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The world has changed with the end of the Cold War. While multinational businesses continue to extend their operations in increasingly globalized markets, governments and international agencies try to reassert their control by regulating cross-border activities in production, finance, trade and environmental protection. In some areas international co-operation works well, but in others, disintegration prevails. This study features an international group of contributors who explore emerging trends in the international political economy and the prospects for new world orders. Roger Morgan has also written "The United States and West Germany: A Study in Alliance Politics", "Britain and West Germany: Changing Societies and the Future of Foreign Policy" and "Partners and Rivals in Western Europe". The contributors include: R.W. Cox, M.H. Allen, A. Arantes Jr, A.F.K. Organski, B. Bueno De Mesquita, P. Ellehoj, B. Verbeek, M. De Cecco, M.G. Gilman, L.W. Pauly, S....

When popular revolutions erupted in Tunisia and Egypt, Western pundits were quick to hail the stirrings of an Arab Spring and draw parallels between the resulting upheaval in the Middle East and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In The Tunisian Tsunami John R. Bradley offers a sober counternarrative to this outlook. It is not liberalism, democracy, and pluralism that will emerge triumphant, he argues, but instead radical Islam. Bradley illustrates how, in a region awash with extremist Wahhabi ideology, intertribal rivalries, and Sunni-Shia divisions, the idea that liberal and progressive trends will prevail is little more than wishful thinking. Product details Format Hardback | 256 pages ...