Trouble in the Middle: American-Chinese Business Relations, Culture, Conflict, and Ethics

By Steven P. Feldman Western businesspeople face a dilemma. China’s growing role in international business means it is nearly impossible not to do business in...

The Responsibility to Protect: Reading Ethical Responsibilities Into the Rule of Law

By Charles H. Camp and Theresa B. Bowman The scope and source of permissible use of force in response to a humanitarian crisis frames a...

After Liberalism: Complexity in the Governance of a Networked Global Society

By Hilton L. Root Below, in an excerpt from Dynamics Among Nations: The Evolution of Legitimacy and Development in Modern States, Hilton L. Root argues...

The Domestic and the Foreign: Mutual Entanglement Through Social Diversity

By Christopher Hill Foreign and domestic policies have always interacted. But now, especially in developed democracies, they are mutually entangled in new ways, through the...

Overview of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Middle East

By Dima Jamali Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Middle East has distinctive roots and unique expressions that do not always mirror the current understanding...

The New Competition: Brands from Emerging Markets

By Jan-Benedict E.M. Steenkamp In an article adapted from Brand Breakout: How Emerging Market Brands Will Go Global, Jan-Benedict E.M. Steenkamp argues that emerging market...

Africa’s Green Revolution? Raising Awareness of New Rice Crops for Africa (NERICAs)

By Aliou Diagne, Steven Glover, Ben Groom and Jonathan Phillips A Green Revolution in West African agriculture will rely on new technologies such as NERICA...

Inequality Trends and Their Determinants: Latin America over the Period 1990–2010

By Giovanni Andrea Cornia For at least the last quarter of the twentieth century, Latin America has suffered from low growth, rising inequality, and frequent...

A Review of Abenomics: The Bold Plan to End Deflationary Recession in Japan

By Mitsuru Misawa In order to catalyse economic activity and pull Japan from its two-decade period of deflationary recession, new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has...

Health and Sustainability in the Canadian Food System: advocacy and opportunity for civil...

By Rod MacRae, Elisabeth Abergel and Mustafa Koc Traditional approaches to food and agriculture policy making in Canada are in question, with the realization that...

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China’s Challenging Search for a New Model of Economic Growth

By Danny Leipziger China cannot continue to rely on exports to drive its growth, but what are the alternatives? China ran a $1.2 trillion trade surplus last year, and despite admonitions from the IMF to rely...

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