Globalisation, as an international phenomenon, has contributed to or assisted in the development of major economic, political and social change in ...

Globalisation can be described as a process by which the people of the world are unified into a single society. This process is a combination of ec...

Growing economic globalisation has increased international business competition and international economic interdependence. From this perspective, ...

Globalisation, like no other term, has gained in recent years a prominent position in nearly all branches of social science. Consequently, its defi...

This volume proposes an examination of how globalisation and transnational capitalism have reshaped the terrain and parameters of social, economic ...

This book describes and discusses the various aspects of the changing "landscape" of China's industrial development within the general context of g...

This book presents an analysis of globalisation as it is projected to be in 2020. It is based on a Report of the National Intelligence Council's 20...

Globalisation can be described as the combined influences of trade liberalisation, market integration, international finance and investment, techno...

Globalization's Impact on State-Local Economic Development Policy

There are two major aims for this book: first, to make a contribution to the academic debates; and second, to urge frontline INGO practitioners to ...

Non-proliferation assistance programs, including co-operative threat reduction, are being examined to help reduce the risk of terrorist access to w...

Each year, hundreds of New Yorkers disappear under mysterious circumstances never to be heard from again, with their families and loved ones waitin...

Emergency management seems more and more in the foreground in recent years as disaster after disaster strikes or threatens and seems to be met with...

There is no precise definition of "financial crisis", but a common view is that disruptions in financial markets rise to the level of a crisis when...

The First Amendment provides that 'Congress shall make no law... Bridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...'. The First Amendment applies, ...

In 1858, gold was discovered in the Fraser River. News of this discovery travelled to the Pearl River Delta, where, in the aftermath of the Opium W...

This volume presents a variety of papers on issues related to growth, development and poverty prepared by specialists in their particular developme...

The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee undertook an in-depth, comprehensive bipartisan investigation of procedures to dispatch detainees fro...

This book describes programs for the admission and employment of guest workers in fourteen selected countries, the European Union, the Association ...

In the long-awaited follow-up to her 2012 memoir, Journeywoman, Kate Braid returns with an honest and thought-provoking collection of essays reflec...