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  • Engineering Rules

    Global Standard Setting since 1880

    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 ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Rising Powers and the Future of Global Governance

    Edición de Kevin Gray, Craig N. Murphy ...
    Series series ThirdWorlds
    This volume contributes to the growing debate surrounding the impact that the rising powers may or may not be having on contemporary global political and economic governance. Through studies of Brazil, India, China, and other important developing countries within their respective regions such as Turkey and South Africa, we raise the question of the extent to which the challenge posed by the rising ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Global Institutions, Marginalization and Development

    Edición de Craig N. Murphy ...
    Series series RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
    For more than a century and a half, the most powerful national governments have created institutions of multilateral governance that promise to make a more inclusive world, a world serving women, working people, the colonized, the 'backward', the destitute, and the despised.This groundbreaking book is a study of that promise, and of the real impact of this world government. It discusses what ... Leer más

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  • The International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

    Global Governance through Voluntary Consensus

    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 ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

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  • Humanitarianism in Question

    Politics, Power, Ethics

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

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  • A Brief History of Neoliberalism

    de David Harvey ...
    Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Its spread has depended upon a reconstitution of state powers such that privatization, finance, and market processes are emphasized. State interventions in the economy are ... Leer más

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  • Liberal Leviathan

    The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order

    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    A new vision for the American world orderIn the second half of the twentieth century, the United States engaged in the most ambitious and far-reaching liberal order building the world had yet seen. This liberal international order has been one of the most successful in history in providing security and prosperity to more people. But in the last decade, the American-led order has been troubled. ... Leer más

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  • Exceptional People

    How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future

    The past, present, and future role of global migrationThroughout history, migrants have fueled the engine of human progress. Their movement has sparked innovation, spread ideas, relieved poverty, and laid the foundations for a global economy. In a world more interconnected than ever before, the number of people with the means and motivation to migrate will only increase. Exceptional People ... Leer más

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  • The Women, Gender and Development Reader

    The Women, Gender and Development Reader is the definitive volume of literature dedicated to women in the development process. Now in a fully revised second edition, the editors expertly present the impacts of social, political and economic change by reviewing such topical issues as migration, persistent structural discrimination, the global recession, and climate change. Approached from a ... Leer más

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  • The Third Way

    The Renewal of Social Democracy

    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 ... Leer más

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  • When Work Disappears

    The World of the New Urban Poor

    Wilson, one of our foremost authorities on race and poverty, challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos. Marshaling a vast array of data and the personal stories of hundreds of men and women, Wilson persuasively argues that problems endemic to America's inner cities--from fatherless households to ... Leer más

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  • In the Shadow of Violence

    Politics, Economics, and the Problems of Development

    This book applies the conceptual framework of Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis and Barry R. Weingast's Violence and Social Orders (Cambridge University Press, 2009) to nine developing countries. The cases show how political control of economic privileges is used to limit violence and coordinate coalitions of powerful organizations. Rather than castigating politicians and elites as simply ... Leer más

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