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  • Harnessing Globalization

    The Promotion of Nontraditional Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America

    by Roy C. Nelson ...
    How can countries in the underdeveloped world position themselves to take best advantage of the positive economic benefits of globalization? One avenue to success is the harnessing of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the “nontraditional” forms of the high-technology and service sectors, where an educated workforce is essential and the spillover effects to other sectors are potentially very ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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  • Growing Up Global

    Raising Children to Be At Home in the World

    by Homa Sabet Tavangar ...
    In today’s increasingly interconnected world, how do we prepare our children to succeed and to become happy, informed global citizens? A mother of three, Homa Sabet Tavangar has spent her career helping governments develop globally oriented programs and advising businesses on how to thrive abroad. In Growing Up Global, Tavangar shares with all of us her “parenting toolbox” to help give our ... Read more

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  • Genetically Engineered Food: Changing the Nature of Nature

    What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself, Your Family, and Our Planet

    by Martin Teitel, Ph.D., Kimberly A. Wilson ...
    • The book that takes a comprehensive look at the threat to our food supply from genetic engineering.• 15,000 copies sold in the first six months.• Includes new studies about the dangers of genetically engineered food.• Refutes the "feed the poor" propaganda spread by agribusinesses.• Is both an expose and educational primer on this controversial technology that is already a part of every American ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Right to Stay Home

    How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration

    by David Bacon ...
    The story of the growing resistance of Mexican communities to the poverty that forces people to migrate to the United StatesPeople across Mexico are being forced into migration, and while 11 percent of that country’s population lives north of the US border, the decision to migrate is rarely voluntary. Free trade agreements and economic policies that exacerbate and reinforce extreme wealth ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • How Capitalism Failed the Arab World

    The Economic Roots and Precarious Future of the Middle East Uprisings

    by Richard Javad Heydarian ...
    Series series Economic Controversies
    Economic liberalization has failed in the Arab world. Instead of ushering in economic dynamism and precipitating democratic reform, it has over the last three decades resulted in greater poverty, rising income inequality and sky-rocketing rates of youth unemployment. In How Capitalism Failed the Arab World, Richard Javad Heydarian shows how years of economic mismanagement, political autocracy and ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • An Atlas of World Affairs

    by Andrew Boyd, Joshua Comenetz ...
    The economic, social and environmental systems of the world remain in turmoil. Recent years have seen possibly irrevocable change in the politics of Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.This entirely revised and updated 11th edition describes the people, factions, and events that have shaped the modern world from the Second World War to the present day. International issues and conflicts are ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Globalization of Political Violence

    Globalization's Shadow

    Edited by Richard Devetak, Christopher W. Hughes ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Globalisation
    The events of the 11th of September 2001 revealed most dramatically that globalization has a shadow. While large sections of the world’s population enjoy the perceived benefits of globalization, others seek to utilize globalization for their own politically violent purposes. If 9/11 demonstrated anything, it is that globalization can as readily facilitate violence and insecurity as it can produce ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Utopia Unarmed

    The Latin American Left After the Cold War

    by Jorge G. Castañeda ...
    Castro's Cuba is isolated; the guerrillas who once spread havoc through Uruguay and Argentina are dead, dispersed, or running for office as moderates. And in 1990, Nicaragua's Sandinistas were rejected at the polls by their own constituents. Are these symptoms of the fall of the Latin American left? Or are they merely temporary lulls in an ongoing revolution that may yet transform our hemisphere ... Read more

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  • Knowledge Actors and Transnational Governance

    The Private-Public Policy Nexus in the Global Agora

    by D. Stone ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Diane Stone addresses the network alliances or partnerships of international organisations with knowledge organisations and networks. Moving beyond more common studies of industrial public-private partnerships, she addresses how, and why, international organisations and global policy actors need to incorporate ideas, expertise and scientific opinion into their 'global programmes'. Rather than ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Puzzle of Twenty-First-Century Globalization

    An International Economics Primer

    by Patrice Franko, Stephen C. Stamos Jr. ...
    The Puzzle of Twenty-First-Century Globalization explores the opportunities and challenges of our international economic system. Patrice Franko and Stephen Stamos clearly trace how the ways we produce, finance, and trade goods and services are profoundly shaped by technologies of communication, transportation, and trade. Globalization encourages hyper-specialization—lavishly rewarding those with ... Read more

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  • The Role of Regional Organizations in Disaster Risk Management

    A Strategy for Global Resilience

    by S. Hollis ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The use of regional organizations to mitigate and respond to disasters has become a global trend. This book examines the role regional organizations play in managing disaster risk through a comparative study of ten regional organizations, demonstrating their current limitations and future potential. ... Read more

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  • Environmental Change and Globalization: Double Exposures

    by Robin Leichenko, Karen O'Brien ...
    This book explores the connections between two of the most transformative processes of the twenty-first century, namely climate change and globalization. In this book, Leichenko and O'Brien present a conceptual framework for analyzing the interactions between these two processes, and illustrate, through case studies, how these interactions create situations of "double exposure." Drawing upon ... Read more

    $33.29 USD