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  • Global Development Ethics
    Eddy M. Souffrant / Eddy MSouffrant
    Cases of famine, governmental overreach, political abuse and neglect persist even in today’s globalised world. Corporate malfeasance, disregard of the environment, and blatant ignorance of the instigators of disasters large and small also continue to register high human costs. In trying to address this, theorists have attempted to elucidate a global ethics that would prescribe...
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    163,58 €

  • Global Development Ethics
    Eddy M. Souffrant / Eddy MSouffrant
    Cases of famine, governmental overreach, political abuse and neglect persist even in today’s globalised world. Corporate malfeasance, disregard of the environment, and blatant ignorance of the instigators of disasters large and small also continue to register high human costs. In trying to address this, theorists have attempted to elucidate a global ethics that would prescribe...
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    54,20 €

  • Foreign Business in China and Opportunities for Technological Innovation and Sustainable Economics
    Productivity remains the critical determinant of long-term national growth and prosperity. The effects of today’s globalism on productivity demands the need for business organizations to sustain their competitive advantage and remain profitable over time. Foreign Business in China and Opportunities for Technological Innovation and Sustainable Economics is a collection of resear...
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    255,79 €

  • New World Cities
    For millennia, urban centers were pivots of power and trade that ruled and linked rural majorities. After 1950, explosive urbanization led to unprecedented urban majorities around the world. That transformation--inextricably tied to rising globalization--changed almost everything for nearly everybody: production, politics, and daily lives. In this book, seven eminent scholars l...
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    126,63 €

  • New World Cities
    For millennia, urban centers were pivots of power and trade that ruled and linked rural majorities. After 1950, explosive urbanization led to unprecedented urban majorities around the world. That transformation--inextricably tied to rising globalization--changed almost everything for nearly everybody: production, politics, and daily lives. In this book, seven eminent scholars l...
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    47,65 €

  • SAP Nation 3.0
    Vinnie Mirchandani
    Five years ago, the global tech giant SAP appeared vulnerable. Its brand suffered from runaway project costs and it seemed preoccupied with its HANA database. Competitors were circling around its core applications business. This volume catalogs a significant, on-going turnaround. The existential threat has passed, and SAP is poised to lead again. Will it rise to the challenge a...
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    32,99 €

  • Unravelling Modern China
    Haico Ebbers
    This book provides a comprehensive and balanced view of the main transformations that are happening in the Chinese economy today. This view has developed from more than 200 interviews and numerous surveys (based on primary data), in addition to mainstream literature by academia and consultancy companies.The general view of China is often either black or white. Global markets ar...
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    254,17 €

  • Foreign Direct Investment
    Bruce A Blonigen
    This book is a collection of important reference works by Bruce Blonigen on foreign direct investment (FDI). The book is primarily composed of empirical analyses of foreign direct investment behavior from an industrial organization and international trade perspective. These studies both examine determinants of FDI, as well as the effects of FDI on host and parent countries. The...
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    255,16 €

  • Singapore and Hong Kong
    Singapore NTU
    Political, social and economic transformations have marked the 20 years since Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region of China. To mark the historic handover, the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) at Nanyang Technological University invited experts from various fields to share their unique insights on the developments and impact of the last 20 years on Hong Kong and ...
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    59,53 €

  • Belt and Road Initiative
    Da Hsuan Feng / Hai Ming Liang
    This book views the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a bold and all-encompassing 21st century global effort by China, with unprecedented perspectives. The BRI could be summarised as a "revitalization" of China's ancient land-based and maritime silk roads, but it should be noted that its impact on China and the world stands on the foundation of omnipresent economics and how C...
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    82,64 €

  • Towards Corporeal Cosmopolitanism
    Anjana Raghavan
    An articulation of any kind of global understanding of belonging, or ways of cosmopolitan life, requires a constant engagement with vulnerability, especially in a world that is so deeply wounded by subjugation, colonialisms and genocides. And yet discussion of the body, affect and corporeal politics from the margins are noticeably absent from contemporary liberal and Kantian mo...
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    54,37 €

  • Money at the Margins
    Mobile money, e-commerce, cash cards, retail credit cards, and more--as new monetary technologies become increasingly available, the global South has cautiously embraced these mediums as a potential solution to the issue of financial inclusion. How, if at all, do new forms of dematerialized money impact people's everyday financial lives? In what way do technologies interact...
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    44,15 €

  • Critical Inquiries in the Sociolinguistics of Globalization
    This book seeks to examine the notions of ’linguistic diversity’ and ’hybridity’ using new critical theoretical frameworks embedded within the broader discussion of the sociolinguistics of globalization. The research took place in contexts that include linguistic landscapes, schools, classrooms, neighborhoods and virtual spaces around the world. ...
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    181,84 €

  • Critical Inquiries in the Sociolinguistics of Globalization
    This book seeks to examine the notions of ’linguistic diversity’ and ’hybridity’ using new critical theoretical frameworks embedded within the broader discussion of the sociolinguistics of globalization. The research took place in contexts that include linguistic landscapes, schools, classrooms, neighborhoods and virtual spaces around the world. ...
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    60,57 €

  • Major Business and Technology Trends Shaping the Contemporary World
    K.H. Yeganeh / K.HYeganeh
    This book builds upon a wide variety of academic and professional resources to offer an in-depth analysis of the nature, causes, and consequences of major business and technology trends of our time. First, prospects for energy, commodities, water, food, and healthcare services are explored. Then, leading business transformations such as the sharing economy, Fourth Industrial Re...
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    22,73 €

  • Virtual Local Manufacturing Communities
    William Sims Bainbridge
    This book deeply explores production-capable social media channels, based on thousands of hours of observation and extensive collection of statistical data, extracting hypotheses that may generalize to the real-world distributed manufacturing of the near future. Distributed manufacturing offers the promise of bringing jobs back to local communities, producing goods that are per...
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    22,65 €

  • International Firms’ Economic Nationalism and Trade Policies in the Globalization Era
    The current world economy is interconnected; however, due to recent economic crises, trade deficits, and nationalist movements, there is a political trend of economic nationalism that is taking root in countries around the world. As such, global economies around the world are decreasing their international trade and introducing import tariffs and economic protectionism. Interna...
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    281,94 €

  • Capitalism in the 21st Century
    Donghyun Park
    Global capitalism is currently suffering from an unmistakable malaise, epitomized by wide and growing inequality that is eroding popular support for capitalism. Such anti-capitalist sentiment, coupled with a growing anti-globalization mood, delivered Brexit in a UK referendum and swept Donald Trump to the US presidency. In Capitalism in the 21st Century, internationally well-re...
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    80,60 €

  • Capitalism in the 21st Century
    Donghyun Park
    Global capitalism is currently suffering from an unmistakable malaise, epitomized by wide and growing inequality that is eroding popular support for capitalism. Such anti-capitalist sentiment, coupled with a growing anti-globalization mood, delivered Brexit in a UK referendum and swept Donald Trump to the US presidency. In Capitalism in the 21st Century, internationally well-re...
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    45,06 €

  • Heidegger and the Global Age
    Globalization is one of the most contested and (ab)used concepts of our time. Whether one interprets it as a ’collective illusion’ or as the final stage of capitalism, as ’uncontrollable multitude’ or as a radical opening of new spaces of freedom, the ’global age’ represents the conceptual and existential background of our being-in-the-world. But what lies behind this process? ...
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    60,85 €

  • Mobility Between Africa, Asia and Latin America
    Trade connections and cultural exchange between Africa and the rest of the global South have existed for centuries. Since the end of the Cold War, these connections have expanded and diversified dramatically, with emerging economies such as China, India, and Brazil becoming increasingly important both as sources of trade and as a destination for African migrants. But while thes...
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    39,10 €

  • Corporate Power, Class Conflict, and the Crisis of the New Globalization
    Ronald W Cox / Ronald W. Cox / Ronald WCox
    Transnational corporations have used their market and political power in the U.S., the European Union and Japan to expand global production on terms that are highly favorable to corporate interests. Through a detailed history of the establishment of global value chains, Ronald W. Cox examines how corporations have internationalized production by working directly with political ...
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    122,29 €

  • International Trade in Goods
    Joachim Wagner
    For a couple of years, more and more micro-econometric studies in international trade use data on exports and imports on goods that are based on transaction level data collected by the customs. These data cover detailed information on the goods traded, its value, its weight, and the country of destination (for exports) or origin (for imports). In contrast to data from surveys o...
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    194,54 €

  • Vanguardia
    Marc James Léger
    Vanguardia chronicles and theorises changing forms of socially engaged art and radical politics since the rise of the anti-globalisation movement. From Occupy Wall Street to Black Live Matter and MeToo, Vanguardia detects signs of avant-garde praxis in the new social movements and activist collectives that challenge global capitalism. ...
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    34,31 €

  • The Crisis of Liberal Democracy and the Path Ahead
    Bernd Reiter
    Political representation and democracy are at odds and we need new models to organize politics without relying so heavily on elected representatives. Similarly, capitalism undermines markets, as the rich and wealthy shield their assets and make them untenable for average earners. Elitism thus undermines both democracy and markets and we need to devise ways to limit the power of...
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    54,24 €

  • The Crossroads of Globalization
    Alfredo Toro Hardy
    Two powerful forces measure their strength by acting upon globalization. One of them pushes globalization forward, while the other hinders its advance and promotes its decline.In which of those directions should Latin America move? Uncertainty hinders the region’s strategic vision. If the future entails re-launching of globalization, it seems obvious that Latin America should f...
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    93,52 €

  • Camps Revisited
    Facing the current growing global archipelago of encampments, this book project intends to develop a geographical reflection on ’the camp’, as a modern institution and as a spatial bio-political technology. This book focuses on past and present camp geographies and on the dispositifs that make them an ever-present spatial formation in the management of unwanted populations char...
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    170,30 €

  • Transitional Justice in Troubled Societies
    This book discusses the crucial strategic topic for the practical implementation of transitional justice in post-conflict societies by arguing that the dilemma is defined by the extent to which the actual achievement of the political goals of transition is a necessary condition for the long-term observance and implementation of justice. ...
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    170,60 €

  • Pour une généalogie critique de la Francophonie
    Christophe Premat
    The book studies the genesis of the institutions of the Francophonie at the time of independence of African countries in the sixties. Based on geopolitical analysis and postcolonial theories, the author reassesses the position of France which officially distanced itself from this multilateral organization. France controlled more and more the organization in the 1980s when the o...
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    22,88 €

  • Camps Revisited
    Facing the current growing global archipelago of encampments, this book project intends to develop a geographical reflection on ’the camp’, as a modern institution and as a spatial bio-political technology. This book focuses on past and present camp geographies and on the dispositifs that make them an ever-present spatial formation in the management of unwanted populations char...
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    56,78 €


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