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  • Global Slump

    The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance

    by David McNally ...
    Series series Spectre
    Global Slump analyzes the global financial meltdown as the first systemic crisis of the neoliberal stage of capitalism. It argues that—far from having ended—the crisis has ushered in a whole period of worldwide economic and political turbulence. In developing an account of the crisis as rooted in fundamental features of capitalism, Global Slump challenges the view that its source lies in financial ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Glass Houses

    Privacy, Secrecy, and Cyber Insecurity in a Transparent World

    by Joel Brenner ...
    A chilling and revelatory appraisal of the new faces of espionage and warfare on the digital battlegroundShortly after 9/11, Joel Brenner entered the inner sanctum of American espionage, first as the inspector general of the National Security Agency, then as the head of counterintelligence for the director of National Intelligence. He saw at close range the battleground on which adversaries are ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Boom, Bust, Exodus

    The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities

    by Chad Broughton ...
    Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders owed much of their unexpected popularity in the 2016 primaries to their respective stances on trade and immigration policy. Political elites and policy experts were bewildered by combative talk of building a wall and the ubiquity of anti-TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) sloganeering in what many saw as a bizarre election cycle. They have scrambled to explain both ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Hearts and Mines

    The US Empire’s Culture Industry

    by Tanner Mirrlees ...
    From Katy Perry training alongside US Marines in a music video, to the global box-office mastery of the US military-supported Transformers franchise, to the explosion of war games such as Call of Duty, it’s clear that the US security state is a dominant force in media culture. But is the ubiquity of cultural products that glorify the security state a new phenomenon? Or have Uncle Sam and Hollywood ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Handbook of Key Global Financial Markets, Institutions, and Infrastructure

    by Gerard Caprio ...
    Understanding twenty-first century global financial integration requires a two-part background. The Handbook of Key Global Financial Markets, Institutions, and Infrastructure begins its description of how we created a financially-intergrated world by first examining the history of financial globalization, from Roman practices and Ottoman finance to Chinese standards, the beginnings of corporate ... Read more

    $179.99 USD

  • Beyond the Global Capitalist Crisis

    The World Economy in Transition

    Edited by Berch Berberoglu ...
    Series series Globalization, Crises, and Change
    The deep economic recession that has occurred in all major sectors of the U.S. and global economy is a manifestation of the underlying contradictions of the capitalist system that has resulted in the accumulation of vast fortunes on one side and impoverishment, debt, and destitution on the other. In short, the crisis of global capitalism is the result of the immense disparities in wealth and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Organization of American States (OAS)

    Global Governance Away From the Media

    by Mônica Herz ...
    Series series Global Institutions
    The Organization of American States (OAS) is the world’s oldest regional multifunctional organization. This work provides a clear and comprehensive discussionof this important body, dealing with security, technical cooperation, and the construction of democratic institutions.Providing an incisive analysis of the history, decision making procedures, relevance, functions, and operations of the OAS, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Mediterranean Labor Markets in the First Age of Globalization

    An Economic History of Real Wages and Market Integration

    by Paul Caruana Galizia ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Scholars have studied the nineteenth century's unprecedented labor flows in global and specific country contexts, but have lacked a comprehensive analysis of the world's old economic core, the Mediterranean. This work provides answers to important questions, such as: If the Mediterranean labor market really was integrated, then why did globalization affect the Western and Eastern Mediterranean so ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Globalization, Utopia and Postcolonial Science Fiction

    New Maps of Hope

    by E. Smith ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This study considers the recent surge of science fiction narratives from the postcolonial Third World as a utopian response to the spatial, political, and representational dilemmas that attend globalization. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Globalization and Development

    Rethinking Interventions and Governance

    Edited by Arne Bigsten ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    The key challenge for achieving sustained development in developing countries relates to quality of domestic governance, which in turn is strongly affected by external interventions. Domestic governance includes politics, policy formulation, institution building and policy implementation. It is important for both international and domestic agents to understand how the interplay between external ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Migration Across Boundaries

    Linking Research to Practice and Experience

    Edited by Parvati Nair, Tendayi Bloom ...
    Series series Studies in Migration and Diaspora
    Bringing together scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplinary backgrounds working in Europe, North and South America, South Asia and the Middle East, this volume explores the question of how to ensure that migration research feeds back into improving the lives of migrants. It emphasises the necessarily interdisciplinary and cross-boundary nature of migration research, offering ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Fiscal Crisis and World Order

    by Raymond W. Converse ...
    The book begins by approaching the fiscal crisis that hit the United States and the global economy starting in 2008 with a short historical background. It details various aspects of the economic and fiscal crisis, in relation to congressional efforts to produce a solution, and it predicts what success can be expected from these efforts.Secondly, the book looks (from several points of view) at what ... Read more

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