Beyond US H25/10/2016egemony in International Development

Beyond US H25/10/2016egemony in International Development
Author: Jiajun Xu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2017
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107172845

This book provides essential background on China's bid for increasing influence over the US hegemonic architecture of international financial institutions.

Beyond US Hegemony in International Development

Beyond US Hegemony in International Development
Author: Jiajun Xu
Publisher:
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2016
Genre: United States - Foreign relations - Developing countries
ISBN: 9781316806678

This book provides essential background on China's bid for increasing influence over the US hegemonic architecture of international financial institutions.

Beyond Hofstede

Beyond Hofstede
Author: Cheryl Nakata
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2009-07-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230240836

Hofstede introduced a culture paradigm that has been widely influential in international business. However, its relevance in light of culture's increasing complexity due to globalization has been questioned. Alternative culture frameworks and perspectives are offered by leading scholars in global marketing and management.

Localizing Development

Localizing Development
Author: Ghazala Mansuri
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 082138256X

This book examines the conceptual foundations of the participatory approach to local development, assesses the evidence of its efficacy, and draws key lessons for policy.

Africa in International Politics

Africa in International Politics
Author: Ian Taylor
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780415358361

Locating Africa on the global stage, this book examines and compares external involvement in the continent, exploring the foreign policies of major states and international organizations towards Africa. The contributors work within a political economy framework in order to study how these powers have attempted to stimulate democracy, peace and prosperity in the context of neo-liberal hegemony and ask whom these attempts have benefited and failed.

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens
Author: Jenifer Neils
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2021-02-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108484557

This book is a comprehensive introduction to ancient Athens, its topography, monuments, inhabitants, cultural institutions, religious rituals, and politics. Drawing from the newest scholarship on the city, this volume examines how the city was planned, how it functioned, and how it was transformed from a democratic polis into a Roman urbs.

The German Chemical Industry in the Twentieth Century

The German Chemical Industry in the Twentieth Century
Author: John E. Lesch
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9401593779

In the twentieth century, dyes, pharmaceuticals, photographic products, explosives, insecticides, fertilizers, synthetic rubber, fuels, and fibers, plastics, and other products have flowed out of the chemical industry and into the consumer economies, war machines, farms, and medical practices of industrial societies. The German chemical industry has been a major site for the development and application of the science-based technologies that gave rise to these products, and has had an important role as exemplar, stimulus, and competitor in the international chemical industry. This volume explores the German chemical industry's scientific and technological dimension, its international connections, and its development after 1945. The authors relate scientific and technological change in the industry to evolving German political and economic circumstances, including two world wars, the rise and fall of National Socialism, the post-war division of Germany, and the emergence of a global economy. This book will be of interest to historians of modern Germany, to historians of science and technology, and to business and economic historians.

China's Innovation Challenge

China's Innovation Challenge
Author: Arie Y. Lewin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2016-04-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107127122

This book argues that China must become an innovation-based economy to avoid the middle-income traps, and examines both the opportunities and challenges in meeting this goal.

Transgovernance

Transgovernance
Author: Louis Meuleman
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2012-09-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3642280099

‘Transgovernance: Advancing Sustainability Governance’ analyses the question what recent and ongoing changes in the relations between politics, science and media – together characterized as the emergence of a knowledge democracy – may imply for governance for sustainable development, on global and other levels of societal decision making, and the other way around: How can the discussion on sustainable development contribute to a knowledge democracy? How can concepts such as second modernity, reflexivity, configuration theory, (meta)governance theory and cultural theory contribute to a ‘transgovernance’ approach which goes beyond mainstream sustainability governance? This volume presents contributions from various angles: international relations, governance and metagovernance theory, (environmental) economics and innovation science. It offers challenging insights regarding institutions and transformation processes, and on the paradigms behind contemporary sustainability governance.This book gives the sustainability governance debate a new context. It transforms classical questions into new options for societal decision making and identifies starting points and strategies towards effective governance of transitions to sustainability.

International Organization in the Anarchical Society

International Organization in the Anarchical Society
Author: Tonny Brems Knudsen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2018-05-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319716220

This book takes up one of the key theoretical challenges in the English School’s conceptual framework, namely the nature of the institutions of international society. It theorizes their nature through an analysis of the relationship of primary and secondary levels of institutional formation, so far largely ignored in English School theorizing, and provides case studies to illuminate the theory. Hitherto, the School has largely failed to study secondary institutions such as international organizations and regimes as autonomous objects of analysis, seeing them as mere materializations of primary institutions. Building on legal and constructivist arguments about the constitutive character of institutions, it demonstrates how primary institutions frame secondary organizations and regimes, but also how secondary institutions construct agencies with capacities that impinge upon and can change primary institutions. Based on legal and constructivist ideas, it develops a theoretical model that sees primary and secondary institutions as shared understandings enmeshed in observable historical processes of constitution, reproduction and regulation.