Fifth, some east Mediterranean countries, such as Greece and Turkey, were motivated by their desire to join the West through NATO membership.doi:10.1080/10163270409464071Myongsob Kimkorean journal of defense analysisKim, Myongsob. 2004. The Politics of Troop-Dispatch: Why did the Europeans Send ...
With the Ubuntu philosophy, a cultural tradition that emphasizes the interconnectedness of all individuals and their responsibilities towards each other, the Africans are managing to come together for shared development. The African Continental Free Trade Area, the world's largest free trade area, now ...
"China is unique based on its large market size, its relatively high education, its strong integration of business and policy, and its large financial market," said Christoph Nedopil Wang, director of the Griffith Asia Institute and a professor of economics. He noted that specific aspects of C...
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Regulating information flows through trade agreements Since the first years of the 21st century, business leaders, policymakers, and activists have tried to create shared principles to encourage information flows. They began by developing principles to guide their behaviour at the OECD, the Asia-Pacific...
Online shopping has enjoyed a big boost recently. It has grown by 70% in Asia-Pacific, more than doubled in the US and increased 50% in Europe1, according to the OECD. This trend towards ecommerce is likely to play an increasingly prominent role in consumers’ lives, even after stay-at...
Let’s see if we can figure outForbes’agenda. The 2007 policies of mercantilism blew up a big bubble. And according toForbesthis somehow explains the sharp rise and fall of Chinese stock prices. And what about the fact that stocks also rose and fell sharply in countries that did not purs...
“That ended up being a major mistake,” developer David Gale recalled, “because we did a monoculture.” More than a decade later, Gale heard about the invasive beetles eating their way across U.S. cities and forests, decimating trees. Neighborhood leaders tracked the s...
Emini futures were originally launched in September 1997 to attract non-professional investors into trading index futures. Previously, the only game in town had been the “large” (SP) contract – but it had become too expensive for the “little guy” to trade. So the CME created the Emini...
A: As I often say, two factors drive gold: the Love Trade and the Fear Trade. In 1997 and 1998, the bottom of the emerging market meltdown took place. Four years later, we saw China and Asia starting to take off and GDP per capita rise. This is an important factor in this whole...