Each year, the Swiss mountain resort Davos is host to the meetings of the World Economic Forum. To this informal gathering of the most powerful business and financial magnates in the capitalist world are invited political leaders, cultural and religious organizations and even some trade unionists. The aim is to define global economic strategies.
The late summer headlines of a landmark peace accord between the government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization stunned and delighted citizens of conscience from every walk of life and from all over the world. Here, at last, were the first glimmerings of harmony for a region whose bloody, intractable conflicts between Arab and Jew had outlived hot and cold wars alike to become a…
This book was the first in a major series examining Global Economic Institutions and contrasts regional economic integration in the Asia Pacific Region and in Europe. In the Asia Pacific Region at the time of publication, regionalism was developing by means of 'open regionalism', constructed through the APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Process). This was different from the regionalism wh…
The Euroquake in prospect is an economic one. By 1993 Europe will be a bigger market than the US. By 1995 there is a real prospect of a single European currency. By 2000 a unified Germany will have become the economic and industrial engine of a new European Superstate. Daniel Burstein, who analysed the significance, of the new Japanese financial empire, in "Yen!", now turns his attention to Eur…
In this fourth edition the writer have added new material that reflects both the academic changes and the events in the years since the third edition was published. For example, the monetary chapter explores efforts at exchange rate management since the Plaza and Louvre agreements, the trade chapters examine issues being negotiated in the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations, the ch…
Privatisation, liberalisation and globalisation have become the main features of the new world order, which means closer economic, social and cultural ties, transfer of technology and restructuring of internal priorities etc. in the various countries. In the era of globalisation and economic reforms, Asia- Pacific is the most vibrant region in the world. This book provides a diverse and vivi…
Contents: 1. The socioeconomic and political background of the reforms 2. The DPRK's domestic economy 3. The DPRK's foreign economic relations and their dependence on the outcome of the nuclear dispute
Traditionally in international relations, power and authority were considered to rest with states. But recently, in the light of changes associated with globalisation, this has come under scrutiny both empirically and theoretically. This book analyses the continuing but changing role of states in the international arena, and their relationships with a wide range of non-state actors, which poss…
As the challenge of preventing military conflict has become increasingly complex in the post-Cold War era, economic sanctions are being applied with growing frequency. Sanctions are also being used to enforce international law, to deter aggression and terrorism, to defend democracy and human rights, and to prevent nuclear proliferation. This study addresses questions about the utility, appropri…
Nation states, asserts the world-renowned business strategist Kenichi Ohmae, are dinosaurs waiting to die. In the profoundly important book Ohmae argues that not only have nation states lost their ability to control exchange rates and protect their currencies, but they no langer generate real economic activity.