What would international relations look like if our theories and analyses began with individuals, families, and communities instead of executives, nation-states, and militaries? After all, it is people who make up cities, states, and corporations, and it is their beliefs and behaviors that explain why some parts of the world seem so peaceful while others appear so violent, why some societies are so rich while others are so poor. Now in a fully updated and revised edition, this unique text on contemporary global politics begins with people, treating them as "social individuals" with free will and human agency even as they are limited and disciplined by rules and rulers. Offering a fresh approach to global politics, this dynamic author team trades perspectives with each other and with such eminent social theorists as Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt to develop their resonant theme. Using practical examples as well as theory, the authors show students how they can take charge of their lives and the politics that affect them, even in the context of a vast global economy and impersonal international forces that sometimes seem out of control. Filled with idealism, yet firmly grounded in current realities, Global Politics as if People Mattered is a fresh take on the proper place and potential of individuals in world politics—front and center, actively engaged in a way of life that is as politically personal as it is politically powerful. This distinctive text, a perfect reading for lower-division politics courses, helps students to carve out their own political space in the contemporary global order.
Cram101 Just the FACTS101 studyguides give all of the outlines, highlights, notes, and quizzes for your textbook with optional online comprehensive practice tests. Only Cram101 is Textbook Specific. Accompanys: 9780742566576 9780742566583 .
This book highlights the ways in which feminist analysis has contributed to a richer understanding of international development and globalization.
Lourdes Benería, a pioneer in the field of feminist economics, is joined in this second edition by Gunseli Berik and Maria Floro to update the text to reflect the major theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions and global ...
The title of this book is a play upon several important concepts and forces in the ongoing debate about American empire. Since September 11, 2001, the Bush administration and its...
According to Thomas Frey, executive director and senior futurist at the DaVinci Institute and currently Google's top-rated futurist speaker, the happiness index is quickly becoming a recognized barometer for measuring the health and ...
Latour, Bruno and Emilie Hermant (1998) 'Paris: Invisible City'. ... Wir kommen jetzt öfter', 9 November, Spiegel Online, www.spiegel.de/panorama/zeitgeschichte/0,1518,326184,00.html Thomas, Antony (2006) Tiananmen Square: The Tank Man, ...
Romand Coles offers a sustained interpretation of Adorno as an ethical theorist: negative dialectics is a “morality of thinking” that can foster generosity toward others and toward the nonidentical in oneself. Coles argues that Adorno ...
The Kimchi Matters shows that globalization (and events like the Iraq war and the September 11 attacks) makes understanding the political economies of distant countries more important than ever.
See, for example, Susan Strange, The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996); and Robert C. Cox, The New Realism: Perspectives on Multilateralism and World Order ...
versus private rights in, 43–44; will to worldliness and, 93–95 global governance, 1–5; defining global economy in, 40–44; ... 99–101 global problems, 95–98; management of, 99–101; political strategy using, 98–99 global value chains, ...