmentality Around the Greek Islands
    Aila Spathopoulou
    This book focuses on processes of bordering and governmentality around the Greek border islands from the declaration of a ’refugee crisis’ in the summer of 2015 up until the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The chapters trace the implementation of the EU migration hotspot approach across space and time, from the maritime Aegean border to the islands (Lesvos and Samos...
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    144,77 €

  • Bordering and Governmentality Around the Greek Islands
    Aila Spathopoulou
    This book focuses on processes of bordering and governmentality around the Greek border islands from the declaration of a ’refugee crisis’ in the summer of 2015 up until the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The chapters trace the implementation of the EU migration hotspot approach across space and time, from the maritime Aegean border to the islands (Lesvos and Samos...
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    48,24 €

  • Globalization and Civil Society in East Asian Space
    This book critically examines the impact of globalization, changing power dynamics, migration, and evolving rights regimes on regional order, discourse of national governance, state and society relations, and the development of civil society in East Asia. ...
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    213,78 €

  • China and Globalization in the Amazon
    Cleiton Maciel Brito
    China and Globalization in the Amazon examines Chinese investment in the Global South, with particular attention to industrial activity in Latin America. ...
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    69,69 €

  • The Responsibility to Protect Twenty Years On
    Pinar Gözen Ercan
    This book focuses on measures pertaining to the three-pillar implementation strategy of R2P and examines how and to what extent the three pillars have been practised. Rich in its geographical scope, this edited book provides a critical analysis of R2P practice over the last two decades by focusing on representative cases from different regions. Analysing not only recent and/or ...
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    146,26 €

  • PEOPLES OF THE GREATER MEKONG
    Jim Goodman / JIM GOODMAN & JAFFEE YEOW FEI YEE
    This book tells the story of the Mekong River, from its source in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to its delta in southern Vietnam, and the geographical changes in its environment on its journey to the sea. It mainly focuses on the many ethnic minorities living within the Mekong’s reach. These minority nationalities all have their own distinct customs, traditions and ways of life tha...
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    70,78 €

  • Religion in the Age of Re-Globalization
    Roland Benedikter
    This book provides a concise introduction into twenty-one trends that are transforming the role of religion and spirituality in 're-globalizing' societies. In referring to processes of 're-globalization', the book draws attention to profound ongoing changes in the patterns and mechanisms of contemporary globalization. Inter- and transdisciplinary in its approach, clearly struct...
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    145,55 €

  • Ulrich Beck
    Klaus Rasborg
    This book provides a comprehensive and thorough interpretation of Beck’s theory of the (world) risk society, from its original formulation up to his sudden death on New Year’s Day 2015. Beck’s entire body of work is divided into four interrelated phases, which are successively presented and discussed, namely: the original theory of risk society (from 1986 onwards); the theory o...
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    134,15 €

  • Sub-Saharan African Immigrants’ Stories of Resilience and Courage
    Fredah Mainah / Mariam Konate
    This book seeks to produce a more specific description of Sub-Saharan African immigration in the US by recording our reflections, experiences, and strategies of coping, as well as those of the participants. ...
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    180,46 €

  • Travel to Transform
    Freeman Fung
    Guidebooks are for tourists and self-help books are for internal journeys. But what about the personal growth that comes from travelling? Where are the guides for navigating cultural gaps and building a life in a new country?Today, the world has already globalised, but human consciousness hasn’t. Global citizenship is not a status, but a world-centric way of thinking, seeing, a...
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    13,04 €

  • International Student Mobilities and Voices in the Asia-Pacific
    Yi’En Cheng
    This edited volume explores core questions on education and transnational mobility in a time characterized by a global pandemic, recasting them through the lenses of regimes, experiences, and aspirations. The volume brings together 20 short essays in the form of letters addressed to the coronavirus and written by international students , together with eight striking illustratio...
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    48,05 €

  • International Student Mobilities and Voices in the Asia-Pacific
    Yi’En Cheng
    This edited volume explores core questions on education and transnational mobility in a time characterized by a global pandemic, recasting them through the lenses of regimes, experiences, and aspirations. The volume brings together 20 short essays in the form of letters addressed to the coronavirus and written by international students , together with eight striking illustratio...
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    196,04 €

  • Understanding International Migration
    Ross Bond
    Uniquely informed by a sociological perspective, this major new textbook introduces the underlying origins and consequences of international migration, placing individuals within a broader social, cultural and historical context. This comprehensive introduction analyses international migration and its effects on those who migrate, their families, and their places of origin and ...
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    62,36 €

  • The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume I
    This first volume of the handbook frame cutting-edge contemporary debates, and present studies of actual theories and projects that address spatial politics. This handbook provides comprehensive and multidisciplinary research focused on the complex nexus of politics, architecture and urban space. ...
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    333,85 €

  • COVID-19 and Foreign Aid
    This book provides a timely, critical, and thought-provoking analysis of the implications of the disruption of COVID-19 to the foreign aid and development system, and the extent to which the system is retaining a level of relevance, legitimacy or coherence. ...
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    213,40 €

  • Technological Innovation, Globalization and the Cold War
    This volume focuses on the interconnections between the Cold War, technological innovation and globalization. ...
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    213,84 €

  • COVID-19 and Foreign Aid
    This book provides a timely, critical, and thought-provoking analysis of the implications of the disruption of COVID-19 to the foreign aid and development system, and the extent to which the system is retaining a level of relevance, legitimacy or coherence. ...
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    64,60 €

  • China’s Belt and Road Initiative at Ten
    Robert E. Looney
    This volume assesses China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as it approaches its tenth year in operation. The programme has gone through a difficult transition since its inception in 2013, with an environment developing in a way utterly unanticipated by Chinese decision-makers. Despite pragmatic adjustments to the BRI, the lack of a firm empirical base has impeded the BRI and l...
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    81,70 €

  • CIVILIZATION AND GOVERNANCE
    BOY LUETHJE
    The rapid rise of emerging economies has produced deep-ranging changes in the global order during recent decades. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the bipolar confrontation of the Cold War seemed to be replaced by a universalized model of political liberalism and economic neo-liberalism. In recent years, however, rising nationalism and protectionism indicate the en...
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    129,98 €

  • The New World Order
    H. G. Wells
    Whether it is attainable, how it can be attained, and what sort of world a world at peace will have to be.Today the phrase ’New World Order’ evokes dystopian visions of enforcing a uniform international peace, Big Brother surveillance and legal order through a system of collective security and stringent control of a brainwashed citizenry.H. G. Wells called for the complete soci...
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    15,20 €

  • The New World Order
    H. G. Wells
    Whether it is attainable, how it can be attained, and what sort of world a world at peace will have to be.Today the phrase ’New World Order’ evokes dystopian visions of enforcing a uniform international peace, Big Brother surveillance and legal order through a system of collective security and stringent control of a brainwashed citizenry.H. G. Wells called for the complete soci...
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    25,84 €


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