The Regionalization of World's Economy (An analysis)
Essay - 11 pages - Economy general
The establishment of areas of integration in world trade: The establishment of large regional areas reveals two trends. Within NAFTA, regionalization has led to an intensification of trade within the zone, while in the EU, trade stagnated. Regionalization does not imply a strong increase in...
Financial Comparison between Carrefour SA and Walmart
Case study - 6 pages - Foreign markets
Carrefour SA is a France-based company that is primarily engaged in retail distribution. The company is the world's second largest retailer and the largest in Europe. Currently it operates four main grocery store formats: hypermarkets, supermarkets & hard discount, cash & carry and convenience...
Financial analysis of the French company Carrefour
Case study - 10 pages - Foreign markets
Carrefour SA is a France-based company that is engaged in retail distribution. It was founded in 1959 and opened its first supermarkets and hypermarkets in France in the 1960s. During the following two decades Carrefour expanded in Europe (UK, Italy) and widened its service range (consumer...
Managerial Finance- Financial comparison between Morrisons and Sainsbury
Essay - 10 pages - Foreign markets
The ratio analysis is the way to find information about a company's financial organisation. Most of financial information are available on the website of companies. They are easily available by everyone. Ratios are calculated in order to compare the company to an other company (same kind of...
Tendencies towards privatization of international security management
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
In March 2004, after two foreign soldiers were found dead, the world learned that the troops deployed by the United States in Iraq did not consist solely of local soldiers. A shadow army, composed by more than 100000 contractors was there, and among them thousands of heavily armed mercenaries...
Entrepreneurial growth - IPO as a means to finance growth
Essay - 7 pages - Economy general
The decision to go public is often described as the most important milestone for a growing company. This process is not a stage that every company will try to reach, because in Europe particularly, the going public process is more an exception than the rule, and it's the decision of the company....
How does culture impact on international business?
Essay - 12 pages - International economy
Today companies are faced with the reality of cultural diversity, not only on the international trade arena but also within their organizations. As such, if you really want to make use of the increasing opportunities and benefits that the global economy offers, they must ensure that their...
Lilly Ledbetter
Case study - 2 pages - Political science
Lilly Ledbetter is a famous American woman who lives in Alabama and who has been victim of discrimination. Her case is now very famous. Everything started in 1979 when Lilly Ledbetter was hired at the Alabama Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company as an overnight supervisor. At work she was victim of...
Considering the social and economic context of Brasil, its internal characteristics and its external presence, what should be the priority of the federal governement during the next years ?
Essay - 2 pages - International relations
Among its priorities, should be to well distribute the value created by the country to the population. It is the condition (and definition) of development. This means in other words raising the people's standard of living with social actions, to end up with inequalities that are among the hugest...
Study of regional free trade areas
Case study - 13 pages - International economy
The free trade area was founded on 26 March 1991 in Asuncion with the Treaty of Asuncion. There are 5 members (Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina since 1991 and Venezuela since 2006) and 5 associate members - Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia. The motto is 'Our North is the...
Regional free trade areas
Essay - 28 pages - International economy
A Free Trade Area is an area in which tariffs among members have been eliminated, but members keep their external tariffs. Can evolve in: A Customs Union (FTA + common external tariffs). A Common Market (CU + mobility of services, people, and capital within the union). Complete Economic...
The declining status of native women after European contact
Case study - 8 pages - Political science
Contact between Europeans and Indians brought together two disparate systems of gender divisions. Prior to European contact, Native American women enjoyed greater levels of power and autonomy than their white counterparts. As European influence and culture spread, it predicated a decline in...
Proceedings of the Symposium, "Strangeness from abroad: cultural representations of otherness in Great Britain (17th-20th centuries)"
Case study - 4 pages - Political science
After the French Revolution and the Independence of the United States of America, written constitutions became more numerous. In 1820, forty-eight constitutions had already been drafted. Thirty years later, eighty more written constitutions was counted in the world. At the end of the twentieth...
Why is the white shark's future endangered?
Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
Sharks are marine predators, well known as bloodthirsty killers by humans owing to the incidence of shark attacks and subsequent human casualties. But for these 4 or 5 people killed in a year, almost 100 millions of sharks are killed each year. According to the association “Shark...
Crise et restructuration de l'économie mondiale depuis les années 1970
Course material - 8 pages - International economy
La crise se présente comme un ensemble de disfonctionnement récurent. Cette crise étant le symptôme d'une mutation profonde qui agite aussi bien nos économies que nos sociétés : le chômage de masse, les délocalisations, l'horreur éco, les désindustrialisation. Par conséquent, cette période des...
What can Bristol do to be a green city and what can we do for Bristol to become a true green capital city?
Essay - 10 pages - Ecology & environment
During these last few years, environmental issues have rapidly gained prominence on both the political and business agendas. Public interest in such environmental issues has risen since the initial interest in the 1960s and 1970s, but a particular feature of the recent revival of interest in...
The process of state and nation-building in Germany
Internship report - 12 pages - International relations
According to Waly and Denly, 'judged purely by its success in creating a nation-state, German history has to be deemed a failure until the nineteenth century'. Even though historians still argue over the beginning of Germany's history, some of them emphasize the importance of the...
The French economic diplomacy towards China
Internship report - 7 pages - International relations
Bilateral trade between France and China has developed dramatically over the last twenty years. From about €10 billion in 1995, trade volume increased to more than €40 billion today. The annual growth rates of these exchanges- apart from 2009, marked by the global crisis- have reached...
Environmental issues linked to North-South relations posing a challenge for Geopolitics
Internship report - 10 pages - Political science
Economic globalization, global media flows and the Internet seem to make our traditional conception of geopolitics, in terms of political geography and international relations, no longer appropriate. The deepening impacts of globalization, especially within North-South relations, have undeniably...
Affirmative action in the US
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
Introduction: In the United States, affirmative action refers to policies intended to redress the effect of past and current discrimination on gender, race or ethnicity. These policies have consisted in granting preferences to women and minorities in areas of employment, education and business....
International negotiation and diplomacy
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
Nowadays the phenomenon of globalization is in our everyday life. International relations between countries or international decisions concerning politics and business are the result of international negotiation. Negotiation is the pursuit of an understanding that is focused on material interests...
The role of WTO in the process of globalization
Essay - 6 pages - Economy general
1947 - After a war that ravaged the world, the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) opened the door to the internationalization of markets: lower tariffs, dumping and fight against the quota, while a series of measures were taken to move towards greater economic liberalism. 1994 -...
Economic stimulus packages and bail outs
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
One of the largest and most frightening problems associated with the economic stimulus packages and the bail outs is the idea that the government is simply ignoring the powers and limits the Constitution applies to it. This can be a frightening scenario because the Constitution was put into place...
Greek crisis concerning social justice
Essay - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Greece has been in a serious economic downfall since early 2010. Riots and protests began on May 5, 2010 and continue to today. This protest in early May was one of the largest protests in Greece's history where three people were killed. This led to more anxiety and unease about the economy and...
Costa Rica's reputation as Ecotourism destination at stake
Essay - 6 pages - Ecology & environment
Ecotourism is not a universally defined concept and the literature gives several definitions for it. However the most known and widespread is the one provided by The International Ecotourism Society (TIES, 2004) as “a responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and...
International Humanitarian Law
Internship report - 22 pages - International relations
Critically analyse the prohibition against the use of mercenaries in Article 47 of API. - Would the Brigade of Gurkhas or the French Foreign Legion be considered as mercenaries under this definition ? - Evaluate the extent to which the UN Convention on Mercenaries develops the law in this area....
Book review: Bicameralism
Internship report - 4 pages - Political science
The book Bicameralism, by George Tsebelis and Jeannette Money, was published in 1997 by New York: Cambridge University Press. As indicated by the sober title, the authors study bicameralism, or a “legislature that involves two distinct chambers in its deliberation” - from the Latin bi...
Value change in western democracies
Internship report - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In the recent French cantonal elections, some members of left wing and right wing parties proposed an alliance against the rising Front National. This proposition was based on the fact that, according to these politicians, they shared certain values that went against the values defended by the...
Promoting Democracy
Internship report - 8 pages - Political science
Chapter four of Payne's book deals with the notion of democracy, which is a very old one. Democracy is a process, that is to say it is in constant evolution. Today, we can say that most developed countries are democratic, and each country has followed a different path to achieve democracy. The...
Should ecological security replace sustainable development as the organising principle of global environmental governance?
Thesis - 12 pages - Ecology & environment
In Our Common Future, the report of the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED 1990, 87, 105), both phrases of sustainable development and environmental security marked their entry into the international debates and were highlighted as important notions of the future global...
