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Global Hong Kong

Global Hong Kong

1st Edition

By Cindy Wong, Gary McDonogh
September 29, 2005

Global Hong Kong locates Hong Kong in the contemporary globalizing world. Hong Kong, as the authors argue, is an archetypal place, sitting at the intersection of East and West. It is also a major center for global capital flows and world trade. Moreover, in recent years, the island's global ...

Morocco Globalization and Its Consequences

Morocco: Globalization and Its Consequences

1st Edition

By Shana Cohen, Larabi Jaidi
August 17, 2006

Cohen and Jaidi trace the development of contemporary Morocco in the Islamic world of North Africa, which is currently at the forefront of the clash between Western-style development and the politicized Islam that now pervades the Arab world. By applying globalization theory to detailed accounts ...

On Argentina and the Southern Cone Neoliberalism and National Imaginations

On Argentina and the Southern Cone: Neoliberalism and National Imaginations

1st Edition

By Alejandro Grimson, Gabriel Kessler
October 27, 2005

This book considers how globalization is impacting contemporary Argentina-via regional trading blocs, through migrations across its borders, and through the emerging transnational border regions that it shares with other Latin American nations. Overshadowing all of these trends is the current ...

The Globalization of Israel McWorld in Tel Aviv, Jihad in Jerusalem

The Globalization of Israel: McWorld in Tel Aviv, Jihad in Jerusalem

1st Edition

By Uri Ram
October 11, 2007

This book focuses on how globalization is impacting contemporary Israel. It is a concise and originally argued introduction to Israel, but the author, Uri Ram, is careful to frame his analysis in a broader discussion of Israeli history and broader social currents. Focusing in particular on two...

The Netherlands Globalization and National Identity

The Netherlands: Globalization and National Identity

1st Edition

By Frank J. Lechner
November 08, 2007

The Netherlands is the first concise, authored introduction available on the topic. The Netherlands has been a key entrepot in the world capitalist system for centuries, but because of relatively recent demographic changes, it has become symbolic of the clash of European and Islamic cultures. ...

The Philippines Mobilities, Identities, Globalization

The Philippines: Mobilities, Identities, Globalization

1st Edition

By James A. Tyner
November 01, 2008

Nearly five million migrant workers from the Philippines are employed in over 190 countries and territories. They work as doctors and domestic helpers, engineers and entertainers, seamstresses and surveyors. It is through their collective labor that the Philippines has assumed a global presence. ...

City Life from Jakarta to Dakar Movements at the Crossroads

City Life from Jakarta to Dakar: Movements at the Crossroads

1st Edition

By AbdouMaliq Simone
January 18, 2010

City Life from Jakarta to Dakar focuses on the politics incumbent to this process – an "anticipatory politics" – that encompasses a wide range of practices, calculations and economies. As such, the book is not a collection of case studies on a specific theme, not a review of developmental ...

Military Legacies A World Made By War

Military Legacies: A World Made By War

1st Edition

By James A. Tyner
January 18, 2010

Landmines, cluster-bombs, chemical pollutants, and other remnants of war continue to cause death to humans and damage to the environment long after the guns have fallen silent. From the jungles of Vietnam to the arctic tundra of Russia, no region has escaped the legacy of warfare. To understand the...

Iberian Worlds

Iberian Worlds

1st Edition

By Gary McDonogh
December 19, 2008

Iberian Worlds is an imaginative, short text that dramatically depicts important globalization themes and processes through the important flows and impacts Spain and Portugal have had with many important regions of the world for many centuries. Spain and Portugal have long histories at the ...

Global Ireland Same Difference

Global Ireland: Same Difference

1st Edition

By Tom Inglis
October 31, 2007

Global Ireland offers a concise synthesis of globalization's dramatic impact on Ireland. In the past fifteen years, Ireland has transformed from a sleepy and depressed European backwater to the 'emerald tiger', a country with a booming economy based on knowledge and high-tech industries. Not long ...

Australia Nation, Belonging, and Globalization

Australia: Nation, Belonging, and Globalization

1st Edition

By Anthony Moran
May 05, 2005

In this book Anthony Moran traces the development of contemporary Australian society in the global age, focusing on four major themes: settler/indigenous relations; economics and culture since the 1980s and their impact on national identity; the effects of increasing diversity fostered by ...

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