Examines the possibilities for a new-style solidarity suited to a complex capitalist modernity. Explores the past internationalism of labour and socialism and the present one of radical-democratic social movements, discussing how the Left might build on this experience to recove…
Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular st…
Trade, along with the free movement of capital, is at the heart of today's international economy. But international trade is an intensely political and contested subject. This book traces the history of global trade, the impact of current global trading arrangements on poverty, …
"Greg Buckman argues that economic globalization has never been an inevitable part of human history. This is persuasively articulated in the first half of the book, where a comprehensible overview is provided of how globalization came about. Globalization is eminently reversible…
Examines empire networks throughout history and in the present day, arguing that key issues within the new world order may enable significant social transformation and global democracy.
Studies how people have combined to influence and change cities, beginning with the transition from feudalism to an absolutist state through to the urban problems of the post-industrial society. Covers contemporary urban protest movements the relationship between culture and spa…
"Tracing the way the agrarian myth has re-emerged over the twentieth century in ideology shared by populism, postmodernism and the political right, the argument in this book is that at the centre of this discourse about the cultural identity of 'otherness'/'difference' lies the …
