Bøger i Global Issues serien

Police personnel have increasingly been deployed outside their own domestic jurisdictions to uphold law and order and to help rebuild states. This book explores the phenomenon of a 'new international policing' and outlines the range of challenges and opportunities it presents to both practitioners and theorists.

Addresses the problem of untouchability by providing an overview of the subject as well as insights into its social and religious origins. This book demonstrates that untouchability is a deeply ambiguous condition: neither inside nor outside society, reviled yet indispensable, untouchables constitute an original category of social exclusion.

The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention entirely prohibits biological warfare, but it has no effective verification mechanism to ensure that the 140-plus States Parties are living up to their obligations. On 25 July 2001 the United States entirely rejected the final text which would probably have been acceptable to most other states.

Jonathan Moses puts the arguments in favour of free mobility, and counters those against.

After half a century of disappointed hopes, where do developing countries go from here? In this volume, two economists refute some of the main myths of free market globalization in trenchant fashion. introducing the alternative economic policies that can be and have been successfully pursued.

Provides an authoritative introduction to the oil sector in the world economy.

This book explains what is happening to the world's agricultural systems and their farmers under the impact of neoliberal economics.

This title offers a coherent presentation of the key issues involved in the global trade debate.

The story of water business around the world.

Original perspective on international trafficking and sex industry focusing on the criminal networks involved.

Intellectual property rights, TRIPS, patents - all the ideas, technologies (including genes), and manipulation of life forms that are current can be owned and exploited for profit by giant corporations. This book explores and analyzes how intellectual copyright can be seen as corporate plunder.

Explains the world of nanotechnology and who controls it. This book explores the potential consequences for individuals, the environment, and relations between the powers. Nanotechnology could bridge or widen the gap between rich and poor - this is the political decision that civil society must address.

The events of September 11 2001 have altered the course of arms control intended to eliminate weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and has made the role of international organizations controversial.

This is an examination of the feasibility of halving world hunger by 2015. It looks at: BSE, foot and mouth and salmonella; declining food variety/quality; and disappearing topsoil/ biodiversity in rural areas. It argues for a green, low-external input approach that can feed the hungry.

Executive Director

There is no alternative to the prevailing global economic system has become a watchword of our times, but this book argues that this stance lacks vision, is empty of social responsibility and environmental care, and that it cannot deliver a stable economy or a secure political future.

Health Impacts of Globalization brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers to analyze specific case studies that provide much needed empirical analysis of the impact of globalization on health.

Consumers have taken the lead in rejecting genetically modified crops. Giving a voice to farmers who are being pressured by half a dozen giant corporations to grow these crops, this book provides an explanation of what is happening and what is at stake, and a statement of principles.

Martin Khor sets out practical proposals for action both nationally and at the international level to shape globalization to particular circumstances and priorities.

A landmark work in dissecting global capitalism's multitude of failings and offering a viable, more equitable, alternative.

This volume explains the impact of the war on terrorism on the world's secret services and intelligence agencies and describes how ultra-modern new technologies have vastly increased their power to spy and eavesdrop.

This account details the work of the UNSCOM (United Nations Special Commission) on Iraq which has during the past eight years gradually uncovered more and more of the scope of the Iraqi chemical and biological weapons programmes and established an ongoing monitoring and verification regime.

This study offers a critique of existing UN change processes and then shifts focus to considerations of institutional learning strategies that would allow the UN to maintain relevance amidst the evolution of global governance arrangements.

Using 50 questions and answers, this book explains how and why the debt impasse for developing countries has been arrived at.

The spread and consolidation of the women's movement in North and South over the past thirty years looks set to shape the course of social progress over the next generation. Peggy Antrobus draws on her long experience of feminist activism to set women's movements in their changing national and global context.

An examination of how globalisation has harmed human rights.

Free Trade explains the case for free trade; the critiques; and how free trade policies work in practice. It introduces powerful and increasingly high profile new ideas for greater self-reliance and alternative development.

Until now little attention has been paid to the development of military capabilities designed to target food crops with biological warfare agents. It shows that all biological warfare programmes have included a component concerned with the development of anti-crop biological warfare agents and munitions.

President Obama and the UK Labour and Coalition governments have all backed the renewed momentum for serious progress towards a world free of nuclear weapons, whilst the UK finds itself embarked on a controversial and expensive programme to renew its Trident nuclear weapons system. What does the UK process tell about the prospects for disarmament?

Mauritius is the focus for this study of social identity and political culture. The book seeks to enhance comparative understanding of ethnicity, to refine theories of nationalism, and to contribute to ongoing debates on multiculturalism, identity politics and creolization.