This is a definitive and comprehensive history of international organizations from their very beginning at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 up to the present day, and provides the reader with nearly two centuries of world history seen from the perspective of international organiza…
Kevin Doogan offers an original and radical re-think of the state of the global labour market. He argues against the oversimplified idea that the precariousness of the Western labour market is a natural result of globalisation and technological change, subjecting the transformat…
Despite the extensive debate about the impact of globalization, democratization and new forms of governance, there have been surprisingly few attempts to provide an integrated account of the state in the contemporary world. Roger King and Gavin Kendall's text is designed to fill…
This book offers a critical analysis of how the West created the global food crisis. The hike in global food prices has pushed hundreds of millions more people into poverty, and sparked riots and protests in the Middle East, Africa and the Americas. Walden Bello, the leading wri…
"The scale, effectiveness and legitimacy of global governance lag far behind the world's needs. This path-breaking book examines how far civil society involvement provides an answer to these problems. Does civil society make global governance more democratic? Have citizen action…
"These ten critical essays explore the phenomenon of the superhero film in the 21st century through the lens of numerous academic disciplines, and cover topics such as the role of globalization in the formation of superhero narratives, the shifting nature of masculinity and femi…
"This book explores the relationship between globalization, security and religious nationalism in India. It argues that globalization has made individuals and groups more ontologically insecure and existentially uncertain - an uncertainty many people try to reduce by searching f…
"This book explores the relationship between globalization, security and religious nationalism in India. It argues that globalization has made individuals and groups more ontologically insecure and existentially uncertain - an uncertainty many people try to reduce by searching f…
"This book explores the relationship between globalization, security and religious nationalism in India. It argues that globalization has made individuals and groups more ontologically insecure and existentially uncertain - an uncertainty many people try to reduce by searching f…
The world is a better place than it used to be. People are wealthier and healthier, and live longer lives. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many have left gaping inequalities between people and between nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost expe…
By 1991, following the disintegration first of the Soviet bloc and then of the Soviet Union itself, the United States was left standing tall as the only global super-power. Not only the 20th but even the 21st century seemed destined to be the American centuries. But that super…
This sequel to The Prize provides a narrative of global energy, the principal engine of geopolitical and economic change. The author, an energy authority continues the riveting story begun in the book, The Prize, in this account of the quest for the energy the world needs, and t…
This sequel to The Prize provides a narrative of global energy, the principal engine of geopolitical and economic change. Energy authority Yergin tells the inside stories of the oil market, the rise of the "petrostate," the race to control the resources of the former Soviet empi…
