France Encounters Globalization

Author : Peter Karl Kresl,Sylvain Gallais
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1782543805

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France Encounters Globalization by Peter Karl Kresl,Sylvain Gallais Pdf

'There is much of interest here, and the authors provide background information and digressions that make their analysis more accessible to noneconomists.' - M. Veseth, Choice This book is the first in English to comprehensively examine the French economy and how it is adjusting to the exigencies of an increasingly globalized environment. The opening of the French market to international competition has forced recent governments to realize that the old closed model in which France had considerable autonomy over policy is no longer valid. French solutions to domestic problems had to be given up in the early 1980s. Changes in technology have had dramatic impacts on the comparative advantage of French producers and the necessary restructuring has been far from easy. These twin aspects of globalization have also altered the situation of France's various regions and urban economies and the highly centralized structure has come under pressure. This has forced a change in the thinking of French public and private sector leaders. The role of the state, the degree of intervention, the extent of control over the domestic economy, and the need to be accommodating to market forces have all been subject to public debate and to fundamental reconsideration. While this is a book on the French economy, Kresl and Gallais deal with issues, challenges, and processes of change and adaptation that are facing all of Europe, and indeed all industrialized economies.

Author : Timothy B. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521605202

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France in Crisis by Timothy B. Smith Pdf

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Author : Philip H. Gordon,Sophie Meunier-Aitsahalia
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815798652

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The French Challenge by Philip H. Gordon,Sophie Meunier-Aitsahalia Pdf

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

Author : Hubert Vedrine
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815798330

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France in an Age of Globalization by Hubert Vedrine Pdf

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

Author : M. Maclean,J. Szarka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230582934

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France on the World Stage by M. Maclean,J. Szarka Pdf

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.

Author : Maryvonne de Saint Pulgent,Pierre-Jean Benghozi,Thomas Paris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2865921530

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Globalization and Cultural Diversity by Maryvonne de Saint Pulgent,Pierre-Jean Benghozi,Thomas Paris Pdf

Author : Sarah Waters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : France
ISBN : 1501300415

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Between Republic and Market by Sarah Waters Pdf

Author : John Barkley Rosser
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262182343

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Comparative Economics in a Transforming World Economy by John Barkley Rosser Pdf

The second edition of an innovative undergraduate textbook in Comparative Economic Systems that goes beyond the traditional dichotomies.

Author : Martin Albers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137565679

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Britain, France, West Germany and the People's Republic of China, 1969–1982 by Martin Albers Pdf

This book focuses on helping readers to fill the gap of the little known history between Western Europe and its most important trading partner: the People’s Republic of China. Inspired by the economic and political signifance of Sino-European relations, this book shows how the China policies of the three biggest states of Western Europe – Britain, France, and the Federal Republic of Germany – helped China reintegrate into the international community in the 1970s. Against the background of the Cold War, the end of Maoism, and the emergence of globalization, the governments in Bonn, Paris and London had to find ways of dealing with Europe’s declining influence and promote their own national interests in Asia. Based on newly declassified government files, readers will find such sources invaluable in understanding the argument that, despite pursuing very different policies, the three governments supported a rapid expansion of peaceful exchange between the People’s Republic and Europe and substantially contributed to the success of Beijing's reform policy.

Author : Sarah Waters
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441196910

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Between Republic and Market by Sarah Waters Pdf

The rise of neo-liberal globalisation has posed major challenges for all European countries, identifying itself as the key political tension of the coming era. Yet, it is in France that globalisation has produced the deepest tensions, and it is here that it has generated its greatest political resistance. The author pursues two separate lines of enquiry. First, she considers the influence of French political tradition and an enduring legacy of republicanism in shaping contemporary opposition. If globalisation poses a greater ideological threat in France than elsewhere, this is because it comes into conflict with the foundational values and symbols of the FrenchRepublic. Secondly, she examines contemporary French opposition as a site for political and ideological renewal. Many critics now agree that it is within this emergent movement, rather than within traditional parties, that new forms of political practice and ideology are being invented.

Author : Cátia Antunes,Karwan Fatah-Black
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317243847

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Explorations in History and Globalization by Cátia Antunes,Karwan Fatah-Black Pdf

Considering the ways in which the ‘global turn’ is changing the theory and practice of historical disciplines, Explorations in History and Globalization engages with the concept and methodology of globalization, challenging traditional divisions of space and time to offer a range of perspectives on how globalization has affected social, economic, political and cultural history. Each chapter covers a specific theme, discussing how globalization has shaped these themes and how they have contributed to globalization throughout history. Including topics such as ecological exchanges, trade, exchanges of knowledge, migration, empire and urbanization, this volume both explains historical trajectories through a global analytical framework and provides tools that students can employ when posing their own research questions about historical globalization. Containing suggestions for further reading and guidance on the ways in which primary source material can be used as a basis for global historical studies, this is the ideal volume for all students interested in the global exchanges between people throughout history.

Author : Eamon Maher,Eugene O'Brien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : France
ISBN : 0773453709

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France and the struggle against globalization by Eamon Maher,Eugene O'Brien Pdf

Examines a specifically French (and, by extension, Irish) reaction to the phenomenon of 'globalization'. This book suggests an alternative project of globalization in which all differences of culture, language and ideology, instead of being subsumed into a homogenous Anglophone whole, are able to cohabit in hospitality.

Author : J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.,Marina V. Rosser
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262344210

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Comparative Economics in a Transforming World Economy, third edition by J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.,Marina V. Rosser Pdf

An approach to comparative economic systems that avoids simple dichotomies to examine a wide variety of institutional and systemic arrangements, with updated country case studies. Comparative economics, with its traditional dichotomies of socialism versus capitalism, private versus state, and planning versus market, is changing. This innovative textbook offers a new approach to understanding different economic systems that reflects both recent transformations in the world economy and recent changes in the field.This new edition examines a wide variety of institutional and systemic arrangements, many of which reflect deep roots in countries' cultures and histories. The book has been updated and revised throughout, with new material in both the historical overview and the country case studies. It offers a broad survey of economic systems, then looks separately at market capitalism, Marxism and socialism, and “new traditional economies” (with an emphasis on the role of religions, Islam in particular, in economic systems). It presents case studies of advanced capitalist nations, including the United States, Japan, Sweden, and Germany; alternative paths in the transition from socialist to market economies taken by such countries as Russia, the former Soviet republics, Poland, China, and the two Koreas; and developing countries, including India, Iran, South Africa, Mexico, and Brazil. The new chapters on Brazil and South Africa complete the book's coverage of all five BRICS nations; the chapter on South Africa extends the book's comparative treatment to another continent. The chapter on Brazil with its account of the role of the Amazon rain forest as a great carbon sink expands the coverage of global environmental and sustainability issues. Each chapter ends with discussion questions.

Author : Compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1023 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781134339884

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IBSS: Sociology: 2002 Vol.52 by Compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science Pdf

First published in 1952, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology) is well established as a major bibliographic reference for students, researchers and librarians in the social sciences worldwide. Key features * Authority: Rigorous standards are applied to make the IBSS the most authoritative selective bibliography ever produced. Articles and books are selected on merit by some of the world's most expert librarians and academics. *Breadth: today the IBSS covers over 2000 journals - more than any other comparable resource. The latest monograph publications are also included. *International Coverage: the IBSS reviews scholarship published in over 30 languages, including publications from Eastern Europe and the developing world. *User friendly organization: all non-English titles are word sections. Extensive author, subject and place name indexes are provided in both English and French. Place your standing order now for the 2002 volumes of the the IBSS Anthropology: 2002 Vol.48 December 2003: 234x156: Hb: 0-415-32634-6: £195.00 Economics: 2002 Vol.51 December 2003: 234x156: Hb: 0-415-32635-4: £195.00 Political Science: 2002 Vol.51 December 2003: 234x156: Hb: 0-415-32636-2: £195.00 Sociology: 2002 Vol.52 December 2003: 234x156: Hb: 0-415-32637-0: £195.00

Author : Compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 1023 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415326377

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International Bibliography of Sociology by Compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science Pdf

IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institution whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of the social sciences.