Contents: Preface. I. Globalisation: Conceptions and Perspectives. 1. Understanding globalisation and its alternative perspectives. 2. Political debates on sovereignty and territoriality, cultural and technological dimension of globalization. 3. Global economy: its significance and anchors of global political economy (IMF, World Bank, WTO, TNCs). 4. Global resistances: global social movements and non governmental organisations. 5. The United Nations organisation in a globalising world contemporary global issues. 6. Ecological issues: historical overview of international environmental agreements, climate change, global commons debate. 7. Proliferation of nuclear weapons. 8. International terrorism: non-state actors and state terrorism post 9/11 developments. 9. Migration and refugees. 10. Feminist perspective in the contemporary international relations. II. Global Shifts: Power, Governance and Processes. 11. Global shifts: power and governance, emerging multi-polarity (BRICS, EU, Japan, India, China and Russia). 12. Revisiting security: the human security dimension.

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Title: Understanding Global Politics
Publisher: KW Publishers
Publication Date: 2017
Language: English
ISBN 10: 9386288370
ISBN 13: 9789386288370
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: New

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Understanding Global Politics is a pioneering work, which analyses contemporary issues such as climate change, migration, nuclear proliferation, terrorism as well as feminist perspective on International Relations. It covers the various dimensions of globalisation which affects on the accelerating world. The intergovernmental agencies such as International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), International Court of Justice as well as the United Nations, are instrumental in directing the energies towards the control of proliferation of nuclear weapons.
The last section of the book deliberates on the global shifts, power and governance in a fast changing world order. The salience of global, regional and economic groupings like WTO, IMF, World Bank, BRICS, EU, etc are covered in great detail.
The book presents an opportunity to engage in Applied Global Politics and explore the core concept by students of Political Science, International Relations, as well as refresher for scholars of defence and security studies.

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Dr. Chanchal Kumar is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Janki Devi Memorial College, Delhi University.

Lungthuiyang Riamei, PhD, teaches at the Department of Political Science, Dyal Singh College (M), Delhi University.

Dr. Sanju Gupta is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, Janki Devi Memorial College, Delhi University.

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