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Key Concepts eBook Series

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  • Development

    by Anthony Payne, Nicola Phillips ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    Just about everyone is 'for' development as an assumed 'good', yet few seem to have a concrete idea of what the term actually entails. Development offers a comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis of the various ways in which this important concept has been used in social and political analysis over the past 200 years. ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • The Third Way

    The Renewal of Social Democracy

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    The idea of finding a 'third way' in politics has been widely discussed over recent months - not only in the UK, but in the US, Continental Europe and Latin America. But what is the third way? Supporters of the notion haven't been able to agree, and critics deny the possibility altogether. Anthony Giddens shows that developing a third way is not only a possibility but a necessity in modern ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Killing Fields of Inequality

    by Göran Therborn ...
    Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets. It is a socio-cultural order which, for most of us, reduces our capabilities to function as human beings, our health, our dignity, our sense of self, as well as our resources to act and participate in the world. This book shows that inequality is literally a killing field, with millions of people dying premature deaths because of it. These ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Social Movements in Global Politics

    by David West ...
    Social Movements in Global Politics is a timely new account of the unconventional, ‘extra-institutional’ activities of social movements.In the face of impending global crises and stubborn conflicts, a conventional view of politics risks leaving us confused and fatalistic, feeling powerless because we are unaware of all that can be achieved by political means. By contrast, a variety of recent ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Imperialism and Global Political Economy

    by Alex Callinicos ...
    In Imperialism and Global Political Economy Alex Callinicos intervenes in one of the main political and intellectual debates of the day. The global policies of the United States in the past decade have encouraged the widespread belief that we live in a new era of imperialism. But is this belief true, and what does ‘imperialism’ mean?Callinicos explores these questions in this wide-ranging book. In ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Eco-Socialism

    From Deep Ecology to Social Justice

    by David Pepper ...
    First Published in 2004. Capitalism continues to degrade ecosystems and create social injustice. The 1992 Earth Summit demonstrated that the powerful vested interests behind Western capitalism have no intention of radically changing their goals and methods to help create an environmentally sound or socially just global society. In order to confront this, the green movement must now develop ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Nationalism and Globalisation

    Conflicting or Complementary?

    Edited by Daphne Halikiopoulou, Sofia Vasilopoulou ...
    Nationalism and globalisation are two central phenomena of the modern world, that have both shaped and been shaped by each other, yet few connections have been made systematically between the two.This book brings together leading international scholars to examine the effect of globalisation on nationalism, and how the persistence of the nation affects globalisation. With a range of case studies ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of International Political Economy (IPE)

    IPE as a Global Conversation

    Edited by Mark Blyth ...
    The study of the International Political Economy (IPE), like the IPE itself, is plural and unbounded. Despite what partisans sometimes say, rather than there being ‘one way’ of studying the IPE that is the ‘right way’, we find across the world great variation in IPE scholarship in terms of focus, questions, and methods. How then can we make sense of this and understand the field as a whole rather ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Informal Reckonings

    Conflict Resolution in Mediation, Restorative Justice, and Reparations

    by Andrew Woolford, R.S. Ratner ...
    The 'reparational turn' in the field of law has resulted in the increased use of so-called 'informal' approaches to conflict resolution, including primarily the three mechanisms considered in this book: mediation, restorative justice and reparations. While proponents of these mechanisms have acclaimed their communicative and democratic promise, critics have charged that mediation, restorative ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • An Analysis of James Ferguson's The Anti-Politics Machine

    by Julie Jenkins ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    The Anti-Politics Machine (1990) examines how international development projects are conceived, researched, and put into practice. It also looks at what these projects actually achieve. Ferguson criticizes the idea of externally-directed ‘development’ and argues that the process doesn’t take proper account of the daily realities of the communities it is intended to benefit. Instead, they often ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Anti-capitalism

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Simon Tormey ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Specifically, the book tackles the question: Who exactly are the anti-capitalists and what do they want? Simon Tormey examines the ideas of the various components that make up the movement: the anarchists and Marxists, the greens and environmentalists, the anti-corporate activists and autonomists, among many others. He looks in detail at how the movement operates its reliance on a unique ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Globalization and Contestation

    The New Great Counter-Movement

    by Ronaldo Munck ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    Globalization is undoubtedly the great overarching paradigm of our era. However, there is still little agreement on what globalization actually ‘is’ and some do not accept that it ‘is’ anything at all.This new book addresses the contestation of globalization by the anti- or counter-globalization movement. To contest means to challenge, to call into question, to doubt, to oppose and to litigate. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD