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Trade sanctions are an increasingly common weapon. Against Russia, China, Venezuela, Iran, Turkey. In top of trade disruptions such as Brexit. And all of them constitute great opportunities, disguised as risks, provided the use of the proper methodology. Using Brexit as an example, this book provides such a simple and highly effective tool to be equally used by companies, industrial associations or even countries. The output, is always the same: a shortlist of the best business niches and the name of the main clients to focus on, among 140.400 alternatives (5.400 niches in each country multiplied by 26 EU countries). And where each opportunity niche represents hundreds of times a company’s present turnover. Ravo BV in Netherlands, FlexNgate in Spain, Astellas in Ireland or BASF in Belgium are among the examples. This book is thus useful to whom wants to profit from Brexit or take advantage of the next trade war. Recalling Machiavelli recommendation of: never to waste the opportunities created by a good crisis
Recently the topic of civil society has generated a wave of interest, and a wealth of new information. Until now no publication has attempted to organize and consolidate this knowledge. The International Encyclopedia of Civil Society fills this gap, establishing a common set of understandings and terminology, and an analytical starting point for future research. Global in scope and authoritative in content, the Encyclopedia offers succinct summaries of core concepts and theories; definitions of terms; biographical entries on important figures and organizational profiles. In addition, it serves as a reliable and up-to-date guide to additional sources of information. In sum, the Encyclopedia provides an overview of the contours of civil society, social capital, philanthropy and nonprofits across cultures and historical periods. For researchers in nonprofit and civil society studies, political science, economics, management and social enterprise, this is the most systematic appraisal of a rapidly growing field.
This volume uncovers the colonial epistemologies that have long dominated the transfer of curriculum knowledge within and across nation-states and demonstrates how a historical approach to uncovering epistemological colonialism can inform an alternative, relational mode of knowledge transfer and negotiation within curriculum studies research and praxis. World leaders in the field of curriculum studies adopt a historical lens to map the negotiation, transfer, and confrontation of varied forms of cultural knowledge in curriculum studies and schooling. In doing so, they uniquely contextualize contemporary epistemes as historically embedded and politically produced and contest the unilateral log...
The Anthropocene has become a field of studies in which the influence of human activity on the Earth System and nature is both the main threat and the potential solution. Social Representations Theory has been evolving since the 1960s.It links knowledge and practice in everyday life and is an effective way to deal with systemic crises based on common sense. This book assembles key contributions by Latin American scholars working with social representations in the social sciences that are of conceptual relevance to the study of the Anthropocene and that investigate the societal consequences of complex interrelations between common sense and topics of global relevance, such asthe contradiction...
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