This article explores the way in which Mexico’s countryside was affected by the country’s economic integration to its northern neighbors since the start of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Mexico’s political technocracy placed its bet for economic growth on the comparative advantage of cheap labor, a losing bet: Mexico’s asymmetrical integration into the North American economy, ...

With this book, Richard Munch makes an important contribution to the sociology of education, questioning forces that dominate contemporary educational development in context international globalization. These result from diffusion sphere neoliberal principles regulation economic (as expresses title introductory chapter “The governance school”). The illegitimate and harmful nature ...

Neoliberalism is widely regarded as the main culprit for the 2007/2008 global financial crisis. However, despite this abysmal failure, neoliberalism has not merely survived the crisis, but actually 'thrived'. How is it possible to account for the resilience of neoliberalism? Existing scholarship has answered this question either by focusing on the distinctive qualities of neoliberalism (such as...

The main purpose of this paper is to present a three-phase periodization of modern Western futures studies to construct historical classification. In order to reach this goal, the following intellectual traditions are introduced to review the philosophical and historical contexts that affect the very foundations of futures studies: (a) religions, (b) utopias, (c) historicism, (d) science fictio...

The actual questions of environmental safety in the context ideas global evolutionism taking into account modern tendencies. ecological situation country demonstrates processes deterioration and waste natural resources, energy habitat, as well critical conditions quality life population. Researchers political ecology structure allocated direction: mechanism decision-making society its political...

After Trump and Brexit, a dominant narrative emerged that portrayed the rise of right-wing populism as backlash to neoliberalism. While it is true during heydays neoliberal globalization in 1980s 1990s, relationship between two more complex than often assumed. In series countries, with, rather against The particular combination “neoliberal populism,” however, still underexplored. Studying this ...

The paper outlines and compares two models of how globalization is likely to affect the risk of civil war – a liberal model and structuralist model. Overall, we find considerably more support for the liberal model than for the structuralist, anti-globalist model. Trade does appear to have a capacity for increasing internal peace – not directly, but via trade’s beneficial effects on growth and i...