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The World Turned Upside Down
The Complex Partnership Between China and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Acting as a Sorcerer's Apprentice, the West incorporated 1.3 billion Chinese and 1.2 billion Indians into the world's labour equation within a context of lower production costs. This resulted in erosion of its competitive capacity and social stability, while greatly benefiting developing economies,...
Islamic Globalization
Pilgrimage, Capitalism, Democracy, and Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Islamic Globalization examines the Muslim world's growing importance in creating a more inclusive international system that is increasingly multipolar and multicultural. The author describes an emerging pattern of Islamic globalization as a series of transformations in four interrelated areas —...
by Ralph Pettman
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
International political economy (IPE) is a highly complex discipline, drawing not only from the fields of politics and economics, but also those as varied as philosophy, history and anthropology. Now widely accepted as a key dimension to contemporary world affairs, it is no longer possible to talk...
by John Yinger
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Lecture Notes in Urban Economics and Urban Policy provides a wide-ranging introduction to urban economics and urban policy by Professor John Yinger, one of the world's leading scholars in urban economics. It draws on his extensive teaching and publication record to provide detailed lecture notes for...
by Gerard M Crawley
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Competition for energy resources worldwide will almost certainly increase because of population growth and economic expansion, especially in countries such as China and India, with large populations. In addition, environmental concerns with the use of certain energy sources add a complicating factor...
by Peter Ho
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Peter Ho, former Head of the Singapore Civil Service, was the Institute of Policy Studies' 2016/17 S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore.
This book collects the four IPS-Nathan Lectures that he delivered between April and May 2017, and gathers highlights of his dialogues with the audience.
Ho...
by Tommy Koh, Li Lin Chang, Joanna Koh
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
In 2015, Singapore marks the 50th anniversary of its independence, and the United Nations (UN) the 70th anniversary of its founding. This book celebrates 50 years of a mutually beneficial relationship between Singapore and the UN.
In the early years of Singapore's independence, the UN system...
by Nicholas Steneck, Melissa Anderson, Sabine Kleinert;Tony Mayer
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
With a seeming increase in the number of high-profile cases of research misconduct, there is a need for promoting and upholding the principles for the responsible conduct of research. At the 3rd World Conference on Research Integrity, convened in Montréal in 2013, vital issues relating to ethics...
Fundamental Forces of Nature
The Story of Gauge Fields
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2007
Gauge fields are the messengers carrying signals between elementary particles, enabling them to interact with each other. Originating at the level of quarks, these basic interactions percolate upwards, through nuclear and atomic physics, through chemical and solid state physics, to make our everyday...
PISA and PIRLS
The Effects of Culture and School Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
International comparative studies of student achievement have caught the attention of governments, policy-makers, school leaders and educational researchers globally. They have become benchmarks of education for countries in the world and provide a broad perspective for countries to evaluate their...
Globalization and Localization
The Chinese Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
The aim of this book is to provide the international readership a collection of articles authored by Chinese scholars on the subject of globalization and localization. In a world where no country is an island isolated from others, globalization is bound to be contested, debated, and de- and re-constructed...
Non-Tariff Barriers, Regionalism and Poverty
Essays in Applied International Trade Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Non-Tariff Barriers, Regionalism and Poverty is a collection of key articles in three important areas of applied international trade research: measuring non-tariff barriers and their effects, the consequences of regional trading arrangements, especially on the countries excluded from them, and the...
Voyage Through Time
Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2003
From a beginning in an Egyptian delta town and the port of Alexandria to the scenic vistas of sunny southern California, Ahmed Zewail takes us on a voyage through time — his own life and the split-second world of the femtosecond. In this endearing exposé of his life and work until his receipt of...
Pathways to Global Health
Case Studies in Global Health Diplomacy(Volume 2)
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Following the publication of Negotiating and Navigating Global Health: Case Studies in Global Health Diplomacy edited by Ellen Rosskam and Ilona Kickbusch, this second volume of case studies will complement the first volume and extends its scope. The new book focuses on health diplomacy negotiations,...