Global History, Globally
In recent years historians in many different parts of the world have sought to transnationalize and globalize their perspectives on the past. Despite all these efforts to gain new global historical visions, however, the debates surrounding this mo...
Does the Elephant Dance?
India today looms large globally, where it hardly loomed at all twenty years ago. It is likely to be a key global actor throughout the twenty-first century and could well emerge soon as one of the top five global powers. Does the Elephant Dance? s...
Ideology in a Global Age
This book challenges the popular view that established ideologies no longer make sense in today's globalizing world. Considered from a broad historical perspective, major ideological traditions have not become destabilized and incoherent by global...
Power in the Global Age
This brilliant new book by one of Europe's leading social thinkers throws light on the global power games being played out between global business, nation states and movements rooted in civil society. Beck offers an illuminating account of the cha...
Power in the Global Age
This brilliant new book by one of Europe's leading social thinkers throws light on the global power games being played out between global business, nation states and movements rooted in civil society. Beck offers an illuminating account of the cha...
Europe in the Global Age
Europe's social model - its system of welfare and social protection - is regarded by many as the jewel in the crown. It is what helps to give the European societies their distinctive qualities of social cohesion and care for the vulnerable. Over r...
Europe in the Global Age
Europe's social model - its system of welfare and social protection - is regarded by many as the jewel in the crown. It is what helps to give the European societies their distinctive qualities of social cohesion and care for the vulnerable. Over r...
Memory in a Global Age
A¿significant contribution to memory studies and part of an emergent strand of work on global memory. This book¿offers important insights on topics relating to memory, globalization, international politics, international relations, Holocaust studi...
Biosecurity in the Global Age
Biosecurity comprehensively analyzes the dramatic transformations that are reshaping how the international community addresses biological weapons and infectious diseases. The book examines the renewed threat from biological weapons, and explores t...
Citizenship in a Global Age
* What is citizenship? * Is global citizenship possible? * Can cosmopolitanism provide an alternative to globalization? Citizenship in a Global Age provides a comprehensive and concise overview of the main debates on citizenship and t...
Radio in the Global Age
Radio in the Global Age offers a fresh, up-to-date, and wide-ranging introduction to the role of radio in contemporary society. It places radio, for the first time, in a global context, and pays special attention to the impact of the Internet, dig...
Poetry in a Global Age
Ideas, culture, and capital flow across national borders with unprecedented speed, but we tend not to think of poems as taking part in globalization. Jahan Ramazani shows that poetry has much to contribute to understanding literature in an extra-n...
Rogue Trader
'Hair-raising' Sunday Times 'Simultaneously entertaining and appalling' Financial Times Twenty years ago - before Lehman Brothers; before PPI; before a global recession and crises with the Euro - before all that, there was Nick Leeson, the origina...
Film Studies
Film Studies: A Global Introduction reroutes film studies from its Euro-American focus and canon in order to introduce students to a medium that has always been global but has become differently and insistently so in the digital age.
After the Ice
A fantastic voyage through 15,000 years of history that laid the foundations for civilisation as we know it by award-winning science writer Steven Mithen.Twenty thousand years ago Earth was in the midst of an ice age. Then global warming arrived, ...
Global Business Leadership - Förstå Det Globala Systemet
Svensk version. Den globala affärsvärlden är ett dynamiskt och ständigt föränderligt landskap som kräver en ny typ av ledare - en som kan navigera i komplexa kulturella nyanser, främja högpresterande globala team och hantera utmaningar utan motstycke. Den här boken som har utvecklats utifrån många års erfarenhet av att coacha chefer i multinationella företag, försöker ta itu med de unika krav som ställs för att leda i en globaliserad miljö. Det handlar inte bara om att hantera människor över gränserna; det handlar om att förstå subtiliteten i kulturell intelligens, bygga sammanhållna team från olika bakgrunder och främja etiskt beslutsfattande i en komplex och sammankopplad värld. På dessa sidor hittar du praktiska strategier, fallstudier från verkligheten och värdefulla insikter från min erfarenhet av att arbeta med ledande organisationer. Den information som presenteras går bortom teori och erbjuder direkta, användbara verktyg för att förbättra dina ledaregenskaper. Vi utforskar utvecklingen av ledarskapsmodeller, fördjupar oss i vikten av strategiskt tänkande och årsplanering och erbjuder 20 viktiga tips för chefer för att främja innovativ och strategisk framgång. Oavsett om du är en erfaren chef som vill förfina din strategi eller en nybliven chef som vill förbättra din kompetens, är den här boken utformad för att ge dig den kunskap och vägledning du behöver för att utmärka dig på din globala ledarskapsresa. Vi hoppas att du tycker att den är ett ovärderligt tillskott till din professionella verktygslåda. Kraven på att leda ett multinationellt företag liknar inte något som upplevs i en rent inhemsk miljö. Det krävs en unik blandning av strategiskt tänkande, tvärkulturell förståelse och ett orubbligt engagemang för att bygga mångsidiga, högpresterande team. Den här boken är en omfattande guide till hur man bemästrar konsten att leda globalt och ger ett ramverk för framgång i dagens sammankopplade värld. Vi börjar med att utforska ledarskapets utveckling och granskar både historiska modeller och samtida tillvägagångssätt som är bäst lämpade för den globala scenen. Vi fördjupar oss i de utmaningar och möjligheter som globaliseringen innebär, till exempel att hantera geografiskt spridda team, navigera i kulturella skillnader och anpassa sig till fluktuerande ekonomiska och politiska landskap.
Globala Utmaningar : krig, självbestämmelser och global rättvisa
Mot slutet av 1900-talet började många teoretiker och aktivister se framför sig nya möjligheter till transnationellt samarbete för att främja fred och global rättvisa. I Globala utmaningar ger Iris Marion Young nytt liv åt dessa förhoppningar geno...
Global
This is a powerful, hopeful and timely story about the real effects of climate change: two young people on different continents whose lives are catastrophically changed by global warming. A graphic novel with glorious colour artwork throughout for...
Global
This is a powerful, hopeful and timely story about the real effects of climate change: two young people on different continents whose lives are catastrophically changed by global warming. A graphic novel with glorious colour artwork throughout for...
After the Ice
A fantastic voyage through 15,000 years of history that laid the foundations for civilisation as we know it by award-winning science writer Steven Mithen. Twenty thousand years ago Earth was in the midst of an ice age. Then global warming arrived,...
Uncertain Times
The global triumph of democracy was announced thirty years ago, promising an age of consensus in which the dispassionate consideration of objective problems would give birth to a world at peace. Today, these grand hopes lie in ruins, and the era t...
Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis
This book assesses the forces of social struggle shaping the past and present of the global political economy from the perspective of historical materialism. Based on the philosophy of internal relations, the character of capital is understood in ...
German Colonialism in a Global Age
This collection provides a comprehensive treatment of the German colonial empire and its significance. Leading scholars show not only how the colonies influenced metropolitan life and the character of German politics during the Bismarckian and Wil...
German Colonialism in a Global Age
This collection provides a comprehensive treatment of the German colonial empire and its significance. Leading scholars show not only how the colonies influenced metropolitan life and the character of German politics during the Bismarckian and Wil...
Political Evil in a Global Age
Hannah Arendt is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most powerful political theorists. The purpose of this book is to make an innovative contribution to the newly emerging literature connecting Arendt to international political theo...
Social Justice in a Global Age
What is the relationship between the principles of social justice and global justice? How can we best reconcile the quest for greater social justice 'at home' with greater social justice in the world? Are the social justice pressures our societies...
Social Justice in a Global Age
What is the relationship between the principles of social justice and global justice? How can we best reconcile the quest for greater social justice 'at home' with greater social justice in the world? Are the social justice pressures our societies...
Media Events in a Global Age
"This volume assembles an estimable range of critical analyses of one of the most important mediated artifacts of the modern world-the media event. The authors challenge the construct, extend its usefulness, expand its theoretical basis and a...
Area Studies in the Global Age
This interdisciplinary volume is a new introduction to area studies in the framework of whole-world thinking. Emerging in the United States after World War II, area studies have proven indispensable to American integration in the world. They serve...
Cultural Politics in a Global Age
With contributions from Homi Bhabha, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Will Hutton, Jürgen Habermas and Amartya Sen, among others, this dazzling compendium of some of the world's most prominent and diverse thinkers examines the question, 'What is the future o...
Media Events in a Global Age
"This volume assembles an estimable range of critical analyses of one of the most important mediated artifacts of the modern world-the media event. The authors challenge the construct, extend its usefulness, expand its theoretical basis and a...
Power in the Global Information Age
One of the most brilliant and influential international relations scholars of his generation, Joseph S. Nye Jr. is one of the few academics to have served at the very highest levels of US government.¿This volume¿collects together many of his key w...
Eastern Orthodoxy in a Global Age
Despite over 200 million adherents, Eastern Orthodox Christianity attracts little scholarly attention. While more-covered religions emerge as powerful transnational forces, Eastern Orthodoxy appears doggedly local, linked to the ethnicity and land...
State Crime in the Global Age
State Crime in the Global Age brings together original writings from leading scholars in the field to explore the many ways that the use and abuse of state power results in grave social harms that outweigh, by far, the consequences of ordinary str...
Higher Education in the Global Age
Discussions on globalization now routinely focus on the economic impact of developing countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the former Soviet Union and Latin America. Only twenty-five years ago, many developing countries were largely closed ...
Korean Culture in the Global Age
Since the late 1990s, South Korean cultural products such as pop music, TV drama, and film have shaped the country’s image around the world. This book explores these three internationally best-known media of the Korean Wave global phenomenon, along with a less commonly featured aspect, K-literature. Iconic images of South Korea today include stylish music groups like BTS and Blackpink, appealing dramas, and a range of films and digital comics (manhwa). Alongside associations with glitz and glamor are darker impressions: continuing political division, malaise over a war that never really ended. Korean Culture in the Global Age focuses on these and other facets of South Korea’s constantly changing international image to show how it has come to command worldwide attention. In recent years, readers in a growing number of languages have discovered the talent of South Korean authors through the efforts of countless translators. Showing developments in and occasional connections between
Postcolonial Theory in the Global Age
The new essays in this collection examine newer forms of colonialism operating today in an increasingly globalized world. Recognizing the complexities and culpability of postcolonial politics, the contributors fill gaps that exist at theoretical l...