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1. People Power in an Era of Global Crisis

   Rebellion, Resistance and Liberation

   Edited by Barry Gills, Kevin Gray

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   A quarter of a century has now passed since the historic popular uprising that led to the overthrow of the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines. The mass movement known as the "People’s Power Revolution" was not only pivotal to the democratic transition within the Philippines, but it...

   To Be Published August 31st 2012 by Routledge
2. Andre Gunder Frank and Global Development

   Visions, Remembrances, and Explorations

   Edited by Patrick Manning, Barry Gills

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   This work focuses on the ideas and influence of Andre Gunder Frank, one of the founding figures and leading analysts of political economy at the global level. Through discussion of his work the contributors in this volume examine the shifting currents of the world economy and the accompanying...

   Published February 21st 2012 by Routledge
3. Globalization in Crisis

   Edited by Barry Gills

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   This book analyses the present global financial and economic crisis, the most severe in nearly a century, and a wider set of multiple and converging crises with aspects and repercussions that go well beyond the current economic climate. Written by some of the world’s leading international...

   Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
4. The Global Politics of Globalization

   "Empire" vs "Cosmopolis"

   Edited by Barry K. Gills

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   Are we moving inexorably towards a ‘new empire’ or is global civil society transforming global politics into a ‘new cosmopolis’? In The Global Politics of Globalization, the alternatives of ‘Empire’ and ‘Cosmopolis’ are counter-poised as representative of two antithetical conceptions and practices...

   Published February 19th 2009 by Routledge
5. Globalization and the Global Politics of Justice

   Edited by Barry K. Gills

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   This book brings together a set of distinguished academics and activists to analyze, critique, and debate the global politics of poverty and justice and the contemporary nature of globalization. It examines the connections between ‘really existing globalization’, global capitalism, and global...

   Published February 19th 2009 by Routledge
6. The Globalization of Environmental Crisis

   Edited by Jan Oosthoek, Barry Gills

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   Previously published as a special issue of Globalizations, this collection of essays addresses what is arguably the most pressing and urgent issue of our day - the continuing development of global environmental crises and the need for new and urgent responses to them by the world community. The...

   Published December 23rd 2007 by Routledge
7. Globalization and Global History

   Edited by Barry K. Gills, William Thompson

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   Globalization and Global History argues that globalization is not an exotic and new phenomenon. Instead it emphasizes that globalization is something that has been with us as long as there have been people who are both interdependent and aware of that fact. Studying globalization from the vantage...

   Published February 8th 2006 by Routledge
8. World System History

   The Social Science of Long-Term Change

   Edited by Robert. A Denemark, Jonathan Friedman, Barry K. Gills, George Modelski

   This extraordinary book presents a refreshing and innovative overview of the changes to the global system over the last 5000 years. Featuring renowned contributors - each specialists in their field - this is the only volume to offer so co-ordinated a study of continuity and change in the global...

   Published July 12th 2000 by Routledge
9. The World System

   Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand?

   Edited by Andre Gunder Frank, Barry K. Gills

   The historic long-term economic interconnections of the world are now universally accepted. The idea of the 'world system' advanced by Immanuel Wallerstein has set the period of linkage in the early modern period. But some academics think this date is much too late and denies a much longer...

   Published November 13th 1996 by Routledge
10. Korea versus Korea

    A Case of Contested Legitimacy

    By Barry Gills

    Series: Politics in Asia

    This study traces the historic course of diplomatic competition between the rival Koreas within the context of a changing international system. This innovative analysis focuses on the dynamic interaction of domestic and international political economies and their effects on the conduct of diplomacy...

    Published October 30th 1996 by Routledge