Routledge Studies in Governance and Change in the Global Era

International Trade and Neoliberal Globalism

Towards Re-peripheralisation in Australia, Canada and Mexico?

Edited by Paul Bowles, Ray Broomhill, Teresa Gutiérrez-Haces, Stephen McBride

Series: Routledge Studies in Governance and Change in the Global Era

International trade must be analysed within the historical context within which it occurs. Behind the statistics on trade flows lie power structures, class interests and international hierarchies. These change over time and how countries respond to them has critical implications for their citizen’s...

Published June 23rd 2014 by Routledge

The Governance Gap

Extractive Industries, Human Rights, and the Home State Advantage

By Penelope Simons, Audrey Macklin

Series: Routledge Studies in Governance and Change in the Global Era

This book explores the persistence of the governance gap with respect to the human rights-impacting conduct of transnational extractive corporations operating in zones of weak governance. The authors launch their account with a fascinating case study of Talisman Energy’s experience in Sudan,...

Published February 10th 2014 by Routledge

Citizenship in a Global World

European Questions and Turkish Experiences

By Fuat Keyman, Ahmet Icduygu

Series: Routledge Studies in Governance and Change in the Global Era

A keen analysis of the social, political and economic determinants of Turkish politics with an exploration of the different dimensions of the republican model of Turkish citizenship, providing the reader with a comprehensive account of Turkish modernity and democracy. At the beginning of a new...

Published September 13th 2012 by Routledge

International Crisis Management

The Approach of European States

By Marc Houben

Series: Routledge Studies in Governance and Change in the Global Era

Over the past fifty years, crisis management has become essential to achieving and maintaining national security. This book offers a comparative analysis of the preconditions and constraints nine European states place on their participation in international crisis management operations and the...

Published September 13th 2012 by Routledge

New Socialisms

Futures Beyond Globalization

Edited by Robert Albritton, Shannon Bell, Shannon Bell, Richard Westra

Series: Routledge Studies in Governance and Change in the Global Era

The major problems facing the world as it gets used to the twenty-first century are global inequality, poverty, war and militarism, oppression, exploitation and ecological sustainability. Far from solving these problems, economic and political neo-liberalism seems to be plunging us deeper into them...

Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge

Worlds of Capitalism

Institutions, Economic Performance and Governance in the Era of Globalization

Edited by Max Miller

Series: Routledge Studies in Governance and Change in the Global Era

Efforts to combine the outstanding economic performance in the decades following the Second World War with social security appear to be endangered half way through the first decade of the 21st century. This book draws together an international team of contributors, including Douglass North, Harold...

Published July 13th 2012 by Routledge

Europe, Canada and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement

Edited by Kurt Hübner

Series: Routledge Studies in Governance and Change in the Global Era

The Great Recession and the turn towards all forms of protectionism stress the relevance of international trade policy. With the global economy undergoing deep structural changes, the negotiations between Canada and the EU on a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) present a real-time...

Published March 25th 2011 by Routledge

Hegemonic Transitions, the State and Crisis in Neoliberal Capitalism

Edited by Yildiz Atasoy

Series: Routledge Studies in Governance and Change in the Global Era

More than 15 years have passed since the end of the Cold War, but uncertainty persists in the political-economic shaping of the world economy and state system. Although many countries have institutionalized neoliberal policies since the mid-1970s, thesepolicies have not taken hold to the same...

Published December 9th 2008 by Routledge

The New Economy in Transatlantic Perspective

Edited by Kurt Huebner

Series: Routledge Studies in Governance and Change in the Global Era

What’s left from the new economy? This book takes an unfashionable perspective and shows that despite all the mistaken ideas and exaggerations, the technological changes of the 1990s still have important effects today. Economic history shows that technological revolutions tend to generate deep...

Published February 10th 2005 by Routledge

The Market or the Public Domain

Redrawing the Line

Edited by Daniel Drache

Series: Routledge Studies in Governance and Change in the Global Era

Examining the powerful idea of the return, reconstitution and redeployment of the public domain in a post-Seattle and post-Washington consensus world order, this innovative book is the most forward-looking and comprehensive examination of the need to rethink the tenants of global free trade. In the...

Published July 12th 2001 by Routledge