As the world’s second-largest economy, China is extending its influence across the globe, making dramatic moves to become a dominant power. In China Unbound, award-winning foreign correspondent Joanna ...

Two powerful forces converged to shift global development in the last three decades from the West to the East and Asia. These same forces now make Africa the “construction site of the century. ” Africa ...

A Samaritan State Revisited brings together emerging and leading scholars to reflect on the history of Canada’s overseas aid and interrogate the many complex factors that affect future aid development. ...

Canadian cities are striving for high safety ratings by eliminating crime, which includes “cleaning” urban areas of the street sex industry. Ironically, sex workers also want to live and work in a ...

Through an examination of Canadians' complicated roles as agents and objects of globalization, this book shows how Canada's experience of and contribution to globalized governance is characterized by ...

Like migratory birds, most of Canada's 20,000 'guest' farm workers arrive in the spring and leave in the autumn. Hailing primarily from Mexico, Jamaica, and smaller countries of the Caribbean, these temporary ...

Theories of liberal multiculturalism have come to dominate debates
about identity and difference politics in contemporary western
political theory. Identity/Difference Politics offers a
nuanced critique ...

This progressive new reader features work from some of Canada’s most prolific and talented writers on the subject of global markets including David Broad, Naomi Klein, Alan Sears, and David Livingstone. ...

Researchers and policy-makers are looking at public policies to assess their economic and social impacts on individuals, families, communities, and nations. This book applies this new research on social ...

The speed and intensity of global integration in the last two decades have provoked serious debate about the human impact of globalization and deep concern about the capacity of the state to provide social ...