Objectives and Importance of the WTO to Open and Develop New Commercial Markets - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 15 pages - Economy general
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an international organization which governs the rules of international trade between countries. Today, new markets are appearing thanks to developing countries, who also want to take part in free trade. Therefore, it is important to know how the WTO will...
The impact of the Beijing Olympic Games in China - publié le 29/09/2010
Dissertation - 52 pages - International relations
In 2001, a historic decision was taken. Indeed, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) allowed the organization of the Olympic Games (OG) in China, and entrusted it especially to the city of Beijing. The challenges were big for China, because it was an opportunity to open up to the world....
Ebay's strategy in China: alliance or acquisition - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 5 pages - Economy general
When we talk about business, especially e-business and major firms which are well established in this sector, we mostly end up talking about American companies, because most people consider America as ‘the land of opportunity'. I definitely agree with this, because majority of the well...
An evaluation of constructivism as an approach to international relations theory - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 11 pages - International relations
Before the 1980s, the focus of the international scholarship relations was on two main debates: on the one hand, opposing the neo-realists to the neo-liberal institutionalists; and on the other rationalism to critical theory. Whereas the former is a debate in which the two mainstream theories,...
Can an ethical case ever be made for the use of torture during interrogation? - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 11 pages - Political science
In the ancient Greece and Rome, the testimony of a slave would not be taken into account in a judicial investigation, unless the statement had been obtained after the subject was submitted to torture. Nowadays, although torture has been banned from legal systems and condemned at the international...
How to Negotiate With Chinese People? - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
Thanks to the China's rapid development, French businessmen are more and more interested in importation to the country. It could thus be an advantage to set up subsidiaries in China. Though, French people are generally considered reliable by Chinese people, they still need to adapt themselves to...
Report for investments in Russia - publié le 29/09/2010
Market study - 20 pages - Economy general
Dear investors, This report will provide you with factual information on the importance of investing in the Telecommunications industry in Russia. Since 2006, the direct investments in Russia from external countries have increased a lot. It demonstrates that it is a strategic market in which the...
Impact of the economic boom on Irish society (2006) - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 16 pages - Economy general
"To be Irish in 2006 is to be living through an unprecedented social experiment" (Holmquist 2006). This statement exemplifies the Irish economic performance in the 1990s. It puts an end to the years of high spending and taxes, an increasing inflation, low growth and soaring unemployment. Since...
Importing french wine to India
Case study - 7 pages - Economy general
Our wine house was created in 1986 and our first production was in 1988. Since then, we benefit from a great success, thanks to our bio-dynamical production process. The production process is carried out in a most traditional way. What we like is sincerity, personal sense of expression and...
The European Union: "Fortress Europe" - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 6 pages - European union
Article 14 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “Everyone has the right to seek and enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution”. Europe has always attracted migrants and asylum seekers because it benefits from a reputation of high standards of living and as...
China as an innovator, not just an imitator - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
A large number of patents are granted to China in various fields (green energy, space program, 3G mobiles?) underlining the fact that the country that invented paper, gunpowder and the compass many years ago is making a come-back among the international technology inventors. China has many...
What are the main obstacles to the provision of global public goods? - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
Global public goods are hard to define. Even though, there is a consensus about the definitions of public goods and collective goods, there exists different approaches. Public goods are supposed to be available for all and they are characterized by two principles: non-rivalry, which means that...
Setting up a business in Bolivia - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 14 pages - Economy general
Bolivia is a Republic. The seat of government is in La Paz, although the legal capital and also the seat of justice are located in Sucre. The country is separated in 9 administrative divisions: Chuquisaca, Cochabamba, Beni, La Paz, Oruro, Pando, Potosi, Santa Cruz and Tarija. Bolivia gained its...
Race and gender as structuring factors of election: A typically American reality?
Worksheets - 1 pages - Political science
Does racism still prevail in the US? The last election in the United States was a forceful reminder that race and gender have always played a role in the American elections and, more generally, in the American society. It is only in 1920 that American women were allowed to vote and much later in...
Modern Maritime Piracy: Stakes and Prospects of a Transnational Organized Crime - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 14 pages - International relations
Piracy is not a new phenomenon. Quite the reverse, it is as old as sea navigation and especially maritime trade. As early as in the Antiquity, the Roman Empire organized military campaigns to destroy pirate ships that were starving the Empire despite the fact that piracy was considered an...
AnimeHA, Full Tilt Poker and Alienware: case study of three successfull e-businesses - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 7 pages - Economy general
Nowadays, launching a successful e-business requires several conditions to be fulfilled. We must have knowledge of the current elements that are part of e-business, such as the different existing business models. We also have to be aware of the numerous applications provided by the Internet...
E business : Zara - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 9 pages - Economy general
The market of Ready-to-wear has its origin in the 60s and it has created a revolution in the textile industry. Since the 70s, it has shown talent in Italian, English, Chinese and American clothing, and the 70s was also the beginning of internationalization of fashion. In our current society,...
Effective leadership in public administration: "The great leader is seen as servant first", Robert K. Greenleaf - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 8 pages - Political science
Globalization, decentralization, economic uncertainties, and other contemporary challenges ask for a new kind of governance and a new role for public agents in every country. Governments have to reshape the public sector to cope with this environment that requires civil servants to assume new...
Women and Unions in Contemporary Japan - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 15 pages - Political science
Post-war Japan has seen considerable change with regard to women. The 1946 Constitution guaranteed for the first time, the equality of men and women under the law. Subsequently, the revised Civil Code and a range of domestic laws, including the Fundamental Law of Education and the Labor Standards...
The gender gap in the ownership and control of property is the single most critical contributor to the gender gap in economic well-being, social status, and empowerment' - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 6 pages - Economy general
Before the 1970s, women were practically invisible: they were relegated to the family and the domestic world. However since the middle of this same decade, the gender issue has become an increasingly theme within the development concern. Globalization not only affects men but women as well,...
Globalization is a positive force that uniformly bolsters the economic prospects of countries and societies around the globe. Do you agree or disagree? - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
"Another world is possible". This sentence, popularized for the first time during the demonstrations in the Doha Round, aims at denouncing the rising inequalities within countries, and considers the kind of globalization currently implemented being responsible for the prevailing situation....
"How to help poor countries", Nancy Birdsall, Dani Rodrik, Arvind Subramanian - publié le 29/09/2010
Book review - 4 pages - International relations
This article, published in the issue of "Foreign Affairs" dated July/August 2005, questions a lot of ready-made ideas about foreign aid and about the ways to "help poor countries". The main interest of this article is that it questions the foreign aid as the provision of resources from a country...
How the Georgian and the financial crisis stress the main difficulties and changes that the European Union is facing nowadays? - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 9 pages - European union
The financial crisis that we are facing in the present scenario is said to be the worst since World War two or even since the great depression. We can't compare our situation to the one in 1929 but we have to be realistic that the crisis is a global issue. We are now far away from the German...
Old and new wars - publié le 29/09/2010
Book review - 2 pages - International relations
This study is based on the article written by Paul Richards in 2005: New War: An Ethnographic Approach. What was really important in this article, according to me, was to discover a new way to look at and to study wars. In this study, I will try to sum up what I've found in the article by...
Inequality in America - publié le 29/09/2010
Worksheets - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
An apparent and striking observation that has been noted in virtually all of our readings by far is the shocking extent to which America's low-income citizens are denied of an equal status, let alone any, a political representation. Dahl reminds us frequently that the moral foundation behind...
Inequality vs poverty - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 2 pages - Economy general
For this discussion paper, I would like to focus mostly on Feldstein's argument of tackling poverty instead of inequality and why this is a dangerous perspective. To begin with, Feldstein's argument concerning the Pareto principle refers to the economic concept of Pareto superiority,...
To what extent does media coverage of grass-root citizen activity promote citizen activism? - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 2 pages - Political science
The American citizen has evolved as a well-behaved political spectator, keen towards national affairs. The combination of an authoritative presentation style on behalf of the network news organizations and a lack of thorough coverage on citizen activist groups has cultivated a pacified audience...
How democratic is the British government? - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
In fact, we could set a few provisional requirements to the evaluation of a government as democratic in order to analyze the British particular case. These requirements would be of different natures, and would be related first to the institutional system, then to the society itself. Indeed, the...
The New Labour and the Welfare State - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 2 pages - Economy general
Firstly let us analyze the approaches the New Labor has chosen through a different ideological and pragmatic frame than earlier Labor governments when it comes to welfare provision and public policies. In this context, the New Labor has followed the Thatcherite tradition in working towards what...
Measuring the efficacy of the weekly presidential radio address - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The first presidential radio address in United States history was delivered by President Warren G. Harding on June 14th, 1922. He delivered a speech in Baltimore, MD and it was broadcasted by WEAR (now WFBR). Perhaps more historic than this was the first official radio address delivered in 1921...
