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  • Engineering Rules

    Global Standard Setting since 1880

    by JoAnne Yates, Craig N. Murphy ...
    Series series Hagley Library Studies in Business, Technology, and Politics
    The first global history of voluntary consensus standard setting.Finalist, Hagley Prize in Business History, The Hagley Museum and Library / The Business History ConferencePrivate, voluntary standards shape almost everything we use, from screw threads to shipping containers to e-readers. They have been critical to every major change in the world economy for more than a century, including the rise ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

    Global Governance through Voluntary Consensus

    by Craig N. Murphy, Joanne Yates ...
    Series series Global Institutions
    The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is the first full-length study of the largest nongovernmental, global regulatory network whose scope and influence rivals that of the UN system.Much of the interest in the successes and failures of global governance focuses around high profile organisations such as the United Nations, World Bank and World Trade Organisation. This volume is ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • Humanitarianism in Question

    Politics, Power, Ethics

    Edited by Michael Barnett, Thomas G. Weiss ...
    Years of tremendous growth in response to complex emergencies have left a mark on the humanitarian sector. Various matters that once seemed settled are now subjects of intense debate. What is humanitarianism? Is it limited to the provision of relief to victims of conflict, or does it include broader objectives such as human rights, democracy promotion, development, and peacebuilding? For much of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Foundations of the American Century

    The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American Power

    by Inderjeet Parmar ...
    Inderjeet Parmar reveals the complex interrelations, shared mindsets, and collaborative efforts of influential public and private organizations in the building of American hegemony. Focusing on the involvement of the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations in U.S. foreign affairs, Parmar traces the transformation of America from an "isolationist" nation into the world's only superpower, all in ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A World of Three Cultures

    Honor, Achievement and Joy

    by Miguel E. Basáñez ...
    In this book, Miguel Basáñez presents a provocative look at the impact of culture on global development. Drawing on data from governments, NGOs, the World Values Survey and more addressing over one hundred countries, he argues that values, as the "building blocks" of culture, are directly related to the speed with which social, cultural and economic development occurs. Basáñez utilizes ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Good Cop/Bad Cop

    Environmental NGOs and Their Strategies toward Business

    Edited by Thomas Lyon ...
    Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play an increasingly prominent role in addressing complex environmental issues such as climate change, persistent bio-accumulative pollutants, and the conservation of biodiversity. At the same time, the landscape in which they operate is changing rapidly. Markets, and direct engagement with industry, rather than traditional government regulation, are often the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Dangerous Sanctuaries

    Refugee Camps, Civil War, and the Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid

    by Sarah Kenyon Lischer ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    Since the early 1990s, refugee crises in the Balkans, Central Africa, the Middle East, and West Africa have led to the international spread of civil war. In Central Africa alone, more than three million people have died in wars fueled, at least in part, by internationally supported refugee populations. The recurring pattern of violent refugee crises prompts the following questions: Under what ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Financing Nonprofits

    Putting Theory into Practice

    by Woods Bowman, Arthur Brooks, Joseph Cordes, Charles M. Gray, Janet Greenlee, Mark Hager, Renee Irvin, Estelle James, Kevin M. Kearns, Elizabeth Keating, Anne Preston, Patrick Rooney, Michael Rushton, Richard Sansing, Roxanne Spillett, Richard Steinberg, Howard Tuckman, Robert Yetman ...
    Nonprofits often struggle financially, overwhelmed by the need to muster a complex combination of income streams that range from grants and government funding to gifts-in-kind and volunteer labor. Financing Nonprofits draws upon a growing body of scholarship in economics and organizational theory to offer a conceptual framework for understanding this diverse mix of financing sources. By applying ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Globalization, Political Institutions and the Environment in Developing Countries

    by Gabriele Spilker ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Environmental Policy and Politics
    Though industrialized countries are usually the ones indicted when environmental pollution is discussed, over the few last years the rate of emissions in developing countries has increased by a startling amount. The fallout from this increase is evidenced by the struggle of cities like Beijing to improve their air quality. Yet there also exist developing countries such as Thailand that have ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • State-centric to Contested Social Governance in Korea

    Shifting Power

    by Hyuk-Rae Kim ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on Modern Korea
    In this interdisciplinary study of governance, Hyuk-Rae Kim traces how civil society and NGOs have evolved over time, how they differ in motivation from their Western counterparts, and the role civil society NGOs have played in consolidating democracy as the governance system in Korea changes from a state-centric to a contested one.This book presents civil society's rise in Korea through in-depth ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Indigenous Development in the Andes

    Culture, Power, and Transnationalism

    by Robert Andolina, Nina Laurie, Sarah A. Radcliffe ...
    As indigenous peoples in Latin America have achieved greater prominence and power, international agencies have attempted to incorporate the agendas of indigenous movements into development policymaking and project implementation. Transnational networks and policies centered on ethnically aware development paradigms have emerged with the goal of supporting indigenous cultures while enabling ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Activism, NGOs and the State

    Multilevel Responses to Immigration Politics in Europe

    by Melissa Schnyder ...
    Many NGOs are mobilizing transnationally in order to form new social networks that enable them to better interact with nation-state policies on migrant and refugee inclusion.This book empirically investigates the rich varieties of cooperative cross-border activity, and compares how the same groups behave at both the national and transnational levels. It uses an original survey – the Survey of ... Read more

    $48.99 USD