An innovative and forward-looking volume which challenges conventional thinking regarding the inevitability of globalisation. Essential reading for those interested in the development of and the potential alternatives to globalisation

This book aims to examine the effects of globalization and economic and political transformations in those parts of the world which are now regularly referred to as 'emerging regions'. These are Latin America and the Caribbean, East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union and East Asia. This...

Examines the importance of NGOs in world environmental politics. Four case studies, including the ivory trade ban and Great Lakes water negotiations, detail how NGOs challenge the traditional structures of world politics