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This text delineates subtle distinctions among concepts that are often taken as synonymous, such as globalization, multinationalization, multinational corporation and global corporation, and elicits their implications for international business management.

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Debt crises have placed strains not only on the European Union's nascent federal system but also on the federal system in the United States. Increasing the complexity of the issue has been public sector collective bargaining, now a component of most federal systems. This book deals with this topic.

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The Global Dynamics of News is an attempt to locate the study of news-perhaps the genre best epitomizing the process of media globalization-within contemporary debate about news flow, transnational media-cultures and globalization.

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The Global Dynamics of News is an attempt to locate the study of news-perhaps the genre best epitomizing the process of media globalization-within contemporary debate about news flow, transnational media-cultures and globalization.

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In this study, labor economist Henry Schechter concludes that there is a need for greater international prohibitions and for keeping open channels for collective bargaining for higher wages.

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The conventional wisdom is that this new international economy is the natural outcome of market forces and cannot be resisted except at great cost to economic and social welfare. This book challenges that argument by bringing a clear historical perspective to the study of the world economy since 1944.

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Executive decision makers are coming to understand that strategic management, national government policies, and the international public sector are all related, often in subtle ways.

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An examination of the current issues facing the environment and the increasing responsibility of the world governments to address these issues.

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Evaluates the positive and negative aspects of foreign assembly and suggests ways in which it may develop and affect the future of North-South relations. The authors examine in detail the US semiconductor industry, the first to go abroad on a large scale. They also chart the development of the semiconductor industries of Western Europe and Japan.

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This detailed analysis of the global food system looks at the way food is produced, distributed, and consumed in an effort to create a more equitable and healthful system worldwide.

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An overview of the global problem of gun violence. Just as guns know no borders, gun violence has become a global epidemic, killing many people each year and injuring many more. Virtually every illegal gun begins as a legal gun. This book documents the global gun trade, its threat to public health, and efforts to remedy the situation.

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This book comprehensively analyzes the global illusion of citizen protection so common today.

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This book comprehensively analyzes the global illusion of citizen protection so common today.

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This book presents the reception of Hallyu ("the Korean Wave") and the real and imaginary maps of the export of South Korean cultural products around the world. It is an interdisciplinary and multicultural approach to the impact of Hallyu, including chapters on the effects of South Korean culture on countries in Europe, the Americas, and Asia.

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The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination, is a groundbreaking collection of essays by leading scholars from wide scholarly and activist backgrounds who examine the entangled array of contemporary industrial complexes--what the editors refer to as "the power complex"--that was first analyzed by C. Wright Mills in his 1956 classic work, The Power Elite.

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Dozens of international and local organizations, up to one hundred thousand individuals, and millions of supporters are part of the phenomenon of global jihad. This reference work names and differentiates these organizations, explaining their ideology, infrastructure, operatio...

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Living and working abroad sounds glamorous - and maybe it is, if you're posted to Hong Kong or Sydney. But what if your company sends you to Bangkok, Warsaw, or Manila Many questions arise - Is it safe to go out at night Do quality schools exist How polluted is the air Is public transportation handy This title answers these questions.

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Living and working abroad. Sounds glamorous - and maybe it is, if you're posted to Paris or Vienna. But what if your company sends you to Santiago, Lisbon, or Montevideo Many questions arise: Is it safe to go out at night Do quality schools exist This book answers such questions expats may have.

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This book explores the global migration of athletes who have played soccer outside their country of birth. Inspired by the sociology of migration, it addresses the causes of migration as well as the process of adapting to living and working in a new country.