This brilliant new book by one of Europe's leading social thinkers throws light on the global power games being played out between global business, nation state

Power in the Global Information Age collects together many of Joseph S. Nye Jr's key writings for the first time as well as some important new material.

Reigning theories of urban power suggest that in a world dominated by footloose transnational capital, cities have little capacity to effect social change. In C

Discussions on globalization now routinely focus on the economic impact of developing countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the former Soviet Union and La

Contrary to the common view that globalization undermines social agency, ‘alter-globalization activists', that is, those who contest globalization in its neo-