Continuing Joel Spring's reportage and analysis of the intersection of global forces and education, this text offers a comprehensive overview and synthesis of current research, theories, and models related to the topic. Written in his trademark clear, narrative style, Spring int…
"We are used to thinking about inequality within countries - about rich Americans versus poor Americans, for instance. But what about inequality between all citizens of the world? Worlds Apart addresses just how to measure global inequality among individuals, and shows that ineq…
A comparative, interdisciplinary examination of the mechanisms behind public administration Global Dimensions of Public Administration and Governance is a comprehensive, comparative text on the structure and function of governments around the world. Written by two of the field's…
This book is a timely insight into the internationalization of higher education institutions. The internationalization of higher education is a global phenomenon, but with substantial variation in how it is made operational in individual institutions. Comprehensive International…
A collection of essays on keywords from political discourse, including secularism, security, indigineity, and terrorism
"On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Scholars from five disciplines address thirteen societies to highlight the social and political life of words in Asia, Europe, and the…
Bringing together scholars from around the world, the first book in this series riases the question of how we can get away from the contemporary language of globalisation, so as to identify meaningful, global ways of defining historical events and processes in the late 19th and …
"This book explores the challenges and potential of Fair Trade, one of the world's most dynamic efforts to enhance global social justice and environmental sustainability through market-based social change. This text will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, globa…
Presenting the area of corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a constantly evolving field with direct impact on organizational strategies and success, this work links numerous subjects such as strategy, marketing and ethics, encouraging a multidisciplinary approach to this sub…
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In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on h…
Over the course of his distinguished career, legal scholar Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im has sought to reconcile his identity as a Muslim with his commitment to universal human rights. In "Muslims and Global Justice," he advances the theme of global justice from an Islamic perspectiv…
Kevin Gray places the Korean labour movement in the context of the debate on the 'global uprising of labour'. He argues that due to Korea's status as an industrialising and democratising country, the Korean labour movement has gone from a militant and revolutionary movement to o…
Over the past 2 decades, governments have delegated extensive regulatory authority to international private-sector organizations. 'The New Global Rulers' examines who writes the rules in international private organizations, as well as who wins, who loses and why.
"This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the relationship between globalization studies and literature and literary studies, and the bearing that they have on each other. It engages with the manner in which globalization is thematized in literary works, examines the re…