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It will cause little controversy in the spring of 1975 to observe that the world is in a profound political and economic crisis, or that interdependence is a palpable and often unpalatable fact. Conflict over formerly latent issues is increasingly evident, as governments try desperately to cope with the effects of other governments' policies, as in the case of oil, or with resource shortages, as in the case of food. Many of the problems from which such issues arise–including also environmental degradation, inflation, and recession–have immediate impacts on people's daily lives. Unlike traditional foreign policy issues, they are not separate from domestic politics, and experienced largely through the mass media, but rather encountered daily on the job and at the market. Domestic and foreign policies are closely intertwined, and important domestic interests are threatened by events abroad. It is becoming clear that ties between national economies can transmit economic evils as well as economic goods.

The purpose of this article is to suggest that the perspective of scholars studying regional integration be broadened to include research expressly concerned with the consequences of integration and to indicate the directions that such efforts might take. To date, the students of integration have been mainly describing, analyzing, and measuring the integration process. This is true of research on the European Communities as well as of studies of integration elsewhere in Europe and on other continents. In our quest for political community we have utilized a number of different research strategies and focused on a broad range of indicators, but our primary concern has been with regional capacities for aggregating political authority.

In an earlier article published in this journal Ernst Haas and this author suggested a set of strategic "background conditions," "conditions at the time of initiation," and "process conditions" intended (hypothetically) to assess the political consequences of an initial agreement to lower or remove mutual barriers to the movement of productive factors.

General disarmament plans, like weapons of mass destruction, supply excessive solutions to problems, and, like those weapons, they tend to leave unanswered many highly pertinent questions about lesser conflicts, low-level disorders, ambiguous enemies, and local policing jobs. By and large, strategic planners have come to recognize this weakness in military doctrines, but it is not certain that the planners of general and complete disarmament (GCD) yet recognize that a blueprint geared to the deliberate violation, the great war, the two super-states in hostile confrontation, may turn out to be quite irrelevant to the real problems of a disarmed or even semidisarmed world. At best such a blueprint is bound to be deficient until it comes to grips with disorders other than classic open encounters of two states—that is, with the painfully familiar gamut ranging from civil war fomented in a great state by outside agents to the purely internal breakdown of law and order in a small state.

7. Contemporary MarxismSocial Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory; The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times; 8. Positive Political Economy; A Public Choice Approach to International Organization; Why Changing Exposure to Trade Should Affect Political Cleavages; 9. Poststructuralism; Empire; Virtue, Fortune and Faith: A Genealogy of Finance; 10. Feminism; On the Fringes of the World Economy: A Feminist Perspective; How (the Meaning of) Gender Matters in Political Economy; 11. Green Theory.

AbstractIn recent years, international entrepreneurship and international corporate entrepreneurship have attracted great interest. This paper analyzes the effects of asset similarity and complementarity on the decision to use alliances as a means of achieving corporate entrepreneurship. This study reveals that firms with similar assets are more likely to use mergers and acquisitions to achieve corporate entrepreneurship. This is particularly common when these mergers and acquisitions take place between firms from the same country. In contrast, however, firms prefer alliances to achieve international entrepreneurship. In these cases, firms search for partners whose assets are complementary to their own. These findings demonstrate the key role that firms' assets play in choosing alliances as the means of achieving corporate entrepreneurship, especially in an international context. Copyright © 2010 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

IFC's investment would help to finance a project to manufacture 15,000 one metric ton pick-up trucks per year. The project is the first in a three-phase expansion program, which will have a total capacity of 50,000 vehicles per year upon full completion. (Economische Voorlichtingsdienst)

The evolution of international society invites us to analyze whether the new heterogeneous multipolarity and globalization are complementary or contradictory realities, and whether international law is a law in transition or in transition. It is not surprising that international law has been challenged in its formulation and conditioned in its application, leading to a contradictory process of transformation. The unity of the legal system is also questioned theoretically and practically by political-ideological and cultural-religious differences. The study and teaching of international law should not be presided over by formalistic interpretation, ideological justification or political pragmatism, but by intellectual concern, scientific honesty and moral commitment. ; La evolución de la sociedad internacional invita a analizar si la nueva multipolaridad heterogénea y la globalización son realidades complementario o contradictorias entre sí, y si el Derecho internacional es un derecho de transición o está en transición. No resulta sorprendente que el Derecho Internacional se haya visto cuestionado en su formulación y condicionado en su aplicación provocando un contradictorio proceso de transformación. También la unidad del ordenamiento jurídico queda cuestionada teórica y prácticamente por diferencias político-ideológicas y las culturales-religiosas. El estudio y enseñanza del Derecho Internacional no debería estar presidido por una interpretación formalista, la justificación ideológica o el pragmatismo político, sino por la inquietud intelectual, la honestidad científica y el compromiso moral.

"Theories of International Norm Contestation: Structure and Outcomes" published on by Oxford University Press.