This book focuses on policies that truly work, offering fresh new thinking about the questions that shape the globalization debate, including a plan to restructure a global financial system made unstable by America's debt, ideas for how countries can grow without degrading the environment, a framework for free and fair global trade, and much more. Throughout, [the author] reveals that economic …
The ratification of the Treaty European Union, or 'Maastricht Treaty', brings to end era in the history of the European community and constitutes ideal vantage point from which to write a comprehensive survey of its evolution and current state.
Explores the development of Australia's foreign economic policy towards ASEAN. It examines in detail decisive factors, such as changes in the international and regional environment, and the replacement of one dominant policy coalition with another in Australia's domestic policy process. This analysis shows that the shifts in Australia's ASEAN policy have reflected changes in Australia's overall…
This book examines economic relations between the European Community and the Eastern Bloc. It begins with a review of the situation up until 1989, looking at such areas as trade agreements, trade protection measures, export credits, the structure and economic effects of various trading relationships between members of the two blocs, and agricultural trade. The book then addresses the subject of…
After five years of debates, consultations and negotiations, the European institutions reached an agreement in 2013 on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the 2014-2020 period. The outcome has major implications for the EU’s budget and farmers’ incomes but also for Europe’s environment, its contribution to global climate change and to food security in the EU and in the world. It was …
In this book, the authors contend that “globalization” is little more than imperialism in a new form. They argue that the “inevitability” of globalization and the adjustment or submission of peoples all over the world to free market capitalism depends on the capacity of the dominant and ruling classes to bend people to their will and convince people that their interests are the people…
Energy security is an issue of common concern in Asia and Europe because of broad similarities in their energy situation, such as a high import dependency and dependence on the Middle East. The rise in energy demand in Asia has substantially affected the global energy balance and will have obvious implications for the rest of the world, and Europe in particular. Energy security also exhibits to…
In the midst of the current crisis that is threatening to derail the historical project of European unification, Jürgen Habermas has been one of the most perceptive critics of the ineffectual and evasive responses to the global financial crisis, especially by the German political class. This extended essay on the constitution for Europe represents Habermas’s constructive engagement with the …
Buku ini menganalisis berbagai masalah penting dalam pembangunan dengan menggunakan berbagai perspektif, mulai dari perspektif teoritis, empiris hingga policy-oriented.
An expert team of international authors present a diverse and comprehensive selection of theories and issues, carefully brought together by experienced editor John Ravenhill. Crucially, debates are presented through a critical lens to encourage students to unpack claims, form independent views, and challenge assumptions. This text is the only introduction to global political economy that lets s…