Questioning Geopolitics: Political Projects in a Changing World-System (Contributions in Economics & Economic History S)

This quantity takes an enlightened step again from the continued dialogue of globalization. The authors reject the inspiration that globalization is an analytically important time period. fairly, this quantity indicates globalization as basically the framework of the present political debate at the way forward for global strength. a number of the many different novel rules complicated through the authors contain: the categorical prediction that East Asia won't develop into the guts of the area; the rivalry that the USSR collapsed for a similar purposes that almost introduced down the us in 1973; and the thought that the nearby monetary networks which are rising from less than the fashionable states are in truth quite outdated formations.

Ultra-Low Fertility in Pacific Asia: Trends, causes and policy issues (Routledge Research On Public and Social Policy in Asia)

Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong SAR are one of the very lowest-fertility nations within the complete international, or even China has reached fertility degrees under these in lots of ecu nations. If those degrees proceed over lengthy sessions East Asia will quickly face accelerating inhabitants decline furthermore the alterations in age distributions in such populations increase significant new questions for making plans of monetary and social welfare.

Alles verboten? - Sozialraum als Spiegel der Gesellschaft (German Edition)

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Soziales approach, Sozialstruktur, Klasse, Schichtung, notice: 1, Fachhochschule Salzburg (Soziale Arbeit), Sprache: Deutsch, summary: In unserer funktionalisierten und mechanisierten Welt halten wir es für common, dass parkende und fahrende cars unseren Lebensraum besetzen, dass wir uns nicht frei zu Fuß im öffentlichen Raum bewegen können, dass wir unsere Bedürfnisse den Regeln des Autoverkehrs unterordnen und uns auf schmale Gehsteige an den Rand verweisen lassen.

Population Growth: The Vital Revolution

The inhabitants of the fashionable global keeps to develop at a fee extraordinary in human background. How are we to give an explanation for this large elevate within the variety of residing humans? what's its end result, now and for the long run? How have populations replaced in measurement and constitution because the introduction of commercial know-how?