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Military Legacies
A World Made By War
Series: Global Realities
Landmines, cluster-bombs, chemical pollutants, and other remnants of war continue to cause death to humans and damage to the environment long after the guns have fallen silent. From the jungles of Vietnam to the arctic tundra of Russia, no region has escaped the legacy of warfare. To understand the...
Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge
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City Life from Jakarta to Dakar
Movements at the Crossroads
Series: Global Realities
City Life from Jakarta to Dakar focuses on the politics incumbent to this process – an "anticipatory politics" – that encompasses a wide range of practices, calculations and economies. As such, the book is not a collection of case studies on a specific theme, not a review of developmental...
Published December 15th 2009 by Routledge
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Iberian Worlds
Series: Global Realities
Iberian Worlds is an imaginative, short text that dramatically depicts important globalization themes and processes through the important flows and impacts Spain and Portugal have had with many important regions of the world for many centuries. Spain and Portugal have long histories at the...
Published November 11th 2008 by Routledge
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The Philippines
Mobilities, Identities, Globalization
Series: Global Realities
Nearly five million migrant workers from the Philippines are employed in over 190 countries and territories. They work as doctors and domestic helpers, engineers and entertainers, seamstresses and surveyors. It is through their collective labor that the Philippines has assumed a global presence....
Published September 18th 2008 by Routledge
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Global Ireland
Same Difference
Series: Global Realities
Global Ireland offers a concise synthesis of globalization's dramatic impact on Ireland. In the past fifteen years, Ireland has transformed from a sleepy and depressed European backwater to the 'emerald tiger', a country with a booming economy based on knowledge and high-tech industries. Not long...
Published October 10th 2007 by Routledge
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The Netherlands
Globalization and National Identity
Series: Global Realities
The Netherlands is the first concise, authored introduction available on the topic. The Netherlands has been a key entrepot in the world capitalist system for centuries, but because of relatively recent demographic changes, it has become symbolic of the clash of European and Islamic cultures....
Published September 18th 2007 by Routledge
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The Globalization of Israel
McWorld in Tel Aviv, Jihad in Jerusalem
Series: Global Realities
This book focuses on how globalization is impacting contemporary Israel. It is a concise and originally argued introduction to Israel, but the author, Uri Ram, is careful to frame his analysis in a broader discussion of Israeli history and broader social currents. Focusing in particular on two...
Published August 27th 2007 by Routledge
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Morocco
Globalization and Its Consequences
Series: Global Realities
Cohen and Jaidi trace the development of contemporary Morocco in the Islamic world of North Africa, which is currently at the forefront of the clash between Western-style development and the politicized Islam that now pervades the Arab world. By applying globalization theory to detailed accounts...
Published June 22nd 2006 by Routledge
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On Argentina and the Southern Cone
Neoliberalism and National Imaginations
Series: Global Realities
This book considers how globalization is impacting contemporary Argentina-via regional trading blocs, through migrations across its borders, and through the emerging transnational border regions that it shares with other Latin American nations. Overshadowing all of these trends is the current...
Published September 27th 2005 by Routledge
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