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This book investigates the interplay of internal and external constraints, challenges, and possibilities regarding foreign policy in India.

This book charts the way towards a better, repurposed globalization, which it calls 'reglobalization', and shows how this can be built, incrementally but realistically, via reforms to the partial and fragile existing structures of global governance.

This book brings together a collection of essays by progressive global activists in response to Samir Amin's call for a new global organization of progressive workers and peoples.

This book investigates the roles religious communities and organizations play in struggles for global justice and explores the faith-based concepts of justice which fuel religious actors¿ engagement. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Globalizations.

In Challenging Inequality in South Africa: Transitional Compasses leading scholars of South Africa explore creative possibilities to challenge structures of economic, social and political power that produce inequality.

Revisiting the magnetic poles of Karl Polanyi and Friedrich Hayek on the utopian springs of political economy, this book seeks to provide a compass for questioning the market economy of the twenty-first century.

Provides a study of looming war crises and transformations of the global political economy, bringing together economic and political theory, peace and conflict research and historical analogy to explore the alternatives.

"There has been clear recognition of tendencies towards uncritically celebrating resistance and the need for critical appraisal within the literature on globalization and contestation"--

"Labour, Geopolitics and Development in East Asia shows that such inter-linkages between labour, geopolitical transformations, and states' developmental strategies have been much more central to East Asia's development than has commonly been recognised"--

Are the growing oppositions to neoliberal market globalism able to develop meaningful alternative ideologies? Is there any substantial alternative to the world capitalist system on the horizon? This book answers such questions by examining the intellectual structure of the so-called 'anti-globalization' or 'global justice' movement.

By the 1970s the global hegemony established by an American Empire in the post-World War II period faced increasing resistance abroad and contradictions at home. This book focuses on the construction of and challenges to the military, economic, and cultural imperial projects of the United States in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Discussing the Employment paradigm that formed the dominant mode of development after the Second World War through to the 1970s, this book considers the economic and political forces that resulted in its eventual decline. It is suitable for students and scholars of international political economy, international relations, and labour studies.

Globalisation is usually said to be about markets and power and culture. Whither Globalisation? goes further, arguing that globalisation may also be understood as a way of knowing and representing the world.

Analyzes the impact of globalization on the concept of popular sovereignty and rethinks it for the transnational domain. This book explores how popular sovereignty has determined the form of democratic citizenship and how democratic citizenship and legitimacy can be conceived in the transnational sphere in the absence of a global sovereign order.

Severe poverty is one of the greatest moral challenges of our times. But what place, if any, do ethical thinking and questions of global justice have in the policies and practice of international organizations? This book examines this question based on an analysis of the two major multilateral development organizations (World Bank and the UNDP).

Accepting the existence of economic globalization processes, this book explores whether it is truly a 'global' process. It examines how globalization is experienced around the world and compares its intensity and impact in industrialized countries, and developing countries.

Examines the impact of colonialism and postcolonial migration on the politics and identity of Euro-American imperial powers. This book considers how outsiders are part of the construction of the native identity of the nation-state, and also how they challenge its coherence when they return to the centre in our increasingly globalized world.

Shows how globalization is 'contestable' in many different ways and how the counter-movements we have seen emerging over the years also 'bear witness' on behalf of an alternative human future. This book is of interest to students and scholars of international relations, politics and of globalization and global governance in particular.

Comprising five sections, this book deals with the dimensions of facilitating student success in higher education; facilitating student success through programs in the disciplines of study; student success and student diversity; student success and flexible modes of teaching and learning; and more.