A quick, step-by-step guide to developing the practical negotiating skills that every business manager needs. The authors cover preparation, strategy development, getting started, building understanding, bargaining, and closing the deal. Managers learn effective tools for negotiating within their own groups, including organizing successful meetings and techniques for building consensus. What are the Most Common and Costly Mistakes Made by Ineffective Negotiating and How Can These Mistakes be Avoided? What are the Underlying Principles and Stages Which Govern the Negotiation Process? How Should
Culture division influences our lives differently in how we identify and evaluate who we are as individuals. We respond to life situations in how we interpret ourselves. How we function in society as a whole signifies invaluable differences in how we base our demeanor. Freedom of speech is a given right in American society. It is the social norm to be able to voice your opinion on diverse issues faced in our global environment. The Ontology of World Politics is a form of mediating issues of concern.
"The purpose of the present paper is to emphasize the way mercenaries integrated in the world politics. It offers an overview of the historical context, highlighting short details about the early appearance of mercenary troops who, although not yet bearing that name, acted in the same way. What is more, it pursues the evolution of mercenaries from their very beginning to the contemporary era, making a short stop to the Middle Ages, and then to the pre-modern period. Furthermore, it describes the metamorphosis of mercenaries in the contemporary period, giving birth to the new ´dogs of war' under different names. However, these transformations came with behavioural changes as well. They changed their attitude and their chaotic actions on the battlefield, fulfilling, sometimes, a different role, but for the same purpose, which labelled them as 'new mercenaries' from the outset. Keywords: mercenaries, world politics, condottieri, war, army, professional soldiers, Private Military Corporations. "
An exciting, challenging new way to approach the study of world politics, this book focusses on the multifaceted nature of concepts and systematically explains them in a clear, critical and engaging way.
"Heterarchy in World Politics challenges the fundamental framing of international relations and world politics. IR theory has always been dominated by the presumption that world politics is, at its core, a system of states. However, this has always been problematic, challengeable, time-bound, and increasingly anachronistic. In the 21st century, world politics is becoming increasingly multi-nodal and characterized by "heterarchy" - the coexistence and conflict between differently structured micro- and meso quasi-hierarchies that compete and overlap not only across borders but also across economic-financial sectors and social groupings. Thinking about international order in terms of heterarchy is a paradigm shift away from the mainstream "competing paradigms" of realism, liberalism, and constructivism. This book explores how, since the mid-20th century, the dialectic of globalization and fragmentation has caught states and the interstate system in the complex evolutionary process toward heterarchy. These heterarchical institutions and processes are characterized by increasing autonomy and special interest capture. The process of heterarchy empowers strategically situated agents - especially agents with substantial autonomous resources, and in particular economic resources - in multi-nodal competing institutions with overlapping jurisdictions. The result is the decreasing capacity of macro-states to control both domestic and transnational political/economic processes. In this book, the authors demonstrate that this is not a simple breakdown of states and the states system; it is in fact the early stages of a structural evolution of world politics. This book will interest students, scholars and researchers of international relations theory. It will also have significant appeal in the fields of world politics, security studies, war studies, peace studies, global governance studies, political science, political economy, political power studies, and the social sciences more generally"--
The South in World Politics is a timely analysis of the influence and effectiveness of developing states in shaping the international order from the politics of the Cold War and North-South confrontation to the contemporary challenges of globalization and the rising power of emerging economies
Rapid rates of pop increase in the major, economically aspiring, non-Communist nations imperil their econ progress, &this in turn threatens world peace. The econ difficulty is not signif'ly related to the classical conception of limited natural resources & diminishing returns attributable thereto. The difficulty is primarily due to limitation of capital needed to exploit technological advance. A problem to begin with because the poor, non-totalitarian nation finds it hard to save, it is rendered most acute by 2 other phenomena: the drain on capital supplies for purposes which do not directly improve industrial productivity, such as cultural educ; & the drain incident to converting agrarian economies into Ur ones. Finally, to this is joined the dilemma that present high fertility rates & consumers to the society relatively faster than workers. This reduces per capita incomes & thereby the volume of savings. Per capital income could increase more than twice as fast in the next 2 generations from the single influence of a 50% reduction in fertility rates & its effect on pop numbers, age distribution, & capital formation. Relevant policies for the US & other rich nations are indicated in the article, which reviews Philip M. Hauser, Ed, POPULATION AND WORLD POLITICS, Glencoe, Ill, the Free Press, 1958. AA-IPSA.
Globalizing processes are gathering increased attention for complicating the nature of political boundaries, authority and sovereignty. Recent examples of global financial and political turmoil have also created a sense of unease about the durability of the modern international order and the ability of our existing theoretical frameworks to explain system dynamics. In light of the inadequacies of traditional international relation (IR) theories in explaining the contemporary global context, a growing range of scholars have been seeking to make sense of world politics through an analytical focus on hierarchies instead. Until now, the explanatory potential of such research agendas and their implications for the discipline went unrecognized, partly due to the fragmented nature of the IR field. To address this gap, this ground-breaking book brings leading IR scholars together in a conversation on hierarchy and thus moves the discipline in a direction better equipped to deal with the challenges of the twenty-first century.
IN EXAMINING PATTERNS IN INTERNATIONAL CRISIS, THE AUTHORS OFFERS ONE PATH TO CONCERTED ATTACK ON A CENTRAL PHENOMENON IN WORLD POLITICS. AFTER SURVEYING THE RELEVANT LITERATURE, INCLUDING COMPETING DEFINITIONS, THEY SET FORTH A CONCEPTUAL MAP OF INTERNATIONAL CRISIS VARIABLES: ACTOR ATTRIBUTES (AGE, TERRITORY, REGIME, CAPABILITY, VALUES): SYSTEM CHARACTERISTICS (SIZE, GEOGRAPHY, STRUCTURE, ALLIANCE CONFIGURATION, STABILITY); AND THE CRISIS DIMENSIONS THEY WISH TO EXPLAIN (TRIGGER, ACTOR, BEHAVIOR, SUPERPOWER ACTIVITY, AND THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS-THAT IS, CRISIS MANAGEMENT, OUTCOME, AND CONSEQUENCES). FROM THIS TAXONOMY THEY HAVE DEVELOPED A RESEARCH FRAME WORK ON INTERNATIONAL CRISIS, AND, AS AN ILLUSTRATION OF MORE NARROW EXPLANATORY DEVICES A CRISIS MANAGEMENT-OUTCOME MODEL. THREE CLUSTERS OF HYPOTHESES ON THE SUBSTANCE AND FORM OF CRISIS OUTCOMES, AND THE DURATION OF CRISIS, ARE THEN TESTED AGAINST THE EVIDENCE FROM 185 CASES FOR THE PERIOD FROM 1945 TO 1962. ULTIMATE AIM IS TO ILLUMINATE INTERNATIONAL CRISIS OVER A 50-YEAR PERIOD, 1930-1980, ACROSS ALL CONTINENTS CULTURES, AND POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SYSTEMS IN THE CONTEMPORARY ERA.