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In 2001, the United Nations University launched UNU-CRIS, a research and training programme on comparative regional integration to study the role of regional integration in global governance. This is a timely product of the research undertaken at UNU-CRIS. The report represents a unique collaboration between all regional UN Economic Commissions. It focuses on one of the central issues in the debate on global governance.
It’s the vampire wedding of the century… and maybe the end of an empire. Invited to the marriage ceremony of two old friends, Carwyn ap Bryn and Brigid Connor venture south, ready to relax in the company of Marie-Hélène Charmont, the vampire queen of the Delta, and four hundred of her esteemed immortal guests. The upper echelons of vampire society have gathered in New Orleans, curious to witness the joining of Gavin Wallace, the immortal business mogul, to the human woman who captured his heart. But when Gavin asks Brigid and Carwyn to look into a mysterious man stalking his human employees, they’re unprepared for the tangled web of deception they uncover. Tug on the wrong string and centuries-old alliances might fall apart. In a tenuously balanced society full of apex predators; even one slip can prove disastrous. Paladin’s Kiss is a supernatural mystery in the Elemental Covenant series by Elizabeth Hunter, nine-time USA Today bestselling author of A Hidden Fire, the Irin Chronicles, and over forty other works of fantasy fiction.
Entrepreneurs engaging in international business face business environments that are fundamentally different from their home countries. Despite decades of entrepreneurship research, we know little about these entrepreneurs and their strategic behaviour in establishing and managing transnational operations.
'This is a useful addition to the literature on MNEs and a must for researchers and policymakers in the area of international business.' - C.S. Venkata Ratnam, Global Business Review In this seminal book, a distinguished group of experts pinpoint and rigorously analyse central topics in international business research. This volume will become a major reference tool for understanding the economics of multinational enterprise. The emphasis throughout is on a new dynamic research agenda, for theory, for empirical research and for public policy.
Managing a Multilevel Foreign Policy is a helpful resource for enhancing current understanding of the European Union as an emerging actor in the global system. It introduces and examines the latest developments in the fields of EU foreign, security, and defense policies, providing a complete overview of the ways in which the EU has grown as a global actor with a significant impact on international affairs.
The middle sister of the Jamison triplets, Meteor has different magickal talents than her sisters. As a shapeshifter, she struggles to deal with the soul-matched mate who she believes killed her in previous lives and fears he may do it again. After the triplets open a time portal to 1888 Liberty Valley, Meteor never expected two trained wizards to travel forward through the magick doorway. They reunite her with the young son she asked them to protect before her death in that bygone time. Wizard and shifter in more than one life, Jed Corbett struggles to survive when his soulmate is murdered more than once, and he’s often unjustly accused of her death. Two former friends from 1888 offer to help him discover the truth and deal with an age-old enemy. Nothing is as it seems when Jed and Meteor challenge her demon father who they blame for continuing a war that began eons ago. They also fear he plans to sacrifice their young children in blood rituals. With the help of allies in 1888 Liberty Valley as well as those of today, Meteor and Jed confront their adversaries. Will they win a real future together, or will they die this time too?
Since the 1970s, there have been many changes in the ways in which Japanese firms have conducted business. This volume examines the strategies of Japanese subsidiaries in the new global economy and present a comprehensive picture of Japanese multinational enterprises.
Looking at how international law regulates, and is itself influenced by, technology and risk, this book illustrates how and why international law has been unable to properly deal with large-scale technological risk. Through delving into its nature, international law is shown itself to be a technology.
This text focuses on contemporary cutting edge research concerning the increasing strategic importance of subsidiary networks to the multinational firm. It combines contributions from three major related areas of inquiry; the changing theoretical conception of networks and the structure of the multinational firm, the importance of spillovers and agglomeration economies related to multinational investments and the management of the flow of information and knowledge from headquarters to subsidiaries and vice versa.
The books fills a niche in the market for books on regional integration, where most of the publications deal with theory or the analysis of specific cases, almost no books can be found dealing with analytical methodology The book includes a combination of well-known and expert scholars and up and coming young academics The book will appeal strongly to both economists and politics and while the authors present an interdisciplinary approach the economists and political sceintsists approaches are kept separate