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Nationalization of Gulf Labour Markets: Higher Education and Skills Development in Industry 4.0

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Nationalization of Gulf Labour Markets: Higher Education and Skills Development in Industry 4.0

Nationalization of Gulf Labour Markets: Higher Education and Skills Development in Industry 4.0 by Ashraf Mishrif, Magdalena Karolak, Cameron Mirza
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 357 Pages | ISBN : 9811980713 | 15.4 MB

This book addresses critical aspects of the nationalization of labour markets in the Gulf countries. It examines the role of higher education institutions in providing the market with the right skills that are most needed in the era of the fourth industrial revolution (industry 4.0). The book also explores the new dynamics of technology and information systems in upgrading the skills, changing the work environment, and generating employment for the youth in the Gulf countries. The holistic approach of the subject area makes this volume indispensable to academics, researchers, students, and policy makers in the Gulf region and beyond.

Soft Power and Great-Power Competition: Shifting Sands in the Balance of Power Between the United States and China

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Soft Power and Great-Power Competition: Shifting Sands in the Balance of Power Between the United States and China

Soft Power and Great-Power Competition: Shifting Sands in the Balance of Power Between the United States and China by Joseph S. Nye
English | PDF,EPUB | 2023 | 187 Pages | ISBN : 9819907136 | 5.2 MB

This book consists of essays selected from Joseph S. Nye, Jr.’s last three decades of writing and illustrate a variety of perspectives on the nature of power, the role of the United States in the world and US-China relations. Through this collection, it is hoped that readers will gain a better understanding of today’s global environment and find that while great power competition may be inevitable in a world as centers of power shift, cooperating to address transnational challenges can be a positive sum game.

The contents of this book are divided into four main parts. Part One discusses the origins and political progress of the concept of “Soft Power”. Part Two explores soft power in the American experience, its sources and interaction with US foreign policy, as well as its ebb and flow in the age of Obama, Trump and Biden. Part Three examines the rise of and the opportunities and difficulties for Chinese soft power, focusing on China’s investment in soft power and how this demonstrates its commitment to a peaceful rise. However, it also addresses the question of how can China get “smart” on how it uses soft power. Part Four provides a bird’s-eye view of power shifts in the 21st century and the interactions between the US as an established power and China as a rising power, while also reassuring readers that Thucydidean fears are unnecessary and a Cold War is avoidable. Both countries have to realize that some forms of power must be exercised with others, not over others, the development of soft power need not be a zero-sum game. Ultimately, the US-China relationship is a “cooperative rivalry” where a successful strategy of “smart competition” is necessary and cooperation on transnational challenges like climate change, pandemics, cyberterrorism and nuclear proliferation, will serve to benefit not only China and the US, but the world as a whole.

The Political Economy of Robots: Prospects for Prosperity and Peace in the Automated 21st Century (Repost)

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The Political Economy of Robots: Prospects for Prosperity and Peace in the Automated 21st Century (Repost)

The Political Economy of Robots: Prospects for Prosperity and Peace in the Automated 21st Century by Ryan Kiggins
English | PDF | 2018 | 345 Pages | ISBN : 3319514652 | 2.13 MB

This collection examines implications of technological automation to global prosperity and peace. Focusing on robots, information communication technologies, and other automation technologies, it offers brief interventions that assess how automation may alter extant political, social, and economic institutions, norms, and practices that comprise the global political economy. In doing so, this collection deals directly with such issues as automated production, trade, war, state sanctioned robot violence, financial speculation, transnational crime, and policy decision making. This interdisciplinary volume will appeal to students, scholars and practitioners grappling with political, economic, and social problems that arise from rapid technological change that automates the prospects for human prosperity and peace.

The Anglo-American Model of Neoliberalism of the 1980s: Construction, Development and Dissemination

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The Anglo-American Model of Neoliberalism of the 1980s: Construction, Development and Dissemination

The Anglo-American Model of Neoliberalism of the 1980s: Construction, Development and Dissemination by Nathalie Lévy, Alexis Chommeloux, Nathalie A. Champroux, Stéphane Porion, Selma josso, Audrey Damiens
English | PDF | 2022 | 338 Pages | ISBN : 3031120736 | 5.4 MB

This book studies neoliberalism's features in the UK and USA in the 1980s in relation to the philosophical, historical, political, legal, and economic concepts. It analyses the model's legacy in the "Anglosphere," its acceptance, rejection, proliferation in France and Europe - the EU often emulating and disseminating neoliberal processes and techniques via hard and soft law -, its scope, its spread throughout EU countries characterised by "illiberalism," highlighting the model's need to adapt. It fills a historiographical gap regarding a concept which remains acutely topical.

Sanction Dynamics in the Cases of North Korea, Iran, and Russia: Objectives, Measures and Effects

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Sanction Dynamics in the Cases of North Korea, Iran, and Russia: Objectives, Measures and Effects

Sanction Dynamics in the Cases of North Korea, Iran, and Russia: Objectives, Measures and Effects by Julian Walterskirchen , Gerhard Mangott , Clara Wend
English | PDF | 2022 | 87 Pages | ISBN : 3031173961 | 2.6 MB

This book examines the sanction regimes imposed by the United States, the European Union, and the United Nations against Russia, Iran, and North Korea. While the application of sanctions as a foreign policy tool has developed considerably, particularly over the last three decades, their empirically verifiable effects remain contested.

Theory is History

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Theory is History

Theory is History by Samir Amin
English | PDF | 2014 | 150 Pages | ISBN : 331903815X | 1.6 MB

This book focuses on a central concept that “Theory is History”, as the theory of capitalism can only be formulated on the basis of an analysis of its history. In contrast, bourgeois thinking replaces the analysis of historical capitalism with an abstract theory without any links to reality. “Economics”, which is the theory of an imaginary system, then becomes an apologia intended to give legitimacy to the behaviour of the owners of capital. The author pays special attention to the globalization of the law of value. The individual chapters illustrate the author’s thesis by focusing on the links between capital and land ownership, between modernity and religious interpretation, and on questions of the global expansion of capitalism, particularly the ways it has evolved in certain countries, in this case Russia and China. This anthology supplements the author’s previous work, centred on the rise of the South—his reading of capitalism focusing on its imperialist nature.

The Economics of Addictive Behaviours Volume I: The Private and Social Costs of Smoking and Their Remedies (Repost)

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The Economics of Addictive Behaviours Volume I: The Private and Social Costs of Smoking and Their Remedies (Repost)

The Economics of Addictive Behaviours Volume I: The Private and Social Costs of Smoking and Their Remedies by John Joshua
English | PDF | 2017 | 136 Pages | ISBN : 3319469592 | 3.2 MB

This title discusses the phenomenon of smoking as a behavioural disease and the associated costs. The author details the consequences of smoking, in addition to the detrimental effects caused by second-hand tobacco smoke exposure as a health risk to children as well as to the general public. The central contribution of Joshua’s work is to address these concerns in terms of the issues of free choice and the market. Considering the various restrictive policies designed to reduce smoking’s prevalence, including the banning of smoking in public places, and the inclusion of warning labels on cigarette packets, Joshua carefully analyses potential economic remedies to the problem of smoking, notably the Pigovian tax. Finally, the book concludes with a highly relevant discussion of corporate social responsibility, and the role that this might play in anti-smoking projects.

The Diversity of Emerging Capitalisms in Developing Countries (Repost)

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The Diversity of Emerging Capitalisms in Developing Countries (Repost)

The Diversity of Emerging Capitalisms in Developing Countries: Globalization, Institutional Convergence and Experimentation by Eric Rougier, François Combarnous
English | PDF | 2017 | 467 Pages | ISBN : 3319499467 | 6.3 MB

This book presents the results of a collective and original empirical investigation of the institutional systems underlying the capitalisms that are coming to the fore in developing nations. While varieties of industrialized countries’ capitalisms are extensively scrutinized, those of developing countries’ capitalisms are far less documented. By implementing a unified and original comparative approach based on the institutional complementarity theory, the different contributions of the book find evidence for the originality and extreme heterogeneity of the forms of capitalism to be observed in developing countries. This text analyses capitalist systems as clusters of sectoral institutions and regulations, identifying differences in emerging and developing countries.

Big Tech Firms and International Relations: The Role of the Nation-State in New Forms of Power

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Big Tech Firms and International Relations: The Role of the Nation-State in New Forms of Power

Big Tech Firms and International Relations: The Role of the Nation-State in New Forms of Power by Li Sheng
English | PDF | 2022 | 131 Pages | ISBN : 9811936811 | 3.5 MB

This book presents cutting-edge research and exploration of the role of nation-state when big tech firms present themselves as new participants in contemporary international relations that act on an equal footing with nation-states. The general research goal of this book is to identify the justifications that nation-states have adopted to regulate the big tech firms and the impacts of this process on international trade in the main economies in the world.

Financial Markets (Dis)Integration in a Post-Brexit EU: Towards a More Resilient Financial System in Europe (Repost)

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Financial Markets (Dis)Integration in a Post-Brexit EU: Towards a More Resilient Financial System in Europe (Repost)

Financial Markets (Dis)Integration in a Post-Brexit EU: Towards a More Resilient Financial System in Europe by Dieter Pesendorfer
English | PDF | 2020 | 377 Pages | ISBN : 3030360512 | 3.2 MB

The European Union is creating a Financial Union with a European Banking Union and a Capital Markets Union in reaction to lessons learned from incomplete financial markets integration, the Global Financial Crisis and European Sovereign Debt Crisis. This book critically analyses these projects for a more integrated, resilient and sustainable financial system at a time when the United Kingdom as the member state with the most developed capital markets and the leading global and European financial center, the City of London, is leaving the Union.

The Fault Lines of Inequality: COVID 19 and the Politics of Financialization

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The Fault Lines of Inequality: COVID 19 and the Politics of Financialization

The Fault Lines of Inequality: COVID 19 and the Politics of Financialization by Huw Macartney
English | PDF | 2022 | 128 Pages | ISBN : 3030969134 | 1.8 MB

This book examines how decisions made by the Conservative government during the COVID19 pandemic have increased economic inequality in the UK. Decades of austerity, asset-based welfare and financialization had already exacerbated social divisions in the UK prior to the pandemic. The political blueprint behind these measures combined Privatized Keynesianism and the Asset Economy. To explain, economists have highlighted that inequality derives from the fact that income from wealth increases at a faster rate than income from wages.

The Political Economy of Non-Western Migration Regimes: Central Asian Migrant Workers in Russia and Turkey

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The Political Economy of Non-Western Migration Regimes: Central Asian Migrant Workers in Russia and Turkey

The Political Economy of Non-Western Migration Regimes: Central Asian Migrant Workers in Russia and Turkey by Rustamjon Urinboyev
English | PDF,EPUB | 2022 | 198 Pages | ISBN : 3030992551 | 12.3 MB

This book contributes new theoretical and comparative insights on migrant agency, undocumentedness and informality in non-Western, non-democratic migration regimes. The book is conceived as a critical reflection on the contemporary migration regime scholarship, and, more generally, on comparative migration studies, which primarily focus on migrants’ experiences and immigration policies in the context of liberal democracies in North America and Western Europe.