Interdisciplinary in approach, this volume explores federalism in the 1990s, bringing together leading scholars from law, economics, sociology, and political science to comment on federalism's strengths, weaknesses, and potential in a variety of contexts.

This volume explores the changing relationship between regionalism and multilateralism and examine the implications for national policy in a global trading system.

Increasingly, Indigenous people are being drawn into global networks. In the long term, cultural isolation is unlikely to be a viable – even if sometimes desired – option, so how can Indigenous people protect and advance their cultural values in the face of pressure from an interconnected world?

A compelling exploration of the complex relationship between Thai national identity and prostitution and gender.

Throughout this concise and elegant book, John Helliwell emphasizes well-being as an explicit focus for research and for public policies.

Mike Carr supports bioregional values and community-building tools for a diverse, democratic, socially-just civil society.

Catherine Dauvergne examines the relationship between migration laws and national identities and highlights the role of humanitarianism in this linkage.

The two faces of biotechnology are revealed throughout to show the promises and perils associated with a range of innovations.

A close look at the laws, policies, and practices of detention and deportation in Canada since the Second World War.

This book traces the emergence of the 2000 Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety – and the discourse of precaution toward GEOs that the protocol institutionalized internationally.

Demonstrates the profound effect of globalization on relations between the state, civil society, and markets, as well as on collective and individual rights.

This collection articulates a multi-level cultural politics of transnationalism to frame contemporary analyses of immigration and diasporas.

This innovative, interdisciplinary work explores key institutional fault lines between the tectonic plates of globalization and the insistent demands for individual and collective autonomy.

Using original case studies to show how a range of communities deal with the forces of globalization, this book redraws the conceptual maps through which community, globalization, and autonomy are understood.

Identity/Difference Politics offers a new direction for the study of identity/difference, one that moves beyond liberal multiculturalism’s preoccupation with culture.

This collaborative study explores moments in the history of globalization and autonomy to provide insights into changes overtaking the contemporary world.

This ground-breaking work explores how the unsettling of legitimacy has affected the relationships between authority, power, and political community in local, regional, national, and global settings.