Routledge, 2013. — 214 p. This book illustrates the importance of global cities for world politics and highlights the diplomatic connections between cities and global governance. While there is a growing body of literature concerned with explaining the transformations of the international order, little theorization has taken into account the key metropolises of our time as...
Routledge, 1996. — 276 p. This exciting new text adopts a challenging question-led approach to the major issues facing global society today, in order to investigate the nature and complexity of global change. Among other things it looks at the future of the state, the environment, the international political economy, war and global rivalries, and the role of international law...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 369 p. In recent years "leaderless" social movements have proliferated around the globe, from North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia. Some of these movements have led to impressive gains: the toppling of authoritarian leaders, the furthering of progressive policy, and checks on repressive state forces. They have...
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. - 448 p. When Empire appeared in 2000, it defined the political and economic challenges of the era of globalization and, thrillingly, found in them possibilities for new and more democratic forms of social organization. Now, with Commonwealth, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri conclude the trilogy begun with Empire and continued in...
Harvard University Press, 2000. - 478 p. Empire is a sweeping book with a big-picture vision. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri argue that while classical imperialism has largely disappeared, a new empire is emerging in a diffuse blend of technology, economics, and globalization. The book brings together unlikely bedfellows: Hardt, associate professor in Duke University's...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 545 p. — (Law and Global Governance). — ISBN: 978 – 0 – 19 – 885256 – 8. International organizations and other global governance bodies often make rules and decisions without input from many of the individuals, groups, firms, and governments that are affected by them. The standards of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, for instance,...
5th Edition. — London, UK: Hodder Education, 2022. — 348 p. — ISBN: 978 1 3983 4506 5. In the twenty-first century’s second decade, global politics faces significant challenges. Increasingly, the world order feels disorderly. The world is grappling with a climate emergency, with collective action needed and time running out. There is an increasingly multipolar distribution of...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 376 p. — ISBN: 9780190946265. The impact of science and technology on world affairs is shaped by politics, economics, business, ethics, law, psychology, and culture. This nexus is a neglected aspect of international affairs. It cuts across and unites diverse issues critical to human survival: climate change, global health, nuclear weapons,...
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