Summary: For over two hundred years the domination of some countries by others has been intrinsic to international relations, with national economic and political strength viewed as essential to a nation's survival and global position. Mastering Space identifies the essential features of this 'state-centredness' and suggests an optimistic alternative more in keeping with the contemporary post-Cold War climate. Drawing on recent geopolitical thinking, the authors claim that the dynamism of the international political economy has been obscured through excessive attention to the state as an unchanging actor Titel: Mastering space : hegemony, territory and international political economy Forfattere: John Agnew,Stuart Corbridge Genre: natur_videnskab_teknologi Sammendrag: Mastering Space undersøger, hvordan rum, territorium og geografi er centrale for at forstå international politik og global
Summary: "In recent years, a large number of theoretical models have been developed to try and make sense of today's complex global society. This text identifies eight distinct models of global studies, such as Americanization, Homogenization, Balkanization and Creolization, enabling the reader to make sense of the full range of global issues and contending views on the existing world order. Within each module, present theoretical literature and key current issues are addressed with boxed case studies. Paying particular attention to human rights, the book provides students with the theoretical grounding and practical knowledge necessary for an understanding of globalization. This book explains the challenges and redefines the core theories of globalization. Using fascinating case studies to illustrate how each model works in practice, the chapters look at society, culture, politics and e
The putative new world order, when viewed from different regions of the globe, is not really new, is hardly global in scope, and is anything but orderly in its development. In this volume, an international cast of contributors comes together to share regional perspectives on questions about peace and security, economic growth and welfare, and democracy and civil society in the post–Cold War world. They find that there has been “uneven globalization” with strong “regional variation”—two important concepts that this book brings to theory-building beyond the rhetoric of new world order thinking. An ideal supplement for many courses in international relations, Whose World Order? transcends the typically Eurocentric view projected in most textbooks, combining theory and practical evidence from the different regions in innovative applications and analyses. The contributors to this volume share
Aesthetics and Politics Under the Sign of Globalisation The universe is expanding, the world has gone global, and the US has launched a crusade to export the universal right to democracy to every part of the world. Under the circumstances, it is hardly surprising that the concept of universality is making a remarkable comeback in aesthetic and political theory. The meaning of the world, however, seems more contested than ever. Some denounce it as the ideological guise of particular interests, others as the conceptual equivalent of totalitarianism. But a growing number maintain that universality is an indispensable notion for any genuinely critical aesthetics and politics. Confronting Universalites consists of 12 contributors that examine how contemporary works of art in different media and genres influence, shape, or confront the political realm in both theory and practice by way of the
The Strategic Atlas is an amazing collection of maps, statistics and explanatory text that examine geopolitics from a variety of emphases: demographic, geographic, ideological, economic, climactic, military. Maps shown from unusual angles help break up nationalist preconceptions and build a more universalist understanding of world events Sprog: Engelsk Antal sider: 224 Forlag: Penguin Udgivelsesår: 1986 Titel: Strategic atlas : world geopolitics Forfattere: Gérard Chaliand,Jean-Pierre Rageau Genre: Faglitteratur Sammendrag: Traditionelle atlas sætter Europa i centrum af verdenen og viser sjældent strategisk vigtige områder som Arktis og Stillehavet. Denne revolutionerende bog præsenterer klare, farverige kort (plus statistik) om verdens syn fra Saudi Arabien og Sydafrika, Indien og Brasilien, baggrunden for nutidens konflikter, nord-syd opdelingens dimensioner, sprog og religioner som op
Analyse af opbygningen og udviklingen af vor tids globaliserede verden. Der sættes fokus på tre aspekter af verdenssamfundet: samfundets dynamik, individet i samfundet og nationalstatens rolle Titel: Verdenssamfundet : et filosofisk essay Genre: historie_samfund Sammendrag: "Verdenssamfundet" analyserer den globaliserede verden med fokus på, hvordan sociale, politiske og økonomiske processer skaber et verdensomspændende samfund. Bogen gennemgår, hvordan globaliseringens dynamik påvirker både kollektive institutioner og det enkelte individ. Ole Thyssen diskuterer, hvad det vil sige at leve i et verdenssamfund, hvor man uundgåeligt er forbundet på tværs af grænser, og hvor nationale beslutninger må forstås i en global ramme. Et centralt punkt er nationalstatens fortsatte betydning: staten og nationen beskrives som nødvendige for lokal identitet, velfærd, offentlighed og demokrati, men samt
Bogen undersøger den moderne internationaliseringsproces og dens konsekvenser for stater og samfund. Jørgen Ørstrøm Møller gennemgår, hvordan økonomisk og politisk globalisering udfordrer den klassiske idé om national suverænitet og statens eneret til at lovgive inden for egne grænser. Han beskriver, hvordan internationale organisationer, aftaler og institutioner gradvist får større indflydelse på nationale beslutninger, og hvordan dette både kan styrke og begrænse det enkelte lands handlefrihed. Undervejs diskuteres, om udviklingen peger mod en ny, mere regelbaseret verdensorden med stærkere internationalt samarbejde, eller om verden snarere bevæger sig mod et fragmenteret system uden klar ledelse. Bogen er rettet mod læsere med interesse for international politik, globalisering, samfundsvidenskab og moderne historie. Type: Hardcover Dansksproget fagbog af Jørgen Ørstrøm Møller om inter
This work provides an account of culture in an age of globalization. Ulf Hannerz argues that, in an ever-more interconnected world, national understandings of culture have become insufficient. He explores the implications of boundary-crossings and long-distance cultural flows for established notions of "the local", "community", "nation" and "modernity" Hannerz not only engages with theoretical debates about culture and globalization but raises issues of how we think and live today. His account of the experience of global culture encompasses a shouting match in a New York street about Salman Rushdie, a papal visit to the Maya Indians; kung-fu dancers in Nigeria and Rastafarians in Amsterdam; the nostalgia of foreign correspondents; and the surprising experiences of tourists in a world city or on a Borneo photo safari. Summary: "Transnational Connections provides a lucid account of culture
