Product Description: The sprawling cities of the developing world are vibrant hubs of economic growth, but they are also increasingly ecologically unsustainable and, for ordinary citizens, increasingly unlivable. Pollution is rising, affordable housing is decreasing, and green space is shrinking...read more

Product Description: This examination of the dynamics of international relations attempts to define the impact of both domestic and international politics on subjects as diverse as nuclear disarmament, human rights and trade.

The contributors examine the proposition that states and markets are bound together by inextricable symbiotic ties, while at the same time always standing in tension with each other. The conclusion drawn from the nine diverse but very specific viewpoints contained in this work is that even though markets are constructed by geopolitics and state policy, ′geopolitics and markets define the economic and political space in which states operate′.

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