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This course is designed as an introduction and a road map for the Global Studies major before students choose to specialize on one of the three broad tracks: International Relations, Global Political Economy, and Global Sustainability. This course is interdisciplinary and thematic. It tends to provide multiple theoretical frameworks and makes close study and analysis of the political, economic, social, historical and cultural patterns that are defining the modern world. This course will offer diverse and meaningful explanations of globalization, along with its various problems and potential solutions.
This book is a comprehensive text for studying political theory in a changing world. It introduces the major approaches to political issues that have shaped our world, and the ideas that form the currency of political debate. Part One focuses on the role of coercion in ensuring political outcomes. Part Two focuses on concepts of freedom, equality, and justice. Parts Three and Four switch to ideologies, both classical and contemporary. Part Five deals with global issues: human rights, global justice, and migration. Consistently, it relates political ideas to political realities through effective use of examples and case studies.
This book investigates the notion of global economy. It argues that the present highly internationalized economy is not unprecedented, that genuinely transnational companies appear to be relatively rare, that it is just a very few of the emerging economies that are benefiting from capital mobility, that the world economy is far from being genuinely global, and that major economic powers have the capacity to exert powerful governance pressures over financial markets and other economic tendencies. In this third edition, new updates include the growing supranational regionalization of the international economy, the emergence of India and China as new superpowers, and the possibilities for the continued governance of the global system.
This book deals with the subject of human resource management. After an introductory chapter that discusses the global, new economy, stakeholder, and work system challenges that influence companies’ abilities to successfully meet the needs of shareholders, customers, employees, and other stakeholders, follows five parts, which successively discuss the environmental forces that companies face in attempting to capitalize on their human resources as a means to gain competitive advantage, the acquisition and preparation of human resources, how companies can determine the value of the employees and capitalize on their talents through retention and development strategies, rewarding and compensating human resources, and special topics in human resource management.
