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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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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
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 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 Handbook of Globalisation and Development
Handbook of Globalisation and Development
Editor: Kenneth A. Reinert
Characterised by conceptual diversity, the Handbook of Globalisation and Development presents contributions from prominent international researchers on all aspects of globalisation and carefully considers their role across a whole host of development processes. The Handbook is structured around seven key areas: international trade, international production, international finance, migration, foreign aid, a broader view, and challenges. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the section on ‘a broader view’ delves into dimensions of globalisation and development that go beyond the mere economic, such as: culture, technology, health, and poverty. Carefully crafted, the chapters herein offer a rigorous and comprehensive assessment of the available research to date and provide an assessment of policy options across all areas considered.
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Handbook
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31 Mar 2017
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783478651
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Social and Political Science 2017
Cover Research Handbook on Political Economy and Law
Research Handbook on Political Economy and Law
Editors: Ugo Mattei and John D. Haskell
Events such as the global financial crisis have helped reveal that the drivers and contours of governance on a national and international level remain a mystery in many respects. Set in this context, this timely Research Handbook is the first to explicitly address the constitutive relationship between law and political economy. With scholarly contributions from diverse disciplinary and geographic backgrounds, this authoritative book covers, in three parts, topics surrounding money and markets, the relations of organization, and commodities, land and resources.
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Handbook
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27 Nov 2015
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781005354
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Law 2015
Cover Handbook of Research on Fair Trade
Handbook of Research on Fair Trade
Editors: Laura T. Raynolds and Elizabeth A. Bennett
Fair trade critiques the historical inequalities inherent in international trade and seeks to promote social justice by creating alternative networks linking marginalized producers (typically in the global South) with progressive consumers (typically in the global North). The first of its kind, this volume brings together 43 of the foremost fair trade scholars from around the world and across the social sciences. The Handbook serves as both a comprehensive overview and in-depth guide to dominant perspectives and concerns. Chapters analyze the rapidly growing fair trade movement and market, exploring diverse initiatives and organizations, production and consumption regions, and food and cultural products. Written for those new to fair trade as well as those well versed in this domain, the Handbook is an invaluable resource for scholars and practitioners interested in global regulation, multi-stakeholder initiatives, social and environmental certification, ethical labeling, consumer activism, and international development.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
27 Mar 2015
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783474622
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Social And Political Science 2015
Cover Good Government
Good Government
The Relevance of Political Science
Editors: Sören Holmberg and Bo Rothstein
In all societies, the quality of government institutions is of the utmost importance for the well-being of its citizens. Problems like high infant mortality, lack of access to safe water, unhappiness and poverty are not primarily caused by a lack of technical equipment, effective medicines or other types of knowledge generated by the natural or engineering sciences. Instead, the critical problem is that the majority of the world’s population live in societies that have dysfunctional government institutions. Central issues discussed in the book include: how can good government be conceptualized and measured, what are the effects of ‘bad government’ and how can the quality of government be improved?
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
30 Jul 2012
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857934932
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Social And Political Science 2012
Cover States, Banks and Crisis
States, Banks and Crisis
Emerging Finance Capitalism in Mexico and Turkey
Thomas Marois
Thomas Marois’ groundbreaking interpretation of banking and development in Mexico and Turkey builds on a Marxian-inspired framework premised on understanding states and banks as social relationships alongside crisis and labor as vital to finance today. The book’s rich historical and empirical content reveals definite institutionalized relationships of power that mainstream political economists often miss.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
30 Apr 2012
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857938589
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Social And Political Science 2012