...Global convergence seems to many to be the best, perhaps the only, available strategy for reducing the conflicts, costs and uncertainties that the current transnational competition law regime imposes on global economic activity. Many assume that the role of economics is key to the potential success...

..., and emphasized the implications of this analysis for the study of globalization, postcommunist transitions and markets Phone Globalization Ideal type Information sharing Performative ideal type Visa in Bulgaria World Bank and Banking Modernization Project Mass issue Sweden Széchenyi card Hungary...

...Global justice is not possible if treated in the context of political and institutional statism. In order to take moral cosmopolitanism seriously, a sound institutional cosmopolitanism, which demands institutional pluralism, is required. Thus, the focus should be on all those institutions that can...

...This chapter analyzes why inequality has increased in the United States since 1980. It discusses earnings levels and inequality, in which skill-biased technical change, globalization, and related factors function within an institutional framework, first presenting evidence that shows stagnating...

...Globalization and digitalization—the opening of economies across the globe and the advent and spread of the digital medium, respectively—have made the world smaller today. Although this new world has had positive implications for entrepreneurs and pioneer entrepreneurs, it has had negative impacts...

...-level political theory principles relevant to economic and social rights. It then looks at the implications of today's globalization and the actions of the powerful international economic organizations operating in this area, and explains the appropriate changes in political principles needed...

...This chapter first sets out the book's purpose, which is to explore and discuss the meaning of a new kind of subject construction informed by globalization—the new cosmopolitan subject—and all that it entails in life experiences for South Asians within the nation-space of the United States...

... about Hungary's place in the global economy, about economic forces remaking the countryside, and about the connections between patriotism and consumption. agriculture associations Daróczi Vilmos Paget John readers and reading tobacco Turkey Brazil Cuba Russia United States backwardness...

... states have shaped their higher education systems. These forces include changes in national and global economic conditions that increase payoffs to higher educated labor, driving up demand for university places; global economic and political competition that put pressure on BRIC governments to create...

...This book tracks the changing forms of novels and nations against a long, postcolonial twentieth century. While globalization has sometimes been understood as superseding national borders, the book distances itself from before-and-after sequences in order to trace the intersection between national...

... and local elites integrated Latin America into global trade. Yet it is impossible to understand the export boom without understanding all those who produced for market. Neither the liberal policies of Latin American elites nor the capital and connections of migrant investors could absolutely disentail...

... by engaging in micropolitical struggles in bureaucratic settings, mobilizing alternative genres of identification and creating false paper identities for themselves. Brubaker Rogers China policy Ch’ongnyŏn Sōren Association of Korean Residents in Japan Durand Jorge globalization Joppke Christian Korean...

...This book draws on research into a multinational corporation (MNC) in Qingdao, China, and delves deep into the power dynamics at play between Korean management, Chinese migrant workers, local-level Chinese government officials, and Chinese local gangs. Located within the chain of global garment...

...Chapter 3 discusses the ways in which global and domestic factors have intersected to produce the growth of precarious work and inequality in these three countries. The discussion identifies how exogenous factors—neoliberalization and the dynamics of global capitalism, and the processes...

... developmental option, and not necessarily the one with the greatest chance of success in Latin America. At the outset of the millennium, there has been a backlash against globalization in Latin America such as Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Panama, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Uruguay. This chapter discusses the impact...

...The literature on globalization has often ignored Europe’s periphery and has particularly remained silent on how the structural changes in the world economy beginning in the 1970s affected the ex-socialist world. In the late twentieth century, among the few critical theories that broke from Cold...

...The dream of “globalization as cosmopolitization” remains a dominant characteristic of Serbian culture, although globalization is seen as yet another totalitarian regime in Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav cultural space. The mourning for ex-Yugoslav cultural space appears as nostalgia both for the lost...

...This chapter notes that the dispute-settlement system of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is a complex social forum for economic, political, and symbolic skirmishing between vastly unequal states, and outlines different approaches to the interrelated questions of trade globalization, law...

... domestic items involved labor, raw material, and stylistic influences that cut across the local, regional, and global levels. This crisscrossing not only rendered the line between ifranji and Oriental difficult to trace in reality, but also complicated the intellectual project of middle...

...This chapter reviews the global diffusion of austerity since the financial crisis of 2008 and situates austerity, as an economic policy, within the broader economic paradigm of neoliberalism. This chapter also reviews the central sociological theories that attempt to explain the global diffusion...