Harold 'Hal' L. Sirkin (born 1959) is an American business consultant and author, who often. Sirkin, Harold L. (January 12, 2010), 'Recovery and Globality: The Commodities. Sirkin, Dave Young (2004-04-01), Capturing Global Advantage (PDF), Boston. Create a book Download as PDF Printable version.
Author by: Rens van Munster Language: en Publisher by: Routledge Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 41 Total Download: 689 File Size: 50,8 Mb Description: This timely, comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume advances an original argument about the complex roots and multiple politics of globality. It shows that technological innovations and decisive developments since 1945 – from the nuclear revolution to anthropogenic climate change and debates about the Anthropocene – have prompted reflections on the global condition of humanity and helped reshape political communities by making the world (appear) small, manageable and interconnected.
The contributors stress how human beings have transformed both their habitat and their view of human-earth relations since 1945. Such changes have been accompanied by important shifts in political visions, prompted new forms of human association, encouraged legal and institutional reform and spurred ideas about ecological humility. At the same time, the spatially all-encompassing nature of globality have also informed projects of human mastery and a range of practices historically associated with militarization and a strongly statist conception of national security.
This volume reflects on these paradoxical relationships, their history and contemporary relevance. Contributing to the overlapping concerns of four burgeoning fields of study across the humanities and the social sciences - globality and globalization studies; geopolitics and political geography; Anthropocene studies; global governance and political theory – the book will be of great use to scholars and graduates working in these areas. Author by: Daniel R. McCarthy Language: en Publisher by: Routledge Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 37 Total Download: 968 File Size: 55,6 Mb Description: This edited volume provides a convenient entry point to the cutting-edge field of the international politics of technology, in an interesting and informative manner.
Technology and World Politics introduces its readers to different approaches to technology in global politics through a survey of emerging fusions of Science and Technology Studies and International Relations. The theoretical approaches to the subject include the Social Construction of Technology, Actor-Network Theory, the Critical Theory of Technology, and New Materialist and Posthumanist approaches.
Considering how such theoretical approaches can be used to analyse concrete political issues such as the politics of nuclear weapons, Internet governance, shipping containers, the revolution in military affairs, space technologies, and the geopolitics of the Anthropocene, the volume stresses the socially constructed and inherently political nature of technological objects. Providing the theoretical background to approach the politics of technology in a sophisticated manner alongside a glossary and guide to further reading for newcomers, this volume is a vital resource for both students and scholars focusing on politics and international relations. Author by: Terrell Carver Language: en Publisher by: Routledge Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 74 Total Download: 757 File Size: 40,5 Mb Description: Globality, Democracy and Civil Society explores the relationship between the concepts of democracy and civil society through a comparison of their meaning and function in different historical and cultural contexts.
This volume presents detailed contextual studies in Europe, North America, Japan, Russia and Turkey. The contributors explore different ways of understanding and developing democratic practices and institutions. Rather than projecting the conditions of modern representative, state-centric democracy onto the global realm, they propose ways of rethinking these very conditions in terms of human diversity and difference. This is done by exploring conceptions of democracy that reconcile cultural plurality with democratic practices, and by using a number of examples and perspectives framed by a global context, rather than by geographical divides between East and West. The contributors are not trying to define the concept of civil society, but rather demonstrating the different ways it is deployed in political practice and disseminated through on-going processes of globalisation.
This book will be of interest to scholars and students of global democracy and governance, cosmopolitan democracy, the future of civil society in a globalising world, comparative politics and political thought. Author by: Lonny E. Carlile Language: en Publisher by: University of Hawaii Press Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 29 Total Download: 425 File Size: 49,8 Mb Description: Positions the ideological and organizational evolution of the Japanese labor movement within the historical currents that shaped and organized labor globally in the 20th century. Lonny Carlile shows how world views and labor movement strategies were shared across national boundaries and shaped in similar ways in the industrialized West and East. Author by: Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko Language: en Publisher by: Routledge Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 66 Total Download: 736 File Size: 42,5 Mb Description: Globalization affects urban communities in many ways. One of its manifestations is increased intercity competition, which compels cities to increase their attractiveness in terms of capital, entrepreneurship, information, expertise and consumption.
This competition takes place in an asymmetric field, with cities trying to find the best possible ways of using their natural and created assets, the latter including a naturally evolving reputation or consciously developed competitive identity or brand. The Political Economy of City Branding discusses this phenomenon from the perspective of numerous post-industrial cities in North America, Europe, East Asia and Australasia. Special attention is given to local economic development policy and industrial profiling, and global city rankings are used to provide empirical evidence for cities’ characteristics and positions in the global urban hierarchy. On top of this, social and urban challenges such as creative class struggle are also discussed. The core message of the book is that cities should apply the tools of city branding in their industrial promotion and specialization, but at the same time take into account the special nature of their urban communities and be open and inclusive in their brand policies in order to ensure optimal results. This book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners working in the areas of local economic development, urban planning, public management, and branding. Author by: Harold L.
Sirkin Language: en Publisher by: Hachette UK Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 71 Total Download: 122 File Size: 55,8 Mb Description: Globality primarily involves large western corporations expanding their operations and moving aggressively into new overseas markets. GLOBALITY radically defines a 'post-globalization' world, where companies from India, China, Russia, eastern Europe, Brazil and Mexico are expanding beyond their home base, entering and building new markets, creating whole industries, and competing for customers, resources, market share and attention. In short, the tide has turned.
As a result, western companies need to understand these emerging new businesses and the economies they come from in order to stay ahead and stay alive.
MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN For years, conventional wisdom has maintained that manufacturing in the United States is in terminal decline. But now the tide is turning. Rising wages and currency rates, among other factors, have dramatically narrowed the gap between manufacturing costs in China and the United States, with the result that several US companies are now bringing manufacturing jobs home to America. In The US Manufacturing Renaissance: How Shifting Global Economics Are Creating an American Comeback, authors Harold L. Sirkin, Justin Rose, and Michael Zinser provide historical perspective on why the death of US manufacturing has often been predicted—but failed each time.
And why the present will be no different.