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Language in International Business
The Multilingual Reality of Global Business Expansion
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language permeates every facet of international business in the 21st century. However, being aware of this multilingual reality is not enough. This book presents a case for recognizing and appreciating the importance of language, its multifaceted role and the range of effects it may have on internationalizing...
China's Global Engagement
Cooperation, Competition, and Influence in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Assessing China's rapidly changing role on the international stage
China is again undergoing a period of significant transition. Internally, China's leaders are addressing challenges to the economy and other domestic issues after three decades of dramatic growth and reforms. President Xi Jinping...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
This book explores the human rights consequences of the new mercenarism, as channeled through so-called private military and security companies (PMSCs), and offers an overview of the evolution and status quo of both non-legal (soft law and self-regulation) and legal initiatives seeking to limit them....
The International Politics of Democratization
Comparative perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
This book examines the international dimensions of democratization processes, showing the degree to which international actors, ranging from states to non-governmental players, have an influence on what were once thought of as exclusively domestic processes of political change.
The contributors...
Custom's Future
International Law in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Although customary international law has long been an important source of rights and obligations in international relations, there has been extensive debate in recent years about whether this body of law is equipped to address complex modern problems such as climate change, international terrorism,...
by Kuljit Ahluwalia
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The past century has been a period of revolutionary change in many fields of human activity, in institutions and in thought. This period has seen the need of adjustment of state institutions and legal concepts to the needs of greater international cooperation. During the half century preceding the...
Internal Conflict and the International Community
Wars Without End?
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This insightful book debates whether conflict within states has emerged as the Achilles Heel of the international community. It covers a wide-range of issues including the roots of internal conflict, small arms supplies, intervention, human rights and international humanitarian law, refugees and post-conflict...
by Purnendra Jain
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
This book moves away from the common belief that Japan’s international relations are firmly the preserve of the national government in Japan’s highly centralised political system. Examining examples of subnational governments (SNGs) across Japan the book uncovers a significant and generally unrecognised...
by Michael Czinkota, Ilkka Ronkainen, Michael Moffett
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Fundamentals of International Business is an introductory international business text for use at the undergraduate level. Its comprehensive coverage of the subject also makes it appropriate for use in MBA programs. The book's content is streamlined when compared to the array of international business...
Systems of Control in International Adjudication and Arbitration
Breakdown and Repair
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
In a world where nations are increasingly interdependent and where their problems--whether environmental, economic, or military--have a global dimension, the resolution of international disputes has become critically important. In Systems of Control in International Adjudication and Arbitration, W....
Politicising Ethics in International Relations
Cosmopolitanism as Hospitality
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
The ethics of hospitality – the welcome of the foreigner – is implied in all moral debate in international relations ranging from questions of asylum to those of humanitarian intervention. Why then has there been so little reflection on hospitality in the study of international relations to date?
Seeking...
After International Relations
Critical Realism and the (Re)Construction of World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
After International Relations articulates a systematic critical realist response to a quest for more emancipatory methodologies in International Relations. Heikki Patomäki here establishes a way out of the international relations problematic which has puzzled so many great thinkers and scholars for...
(In)Security and the Production of International Relations
The Politics of Securitisation in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
This book provides a framework for analysing the interplay between securitisation and foreign affairs, reconnecting critical security studies with traditional IR concerns about interstate relations.
What happens to foreign policymaking when actors, things or processes are presented as threats?...
Handbook of International Trade Agreements
Country, regional and global approaches
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
International trade has, for decades, been central to economic growth and improved standards of living for nations and regions worldwide. For most of the advanced countries, trade has raised standards of living, while for most emerging economies, growth did not begin until their integration into the...