http://www.lybrary.com/index.php?cPath=899 Copyright © 2013 Lybrary.comhttp://www.lybrary.com/an-unruly-world-p-294377.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/an-unruly-world-p-294377.htmlSat, 18 May 2013 03:32:46 EDT <p>It is commonly agreed that we live in an age of globalization, but the profound consequences of this development are rarely understood. Usually, globalization is equated with the expansion of economic and financial markets and the proliferation of global networks of communication. In truth, much more is at stake: Traditional concepts of individual and national identity as well as perceived relationships between the self and others are undergoing profound change. Every town has become a potential cosmopolis -- an international city -- affecting the way that people conceptualize the relationship between public order and political practice.</p><p>In Being in the World, noted political theorist Fred Dallmayr explores the globe's transition from the traditional Westphalian system of states to today's interlocking cosmopolitan network. Drawing upon sacred scriptures as well as the work of ancient philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle and more recent scholars such as Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Raimon Panikkar, this book delves into what Dallmayr calls "being in the world," seen as an aspect of ethical-political engagement. Rather than lamenting current problems, he suggests addressing them through civic education and cosmopolitan citizenship. Dallmayr advocates a politics of the common good, which requires the cultivation of public ethics, open dialogue, and civic responsibility.</p>http://www.lybrary.com/being-in-the-world-dialogue-and-cosmopolis-p-293463.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/being-in-the-world-dialogue-and-cosmopolis-p-293463.htmlThu, 16 May 2013 10:51:44 EDT <p>After the financial apocalypse, neoliberalism rose from the dead-stronger than ever</p><p>At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators thought that neoliberalism itself was in its death throes. And yet it seems that-post-apocalypse-we've awoken into a second nightmare more ghastly than the first: a political class still blaming government intervention, a global drive for austerity, stagflation, and exploding sovereign debt crises.</p><p>Philip Mirowski argues that, as in classic studies of cognitive dissonance, neoliberal thought has become so pervasive that any countervailing evidence serves only to further convince disciples of its ultimate truth. Once neoliberalism became a Theory of Everything-a revolutionary account of self, knowledge, information, markets, and government-it could no longer be falsified by mere data from the 'real' economy.</p><p>In this sharp, witty and deeply informed account-taking no prisoners in his pursuit of 'zombie' economists-Mirowski surveys the wreckage of what passes for economic thought, and finally provides the basis for an anti-neoliberal account of the current crisis and our future prospects.</p>http://www.lybrary.com/never-let-a-serious-crisis-go-to-waste-how-neoliberalism-survived-the-financial-meltdown-p-293397.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/never-let-a-serious-crisis-go-to-waste-how-neoliberalism-survived-the-financial-meltdown-p-293397.htmlThu, 16 May 2013 05:31:24 EDT This book of ten original essays provides a showcase of currently diverse theoretical agendas in the field of international relations. Contributors address the theoretical analysis that their perspecthttp://www.lybrary.com/new-thinking-in-international-relations-theory-p-293172.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/new-thinking-in-international-relations-theory-p-293172.htmlTue, 14 May 2013 16:45:10 EDT An exploration of how the theory and practice of integrated peacebuilding can be applied across diverse disciplineshttp://www.lybrary.com/integrated-peacebuilding-innovative-approaches-to-transforming-conflict-p-291719.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/integrated-peacebuilding-innovative-approaches-to-transforming-conflict-p-291719.htmlFri, 10 May 2013 01:46:50 EDT http://www.lybrary.com/globalization-of-law-and-human-rights-from-norms-to-fulfillment-p-291428.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/globalization-of-law-and-human-rights-from-norms-to-fulfillment-p-291428.htmlWed, 08 May 2013 10:34:56 EDT Globalizatiob and regionalism have led to the rise in the number of powerful but interdependent groups. This book argues that the shape of the world economy is changing and it highlights the challenges that countries will face in the future.http://www.lybrary.com/the-european-economy-p-290497.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/the-european-economy-p-290497.htmlMon, 06 May 2013 09:44:37 EDT http://www.lybrary.com/european-union-p-289756.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/european-union-p-289756.htmlSun, 05 May 2013 00:42:32 EDT In this volume, Indigenous and non-Indigenous social work scholars examine local cultures, beliefs, values, and practices as central to decolonization. Supported by a growing interest in spirituality and ecological awareness in international social work, they interrogate trends, issues, and debates in Indigenous social work theory, practice methods, and education models including a section on Indigenous research approaches.http://www.lybrary.com/decolonizing-social-work-p-286660.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/decolonizing-social-work-p-286660.htmlMon, 29 Apr 2013 02:31:32 EDT We live in a time of dynamic, but generally regressive regime change - a period in which major political transformations and a rollback of a half-century of legislation are accelerated under conditions of a prolonged and deepening economic crisis and a worldwide offensive against the citizenry and the working class. Written by two of the world's leading left-wing thinkers, Capitalism and Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century takes the form of a number of analytical probes into some of the dynamics of capitalist development and imperialism in contemporary conditions of a system in crisis.http://www.lybrary.com/imperialism-and-capitalism-in-the-twentyfirst-century-a-system-in-crisis-p-286647.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/imperialism-and-capitalism-in-the-twentyfirst-century-a-system-in-crisis-p-286647.htmlMon, 29 Apr 2013 01:31:58 EDT <p>The social sciences routinely debate questions of society, and of the relationship between individuals and the social world in which we live. Some contemporary debates have a long history, and others are expressed differently in the age of new technologies and the Internet.</p><p>This book offers an introduction to some of these key debates, and to the ways of thinking and dealing with them the social sciences employ. It introduces important concepts which promote understanding of discussions including those on identity, citizenship, social divisions, consumption and class, gender, race and ethnicity, the role of the media and the impact of globalization.<p>This student-friendly book, including boxed material, examples and illustrations, fills the gap in the market for an introductory text on the social sciences. It will greatly interest students wishing to bridge the gap between Access courses or A levels and social science degrees, and those who are considering studying the social sciences at undergraduate level and who want to know more about what might be involved.</p>http://www.lybrary.com/social-sciences-the-big-issues-p-281546.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/social-sciences-the-big-issues-p-281546.htmlFri, 19 Apr 2013 07:34:36 EDT <p>This book is about the processes of globalization, demonstrated through a comparative study of three television case histories in Asia. Also illustrated are different approaches to providing television services in the world: public service (NHK in Japan), state (CCTV in China) and commercial (STAR TV, based in Hong Kong).</p><p>Through its focus, <EM>Global Media</EM> addresses a considerable lacuna in the media studies literature, which tends to have a heavy Western bias. It provides an original addition to the literature on globalization, which is often abstract and anecdotal, in addition to making a major contribution to comparative research in Asia. Finally, it offers a thoughtful causal layered analysis, with a concluding argument in favor of public service television.</p>http://www.lybrary.com/global-media-the-television-revolution-in-asia-p-275977.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/global-media-the-television-revolution-in-asia-p-275977.htmlSun, 07 Apr 2013 06:34:17 EDT <p>This is a book about the difficulties of thinking and acting politically in ways that refuse the politics of nationalism. The book offers a detailed study of how contemporary attempts by theorists of cosmopolitanism, citizenship, globalism and multiculturalism to go beyond nationalism often reproduce key aspects of a nationalist imaginary. It argues that the challenge of resisting nationalism will require more than a shift in the scale of politics - from the national up to the global or down to the local, and more than a shift in the count of politics - to an emphasis on diversity and multiculturalism. In order to avoid the grip of 'nationalist thinking', we need to re-open the question of what it means to imagine community.</p><p>Set against the backdrop of the imaginative geographies of the War in Terror and the new beginning promised by the Presidency of Barack Obama, the book shows how critical interventions often work in collaboration with nationalist politics, even when the aim is to resist nationalism. It claims that a nationalist imaginary includes powerful understandings of freedom, subjectivity, sovereignty and political space/time which must also be placed under question if we want to avoid reproducing ideas about 'us' and 'them'. Drawing on insights from feminist, cultural and postcolonial studies as well as critical approaches to International Relations and Geography, this book presents a unique and refreshing approach to the politics of nationalism.</p>http://www.lybrary.com/the-persistence-of-nationalism-from-imagined-communities-to-urban-encounters-p-269257.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/the-persistence-of-nationalism-from-imagined-communities-to-urban-encounters-p-269257.htmlFri, 15 Mar 2013 03:33:38 EDT <span><span><span style="font-style:italic;">Poverty Reduction in a Changing Climate</span><span>, edited by Hari Bansha Dulal, is a work which discusses the new innovations and funding mechanisms which have emerged in response to the rise of climate-related challenges in the twenty-first century. Dulal and the text's contributors explore the synergies and implications of those innovations with respect to poverty alleviation goals. </span></span></span>http://www.lybrary.com/poverty-reduction-in-a-changing-climate-p-268780.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/poverty-reduction-in-a-changing-climate-p-268780.htmlThu, 14 Mar 2013 00:36:01 EDT <p>Interregionalism, the institutionalized relations between world regions, is a new phenomenon in international relations. It also a new layer of development in an increasingly differentiated global order.</p><p>This volume examines the structure of this phenomenon and the scholarly discourse it is generating. It takes stock of empirical facts and theoretical explanations, bringing together with clarity and concision the latest research on this key area. This essential new book:</p><p>* traces the emergence of interregionalism and reviews the latest literature</p><p>* provides a conceptual and theoretical framework for study</p><p>* includes case studies of inter-regional relations between: Asia and America; Asia and Europe; Europe and America; and Europe and Africa.</p><p>* delivers comparative analyses and special cases such as continental summits and interregional relationships beyond the Triad.</p><p>* summarizes and evaluates the findings of each chapter, providing a basis for further research.</p><p>This is a key reference book for students and researchers of regionalism, global governance and international relations.</p>http://www.lybrary.com/interregionalism-and-international-relations-a-stepping-stone-to-global-governance-p-267909.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/interregionalism-and-international-relations-a-stepping-stone-to-global-governance-p-267909.htmlMon, 11 Mar 2013 08:34:45 EDT <p>This book provides an in-depth account of India's role in world politics at the beginning of the twenty-first century.</p><p>The author shows how the approach laid down by Nehru and followed by his successors (an approach that included nuclear self-restraint, the search for friendly relations with Pakistan and China, seeking the high ground in moral and diplomatic spheres, and giving a lead to the non-aligned Third World) has been replaced.</p><p>The new, more self-confident and assertive approach of this book is based on India's growing economic strength and has a more strategic and pro-Western orientation. Meticulous in approach, this book discusses this change, shows how it has come about, and explores how India's role in world politics might develop going forward.</p><p>This book will be of interest to students and scholars of South Asian studies, Asian politics, international relations, and security studies.</p>http://www.lybrary.com/india-from-regional-to-world-power-p-267857.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/india-from-regional-to-world-power-p-267857.htmlMon, 11 Mar 2013 06:32:18 EDT <p>Globalization has become a seemingly unstoppable force over recent decades and, in its wake, global notions of social justice have developed in response to its negative aspects. Neo-liberal economic policies have been a key element in the wider process of globalization, and these policies have had a profound impact on welfare provision and the shape of social work practice. Arising dissatisfaction among users of welfare and social work services is fuelling the search for a new, more radical social work that is firmly rooted in principles of social justice.</p><p><EM>Globalisation, Global Justice and Social Work</EM> explores the global effects of neo-liberal policies on welfare services in different countries, with contributions from social work academics, practitioners and welfare activists around the world. The first section of the book presents case studies of impact of neo-liberalism on welfare systems, social service provision and the practice of social work. In the second section the chapters explore the relationship between social work practice and the struggle for social justice. Authors discuss the personal and political dilemmas they have had to address in seeking to link a personal commitment to social justice with their daily practice as workers and educators in social work. The final section assesses the prospects for social work practice based on notions of social justice, by looking at what can be learned from the experience of previous radical movements as well as from emergent global and local movements.</p>http://www.lybrary.com/globalisation-global-justice-and-social-work-p-267847.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/globalisation-global-justice-and-social-work-p-267847.htmlMon, 11 Mar 2013 05:33:48 EDT <p>What can postcolonialism tell us about international relations? What can international relations tell us about postcolonialism?</p><p>In recent years, postcolonial perspectives and insights have challenged our conventional understanding of international politics. <EM>Postcolonial Theory and International Relations</EM> is the first book to provide a comprehensive and accessible survey of how postcolonialism radically alters our understanding of international relations.</p><p>Each chapter is written by a leading international scholar and looks at the core components of international relations - theories, the nation, geopolitics, international law, war, international political economy, sovereignty, religion, nationalism, Empire etc. - through a postcolonial lens. In so doing it provides students with a valuable insight into the challenges that postcolonialism poses to our understanding of global politics.</p>http://www.lybrary.com/postcolonial-theory-and-international-relations-a-critical-introduction-p-266528.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/postcolonial-theory-and-international-relations-a-critical-introduction-p-266528.htmlFri, 08 Mar 2013 03:02:35 EST <p><STRONG><EM>A critical cultural materialist introduction to the study of global entertainment media.</EM></STRONG></p><p>In <I>Global Entertainment Media</I>, Tanner Mirrlees undertakes an analysis of the ownership, production, distribution, marketing, exhibition and consumption of global films and television shows, with an eye to political economy and cultural studies. Among other topics, Mirrlees examines:</p><UL><li>Paradigms of global entertainment media such as cultural imperialism and cultural globalization.</LI><li>The business of entertainment media: the structure of capitalist culture/creative industries (financers, producers, distributors and exhibitors) and trends in the global political economy of entertainment media.</LI><li>The "governance" of global entertainment media: state and inter-state media and cultural policies and regulations that govern the production, distribution and exhibition of entertainment media and enable or impede its cross-border flow.</LI><li>The new international division of cultural labor (NICL): the cross-border production of entertainment by cultural workers in asymmetrically interdependent media capitals, and economic and cultural concerns surrounding runaway productions and co-productions. </LI><li>The economic motivations and textual design features of globally popular entertainment forms such as blockbuster event films, TV formats, glocalized lifestyle brands and synergistic media.</LI><li>The cross-cultural reception and effects of TV shows and films.</LI><li>The World Wide Web, digitization and convergence culture.</LI></UL>http://www.lybrary.com/global-entertainment-media-between-cultural-imperialism-and-cultural-globalization-p-266403.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/global-entertainment-media-between-cultural-imperialism-and-cultural-globalization-p-266403.htmlFri, 08 Mar 2013 02:44:35 EST <p>In fields such as politics, international relations, public administration and international law, there is a rapidly growing interest in the topic of 'accountability'. In this innovative new work, Steele shows how we might recognize how an alternative form of accountability in global politics has been present for some time, and that, furthermore, this form's continued presence remains one of the most politically powerful, if not endurable, possibilities for resistance in the near future.</p><p>This book argues that the physical and visually shocking outcomes of violence found on the bodies of humans, as well as the buildings and landscapes which surround us, specifically the scars they leave behind, remain one of our most compelling forms of accountability. Steele develops the theoretical argument on scars and exteriority utilizing insights from several philosophical and theoretical resources including Hannah Arendt, Erving Goffmann, and Richard Rorty. The work examines scars and their effects through several illustrations, including the accounts of Emmett Till, Iranian protestor Neda Agha-Soltan, the Syrian boy Hamza al-Khateeb, the massacre in WWII and then memorializing throughout the 20th century of the Lidice children in the modern-day Czech Republic, the particular architecturally destructive outcomes of the 2008-9 Gaza War, the loss of the Twin Towers in New York, as well as a variety of violent scars found on the landscapes of Europe and Southeast Asia.</p><p>Emphasizing the importance of the space and 'time' of scars, the book illustrates how an alternative form of accountability in the scar can be a useful, disruptive, spontaneous, but also creative practice to challenge the discourses of violence which remain with us today.</p>http://www.lybrary.com/alternative-accountabilities-in-global-politics-the-scars-of-violence-p-266030.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/alternative-accountabilities-in-global-politics-the-scars-of-violence-p-266030.htmlThu, 07 Mar 2013 03:36:03 EST