The Year of Iran: Tehran’s Challenge to American Hegemony in 2014

By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett In 1979, Iran shocked the world—and directly confronted America’s hegemonic ambitions in the Middle East—by charting its own...

Countering Terrorism and Crossing Legal Boundaries

By Aniceto Masferrer and Clive Walker Terrorist attacks in the last decade have profoundly altered and reshaped the priorities of many legal systems. Below, Aniceto...

The United Nations Charter and Extra-State Warfare: The U.N. Grows Up

By Charles H. Camp & Theresa Bowman In recent years, the United Nations has come under attack as wholly inadequate to confront the modern realities...

Sovereignty, Self-defence And Colonialism

By Antony Anghie The United Nations Charter is the one authoritative source of international law regulating the use of force. Since the 9/11 attacks that...

Coaching: A Tailored Approach to Talent Development

A growing number of organisations are cultivating in-house coaching programs to achieve their talent-development goals. According to the 2012 International Coach Federation Global Coaching...

Building Ethical Business Cultures: BRIC by BRIC

By Alexandre Ardichvili, Douglas Jondle, Jack Wiley, Edgard Cornacchione, Jessica Li & Thomas Thakadipuram As the economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRICs) continue...

Doing Business is Easy at The Ritz-Carl

Being one of the top places to do business in Moscow, The Ritz-Carlton hotel has a number of services and facilities that are specially...

China’s Environmental Challenges

By Judith Shapiro China’s huge environmental challenges are tied to domestic politics, rapid economic growth, and an intense phase of globalization. With rising wealth there...

Is China Buying the World?

By Peter Nolan China’s ‘catch-up’ has been one of the most remarkable aspects of the era of capitalist globalisation. Below, Peter Nolan argues that the...

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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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