Creator: Marianne Hanson
Publication date: 2002-04-28
Dewey code: 337
Price: $26.95
Review The Politics of Nuclear Non-Proliferation (Studies in World Affairs) / Allen & Unwin Academic:The politics of nuclear weapons proliferation is high on the international agenda. Deep divisions have emerged between the nuclear "haves" and "have-nots" over the appropriate next steps in arms control and disarmament. Here a group of Australian and international scholars analyze some of the key issues in the nuclear non-proliferation debate. For 30 years, the international community's main response to the threat of nuclear weapons proliferation has been to strengthen the institutions and agreements based around the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). But the NPT is under stress. Several states refuse to join the regime; others are attempting to acquire or develop nuclear weapons. Tensions between the major powers - such as recent debates over missile defence - threaten to undermine the non-proliferation norm. This book looks at the debate in three parts. In the first, the conceptual and legal foundations of nuclear arms control and non-proliferation are examined. In the second, contributors look at the non-proliferation agenda from the perspective of individual countries or regions, with the situation in Asia as a primary focus. [+]The final part of the book explores how new and unconventional diplomatic approaches to nuclear arms control and disarmament are changing the international negotiating environment.
Publication date: 2000-03-06
Dewey code: 337
Price: $52.50
Review The Globalization Syndrome / Princeton University Press:Here James Mittelman explains the systemic dynamics and myriad consequences of globalization, focusing on the interplay between globalizing market forces, in some instances guided by the state, and the needs of society. Mittelman finds that globalization is hardly a unified phenomenon but rather a syndrome of processes and activities: a set of ideas and a policy framework. More specifically, globalization is propelled by a changing division of labor and power, manifested in a new regionalism, and challenged by fledgling resistance movements. The author argues that a more complete understanding of globalization requires an appreciation of its cultural dimensions. From this perspective, he considers the voices of those affected by this trend, including those who resist it and particularly those who are hurt by it. The Globalization Syndrome is among the first books to present a holistic and multilevel analysis of globalization, connecting the economic to the political and cultural, joining agents and multiple structures, and interrelating different local, regional, and global arenas. Mittelman's findings are drawn mainly from the non-Western worlds. He provides a cross-regional analysis of Eastern Asia, an epicenter of globalization, and Southern Africa, a key node in the most marginalized continent. The evidence shows that while offering many benefits to some, globalization has become an uneasy correlation of deep tensions, giving rise to a range of alternative scenarios.
Edition: 1. ed
Publication date: 2004-06-30
Review El Mal En La Narrativa Ecua (Serie Magister) / Corporacion Editora Nacional:
Creator: Alex F. McCalla
Publication date: 2006-11
Review Reforming Agricultural Trade for Developing Countries / World Bank Publications:Developing countries have much greater leverage in the Doha Round negotiations, due at least in part to their large and growing share of world trade. Nonetheless, it remains to be seen whether this influence will be translated into a final agreement that is truly more development-friendly. This volume takes up select issues of importance to developing countries, including the implications of the concept of the "multifunctionality" of agriculture, the impact on market access of sanitary and phytosanitary regulations, the role of special and differential treatment for developing countries in the negotiations, and what lessons can be learned from previous trade reform experiences.
Creator: Joseph A. Kechichian
Publication date: 2000-02-22
Dewey code: 953.57
Price: $25.00
Review A Century in Thirty Years : Shaykh Zayed and the United Arab Emirates / Middle East Policy Council:Scholarly papers on the history, politics, economics and sociology of the United Arab Emirates.
Edition: Cdr
Publication date: 2006-04
Dewey code: 341
Price: $20.00
Review Comercio Exterior/foreign Trade: Exportaciones E Importaciones Segun Destino Y Origen Por Principales Zonas Economicas / United Nations Pubns:
Authors
- Hans Genberg
- Sushil Wadhwani
- John Lipsky
- Steven Cecchetti
Dewey code: 320
Price: $37.50
Review Asset Price Inflation: What to do about it? Geneva Reports on the World Economy 2 / Centre for Economic Policy Research:How should central banks view movements in equity, housing and foreign exchange markets? Can policy-makers improve economic performance by paying attention to asset prices, as well as inflation and output forecasts? Is it possible to identify asset price misalignments and bubbles? Is it possible to use non-conventional policies to address asset price misalignments? Should asset prices be included directly in measures of inflation? Do asset prices contain information about future consumer price inflation? The second title in the ICMB/CEPR series of Geneva Reports on the World Economy addresses these questions and reaches the following conclusions: 1. A central bank concerned with stabilizing inflation can achieve superior performance by adjusting its policy instruments in response to asset prices as well as inflation forecasts and the output gap. The reaction to asset prices will, however, depend on why they have changed: appropriate responses to increases in productivity growth are very different from responses to misalignments or bubbles. 2. Asset price misalignments may be difficult to measure, but this is no reason to ignore them. 3. Most non-conventional policies, such as adjusting margin requirements, are unlikely to succeed in reducing asset price volatility. 4. Inflation measures should take better account of changes in housing prices, but stock price movements are better left out of inflation indices. 5. [+]Asset prices have a strong effect on future inflation, although the impact differs across countries.
Publication date: 1996-01
Price: $104.95
Review Development Banking and Finance / Avebury:This text covers topics such as: intersectoral financial flows in developing countries; financial institutions and markets; and financial system restructuring.
Publication date: 2004-01
Review El Monopolio de Indias En El Siglo XVII y La Economia Andaluza: La Oportunidad Que Nunca Existio: Leccion Inaugural, Curso Academico 2004-2005 / Universidad de Huelva:
Creator: Dominique Njinkeu
Publication date: 2007-12
Review African Countries in the New Trade Negotiations: Interest, Options, and Challenges / Africa World Press:This three-volume set presents results of a research project initiated by the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC). Titled Africa and the World Trading System, the project intended to identify and examine the critical analytical and policy issues involved in Africa s economic links with the rest of the world, particularly in the context of the emerging global trading system. Conducted by some of the leading specialists in African and global trade issues, the project had two distinct, but closely inter-related component parts. The first consisted of research that was analytical and/or empirical in nature but region-wide in scope and focus. This component was designed to provide the framework for the selection of the menu of issues that was subsequently explored in greater detail, using the country case study approach, in the project s second component. The framework papers generated in the first component of the project are presented in Volume I, while the country case studies are contained in Volume II. Volume III contains papers presented at the project s dissemination workshop. This volume therefore represents some of the material presented at a workshop held in Geneva in March 2000 for African representatives to the WTO, to present some of the country studies along with thematic overviews. It covers trade in services in some depth, with both country studies and two overview pieces. Other chapters are devoted to industrial policy, intellectual property rights, special and differential treatment, and experience with technical assistance for capacity building. [+]Agricultural trade is handled in a separate volume, given its importance and complexity.
Publication date: 2000-10
Dewey code: 337
Review Globalization: A Critical Introduction / Palgrave Macmillan:The increasing globalization of economic, social, political, and cultural life is a key feature of the contemporary world. Written by a leading authority, Jan Aart Scholte's new book provides a concise but broad-ranging introduction to its causes, character, consequences,and implications. Accessible but avoiding oversimplification, the book provides a balanced assessment of how the benefits of globalization could be maximized and its ill effects minimized.
Publication date: 2007-01
Review The World Trade Organization: Law, Economics, and Politics / Routledge:The World Trade Organization (WTO) is one of the most important international organizations in existence today. It contains a set of disciplines that affect the ability of governments to impose trade restrictions, and has helped to support the steady expansion of international trade since the 1950s. It is a unique organization in providing a framework for member states to make binding policy commitments that are enforced through a unique dispute settlement system and a variety of transparency mechanisms. Despite - or because of - its success, the WTO has recently become the focus of vociferous protests by anti-globalization activists. This book separates the facts from the propaganda and provides an accessible overview of the WTO's history, structure and policies as well as a discussion of the future of the organization. It also confronts the criticisms of the WTO and assesses their validity. The World Trade Organization is essential reading for students of international trade, international political economy, commercial law and international organizations as well as activists and others interested in a balanced account of a key global institution.
Publication date: 2003-01
Review Reciprocidad Imposible?: La Politica del Comercio Entre Mexico y Estados Unidos, 1857-1938 / El Colegio Mexiquense:
Creator: United States
Publication date: 2003-01
Review Written Comments on Extension of Permanent Normal Trade Relations Status to Armenia, Moldova, and Laos / Government Printing Office:
Publication date: 2001-12-06
Review The Commonwealth of Life: A Treatise on Stewardship Economics / Black Rose Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2005-01
Review El Area de Libre Comercio Para America (Alca) y Su Impacto En Puerto Rico / Situm:
Creator: Ralph K. Cowan
Publication date: 1983-01
Price: $20.00
Review Banking in Transition: Creative Banking Issues for the 1980's: Proceedings of the 24th Annual Seminar: Sponsored by the Institute for Canadia (Canadian-American Seminar Publications,) / Tantalus Research:
Creator: Robert Cox
Publication date: 1997-03-15
Dewey code: 337
Price: $120.00
Review The New Realism: Perspectives on Multilateralism and World Order (International Political Economy) / Palgrave Macmillan:The new realism differs from Cold War neorealism by including a broad range of non-state forces, peoples' and social movements, that challenge the exclusive dominance of states and the global economy in the making of future world order. The resurgence of civilisations brings a variety of perspectives to interpreting the present and imagining the future. Medium-term factors influence this mix of forces: the uncertainties of US policy, the fragmentation of the former Soviet Union, global social polarisation, and a new form of people-based regionalism.
Publication date: 1985
Review ASEAN and Indochina: A study of political responses, 1975-81 (Canberra studies in world affairs) / Dept. of International Relations, Australian National University:
Publication date: 2003-01
Review Dilemas de La Politica Comercial Externa Argentina (Coleccion Diagnosticos y Propuestas) / Fundacion Osde:
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The Politics of Nuclear Non-Proliferation (Studies in World Affairs), The Globalization Syndrome, El Mal En La Narrativa Ecua (Serie Magister), Reforming Agricultural Trade for Developing Countries, A Century in Thirty Years : Shaykh Zayed and the United Arab Emirates, Comercio Exterior/foreign Trade: Exportaciones E Importaciones Segun Destino Y Origen Por Principales Zonas Economicas, Asset Price Inflation: What to do about it? Geneva Reports on the World Economy 2, Development Banking and Finance, El Monopolio de Indias En El Siglo XVII y La Economia Andaluza: La Oportunidad Que Nunca Existio: Leccion Inaugural, Curso Academico 2004-2005, African Countries in the New Trade Negotiations: Interest, Options, and Challenges, Globalization: A Critical Introduction, The World Trade Organization: Law, Economics, and Politics, Reciprocidad Imposible?: La Politica del Comercio Entre Mexico y Estados Unidos, 1857-1938, Written Comments on Extension of Permanent Normal Trade Relations Status to Armenia, Moldova, and Laos, The Commonwealth of Life: A Treatise on Stewardship Economics, El Area de Libre Comercio Para America (Alca) y Su Impacto En Puerto Rico, Banking in Transition: Creative Banking Issues for the 1980's: Proceedings of the 24th Annual Seminar: Sponsored by the Institute for Canadia (Canadian-American Seminar Publications,), The New Realism: Perspectives on Multilateralism and World Order (International Political Economy), ASEAN and Indochina: A study of political responses, 1975-81 (Canberra studies in world affairs), Dilemas de La Politica Comercial Externa Argentina (Coleccion Diagnosticos y Propuestas)Top headlines: Aston Martin laying off 600 employees: Aston Martin, maker of James Bond's luxury sports car, said Monday that it is laying off as much as a third of its work force because of falling sales during the economic slump. ›18:16 1 Dec, Mon Retailers tiptoe between Christmas, holidays: As American shoppers embark on their annual shopping binge , a prickly marketing question splits American consumers and stores: Christmas or holiday? ›23:23 1 Dec, Mon Gonzales, Cheney indictments dismissed: A judge in Texas has dismissed indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. ›01:47 Hudson's estranged brother-in-law arrested: Police arrested the estranged brother-in-law of Jennifer Hudson on Monday in the deaths of the entertainer's mother, brother and young nephew. ›01:15 Bush set to relax rules protecting species: Animals in danger of becoming extinct could lose the protection of government experts who make sure that dams and other projects don't pose a threat, under a regulation the Bush administration is set to put in place. ›16:13 20 Nov, Thu No electricity? 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