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  • The Rise of the Infrastructure State

    How US–China Rivalry Shapes Politics and Place Worldwide

    by Mustafa Kemal Bayırbağ, Alvin Camba, Jerik Cruz, Guanie Lim, Meredith DeBoom, Charis Enns, Brock Bersaglio, Masalu Luhula, Ferenc Gyuris, Zhengli Huang, Tom Goodfellow, Nicholas Jepson, Wangui Kimari, Gediminas Lesutis, Julie Michelle Klinger, Kuik Cheng Chwee, Jessica C. Liao, Jessica Neafie, Dinesh Paudel, Katharine Rankin, Steven Rolf, Marcelo Saguier, Dorothy Tang, Angela Tritto, Farzana Abdilashimova, Micah Ingalls, Maximiliano Vila Seoane, Ulan Shamshiev, Mary Silaban, Rune Steenberg ...
    Tensions between the US and China have escalated as both powers seek to draw countries into their respective political and economic orbits by financing and constructing infrastructure.Wide-ranging and even-handed, this book offers a fresh interpretation of the territorial logic of US–China rivalry, and explores what it means for countries across Eurasia, Africa, and Latin America. The chapters ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • China’s Uneven and Combined Development

    by Steven Rolf ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book mobilises the theory of uneven and combined development to uncover the geopolitical economic drivers of China’s rise. The purpose is to explain the formation and trajectory of its economic ‘accumulation system’ — which remains a confounding hybrid of statist and neoliberal forms of capitalism — as the outcome of China’s geopolitical engagement of the USA during the late stages of the ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

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  • The BRICs and Emerging Economies in Comparative Perspective

    Political Economy, Liberalisation and Institutional Change

    Edited by Uwe Becker ...
    In the past ten to twenty years the global political economy picture has dramatically changed with the emergence of the economies of Brazil, Russia, India and, notably, China (BRICs) as big players and competitors of the advanced economies in the West and Eastern Asia. The book comparatively analyses institutional change in the BRICs.This book examines the BRICs by analysing their institutional ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Post-Western World

    How Emerging Powers Are Remaking Global Order

    by Oliver Stuenkel ...
    With the United States' superpower status rivalled by a rising China and emerging powers like India and Brazil playing a growing role in international affairs, the global balance of power is shifting. But what does this mean for the future of the international order? Will China dominate the 21st Century? Will the so-called BRICS prove to be a disruptive force in global affairs? Are we headed ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • The Third Way and its Critics

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    The idea of finding a 'third way' in politics has become a focus of discussion across the world. Political leaders, in the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America claim to be following its principles. Yet the notion has also attracted much criticism. Some say it is an empty concept without any real content. Critics from the more traditional left argue that it is a betrayal of left-wing ideals.Anthony ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Escape from Empire

    The Developing World's Journey through Heaven and Hell

    by Alice H. Amsden ...
    A provocative view of economic growth in the Third World argues that the countries that have achieved steady economic growth—including future economic superpowers India and China—have done so because they have resisted the American ideology of free markets.The American government has been both miracle worker and villain in the developing world. From the end of World War II until the 1980s poor ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Public Administration

    Key Issues Challenging Practitioners

    by Michael Anthony Tarallo ...
    How public affairs are run depends upon the degree of authority and control central government decides to relinquish to regional and local governments, and the extent to which it favors citizen involvement in the governing process. Public administrators do not operate in a vacuum. The context within which decision-making takes place greatly influences public administrators approach to public ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Rise of China and India in Africa

    Challenges, Opportunities and Critical Interventions

    by Dot Keet, Kwesi Aning, He Wenping, Fredrick Mutesa, Peter Kragelund, Alex Vines, Sanusha Naidu, Liu Haifang, Sanjukta Bhattacharya, Alemayehu Geda, Atnafu G. Meskel, Peter Draper, Tsidiso Disenyana, Renu Modi, Linn Axelsson, Professor Timothy M Shaw ...
    Series series Africa Now
    In recent years, China and India have become the most important economic partners of Africa and their footprints are growing by leaps and bounds, transforming Africa's international relations in a dramatic way. Although the overall impact of China and India's engagement in Africa has been positive in the short-term, partly as a result of higher returns from commodity exports fuelled by excessive ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The BRICS

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew F. Cooper ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In the wake of the post-Cold War era, the aftermath of 9/11, the 2008 global financial crisis, and the emergence of the G20 at the leaders level, few commentators expected a reshaping of the global system towards multipolarity, and away from the United States. And yet, the BRICS - encompassing Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - has emerged as a challenge to the international status ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The European Union as a Global Actor

    by Charlotte Bretherton, John Vogler ...
    This comprehensive, up to date and theoretically informed text examines the full range of the European Union's external relations including the Common Foreign and Security Policy. It look at the increasingly important part the EU plays in global politics. The authors argue that the EU's significance cannot be grasped by making comparisons with traditional states. Issues covered include: · the ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The New Economic Diplomacy

    Decision-Making and Negotiation in International Economic Relations

    Edited by Nicholas Bayne, Stephen Woolcock ...
    Series series Global Governance
    The New Economic Diplomacy explains how states conduct their external economic relations in the 21st century: how they make decisions domestically, how they negotiate internationally and how these processes interact. Although the previous edition, published in 2011, was able to reflect the impact of the financial crisis and the immediate reaction to it, a lot has happened since then, and the ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Political Power of Global Corporations

    by John Mikler ...
    We have long been told that corporations rule the world, their interests seemingly taking precedence over states and their citizens. Yet, while states, civil society, and international organizations are well drawn in terms of their institutions, ideologies, and functions, the world's global corporations are often more simply sketched as mechanisms of profit maximization.In this book, John Mikler ... Read more

    $21.00 USD