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France in an Age of Globalization

Author : Hubert Vedrine
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780815798330
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (983 download)

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Download or read book France in an Age of Globalization written by Hubert Vedrine and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004-05-13 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative book takes the form of a dialogue between French Foreign Minister Hubert Védrine and international relations expert Dominique Moïsi. Védrine expresses his frank views of the U.S. "hyperpower," France's role in the world, Europe's future, the current structure of the international system, and the role of ethics in international affairs. Probing the historic, diplomatic and cultural issues that unite and divide two historical allies, the book give unique insights into French thinking about the world, and France and America's respective roles in it. "Like the French satirical television show that twits the United States for being the 'World Company' that invades peoples lives around the globe, the French foreign minister, Hubert Vedrine, expresses frustration, and perhaps a little envy, at America's dominion.... "Since becoming foreign minister three years ago, Mr. Vedrine, 53, a lawyer and previously the senior foreign policy advisor to Francois Mitterand when he was president, has made a priority of making distinctions between France and the United States. That has left senior American officials muttering more than usual about the French." --New York Times

The Ages of Globalization

Author : Jeffrey D. Sachs
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231550480
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Ages of Globalization written by Jeffrey D. Sachs and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity’s story has always been on a global scale. In this book, Jeffrey D. Sachs, renowned economist and expert on sustainable development, turns to world history to shed light on how we can meet the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century. Sachs takes readers through a series of seven distinct waves of technological and institutional change, starting with the original settling of the planet by early modern humans through long-distance migration and ending with reflections on today’s globalization. Along the way, he considers how the interplay of geography, technology, and institutions influenced the Neolithic revolution; the role of the horse in the emergence of empires; the spread of large land-based empires in the classical age; the rise of global empires after the opening of sea routes from Europe to Asia and the Americas; and the industrial age. The dynamics of these past waves, Sachs demonstrates, offer fresh perspective on the ongoing processes taking place in our own time—a globalization based on digital technologies. Sachs emphasizes the need for new methods of international governance and cooperation to prevent conflicts and to achieve economic, social, and environmental objectives aligned with sustainable development. The Ages of Globalization is a vital book for all readers aiming to make sense of our rapidly changing world.

The French Challenge

Author : Philip H. Gordon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780815798651
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (986 download)

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Download or read book The French Challenge written by Philip H. Gordon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004-06-23 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1999 a forty-six-year-old sheep farmer name José Bové was arrested for dismantling the construction site of a new McDonald's restaurant in the south of France. A few months later Bové built on his fame by smuggling huge chunks of Roquefort cheese into Seattle, where he was among the leaders of the antiglobalization protests against the World Trade Organization summit. Bové's crusade against globalization helped provoke a debate both within France and beyond about the pros and cons of a world in which financial, commercial, human, cultural, and technology flows move faster and more extensively than ever before. As the French struggle to preserve the country's identity, heritage, and distinctiveness, they are nonetheless adapting to a new economy and an interdependent world. This book deals with France's effort to adapt to globalization and its consequences for France's economy, cultural identity, domestic politics, and foreign relations. The authors begin by analyzing the structural transformation of the French economy, driven first by liberalization within the European Union and more recently by globalization. By examining a wide variety of possible measures of globalization and liberalization, the authors conclude that the French economy's adaptation has been far reaching and largely successful, even if French leaders prefer to downplay the extent of these changes in response to political pressures and public opinion. They call this adaptation "globalization by stealth." The authors also examine the relationship between trade, culture, and identity and explain why globalization has rendered the three inseparable. They show how globalization is contributing to the restructuring of the traditional French political spectrum and blurring the traditional differences between left and right. Finally, they explore France's effort to tame globalization—maîtriser la mondialisation—and the possible consequences and lessons of the French s

Political Leadership in a Global Age

Author : Jean-Pascal Daloz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351773771
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Political Leadership in a Global Age written by Jean-Pascal Daloz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Title first published in 2003. Responses to globalisation in politics and governance at national, regional and local levels of government in France and Norway are explored in this engaging study.

The Success of the Extreme Right in France

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book The Success of the Extreme Right in France written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Velvet Empire

Author : David Todd
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691205337
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book A Velvet Empire written by David Todd and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How France's elites used soft power to pursue their imperial ambitions in the nineteenth century After Napoleon's downfall in 1815, France embraced a mostly informal style of empire, one that emphasized economic and cultural influence rather than military conquest. A Velvet Empire is a global history of French imperialism in the nineteenth century, providing new insights into the mechanisms of imperial collaboration that extended France's power from the Middle East to Latin America and ushered in the modern age of globalization. David Todd shows how French elites pursued a cunning strategy of imperial expansion in which conspicuous commodities such as champagne and silk textiles, together with loans to client states, contributed to a global campaign of seduction. French imperialism was no less brutal than that of the British. But while Britain widened its imperial reach through settler colonialism and the acquisition of far-flung territories, France built a "velvet" empire backed by frequent military interventions and a broadening extraterritorial jurisdiction. Todd demonstrates how France drew vast benefits from these asymmetric, imperial-like relations until a succession of setbacks around the world brought about their unravelling in the 1870s. A Velvet Empire sheds light on France's neglected contribution to the conservative reinvention of modernity and offers a new interpretation of the resurgence of French colonialism on a global scale after 1880. This panoramic book also highlights the crucial role of collaboration among European empires during this period—including archrivals Britain and France—and cooperation with indigenous elites in facilitating imperial expansion and the globalization of capitalism.

Losing Control?

Author : Saskia Sassen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231106084
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Losing Control? written by Saskia Sassen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work looks at the way in which the new global economy works, examining its effect on the power and legitimacy of individual states. It argues that national sovereignty has not eroded, but states have begun to reconfigure, to decide where their resonsi

Made in France

Author : Andy Smith
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526154226
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Made in France written by Andy Smith and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has French society been made, by whom and why? And how in turn has it influenced the French? This book sets out the institutionalized rules and norms that continue to structure France, together with the ‘political work’ that has recently changed or reproduced these power relations. Exploring a range of age groups and types of social activity, including work, business, entertainment, political mobilizations and retirement, Made in France examines where significant change has occurred over the last four decades. Smith argues that while transformation has occurred in France's financial and education sectors, only relatively marginal shifts have occurred elsewhere in French society. To explain this pattern of continuity and isolated change, the book strongly nuances claims that neo-liberalism, globalization or a rise in populism have been its causes. References to these trends have impacted upon French politics to varying extents, Smith argues; however, France continues to be dominated by issues which are specific to the country and linked to its deep societal structures and history. Smith provides a comprehensive account of French society and politics and in doing so proposes an insightful analytical framework applicable to the comparative analysis of other nations.

Managing Country Risk in an Age of Globalization

Author : Michel Henry Bouchet
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319897527
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book Managing Country Risk in an Age of Globalization written by Michel Henry Bouchet and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-04 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an up-to-date guide to managing Country Risk. It tackles its various and interlinked dimensions including sovereign risk, socio-political risk, and macroeconomic risk for foreign investors, creditors, and domestic residents. It shows how they are accentuated in the global economy together with new risks such as terrorism, systemic risk, environmental risk, and the rising trend of global volatility and contagion. The book also assesses the limited usefulness of traditional yardsticks of Country Risk, such as ratings and rankings, which at best reflect the market consensus without predictive value and at worst amplify risk aversion and generate crisis contamination. This book goes further than comparing a wide range of risk management methods in that it provides operational and forward-looking warning signs of Country Risk. The combination of the authors’ academic and market-based backgrounds makes the book a useful tool for scholars, analysts, and practitioners.

Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong

Author : Jean-Benoit Nadeau
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402230575
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong written by Jean-Benoit Nadeau and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sixty Million Frenchmen does its job marvelously well. After reading it, you may still think the French are arrogant, aloof, and high-handed, but you will know why." --Wall Street Journal

France in Crisis

Author : Timothy B. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521605205
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book France in Crisis written by Timothy B. Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Bringing the Empire Back Home

Author : Herman Lebovics
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822386119
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Bringing the Empire Back Home written by Herman Lebovics and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-23 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years ago, an international antiglobalization movement was born in the grazing lands of France’s Larzac plateau. In the 1970s, Larzac farmers were joined by others from around the world in their efforts to prevent the expansion of a local military base: by ecologists, religious pacifists, and urban leftists, and by social activists including American Indians and South American peasant leaders. In 1999 some of the same farmers who had fought the expansion of the base in the 1970s—including José Bové—dismantled the new local McDonald’s. That gesture was part of a protest against U.S. tariffs on specified French exports including Roquefort cheese, the region’s primary market product. The two struggles—the one against expanding a French army camp intended to train troops for postcolonial wars, the other against American economic might—were landmarks in the global campaign to preserve local cultures. They were also key episodes in the decades-long attempt by the French to define their cultural heritage within a much changed nation, a new Europe, and, especially, an American-dominated world. In Bringing the Empire Back Home, the inventive cultural historian Herman Lebovics provides a riveting account of how intense disputes about what it means to be French have played out over the past half-century, redefining Paris, the regions, and the former colonies in relation to one another and the world at large. In a narrative populated with peasants, people from the former colonies, museum curators, former colonial administrators, left Christians, archaeologists, anthropologists, soccer players and their teenage fans, and, yes, leading government officials, Lebovics reveals contemporary French society and cultures as perhaps the West’s most important testing grounds of pluralism and assimilation. A lively cultural history, Bringing the Empire Back Home highlights not only the political significance of France’s efforts to synthesize the regional, national, European, ethnic postcolonial, and global but also the chaotic beauty of the endeavor.

History Strikes Back

Author : Hubert Védrine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780815789840
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book History Strikes Back written by Hubert Védrine and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Critical of both the United States and Europe, in this book, Hubert Vedrine calls for a return to a more realist foreign policy, rejecting the ideological notions of recent years. In History Strikes Back, he takes issue with those idealists who believe that states are no longer necessary and that globalization and free markets will automatically make a better world for all. Subsequent events have revealed this to be wishful thinking. Far from having ended with the Eastern bloc's collapse, history continues to present major challenges." "In dealing with the newly multipolar world, Americans have been too bellicose while Europeans have been naive, Vedrine shows why Westerners need to discard the illusions that have guided - or misguided - their international relations for more than twenty years. He presents a realistic vision for building a better world and spells out what Europeans expect from a new American administration. The United States and Europe must partner for a new form of "smart Realpolitik" to guide their relations with emerging powers, manage globalization, and deal with looming environmental challenges."--BOOK JACKET.

Revolutionary Commerce

Author : Paul Cheney
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674047266
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Commerce written by Paul Cheney and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining the intellectual history of the Enlightenment, Atlantic history, and the history of the French Revolution, Paul Cheney explores the political economy of globalization in eighteenth-century France. The discovery of the New World and the rise of Europe's Atlantic economy brought unprecedented wealth. It also reordered the political balance among European states and threatened age-old social hierarchies within them. In this charged context, the French developed a "science of commerce" that aimed to benefit from this new wealth while containing its revolutionary effects. Montesquieu became a towering authority among reformist economic and political thinkers by developing a politics of fusion intended to reconcile France's aristocratic society and monarchical state with the needs and risks of international commerce. The Seven Years' War proved the weakness of this model, and after this watershed reforms that could guarantee shared prosperity at home and in the colonies remained elusive. Once the Revolution broke out in 1789, the contradictions that attended the growth of France's Atlantic economy helped to bring down the constitutional monarchy. Drawing upon the writings of philosophes, diplomats, consuls of commerce, and merchants, Cheney rewrites the history of political economy in the Enlightenment era and provides a new interpretation of the relationship between capitalism and the French Revolution.

France on the World Stage

Author : M. Maclean
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349356201
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book France on the World Stage written by M. Maclean and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ways in which France's relations with the international community have evolved in a period of accelerating globalization. It considers the role of the nation state, and its capacity for political initiative, examining French strategies to reinforce French influence on the world stage.

Legal Culture in the Age of Globalization

Author : Lawrence Friedman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804766959
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Legal Culture in the Age of Globalization written by Lawrence Friedman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-09 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays examines how the legal systems of the chief countries of Latin America and Mediterranean Europe—Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, France, Italy, and Spain—changed in the last quarter of the 20th century. Through essays that provide a wealth of data on the courts and the legal profession in these countries, the book attempts to relate changes in the operation of the legal systems to changes in the political and social history of the societies in which they are embedded. The details vary, in accordance with the particular history and structure of the countries, but there are also key commonalities that run through all of the stories: democratization, globalization, and changes in the legal order that seem to be worldwide; more power to courts; a growing legal profession; and the entry of women into what was once a masculine club.

France Encounters Globalization

Author : Peter Karl Kresl
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book France Encounters Globalization written by Peter Karl Kresl and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the French economy and how it is adjusting to the exigencies of an increasingly globalized environment. It deals with issues, challenges, and processes of change and adaptation that are facing all of Europe, and other countries.