Books in the Global Issues series
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Explores the ways in which water on Earth has become polluted - and what people around the globe are doing to solve this problem
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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 civ...il society must address.
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Presenting a critique of the threats to agriculture and world food security from neoliberal economic policies, this book explains what is happening to agriculture in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiating context. It also aims to set out an alternative vision for agricult...ural policy, which would take it completely out of the WTO's ambit.
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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 cor...porate plunder.
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This updated edition explores two questions: How is the US shaping the rest of the world? And how does it persuade itself that its actions are just? It offers a roadmap to the new era of unparalled US pre-eminence, outlining the effects and consequences of America's foreign polic...y.
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Original perspective on international trafficking and sex industry focusing on the criminal networks involved.
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This title concerns the story of water business around the world.
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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 princip...les.
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Billions are spent each year on foreign aid and tens of thousands are employed in the aid industry. Here, David Sogge asks questions such as: is there a real net flow of financial resources to the South?; how much aid should there be?; and on what terms should it be given?
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The relationship between nationalism and masculinity has been explored with one conclusion: male concepts of courage and virility are at the core of nationalism. This text questions and explores this through an empirical analysis of masculinity in the contexts of same-sex and cro...ss-sex relations.
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