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Cover Capital Movements and Corporate Dominance in Latin America
Capital Movements and Corporate Dominance in Latin America
Reduced Growth and Increased Instability
Editors: Noemi Levy-Orlik, Jorge A. Bustamante-Torres, and Louis-Philippe Rochon
This book addresses the problems of Latin America, through two of the most important features of the post-Bretton Woods economic order, large corporations and weak financial markets. In turn, it shows that their impact on economic growth and development is feeble and short-lived. This resulted in income concentration and an extremely unequal distribution of wealth in the region. 
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
08 Jun 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800372146
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Economics 2021
Cover Energy Transitions in Mediterranean Countries
Energy Transitions in Mediterranean Countries
Consumption, Emissions and Security of Supplies
Silvana Bartoletto
This illuminating book analyses energy transitions, carbon dioxide emissions and the security of energy supply in Mediterranean countries. Unpacking the history of energy transitions, from coal to oil and natural gas, and from non-renewable to renewable energy sources, Silvana Bartoletto offers a comparative approach to the major trends in energy consumption, production, trade and security in Mediterranean countries in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
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06 Oct 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788977555
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover China’s Maritime Silk Road
China’s Maritime Silk Road
Advancing Global Development?
Gerald Chan
This innovative book examines the maritime component of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), focusing on three key trade routes and addressing the question of how China protects its overseas assets. Gerald Chan explores China’s rising maritime power, using geo-developmentalism as a theoretical framework to analyse the country’s development of port facilities and infrastructure along important trade routes. Through developing these sea routes, he argues that a new global order is in the making.
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04 Sep 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789907490
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover The Handbook of Diverse Economies
The Handbook of Diverse Economies
Editors: J. K. Gibson-Graham and Kelly Dombroski
Economic diversity abounds in a more-than-capitalist world, from worker-recuperated cooperatives and anti-mafia social enterprises to caring labour and the work of Earth Others, from fair trade and social procurement to community land trusts, free universities and Islamic finance. The Handbook of Diverse Economies presents research that inventories economic difference as a prelude to building ethical ways of living on our dangerously degraded planet. With contributing authors from twenty countries, it presents new thinking around subjectivity and methodology as strategies for making other worlds possible.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
06 Feb 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788119962
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Economics 2020
Cover A Political Economy of African Regionalisms
A Political Economy of African Regionalisms
An Overview of Asymmetrical Development
Wil Hout and M. A.M. Salih
This book analyses the main factors influencing the political economy of Africa’s asymmetrical regionalism, focusing on regional and sub-regional trade, investment, movement of people, goods and services. It pays particular attention to the way in which regional and sub-regional dynamics are impacted by extra-regional relations, such with the EU, US, China and India. Because African regionalism is influenced not only by economic processes, peace and security are also analysed as important factors shaping both regional and sub-regional relations and dynamics.
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04 Oct 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785364372
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Social and Political Science 2019
Cover Varieties of Capital Cities
Varieties of Capital Cities
The Competitiveness Challenge for Secondary Capitals
David Kaufmann
The political and symbolic centrality of capital cities has been challenged by increasing economic globalization. This is especially true of secondary capital cities; capital cities which, while being the seat of national political power, are not the primary economic city of their nation state. David Kaufmann examines the unique challenges that these cities face entering globalised, inter-urban competition while not possessing a competitive political economy.
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31 Aug 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788116435
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Social and Political Science 2018
Cover Handbook on the International Political Economy of Gender
Handbook on the International Political Economy of Gender
Editors: Juanita Elias and Adrienne Roberts
This Handbook brings together leading interdisciplinary scholarship on the gendered nature of the international political economy. Spanning a wide range of theoretical traditions and empirical foci, it explores the multifaceted ways in which gender relations constitute and are shaped by global politico-economic processes. It further interrogates the gendered ideologies and discourses that underpin everyday practices from the local to the global. The chapters in this collection identify, analyse, critique and challenge gender-based inequalities, whilst also highlighting the intersectional nature of gendered oppressions in the contemporary world order.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
23 Feb 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783478842
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Social and Political Science 2018
Cover Protecting Minority Rights in African Countries
Protecting Minority Rights in African Countries
A Constitutional Political Economy Approach
John M. Mbaku
In this enlightening book, John Mukum Mbaku analyses the main challenges of constitutional design and the construction of governance institutions in Africa today. He argues that the central issues are: providing each country with a constitutional order that is capable of successfully managing sectarian conflict and enhancing peaceful coexistence; protecting the rights of citizens – including those of minorities; minimizing the monopolization of political space by the majority (to the detriment of minorities); and, effectively preventing government impunity.
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Publication Date:
26 Jan 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786438614
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Social and Political Science 2018
Cover The World Bank and the Globalisation of Housing Finance
The World Bank and the Globalisation of Housing Finance
Mortgaging Development
Liam Clegg
The World Bank remains one of the most prominent actors in the field of global development, and one of the foremost international organisations in contemporary global politics. Over its history, its lending for housing has mortgaged development by prioritising financial sector expansion over the needs of low-income groups. Through this book, Liam Clegg explores the drivers of World Bank operational practices, and the contribution of these operations to state transformations across the global South.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
27 Oct 2017
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786435606
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Social and Political Science 2017
Cover North-South Regional Trade Agreements as Legal Regimes
North-South Regional Trade Agreements as Legal Regimes
A Critical Assessment of the EU-SADC Economic Partnership Agreement
Clair Gammage
This book offers a critical reflection of the North-South regional trade agreements (RTAs), known as the Economic Partnership Agreements, negotiated between the EU and the African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries. Conceiving of regions as legal regimes, Clair Gammage highlights the challenges facing developing countries when negotiating RTAs with developed countries and interrogates the assumption that these agreements will and can promote sustainable development through trade.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
26 May 2017
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784719623
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Law 2017