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| CHRYSALIS EFFECT : The Metamorphosis of Global Culture [Philip Slater] This book shows that the chaos and conflict experienced world-wide today are the result of a global cultural metamorphosis, one which has accelerated so rapidly in recent decades as to provoke fierce resistance. Many of the changes that have taken place in the last fifty years -- the feminist movement, the rapid spread of democracy, the global economy, quantum physics, minority movements, the peace movement, the sexual revolution -- are part of this cultural transformation. Contrary to accepted opinion, the conflict it engenders is not a struggle between Left and Right, or between the West and Islam, but one taking place within the Left, within the Right, within the West, within Islam, within everyone and every institution. Currently, the world is in the middle of an adaptive process, moving toward a cultural ethos more appropriate to a species living in a shrinking world and in danger of destroying its habitat -- a world that increasingly demands for its survival integrative thinking, unlimited communication, and global co-operation. Award-winning author Philip Slater explains the metamorphosis of global culture through the analogy of the transition from caterpillar to butterfly -- the Chrysalis Effect -- whereby by old cultural assumptions are challenged and innovations are seen as a social ill, a critical moral infection, and attacked as such by the upholders of tradition. And when the budding culture replaces the previous one, it doesn't create a new way of being out of nothing, but merely rearranges old patterns to make the new ones. Today our world is caught in the middle of this disturbing transformative process -- a process that creates confusion over values, loss of ethical certainty, and a bewildering lack of consensus about almost everything. "The Chrysalis Effect" provides an answer to the question: Why is the world in such a mess? { 224pp, 152x229mm, December 2008; PB, £17.95, 1845193113:9781845193119 , Sussex Academic Press } |
| CURRENCIES & GLOBALIZATION [Marcy L Ferrington (ed)] Currencies are often the targets of speculators and the sometimes reflections and engines of a country's prosperity. They affect consumption rates, political stability and industrial success. Exchange rates are carefully set and endlessly analysed and changed. This book presents leading contemporary issues related to currencies and globalisation. { 209pp, 180x260mm, September 2007; HB, £85.99, 1600213197:9781600213199 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| DEMOCRACY'S DEBT : The Historical Tensions Between Political & Economic Liberty [M Lane Bruner] It is an undeniable fact that economic circumstances can directly impact political affairs, that wealth is easily translated into political influence, and that political movements and constitutional arrangements can directly influence economic environments. There is no consensus, however, on how to best manage the tensions between the production and maintenance of wealth and the just and responsible exercise of political power. In an in-depth analysis of these historic tensions, Professor of Communication M Lane Bruner surveys the history of argumentation related to wealth and statecraft, and, more importantly, the actual economic and political practices in republican polities of the past to compare arguments to policies. The overriding goal of the study is to analyse which forms of governance have provided the most important guides for the reform of contemporary institutions in charge of global governance. Bruner begins by discussing the interrelationships among forces of the state, the market, and argumentation, and then summarises the historical "triumph" of economic liberty over political liberty. Next he provides a brief history of the idea of free trade and associated economic argent from ancient Greece to the eighteenth century. Subsequent chapters focus on the Italian Renaissance republics as the first historical example of the problematic relationship between republicanism and economic practice on the tensions between economics and politics as reflect England's "financial revolution" in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; on the American revolution and the economic struggles surrounding the development of the US Constitution; on the rise of economic globalisation and attempts to create a "global constitution" for international finance; and, finally, on the dominant rhetorical strategies in the current globalisation debate and the future trajectory of global constitutionalism. Using illuminating historical analysis and compelling argumentation, Bruner addresses one of the most pressing issues of our generation: how the process of economic and political globalisation should best be managed, and how we can create both a sound global economy while also protecting the rights and freedoms of the world's citizens. { 340pp, 155x230mm, December 2008; HB, £21.99, 1591026776:9781591026778 , Prometheus Books } |
| DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS & PROSPECTS IN PACIFIC ISLANDS STATES : Readings in World Development [Biman Prasad & Kartick C Roy (eds)] Pacific Island countries are undergoing fundamental political and economic changes due to the process of globalisation. Many of them are struggling to come to grips with the global economic challenges of participating in a world of freer trade. Their smallness, distance from the major markets and vulnerability to natural disasters presents special challenges. Globalisation, however, also provides a window of opportunity for some of them to improve their economic growth performance through increasing exports, investment and technological advancement and labour mobility. This book deals with a number of important issues relevant for improving the economic growth performances of the Pacific Island countries. Good governance, developing appropriate and quality institutions to promote investment and exports are major challenges for most of them. In addition, the volume also provides case studies discussing the role of foreign aid, remittances and labour mobility, role of the agricultural sector, role of the informal sector, management of public finances, and the state of the public sector reform. { 305pp, 180x260mm, June 2007; HB, £59.50, 1600217931:9781600217937 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| GEOPOLITICAL & GEOSECURITY IMPLICATIONS OF GLOBALIZATION [Dr Nayef R F Al-Rodhan] The authors believe that national security is no longer simply national but also transnational and transcultural in its scope, and globalisation has a significant role to play in the development of security and strategic agendas at all levels. The pursuit of global security is a transnational phenomenon which is heightened and potentially hindered by the globalisation process. This publication proposes an alternative new security principle, which the editor believes is central to the understanding and attainment of lasting security and peace in today’s globalised world. The principle, termed "justice-based penta-security", states that "in a globalised world, security is a pentagon of human, environmental, national, transnational and transcultural security, and global security and the security of any one state or culture cannot, therefore, be achieved without good domestic and global governance that guarantees security through justice for all individuals, states, and cultures." Through an examination of the economic, political, environmental, societal, and military links between globalisation and security, this book provides insight into a complicated and diverse problem while proposing solutions to some of the more pressing issues that states are currently facing. This book contributes an innovative new theory and a unique perspective to the vast literature on globalisation and security in a way never before achieved, making it a vital reference to any comprehensive study of these issues. Contributing authors include Neil MacFarlane, Urs Luterbacher, Anthony Cordesman, Bethany Webster, Cédric Dupont, Graeme Herd and Nayef R F Al-Rodhan. REVIEW: "This book is a timely, highly relevant, multifaceted and most interesting contribution to the thinking on international security and globalisation. The key argument of the book that security can, in a globalised world, only be achieved through increased international cooperation at every level, including the cultural one, is pertinent. Security has ceased to be a zero sum game. It is an objective we have to work towards jointly." -- Ambassador Dr Theodor H Winkler, Director, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, Geneva, Switzerland "In becoming a household name (and often a whipping-boy), the idea of globalization has risked losing some of its focus and diagnostic force. This book faces up to the challenge of defining it and explores its many implications, with a linking theme of multi-dimensional security. It adds up to a versatile reader that also leaves questions open for further thought." -- Alyson J K Bailes, Director, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Stockholm, Sweden "This diverse and rich collection of essays explores the complex links between globalisation and contemporary security issues. It advances our understanding on a range of issues, and provides useful snapshots of key environmental, economic, political and geostrategic risks, challenges and vulnerabilities." -- Dr Keith Krause, Director, Programme in Strategic and International Security Studies, Graduate Institute of International Studies and Programme Director, Small Arms Survey, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland { 320pp, 150x220mm, December 2006; PB, £12.00, 2051020124:9782051020121 , Slatkine Reprints } |
| GLOBAL BIOSECURITY : Towards a New Governance Paradigm [Dr Nayef R F Al-Rodhan, Lyubov Nazaruk, Marc Finaud & Jenifer Mackby] In the 21st century, biosecurity has become a central part of any global policy-making agenda. With the rapid advancement of the life sciences, nanotechnology and biotechnology comes certain challenges for the scientific community and policy makers. With the potential threat of biological weapons proliferation and bioterrorism, there is a critical need for constructing a solid global governance system that is capable of addressing the complexity and multiplicity of the topics related to various aspects of biosecurity. This book outlines a new biosecurity governance model that is integrative, network-based, flexible, open, cross-cultural, transparent, and multi-disciplinary. The model emphasises the need to engage a wide variety of actors ranging from governments and non-profit organisations to private industry, science, and academia. This publication adds an up-to-date perspective and comprehensive guide to any personal or institutional library. { 248pp, 150x220mm, February 2008; PB, £16.00, 205102054X:9782051020541 , Slatkine Reprints } |
| GLOBALIZATION & AFRICA [James L Maruba (ed)] Globalisation can be described as a process by which the people of the world are unified into a single society. This process is a combination of economic, technological, sociocultural and political forces. Looking specifically at economic globalisation; it can be measured in different ways. These centre on the four main economic flows that characterise globalisation: Goods and services, e.g. exports plus imports as a proportion of national income or per capita of population; Labour/people, e.g. net migration rates; inward or outward migration flows, weighted by population; Capital, e.g. inward or outward direct investment as a proportion of national income or per head of population; Technology, e.g. international research & development flows; proportion of populations (and rates of change thereof) using particular inventions (especially 'factor-neutral' technological advances such as the telephone, motorcar, broadband). This volume centres on globalisation and its processes in Africa. { 168pp, 180x260mm, June 2008; HB, £52.99, 1604564245:9781604564242 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| GLOBALIZATION & PARTNERSHIPS : Features of Business Alliances & International Cooperation [Jacques-Marie Aurifeille, Serge Svizzero & Clement A Tisdell (eds)] Growing economic globalisation has increased international business competition and international economic interdependence. From this perspective, many firms have formed business partnerships and most nations have had to re-evaluate their economic interdependence. This book explores changes that have occurred or have been proposed in this regard. It provides new insights into business partnerships and international economic interdependence, given growing economic globalisation, and explores the managerial and socio-economic consequences of those ideas. The contributions in this book have been divided into four parts. Those in Part II concentrate on the specification of partnerships and reasons for business partnerships in the context of a globalisation. The idea of global networks in which some "hard" and "soft" forms of partnerships would appear and mix is introduced and discussed according to the partners involved (nations, unions, firms and consumers) and the economic activities (whether tangible or abstract). Globalisation also has a number of consequences for business co-ordination, in particular when they are based on outsourcing strategies in which cost reduction is balanced with knowledge transfers. These are amongst the issues explored in Part III. The difficulty to monitor and predict the effects of global partnerships tends to increase the importance of cultural and psychological variables such as trust and commitment. Therefore the role of attitudes and perceptions is very important. Whatever the agreement and the conjoined management among partner firms, the attitude of the other agents can produce asymmetric affects on these firms and considerably bias their partnership strategy. Such biases are particularly likely from consumers. Their attitude towards globalisation is not the only bias that may occur. Their loyalty is also an important issue in a globalising world, particularly in the service sector where lots of partnerships have been made on a global scale (eg banks, airlines, leisure). These are amongst the relationship marketing issues explored in Part IV. In Part V, the factors introduced in the previous chapters are considered from a regional and cultural perspective, where nations and regions themselves are engaged in global partnership. In this context, discrepancy often develops between the domestic and the international globalisation strategies, as well as between the capital and labour markets. The resulting complexity is particularly problematic for the developing and peripheral economies. Novel insights about partnership emerge, as studied in this concluding part of the book. { 278pp, 180x260mm, June 2007; HB, £52.99, 1600216366:9781600216367 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| GOVERNANCE & DEVELOPMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES [K C Roy & Biman Prasad (eds)] Since the early 1990s, the issue of improving the governance quality of a country for achieving higher levels of growth and development has assumed considerable importance in the development debate in the international forum. This book deals with a number of important issues relevant for improving the governance quality of developing countries. 'Improving governance' is increasingly being included in the conditionality lists of donor governments and multilateral agencies for the disbursement of aid and loans to developing countries. There exists a substantial body of literature dealing with investment in women's human capital, especially on education and health, and their returns, both private and societal. This book explores this and other social issues relating to this topic. { 224pp, 180x260mm, June 2007; HB, £59.50, 1600217605:9781600217609 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS & FINANCE ISSUES [Alan N Kendall (ed)] Globalisation has forced international issues to a prime consideration of businesses at every level. Formerly arcane topics like exchange rates, risk and international taxation among dozens of other such issues are the focus of this book. { 357pp, 180x260mm, September 2007; HB, £85.99, 1600218911:9781600218910 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| NEOLIBERAL GLOBALIZATION AS NEW IMPERIALISM : Case Studies on Reconstruction of the Periphery [Ahmet H Köse, Fikret Senses & Erinç Yeldan (eds)] This book attempts to bring together, both theoretically and empirically, a variety of contributions on the ideology of neo-liberal globalisation as a new phase of global capitalism-cum-imperialism. Trumpeted with the rhetoric of TINA (There Is No Alternative) the neo-liberal orthodoxy has become the dominant ideology today in restructuring the periphery of global capitalism. This book addresses the diverse economic structures of the global periphery and tries to deduce lessons on the current global crisis conjuncture of global capital in governing the world. { 275pp, 180x260mm, February 2007; HB, £85.99, 1600216390:9781600216398 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| NEW RELIGIONS & GLOBALIZATION [Armin Geertz & Margit Warburg (eds)] Globalisation is a predominant theme in contemporary educational and political circles. Research on globalisation has become a political priority because the world has become a 'single place' where local events may have world-wide political, economic and military consequences. Oftentimes, however, cultural and religious consequences are ignored -- although recent waves of violence seem to be religiously fuelled. This book argues that studying new religions in a globalisation perspective offers theoretical and methodological advantages for the general study of religion and the general study of globalisation. Religions are often cosmopolitan and universal in their overall message, yet they may also be utterly immersed in local interactions. Whether approached as a reflection of world economy and power dynamics, new possibilities of communication and cultural exchange in the light of mass media and technology, or increased cultural plurality in the wake of migration, the concept of globalisation challenges the academic study of religion to renew its theoretical and methodological reflection. { 277pp, 150x220mm, June 2008; HB, £22.78, 8779342949:9788779342941 , Aarhus University Press } |
| PILLARS OF GLOBALIZATION [Dr Nayef R F Al-Rodhan & Ambassador Gérarld Stoudmann] Globalisation as a process has been effecting human civilisations since the beginning of documented history. Where this process has brought us and where it is leading our policies, our security, and our future largely depends on the decisions that states take today. This publication also emphasises that for globalisation to benefit humanity, the three major cultures of the world (Eastern cultures, Arab-Islamic cultures, and Western cultures), along with others, have to unite and uphold the world together (represented diagrammatically on the front cover) and not separately from one another. Three diagnostic tools provide the means for measuring the impact of globalisation from a number of perspectives and outline what we can expect for the future of the international system. The proposed timeline of globalisation is very comprehensive and provides unique historical insights that are not focused only on events in Western civilisations. The reader will be surprised at their relevance to today’s world events and their depth. In defining globalisation, the authors provide an innovative and inclusive yet simple new definition of globalisation which states that : "Globalisation is a process that encompasses the causes, course, and consequences of transnational and transcultural integration of human and non-human activities." The authors also provide the basis for careful analysis and conceptualisation through the use of an innovative globalisation matrix designed to predict patterns and policy as states handle the effects of this process as well as matrices for security and stability. This book provides an evolutionary and encyclopaedic reference to this vital concept and should provide a cornerstone for any further study when assessing the impact of globalisation on our historical, modern, and future world. REVIEW: "The New Millennium requires new thinking about Globalisation. The 'Pillars of Globalisation' with its innovative methods of inquiry reflect this new and thought-provoking approach to the understanding of relations and interconnections among states, societies and humans in today's global setting." -- Dr Fred Tanner, Director, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Geneva, Switzerland "Globalisation has become a fact of life – in all human activities. It is useless to be for or against it. This book gives you a good insight into a very complicated problem." -- Ambassador Edouard Brunner, President of the Foundation Council of the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of the Armed Forces and former Swiss Ambassador to the United States "This is a timely contribution to the globalisation literature. With growing apprehensions about migration, terrorism, pandemics, and armed conflict, and as multilateral trade negotiations flounder, researchers and policy makers are taking a harder look at the future direction of globalisation. As they do so, they will find this clear and insightful book to be essential reading in providing them with an understanding of the meaning of globalisation, with a sense of its origins, and with innovative approaches to assessing globalisation issues, especially as they relate to international security and stability." -- Dr John M Treddenick, Professor of Economics, College of International and Security Studies, George C Marshall European Center for Security Studies { 233pp, 150x220mm, December 2006; PB, £12.00, 2051020132:9782051020138 , Slatkine Reprints } |
| STABILITY OF STATES : The Nexus between Transnational Threats, Globalization & Internal Resilience [Dr Nayef R F Al-Rodhan & Sara Kuepfer] In this study, the authors contend that in our globalised world the stability of any individual state (irrespective of its size and importance) plays a critical role in the stability of the entire international system. There are multiple ways to achieve state stability, whether through western-style democracies or through other forms of good and effective governance that are in keeping with local cultures and histories. Regardless of whichever system is used, it is critical that there are certain minimal criteria of governance that are adhered to and must include human dignity, equality, and prosperity. The book contributes a timely analysis of ways to achieve and the methods required to maintain global stability and provides a valuable tool to anyone who is interested in true and lasting transnational security. REVIEW: "This survey of state instability accomplishes three inter-linked tasks: it identifies how and why states fail; critically assesses the nature of the relationship between weak and failed states and transnational sources of insecurity; and analyses more fully the impact of globalisation upon this nexus. This book constitutes a powerful tool for policy makers, practitioners, and analysts. It not only allows them to more effectively determine which policy responses might best address this phenomenon, but also to create an appropriate set of metrics that can then gauge the viability of such responses through time." -- Dr Graeme P. Herd, Faculty Member, Geneva Centre for Security Policy and Associate Fellow, International Security Programme, Chatham House, London { 152pp, 150x220mm, December 2007; PB, £12.00, 2051020353:9782051020350 , Slatkine Reprints } |
| TRADE POLICIES & AGREEMENTS IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION [Paul B Lucus (ed)] Trade policies and agreements are a powerful weapon in the Era of Globalization. Most countries' strategy is to pursue multiple market-opening initiatives on a global, regional and bilateral basis, establishing models of success that can be used throughout all negotiations. This book presents some trade policies and agreements of the United States. { 188pp, 180x260mm, October 2007; HB, £52.99, 1600218369:9781600218361 , Nova Science Publishers } |