Integration of new countries in the European Union
Essay - 6 pages - European union
The story of Europe is still being written. The entrance of new countries, ten in 2004, two others in 2007, and the current question of opening Europe to Turkey, shows that the European Union is continuously evolving. From 1947 to 1989, the liberalist doctrine has been adopted by the Western part...
China, India, and their respective Diasporas
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
The last few decades has seen the explosion in international flows like monetary flows, flows of goods, human flows. This is part of a wide movement that has kept on increasing since the end of World War II, and one that has later been called globalization. In this phenomenon, two new major...
Country Analysis - Canada (2007)
Market study - 36 pages - Economy general
Canada closely resembles the US in its market-oriented economic system, pattern of production, and affluent living standards. Since World War II, the impressive growth of manufacturing, mining, and service sectors has transformed the nation from a largely rural economy into one primarily...
The foreign direct investments in Canada (2007)
Case study - 10 pages - Economy general
Multinational enterprises (MNEs) interact in the global market, creating lots of jobs all around the world. Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) is the way by which they interact, investing abroad until representing the largest source of external finance for developing countries for instance (United...
Participation, the principle of good administration
Essay - 11 pages - Political science
Representative democracy is a form of democracy founded on the exercise of popular sovereignty by the people's representatives. The representatives supposedly act in the people's interest, but not as their proxy representative i.e., not necessarily always according to wishes, but with...
Comparison of arbitration, in France and in Czech Republic and at the international level (2006)
Essay - 11 pages - International relations
Aristotle wrote, "For an arbitrator goes by the equity of a case, a judge by the law, and arbitration was invented with the express purpose of securing full power for equity." Arbitration is a form of Alternative Dispute Resolution, specifically, a legal alternative to litigation whereby the...
Case Study: Surasia's ministry of internal affairs (headquarters)
Case study - 15 pages - Political science
This paper will analyse the Suraisia government Ministry of Internal Affairs' attempt to introduce an innovative culture to the Ministry of internal affairs HQ (MIQ) through the creation of “SSS” and “3i” initiatives. This analysis will take into account the drivers of the...
Can Japanese Sogo-soshas become common in Europe and USA with the system and its current situation?
Essay - 11 pages - Foreign markets
According to Reuters, a Japanese company has come up with a new way to track down grandmas, grandpas and anyone else who forgets where he or she is supposed to be. The company will use a satellite-based global positioning system and cellular technology. The device has been developed by a firm...
The European employment strategy
Essay - 22 pages - Political science
The European Union is the most accomplished multinational organization in the world. Since it's beginning in 1950, with the European Coal and Steel Community, the European Union has been integrating more and more, becoming a unique. The European Union was at first, based on economic performances....
Why did communism become established in Eastern Europe after the Second World War? - publié le 04/03/2008
Tutorials/exercises - 10 pages - International relations
On the 25th of April 1945, shortly before the official end of the Second World War, American and Soviet soldiers meet at the Elbe river. But to reach the Elbe river, the Russian troops had to come all the way across Europe, and so across Eastern Europe. By the end of the same year, seven states...
Global marketing: Russian food market
Market study - 10 pages - Foreign markets
The object of this case study is to develop a market strategy that could be used by firms dealing with Russian food market, namely concerning the waffle market. Lots of marketing surveys of waffle consumption in Russia has been done, dealing with different investing potential possibilities. Some...
Direct investment in Turkey (2006)
Case study - 14 pages - Economy general
We are currently investigating an investment proposal concerning the chocolate confectionery sector, in Turkey. Specifically the analysis concerns the chocolate tablets production. Below follows an explanation of the elements of the investment decision, the general aspects of the Turkish economy...
Music and politics (2004)
Essay - 16 pages - Political science
Art is often seen as a way to escape from reality, to enter a new universe, and indeed it is. Art has to create emotions, to make people understand how irrational their life can be or sometimes just to make the beauty hidden from their eyes appears. And nobody knows how Art manage to touch so...
Is cooperation possible ? - publié le 03/03/2008
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
2001 saw the world united in indignation, and the emergence of a tacit promise to cooperate in the war to annihilate the flaw of terrorism. 2002 saw the same world divided and torn in the debate over a war carried out by those considering it as vital, and opposed as inconsiderate and unwise by...
Did the League of Nation fail?
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
The idea of an international organization find its roots in the early 18th Century, carried out through Kant's nib. As the world changes and goes towards a globalization of political, economical and social factors, the will of a new form of a society appears to be one of the major concepts of...
Nuclear proliferation (March 2007)
Worksheets - 3 pages - Political science
With the collapse of the USSR and the end of the Cold War, a wind of hope blew across the world. Nuclear proliferation was thought to be a thing of the past, and the building of a peaceful world was believed to be possible. Unfortunately, this season of optimism was short-lived, and soon realised...
Game theory and Nash equilibrium in industrial organisation: a critical analysis
Worksheets - 8 pages - Economy general
The origins and motivations for game theory was given by a question from Aumann in 1985 "What is game theory trying to accomplish?". The interest in strategic games started in 1944 by the publication of the paper of John von Neumann's and Oskar Morgenstern's theory of 'Games and...
In which way can the Esping-Andersen theory help us into doing a comparative analysis of the European social systems? - publié le 29/02/2008
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
Europe is facing major changes at the beginning of the 21st century. Many consider the 19th century as savage industrialization's one. Liberalism largely evolved in the 20th century as evidenced by the fantastic pace of growth of welfare state in many countries in the 1960s and the 1970s. Indeed,...
Rapport de stage: Association V-Glob Volontaire-globalisation (Placement report)
Internship report - 15 pages - International relations
Attracted by humanitarian work since a very long time, I seized the opportunity given to me during my third year of 'applied foreign languages' studies to do a work placement in a non-profit organisation in a third world country. I had been unable to find a placement during term time, as...
Lebanon's fragility: The case of the Civil War 1975-1990 - publié le 28/02/2008
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The states of the Arab East have always experienced challenging political and social issues mainly inherited from their creation by Great Powers after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Indeed, the Western organizational model of the time, i.e. nation-state, poorly fitted the regional realities....
Discuss the methods by which Britain became a great power
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The very notion of power and by extension the one of great power, have always been elaborate concepts to grasp. Should one study the strength of a nation from a historical perspective, then it appears that the notion of great power could only be defined comparatively. Indeed, it is only in its...
Expansion of business to new countries: JC Decaux (2006)
Case study - 8 pages - Foreign markets
Expanding to new countries is nowadays an important stake for companies, considering the cost benefit they can get from this. Economies of scales, of scope permit them to drive their cost down and thus to be more and more competitive on the global market. But this world expansion in a context of...
Democratic transitions in the Arab world
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
At the end of the Cold war, the political models of modernization different from democracy were totally discredited. Democracy, defined by Ghassan Salamé as an ‘arrangement institutionnnel qui permet de garantir la participation des citoyens au choix de leurs dirigeants par la voie...
The African Union and the Darfur crisis: Stakes, results and prospects
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
Since the independence of Sudan in 1956, Darfur, situated in the western part of the country, has been confronted with numerous and violent conflicts. The actual crisis in the region began in February 2003 and opposed originally the non-Arab rebels of Darfur against the forces of the Sudanese...
Collect foreign exchange spot and forward rate data and interest rate data for two currencies: examine whether CIRP holds: Analyze and discuss the results
Essay - 10 pages - Economy general
The purpose of this assignment is to analyse whether the Covered Interest Rate Parity (CIRP) holds in the relationship between two actual currencies. I decided to focus on the euro and the dollar because it is the financial instrument the most active and the most used in the world. Since the euro...
Explain and assess this statement: "It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity" Kofi Annan
Essay - 7 pages - Economy general
Since 1995 and the establishment of the WTO, the quick spread of new technologies, and the increasing interdependence between countries, supporters and detractors of globalization have been arguing about whether globalization actually exists and if its effects are positives or negatives for the...
During the Cold War, what role did oil play in driving western intervention to the Middle East?
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
After the Second World War in 1945, a new world order came up: Western Europe had to recover from the damages the war caused, and the US and the Soviet Union were competing against each other for power in a Cold War period. During this era, lasting up to the collapse of the Soviet Union in...
Distinguish between equilibrium and cyclic unemployment, and outline the private and social costs associated with each type
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
Unemployment is seen as a plague in many countries. Plus, we are often told about how to tackle it and given some figures spelling the number of unemployed people. But what does this really mean? Governments do not tell much about unemployment's features and the real consequences it entails....
What were the origins of the French Revolution? Economically, politically, culturally, intellectually
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
Since the beginning of the Revolution, the contemporaries have looked for explaining the events that occurred during the French Revolution. They suggested several arguments about the causes of the revolution. Some argue that the Revolution is the consequence of a plot, an intellectual conspiracy....
A "fat tax" to encourage consumers to switch away from fats, sugar and processed foods
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
People are obviously getting more and more fat. This fact cannot be denied. That is why, to curb this phenomenon, Kelly Brownell launched the idea of applying a fat tax on unhealthy food, in his article published in the New York Times in 1994. Such a tax could encourage people to buy less...
