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  • The Hard Edge of Soft Power

    Mega-Events, Geopolitics, and Making Nations Great Again

    Edited by Sven Daniel Wolfe ...
    Series series Mega Event Planning
    This open access book explores the linkages between geopolitics and hosting mega-events. It encompasses and transcends the international and domestic dimensions of soft power to unpack how mega-events shape cities and societies through notions of unity and greatness, but also investigates local developments beneath the Potemkin surface of the global spectacle. Drawing on a global range of case ... Read more

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  • The Human City

    Urbanism for the Rest of Us

    by Joel Kotkin ...
    The author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism and The New Class Conflict challenges conventions of urban planning.Around the globe, most new urban development has adhered to similar tenets: tall structures, small units, and high density. In The Human City, Joel Kotkin―called "America's uber-geographer" by David Brooks of the New York Times―questions these nearly ubiquitous practices, suggesting that ... Read more

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  • Dictating the Agenda

    The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics

    by Alexander Cooley, Alexander Dukalskis ...
    This is a story not just of the limits of liberal influence across the world, but of how authoritarian governments came to dictate the global agenda by repurposing the very actors, tools, and norms that once afforded US-backed liberalism such global prominence. Following the end of the Cold War, the world experienced a remarkable wave of democratization. Over the next two decades, numerous ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Defeating the Dictators

    How Democracy Can Prevail in the Age of the Strongman

    by Charles Dunst ...
    ' Charles Dunst's deeply researched, timely and powerful book offers a blueprint for how democracies should fight back.' - Sir Kim Darroch'Remarkable. A thoughtful and perceptive book.' - Rt. Hon. Jeremy Hunt, MPThe world is currently experiencing the lowest levels of democracy we have seen in over thirty years. Autocracy is on the rise, and while the cost of autocracy seems evident, it ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • Cities and Economies

    by Yeong-Hyun Kim, John Rennie Short ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    Cities and Economies explores the complex and subtle connections between cities and economies. The rise of the merchant city, the development of the industrial city and the creation of the service-dominated urban economy are all explored, along with economic globalization and its effects on cities in both developed and developing economies. This book provides a thorough examination of the role of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • It's Not About Whiteness, It's About Wealth

    How the Economics of Race Really Work

    by Remi Adekoya ...
    'Remi Adekoya is a welcome blast of unsentimental rigour into a race debate clogged up with emotion and moralism. His dissection of the economic underpinnings of the world's racial and national hierarchies will make uncomfortable reading for both liberals and conservatives' David Goodhart'This terrifically illuminating book . . . offers a new way of understanding modern racial structures' i ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century

    by Verity Burgmann ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in International Political Economy
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.Globalization has adversely affected working-class organization and mobilization, increasing inequality by redistribution upwards from labour to capital. However, workers around the world are challenging their ... Read more

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  • Conflict Management and the Future of EU Foreign and Security Policy

    Relational Power Europe

    by Riccardo Alcaro, Pol Bargués ...
    Series series Trends and Perspectives in International Politics
    This book analyses how the European Union (EU) has dealt with crises and conflicts, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Iran’s nuclear dispute and Syria’s civil war, to understand the peculiar nature of its role in international security. Rather than focusing on the institutional set‑up of the EU’s foreign and security policy, the authors look at the ‘outer’ world, concentrating on crises and ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Global Cultural Policy

    Edited by Victoria Durrer, Toby Miller, Dave O'Brien ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Cultural policy intersects with political, economic, and socio-cultural dynamics at all levels of society, placing high and often contradictory expectations on the capabilities and capacities of the media, the fine, performing, and folk arts, and cultural heritage. These expectations are articulated, mobilised and contested at – and across – a global scale. As a result, the study of cultural ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Sports Governance, Development and Corporate Responsibility

    Edited by Barbara Segaert, Marc Theeboom, Christiane Timmerman, Bart Vanreusel ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    The call for sport organizations and organizers to take up social responsibilities is reflected in a wide variety of sport-related practices. This book critically examines sport-related social interventions in different cultural settings, such as promoting local community-building by sport. Social constructions of peace, integration and managing diversity are studied from the perspective of sport ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Geopolitical Economy of Sport

    Power, Politics, Money, and the State

    Edited by Simon Chadwick, Paul Widdop, Michael M. Goldman ...
    This is the first book to define and explore the geopolitical economy of sport – the intersection of power, politics, money, and state interests that both exploit and shape elite sport around the world.Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the global response, and the consequent ramifications for sport have put the geopolitical economy of sport front and centre in both public debate and academic thinking. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Globalization and Football

    by Richard Giulianotti, Roland Robertson ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    This timely book provides an engaging, clear view of the interrelationships within key globalization processes and the international sport of football.Intelligently combining the conceptual and methodological aspects of global studies with the specific cultural conditions of the ′beautiful game′ Giulianotti and Robertson illuminate its social history and diffusion, as well as wider cultural, ... Read more

    $92.69 USD