Constructing global civil society

morality and power in International Relations

Global Civil Society is a crucial concept in International Relations today, used as both a description of new mechanisms of non-state actor and NGO engagement in international policy-making and as a normative political project of international change. David Chandler critically investigates the claims made by ...

Europe and the politics of language

citizens, migrants and outsiders

Do political boundaries impact on concepts of language? How significant is language for citizenship in contemporary Europe? Can disputed languages acquire full status? Should non-European languages receive recognition from the EU? These are among the many questions explored in this new study of official, regional ...

The historiography of the Holocaust

This collection of essays by leading scholars in their fields provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Holocaust historiography available. Covering both long-established historical disputes as well as research questions and methodologies that have developed in the last decade's massive growth in Holocaust ...

Language ideologies, policies and practices

language and the future of Europe

The contributors to "Language Ideologies, Policies and Practices" investigate the workings of language ideologies in relation to other social processes in a globalizing world. They explore in detail the specific ways in which language ideologies underpin language policy and the relationship between public policies and ...

The history of Chile

This book provides an up-to-date historical overview of this complex and fascinating country. Beginning with a survey of the land, people, and current government, the book then traces Chile's chronological story. Ten chapters detail Chilean history from the indigenous peoples to the democratic transition ...

The making of EU foreign policy

the case of Eastern Europe

Beyond structural adjustment

the institutional context of african developmThe institutional context of African development

As the World Bank famously put it back in 1989, "underlying the litany of Africa's development problems is a crisis of governance". This is a collection of authoritative essays bringing together prominent Africanists in political science and public administration to look at the role ...

Corporate governance

financial responsibility, controls and ethics

Corporate Governance is a new text which considers the problems surrounding governance and proposes solutions to help restore investor confidence in the corporate world. The book is intended for board members, corporate executives, regulators, auditors, creditors and analysts seeking a concise analysis of the governance ...

Applying qualitative methods to marketing management research

Qualitative research methodologies are gaining more and more acceptance. This book deals with the application of qualitative methods to marketing management research. It explains different ways of making and analyzing data with qualitative tools, and it describes the generation of results working for researchers as ...

Derivatives and internal models

The successful first edition provided an introduction to the valuation and risk management of modern financial instruments, formulated in a precise mathematical expression and comprehensively covering all relevant topics using consistent and exact notation. In this new edition, Deutsch continues with this philosophy covering new ...

Risk management systems

process, technology and trends

Gorrod examines the many challenges for the next generation risk management system. Dramatic changes in market conditions, budgetary constraints, the evolving nature of risk within the financial organization, as well as the requirements of increasing regulation in the global market place have resulted in a ...

Human resource development in a knowledge economy

an organisational view

Human Resource Development in a Knowlege Economy provides a critical approach to the study of human resource development and emphasises the need for its effective integration with human resource management, as well as with the strategic management of the organisation. With special reference to workers ...

The WTO and developing countries

This book shows how large an impact the WTO has on developing countries. It assesses the subsidies given and shows how they will be affected by trade liberalization. It looks in particular at the TRIPS agreement and assesses the costs and benefits that it will ...

Sources of information value

strategic framing and the transformation of the information industries

This book provides a conceptual framework to understand and analyze the decline of the telecommunications industry and the rise of information industries. This includes information distribution, banking, advertising, computing, etc. and will use a value based perspective to show the industry shaping dynamics. The integrative ...

Work and employment relations in the automobile industry

This text examines the form and character of the internationalization of employee relations in the automobile industry. It goes on to examine the impact of the new forms of regionalization and their impact on employment relations within firms. Case studies are used to examine the ...

International finance and the developing economies

There are many challenges facing the economies of developing countries. Capital volatility, financial crises, aid, debt and the IMF are all issues that have received a great deal of attention over recent years. In International Finance and the Developing Economies, Graham Bird provides an essentially ...

Latin American economic crises

trade and labour

This volume examines issues of economic interest faced by Latin America economies in the late 20th Century. The fifteen chapters deal with macroeconomic problems, financial crises, the development of trade and trade agreements and labour issues. Of particular interest are the chapters dealing with Argentina ...

Spatial econometrics and spatial statistics

The field of spatial econometrics has come to include the methods and models that deal with estimation and testing problems encountered when attempting to implement regional economic models. Those problems are often characterized by the difficulties associated with assessing the importance of spatial dependence and ...

Welfare economics

towards a more complete analysis

Yew Kwang Ng looks to make welfare economics more complete by discussing the recent inframarginal analysis of division of labour and by pushing welfare economics from the level of preference to that of happiness, making a reformulation of the foundation of public policy necessary. A ...

Shaping the New Europe

economic policy challenges of European Union enlargement

This volume brings together contributions on the major economic policy issues which have opened up as a result of the process of European Union enlargement. The issues analysed range from modelling and analysing the costs and benefits of enlargement, to challenges for macroeconomic policy both ...