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• International Education and the Production of Cosmopolitan Identities 

  Rizvi, Fazal (2005-03-04)

  Over the past decade, the number of students studying for higher education has grown rapidly, to around two million. Based on an interview-based research project, this paper examines how international student identities ...

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• Bending Borders and Emerging Transnational Spaces 

  Cheng, Xiangming (2005-03-18)

  Like wars, nationalist aspirations, and the natural rerouting of great rivers, globalization changes the world’s borders by bending and stretching them out of shape and thus creating new transnational spaces. State ...

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• Global Fast Food or Local Slow Cuisine: Are these the Only Options on the Menu? 

  Wilk, Richard (2005-02-25)

  In this paper, Professor Wilk discusses the relationships between increasing global interdependence, the frequently alarmist calls to maintaining a distinction between global and local communities, and the implications of ...

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• Globalization, Terrorism and Regional Conflicts: the Case of Palestine 

  Nassar, Jamal (2004-09-17)

  We know that the official attitude toward terrorism suffers from a suspension of any inquiry into causation. Government officials seldom ask what causes terror, or question their own participation in terrorist acts. Somehow, ...

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• Entrepreneurial urbanism and the management of the Contemporary City: the Examples of Business Improvement Districts 

  Ward, Kevin (2005-03-11)

  This paper seeks to examine processes of state restructuring in exploring the ways in which Business Improvement Districts are being introduced into UK cities. In advancing the analysis the focus here is on the way in ...

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