Globalization and World Cities Research Network and think-tank on worldwide links between cities presents this fascinating overview … Geographical Unions Commission on Urban Geography). -- This is a "big book" by Peter Taylor. It tells of the extraordinary world …

Three years after the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, economic growth has resurfaced across the world …pt. 1. Heading to 2020 : a new world economic governance? -- pt. 2. Carving out a place for the EU …

), 265-76 -- Sung-Woo Lee, Dong-Wook Song and César Ducruet (2008), 'A Tale of Asia's World Ports: The Spatial Evolution in …Recommended readings (Machine generated): Levinson, M. (2006), The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World … Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, Princeton: Princeton University Press. -- Mann, C. (2005), 1491: Revelations of the …

world, questions of the region’s future and the future of the global system have become closely intertwined. This volume … are shaping the world. Uniquely, the discussion is not limited to East Asia but also takes Latin America prominently into …

The contributors expertly provide a comparative perspective on regional integration in different regions of the world …

'The spectacular rise in Asian economies has reshuffled the distribution of world economic power, while the Global … Financial Crisis brought it to the fore. The global economic and financial architecture, inherited from World War II, has not … GATT, and the World Bank. Today, this economic architecture is ill-fitted to the global economy. The balance of financial …

The Persian Gulf is arguably the most militarized region in the world. The authors of this insightful book examine …

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