This book presents a comprehensive view of recent developments in the theory of international trade agreements and political economy. This work introduces terms of trade effects and strategic behavior to the theory of international trade agreements. This is complemented by a car…
'Parochial Global Europe' focuses centrally on modern, 21st century trade policy. It also sheds light on the EU as a global actor by analysing its use of trade policy as a tool of foreign policy from promoting development, to encouraging human rights and environmental protection…
Moving beyond the question of whether international economic sanctions work, this book explores how they work - or fail to work - to transform target societies and states.
This book compares the US polity and economy in the nineteenth century with the struggles of contemporary post-war European integration to create a single market, address barriers to trade, and deal with sharply contested political, geographic, social and sectoral interests.
Dealing with a topic that has attracted significant media attention, this highly accessible book provides a detailed analysis of the trade dispute between China and the US.
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the imperial powers--principally Britain, the United States, Russia, France, Germany and Japan--signed treaties with China to secure trading, residence and other rights in cities on the coast, along important rivers, and in re…
After two centuries of ascent, the United States finds itself in economic decline. Some advise America to cure its woes alone. But the road to isolation leads inevitably to the end of U.S. leadership in the international system, warns Richard Rosecrance in this bold and novel bo…
The first English-language collection of essays and demands, arising from and written by the most prominent members of the first and second World Social Forums.
"After centuries of virtual isolation, during which time international sea travel was forbidden outside of Japan's immediate fishing shores, Japanese shogunal authorities in 1862 made the unprecedented decision to launch an official delegation to China by sea. Concerned by the f…
This book challenges the common perceptions of Australian dependence upon great-power allies in the conduct of its foreign relations through a critical examination of Australia's relations with the People's Republic of China. The author focuses on the economic and political dime…
This book analyses the key factors determining European competitiveness. It focuses in particular on the issues of internationalization of firms and markets, the role of technology and innovation, and of continuing European integration, and deals with these issues on the level o…
"In this expose, Sharon Beder blasts open the backrooms and boardrooms to reveal how the international corporate elite dictate global politics for their own benefit. Beder shows how they created business associations and 'think tanks' in the 1970s to drive public policy, forced …
Marginality and Crisis: Globalization and Identity in Contemporary Africa
by Adebayo, Akanmu, Adesina, Olutayo C., Olaniyi, Rasheed O., Adebayo, A. G., (Akanmu Gafari), Agbu, Osita, Akanji, Olajide Olayemi, Aluaigba, Moses T., Badru, Ronald Olufemi, Danmole, H. O., Emmanuel, Obademi Olalekan, Folarin, Sheriff, Johnson, Agbo Uchechukwu, Kareem, Olayinka Idowu, Lenihan, Eamon, Mokake, Flavius, Moveh, David, Noordin, Mwanakombo Mohammed, Ogundele, S. O., Ogunsiji, Ayo, Okolie, Aloysius-Michaels, Onakuse, Stephen, Okodua, Henry, Sawyer, Andrew Oseloka
Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this book evaluates the relations between globalization and Africa's multifarious challenges and identities. The nineteen chapters coalesce to demonstrate that the forces and processes of globalization have increased Africa's marginalization,…