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This completely revised and fully updated second edition brings together the most original contributions from both sides of the globalization debate and from a range of disciplines. Many new chapters have been added, which incorporate the most recent developments in the debate and set these in the context of a global order that is in a constant state of flux. Visit www.polity.co.uk/global to download sample chapters and contents.

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Urban Landscape Entomology provides readers with the background needed to adequately understand and manage many of the complexities of urban landscape pest management. For those who need training in landscape entomology, this work serves as a practical guidebook and resource. Its chapters include quality color images of pests, along with pest management tactics, such as tree injection procedures. This topical arrangement facilitates easy extra...

In this book, the authors set forth a new model of globalization that lays claims to supersede existing models, and then use this model to assess the way the processes of globalization have operated in different historic periods in respect to political organization, military globalization, trade, finance, corporate productivity, migration, culture, and the environment. Each of these topics is covered in a chapter which contrasts the contempora...

Held's new book on models of democracy is itself a model of its kinda meticulously edited, easily accessible, and clearly signposted critical analysis of theories of democracy from classical antiquity to the present day."Ethics"In this timely and thought-provoking study, Held provides a critical reassessment of major theories of democracy from ancient Greece to the present, along with his own prescription for revitalizing contemporary democrat...

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Democracy is the most potent political idea in the world today, yet the future of democracy is increasingly uncertain. Key assumptions of democratic thinking and practice are being undermined by diverse sites of social economic power on the one hand, and by dense networks of regional and global interconnectedness on the other. States and societies are enmeshed in webs of international conditions and processes as never before. Democracy and the...

This book examines contemporary debates in an accessible fashion, offering a clear guide to one of the big issues of our time. This important and innovative textbook will be welcomed across the social sciences.

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The world is becoming deeply interconnected, whereby actions in one part of the world can have profound repercussions elsewhere. In a world of overlapping communities of fate, there has been a renewed enthusiasm for thinking about what it is that human beings have in common, and to explore the ethical basis of this.

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of current debates about democracy across the globe. Since the political turmoil in Eastern Europe began in the 1980′s, the debate about the meaning and future of democracy has intensified.

This book examines the political, economic and social transformation of the six member-states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the ways in which these states are both shaping and being reshaped by, the processes of globalization. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the volume combines thematic chapters focusing on issues such as globalisation, economic diversification and political thinking with chapters studying specific aspects o...

1. Wide ranging introduction to political theory and political sociology 2. Develops a novel account of British politics and problems facing the British State today 3. Offers an original account of how democracy might be transformed 4. Volume is an ideal companion to undergraduate studies in politics.

At a time of real flux in UK domestic politics and of rapid change in international politics, this timely new book, with contributions from leading figures in international politics, is an indispensable guide to the UKs foreign policy options and to the prospects and possibilities of a more values-driven and effective UK foreign policy.

aeo This volume offers a highly original account of the changing meaning of democracy in the contemporary world. Uniquely, it offers both an historical and philosophical analysis of the nature and prospects of the modern democratic state. aeo The volume is wide--ranging but also highly accessible.

∗ This volume offers a major review of political theory. ∗ The book is written by some of the most distinguished political thinkers in the US, Europe and Africa. ∗ Previous books by the editor have sold extremely well, and this will be no exception.

The recent dramatic transformation of Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union have intensified the perrenial debates about the meaning and future of democracy. This comprehensive overview of democracy examines its nature and prospects through theoretical analyses and a world-wide set of case studies.