Author: Teresa Healy
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: global, local, world, gender, mexico, struggles, globalisation, gendered
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2008-07-21
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754637018
ISBN-13: 9780754637011

Author: Yannis A. Stivachtis
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: integration, european, state
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2007-12-21
List price: $124.95
ISBN-10: 0754672239
ISBN-13: 9780754672234

"The State of European Integration" provides scholars, practitioners, experts and students with a comprehensive account of the state of the European Union (EU) today. With contributions from leading scholars, this book examines the EU in a theoretically informed and empirically grounded manner. Beginning with an exploration into the nature of the European Union as an international actor, it moves on to assess the impact of enlargement on institutions, policies and identity. Furthermore, after investigating issues related to the degree of convergence and cohesion among members, it analyzes the

Author: Greg Young
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: planning, development, regional, culture, reshaping, urban
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2008-04-23
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754670775
ISBN-13: 9780754670773

Planning is described as being increasingly sidelined by the impacts of neo-liberalism. At the same time, ’culture’ is possessing a new creative weight and importance in sociological, economic and ecological terms. This book argues that, in light of this cultural turn, there is a need and opportunity to re-position planning and proposes a new system of ’culturalisation’. Culturalisation is defined as the ethical, critical and reflexive integration of culture into planning. This original and practical system is put forward, showing how deeper, richer and more relevant cu

Author: Vincent Barnett
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: social, history, economic, modern, russia, economics
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-10-01
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754661490
ISBN-13: 9780754661498

The history of Russian economic thought largely remains a grey area in the international literature, with a lack of comprehensive studies not only in the West, but also in Russia itself. Whilst over the last 15 years increasing amounts of work has been done on the subject, co-operation between Russian and Western researchers in this field leaves much to be desired. In order to improve this situation, this volume brings Russian and non-Russian researchers together to provide an overview of the current state of the topic and to give a stimulus for further research. Bringing together scholars fro

Author: Keming Yang
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co
Keywords: china, entrepreneurship
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-06-07
List price: $114.95
ISBN-10: 0754646688
ISBN-13: 9780754646686

The emergence of China as a major world economy is of great importance to the global political economy and to international business. There has been a fair amount of research on the macro level of institutional reform but little detailed work on the grassroots level of entrepreneurship. This book addresses this gap by investigating how an economic system dominated by central plans, communist ideologies and suppressing bureaucracies could generate such energy from the bottom of society, fuelling the country’s economic growth. The author’s theory of entrepreneurship is based on two interrela

Author: John R. Deni
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co
Keywords: maintenance, management, alliance
Number of Pages: 166
Published: 2007-07-30
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754670392
ISBN-13: 9780754670391

The maintenance and management of the NATO alliance is a delicate balancing act between responding to security threats and navigating the bargaining positions of the member states. This book highlights how the alliance managed to maintain that balance in an area critical to its operations today around the world - changing its Cold War-era doctrine and structures. Based on his findings, John Deni debates whether the NATO alliance ought to be considered by policy makers to be a political organization first and a military one second.Providing new empirical data valuable to our understanding of NA

Author: Luigi Paganetto
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: constitution, european, economy, political
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 2007-08-06
List price: $124.95
ISBN-10: 0754649482
ISBN-13: 9780754649489

The enlargement process, the creation of the Monetary Union and the need to promote further the political and economic integration of Europe have ignited an intense debate at the European level among researchers and policy-makers. This book reviews and provides new contributions on the political economy of the European constitution. It examines the effects that political, legal, and regulatory institutions have on economic development and on the many issues, like social protection, fiscal reform, and regional policies that are on the table of European policy-makers. It also provides ideas and