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Actors of Globalization: New York Merchants in Global Trade, 1784-1812

Author : Lisa Sturm-Lind

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 202 pages

File Size : 21,13 MB

Release : 2017-12-18

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 900435641X

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The monograph Actors of Globalization portrays a group of New York businessmen engaged in global trade from 1784 to 1812. It follows their businesses around the world and shows how through wit, flexibility, and the help of a worldwide net of business partners the merchants were able to quickly rise to global entrepreneurs speculating on wars, food crises and slave revolts. The ramifications of their commerce were felt at home, where the merchants invested in land and city development, established new financial institutions and contributed to a rising consumer culture. This book brings together global and local history, arguing that private actors played an important role in the economic and social development of the young United States.



The City as a Global Political Actor

Author : Stijn Oosterlynck

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 445 pages

File Size : 14,13 MB

Release : 2018-10-10

Category : Science

ISBN : 135133073X

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This book engages with the thorny question of global urban political agency. It critically assesses the now popular statement that in the context of paralysed and failing nation state governments, cities can and will provide leadership in addressing global challenges. Cities can act politically on the global scale, but the analysis of global urban political agency needs to be firmly embedded in the field of urban studies. Collectively, the chapters in this volume contextualize urban agency in time and space and pluralize it by looking at how urban agency is nurtured through coalitions between a wide range of public and private actors. The authors develop and critically assess the conceptual underpinnings of the notion of global urban political agency from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives. The second part contains several (theoretically informed) empirical analyses of global urban political agency in cities around the globe. This book geographically expands analysis by looking beyond global cities in diverse contexts. It is highly recommended reading for scholars in the fields of international relations and urban studies who are looking for an interdisciplinary and empirically grounded understanding of global urban political agency, in a diversity of contexts and a plurality of forms.



Alter-Globalization

Author : Geoffrey Pleyers

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 290 pages

File Size : 41,68 MB

Release : 2013-04-23

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0745655084

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Contrary to the common view that globalization undermines social agency, ‘alter-globalization activists', that is, those who contest globalization in its neo-liberal form, have developed new ways to become actors in the global age. They propose alternatives to Washington Consensus policies, implement horizontal and participatory organization models and promote a nascent global public space. Rather than being anti-globalization, these activists have built a truly global movement that has gathered citizens, committed intellectuals, indigenous, farmers, dalits and NGOs against neoliberal policies in street demonstrations and Social Forums all over the world, from Bangalore to Seattle and from Porto Alegre to Nairobi. This book analyses this worldwide movement on the bases of extensive field research conducted since 1999. Alter-Globalization provides a comprehensive account of these critical global forces and their attempts to answer one of the major challenges of our time: How can citizens and civil society contribute to the building of a fairer, sustainable and more democratic co-existence of human beings in a global world?



Non-State Actors and Authority in the Global System

Author : Andreas Bieler

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 407 pages

File Size : 17,98 MB

Release : 2004-01-14

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1134599307

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Traditionally in International Relations, power and authority were considered to rest with states. But recently, in the light of changes associated with globalisation, this has come under scrutiny both empirically and theoretically. This book analyses the continuing but changing role of states in the international arena, and their relationships with a wide range of non-state actors, which possess increasingly salient capabilities to structure global politics and economics.



Global City Makers

Author : Michael Hoyler

Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing

Page : 225 pages

File Size : 19,2 MB

Release : 2018-09-28

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1785368958

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Global City Makers provides an in-depth account of the role of powerful economic actors in making and un-making global cities. Engaging critically and constructively with global urban studies from a relational economic geography perspective, the book outlines a renewed agenda for global cities research. Focusing on financial services, management consultancy, real estate, commodity trading and maritime industries, the detailed studies in this volume are located across the globe to incorporate major world cities such as London, New York and Tokyo as well as globalizing cities including Mexico City, Hamburg and Mumbai.



Non-state Actors in World Politics

Author : Daphne Josselin

Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan

Page : 294 pages

File Size : 29,23 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 9780333961254

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The involvement of non-state actors in world politics can hardly be characterized as novel, but intensifying economic and social exchange and the emergence of new modes of international governance have given them much greater visibility and, many would argue, a more central role. "Non-State Actors in World Politics" analyzes a diverse range of economic, social, legal (and illegal), old and new actors, such as the Catholic Church, trade unions, diasporas, religious movements, transnational corporations and organized crime.



Cities as International Actors

Author : Tassilo Herrschel

Publisher : Springer

Page : 268 pages

File Size : 33,82 MB

Release : 2017-01-20

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1137396172

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This book explores the growing role of cities and regions as sub-national actors in shaping global governance. Far from being merely carried along by global forces, cities have become active players in making and maintaining the networks and connections that give shape to contemporary globalization. Exploring examples from Europe, North America and beyond, the authors reconcile the two separate, yet complimentary, theoretical and analytical lenses adopted by Urban Studies and International Relations, as they address the nature of ‘cities’ and ‘internationality’. The authors challenge academic debate that is reluctant to cross disciplinary boundaries and thus offer more relevant answers to the new phenomenon of international city action, and how it weakens the traditional prerogative of the state as primary actor in the international realm. Conclusions focus on how this new internationality opens opportunities for cities and regions but also contains potential pitfalls that can constrain policy options and challenge the legitimacy of policy making at all scales.



Non-State Actors in World Politics

Author : D. Josselin

Publisher : Springer

Page : 302 pages

File Size : 15,94 MB

Release : 2001-10-29

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1403900906

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The involvement of non-state actors in world politics can hardly be characterised as novel, but intensifying economic and social exchange and the emergence of new modes of international governance have given them much greater visibility and, many would argue, a more central role. Non-state Actors in World Politics offers analyses of a diverse range of economic, social, legal (and illegal), old and new actors, such as the Catholic Church, trade unions, diasporas, religious movements, transnational corporations and organised crime.



World Politics and the Challenges for International Security

Author : Nika Chitadze

Publisher : Information Science Reference

Page : 300 pages

File Size : 19,71 MB

Release : 2022

Category : Security, International

ISBN : 9781799895862

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"The purpose of the book is to introduce the people who are interested in World politics - scientists, researchers, representatives of civil society, public sector, students etc. with the main characters of the modern political structure of the world, global problems related to International Security and ways for their resolution"--



Transnational Actors in Global Governance

Author : Christer Jönsson

Publisher : Springer

Page : 274 pages

File Size : 12,63 MB

Release : 2010-07-21

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0230283225

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The nature of global governance is changing, as are the standards by which we judge its legitimacy. We are witnessing a gradual and partial shift from inter-state co-operation to more complex forms of governance, involving participation by transnational actors, such as NGOs, party associations, philanthropic foundations and corporations.