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Examines why the World Bank has come to see good governance as important and evaluates what the World Bank is doing to improve the governance of its borrower countries.
Looks at how and why United Nations organizations and the World Bank are working with private actors, including for-profit companies and corporations; business organizations and private foundations to address key world issues such as health, education, labor rights and water.
Looks at various aspects of the TRIPS Agreement: agenda-setting, legal interpretation, implementation, enforcement and revision, from the viewpoint of global business and developing countries. This book states that the history of the TRIPS Agreement and the role of business is a clear example of governance by non-state actors on a global scale.
Presents a monograph on the political economy of G7 finance ministry and central bank co-operation. This book views that to understand the contribution of the G7 to global financial governance it is necessary to locate the process in the context of a wider world financial order comprised of decentralized globalization.
Examines the different forms of governance of HIV/AIDS that have emerged and how these actors and structures of governance enhance, or limit, participation and accountability, as well as the impact this is having upon effective global responses to the epidemic.
The question of how China will relate to a globalising world is one of the key issues in contemporary international relations and scholarship on China, yet the angle of innovation has not been properly addressed within the field. This book explores innovation in China from an International Relations perspective in terms of four areas: foreign and security policy, international relations theory, soft power/image management, and resistance.
This edited volume approaches regionalism as one potential pattern in a changing global order. It offers an innovative contribution to the study of territorialization by exploring constellations of regional actors, spatial scales and imaginations beyond state-centred perspectives as well as on multiple levels. The book analyzes the emergence, trajectories and outcomes of regionalisms from the perspective of the Global South, specifically concentrating on regional projects in Latin America and Africa. This book will appeal to scholars of global studies, IPE, IR, human geography, and development studies, as well as area studies specialists who focus on Latin America and Africa.
Examines organisations of the last 15 years dealing with global health governance issues.
The question of how China will relate to a globalising world is one of the key issues in contemporary international relations and scholarship on China, yet the angle of innovation has not been properly addressed within the field. This book explores innovation in China from an International Relations perspective in terms of four areas: foreign and security policy, international relations theory, soft power/image management, and resistance.
The role of law, networks and civil society are examined and key theoretical and meta-theoretical questions on how to analyse and theorise the global polity, what drives it forward, and whether it can be democratised are discussed.
The chapters in this book explore the nature of the relationships between state and non-state actors in an evolving global economic order, where both strive to continue the same system of economic production under new conditions.
This volume examines the impact of transnational knowledge networks in the formulation of local, national and global policy in the field of international development and transition studies.
This book examines the relationship between globalisation and regionalism through a detailed analysis of the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) project.
"Civil Society and Global Finance" focuses on the globalization debate and provides authoritative analyses by those who deal with the issues first hand, who here offer insight and policy ideas for decision-makers, students and concerned citizens.
The role of law, networks and civil society are examined and key theoretical and meta-theoretical questions on how to analyse and theorise the global polity, what drives it forward, and whether it can be democratised are discussed.
An outstanding line-up of contributors explore the regulation of the internet from an interdisciplinary perspective.
On January 1 1995, Austria and Sweden joined the European Union. This book analyses why these two countries joined at such a moment when steps towards a Common Foreign and Security Policy threatened their neutrality.
This book examines East Asiäs inter-state collaborative energy projects to address energy vulnerability. It focuses on projects that have demonstrated effectiveness in addressing vulnerabilities faced by the ten states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and China, Japan, and South Korea in Northeast Asia.
A fascinating insight into how regional organizations in Europe and East Asia are currently grappling with a striking number of essentially similar challenges.
John A. Hobson is widely recognised as the most important British New Liberal thinker of politics and political economy of the twentieth century. The Selected Writings of John A. Hobson showcases an exciting and previously unpublished collection of Hobson's writings and lectures from 1932-1938 that Hobson presented at the South Place Ethical Society in the last decade of his life.The lectures and the introduction produce a fresh reading of Hobson 's thinking and theorization of International Relations, thereby revealing a much more complex thinker than has conventionally been understood. Edited by Colin Tyler, a framing introduction written by the author 's great grandson, John M. Hobson situates these lectures in the context of his life-work on International Relations between 1897 and 1940.Selected Writings of John A. Hobson 1932-1938 is an essential read for all Hobson scholars and students and scholars of globalization and political economy.
Overview of the study of international political economy analysing key questions in the discipline.
Governing the Global Economy presents a fresh approach to the study of international political economy. The book is organised according to the analytical problems of international governance and national adaptation. The distinguished contributors present both theoretical and empirical cases on, amongst others, theories and methodologies, institutions, networks, powers, systems, regimes and industry. With contributions from Peter Katzenstein, Richard Higgott and Eric Helleiner, Governing the Global Economy is essential reading for all students and scholars of international political economy and globalization.
"Civil Society and Global Finance" focuses on the globalization debate and provides authoritative analyses by those who deal with the issues first hand, who here offer insight and policy ideas for decision-makers, students and concerned citizens.
In this collection of essays, leading interdisciplinary scholars explore various dimensions of globalisation and their relationship to development processes in the Asia-Pacific region.
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