Enacting Globalization Multidisciplinary Perspectives on International Integration

by Brennan, Louis

• ISBN13: 9781137361936
• ISBN10: 113736193X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-11-29
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Enacting Globalization consists of a rich set of papers with a variety of disciplinary perspectives, focusing on globalization and its portrayal through International integration as manifested by its myriad flows such as people, trade, capital and knowledge flows. The chapters are grouped into seven key thematic areas: development, Europe, globalization flows, industries and enterprises, migrant activism, perspectives on emigration and immigration and rules and law. The structure of the book offers readers the opportunity to delve deep into critical facets of globalization while at the same delivering a panoramic view of globalization. The multi-disciplinary approach that is the essence of the approach adopted in the book enhances considerably the coverage of the diverse aspects of the enactment of globalization.

Enacting Globalization will be of significant educational value in terms of informing students and scholars alike on the enactment of globalization by providing them with deep insights and multiple perspectives on critical elements of the globalization process while at the same time offering learning on globalization in its full expanse.

Author Biography

Dr. Louis Brennan is Director of the Institute for International Integration Studies at Trinity College, Ireland, and a Professor within the Trinity School of Business. He is the proposer and chair of the 25 nation COST Action research network on the Emergence of Southern Multinationals and their impact on Europe. Dr. Brennan was educated in Ireland, France, the UK and the USA. He has served as a faculty member in several universities in Asia, Europe and the United States.

Table of Contents

Development
1. Low tax Centres and Economic Development
2. The Indian State, the Diasporic Hindu Right and the 'Desire Named Development'
3. Access to Banking Services in Sub-Saharan Africa
4. 'From Theory to Practice: Potential and Pitfalls of a Rights-Based Approach to Discrimination in the Kaffa society of Ethiopia'
5. 'North South Experiences of Doctoral Training for Development in Africa'
Migrant activism
6. 'Human Waste? Reading Bauman's Wasted Lives in the Context of Ireland's Globalisation'
7. 'Negotiating power: Migrant Activism, migrant groups and Social movement theory.'
8. 'Migrant-led activism and integration from below in recession Ireland'
Rules & Law
9. 'Some Running Repairs to the World Trade Organization'
10. 'Globalizing Legal Process to Counter Impunity for International Crimes'
11. Attitudes to a Relaxation of the EU Border Regime: Economically beneficial but politically unrealistic?'
Perspectives on immigration and emigration
12. 'Migration and Clustering of Creative Workers: Historical Case Studies of Visual Artists and Composers'
13. 'Policy Shifts and the De-politicization of Immigration'
14. 'Learning from Poland? Lessons for Contemporary Irish Emigration from Polish Immigration to Ireland'
Industries & Enterprises
15. 'Varieties of Capitalism and the Globalization of Service Markets'
16. 'Globalization and Industry Structure: Evidence from Vietnam'
17. 'Privatized Firms and their Management Structures: Links with the State?'
18. 'Mapping family business groups from a cross-cultural perspective'
19. 'Globalisation and Ireland's Export Performance'
Globalisation Flows
20. 'Reflections on Capital Flows in the Euro Area'
21. Remittance flows to developing countries: trends, importance and impact
22. 'Of Cables, Connections and Control: Africa's Double Dependency in the Information Age'
23. 'Effects of Aging on US FDI'
24. 'Intellectual Expatriates and their Intangible Value in Post-Industrial Globalised Societies'
25. 'Spreading the Benefits of Globalisation: How the International Donor Community
Assisted Developing Countries to Integrate into the Global Economy'
Europe
26. 'A Tale of Two Trilemmas'
27. 'Europe's response to non-traditional sources of investment'