November – December 2013
International Law
Sovereignty, Self-defence And Colonialism
Antony Anghie
Sovereignty, Self-defence And Colonialism
Antony Anghie
The United Nations Charter and Extra-State Warfare: The U.N. Grows Up
Charles H. Camp & Theresa Bowman
Global Economy
From Deep Globalisation to the Risk of Deglobalisation: The Rise of Local-Contentism
Marcos Troyjo
Turnaround
Peter Blair Henry
Asia
Trade and Employment in Asia
Niny Khor & Devashish Mitra
China
Is China Buying the World?
Peter Nolan
China’s Environmental Challenges
Judith Shapiro
A Brand Culture Approach to Chinese Branding in the Global Marketplace
Wu Zhiyan, Janet Borgerson & Jonathan Schroeder
Russia
Lonely Ideas
Loren Graham
Lonely Ideas
Loren Graham
Doing Business is Easy at The Ritz-Carlton, Moscow
A View on Russian Economy Mid-term Perspectives
Sergey Drobyshevsky
Global Oil Market Developments and Their Consequencesfor Russia
Andrey A. Konoplyanik
Business
Building Ethical Business Cultures: BRIC by BRIC
Alexandre Ardichvili, Douglas Jondle, Jack Wiley, Edgard Cornacchione, Jessica Li & Thomas Thakadipuram
Coaching: A Tailored Approach to Talent Development
Europe
The European Union Policies in The Aftermath of The Global Economic Crisis
Laura N Haar
India
Preparing Rice Farmers for Climate Change: Dissemination of Submergence Tolerant Rice in India
Takashi Yamano, Maria Luz Malabayabas, & Manzoor H. Dar
Writing Theory from the South: The Global Order from an African Perspective
By Jean Comaroff & John L. Comaroff
Western thought has, from the first, regarded the non-West as a place of antiquarian traditions and unprocessed data. Below, Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff suggest that, in the present moment, it is the global south that affords privileged insight into the workings of the world at large, as old margins become new frontiers.
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 of global conflict. Below, Charles H. Camp and Theresa Bowman argue that the central question may become how to balance peacekeeping and humanitarian motives with respect for the norms of state sovereignty.
Sovereignty, Self-defence And Colonialism
The United Nations Charter is the one authoritative source of international law regulating the use of force. Since the 9/11 attacks that inaugurated the ‘war on terror’, scholars and countries such as the United States have sought to develop a new legal framework that would essentially justify an expanded version of self-defence. Below, Antony Anghie examines this framework and suggests that it serves to reproduce certain colonial structures that appear to be deeply embedded in both international law and international relations.
Preparing Rice Farmers for Climate Change: Dissemination of Submergence Tolerant Rice in India
By Takashi Yamano, Maria Luz Malabayabas & Manzoor H. Dar
Due to climate change, the frequency of floods and droughts is expected to increase. To reduce crop losses due to such abiotic stresses, stress-tolerant rice varieties have been developed and distributed to farmers in developing countries, including Eastern India. Benefits of stress-tolerant rice varieties, however, become observable to farmers only when they suffer from stresses. Below, Takashi Yamano, Maria Luz Malabayabas, and Manzoor H. Dar take an example of a submergence tolerant rice variety, called Swarna-Sub 1, and show how adoption of Swarna-Sub 1 increases significantly one year after farmers experienced floods in Eastern India.
Trade and Employment in Asia
By Niny Khor & Devashish Mitra
While it is understood that trade leads to higher economic growth, the question of whether increased trade and openness to global markets benefits workers is still debated. Below, Niny Khor and Devashish Mitra argue that trade is beneficial for both employment and its quality, provided the right kind of complementary domestic policies are in place.
The European Union Policies in the Aftermath of The Global Economic Crisis
By Laura N Haar
The global economic crisis has forced national and regional policy makers to reconsider their policy priorities in order to speed up economic recovery. Below, Laura N Haar considers how some EU policies have been affected by the financial crisis.
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 Study, 14 percent of professional coaches self-identify as internal coaches; i.e., professional coaches who are employed within an organisation and who have specific coaching responsibilities identified in their job description. (This does not account for the percentage of professional coaches in private practice who are contracted to provide coaching services to one or more organisations.) Whether your priorities include engaging and retaining top talent, developing leadership from within, or boosting productivity and financial outcomes, a coaching program designed with the unique and specific needs of your organisation in mind can yield significant benefits.
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 to grow both in size and clout, and their resident multinational corporations become major players in global markets, questions pertaining to trust and integrity, and of universally shared standards for ethical business behavior become important concerns for numerous stakeholders. Whether or not managers and employees behave ethically depends on how one defines ethical behavior and applies it to an organization’s culture. We start this article by discussing attributes of ethical business behavior and cultures in each of the four BRICs countries, and then present results of our recent large scale survey-based studies, comparing managers’ and employees’ perceptions of ethical cultures in BRICs and in economically developed Western economies.
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
The Performance and Transformation Orchestrator: The CFO’s New Mandate in the Age of AI
By Terence Tse
CFOs are evolving into AI-driven transformation orchestrators, balancing finance, technology, and strategy while upskilling teams, managing risks, and driving measurable business value.
A key insight from this year’s AI for CFOs event, organized...
