GLOBALIZATION AND TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS Economic integration as a hallmark of globalization • FDI increase • Increase of international currency transactions • Growth of marginal courtiers Global blessing or contagious disease? • Asian crisis Capitalism not yet fully globalized? • Core of the economy –30 countries: Asian Pacific‚ Western Europe‚ North America • Geopolitical changes: Soviet Union demise • Unequal development of technology
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certain men. While contemporary feminist movements have addressed these exclusions‚ there were many early struggles for the transnational women’s movement. Using readings from Grewal and Kaplan’s textbook‚ An Introduction to Women’s Studies: Gender in a Transnational World‚ Leila Rupp’s sixth chapter‚ class notes‚ and discussions‚ I analyze national identities and transnational feminist perspectives on the private/public dichotomy in relation to citizenship. National identities and gender develop
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trafficking as it pertains to transnational crime. My study will present concepts of recruitment and transportation of persons through coercion‚ deception‚ or other forms of illicit influence in labor and sexual exploitation. The goal is the acknowledgment of philosophical and ethical tensions in human trafficking‚ the ability to recognize the power relations through interpreting the question of human dignity‚ and the assessment of the prevalence of agency in the transnational crime of the globalization
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Critical Thinking and Discussion Questions: (Chapter 5‚ Question 4) Drawing on the theory of comparative advantage to support your arguments‚ outline the case for free trade. According to the theory of comparative advantage‚ a country should specialize in the production of goods that it is good at producing‚ and buy the goods from another country that it is less efficient at producing. Therefore if country X can produce product A more efficiently than product B‚ while country Y can produce product
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TOWARDS INTERNATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL MANAGEMENT While universal advice cannot be given ‚ every country has to face dilemas: - in relation to time - in relationships with people - in relation to natural environment The reserach in this book shows that there are different ways to approach these dilemmas in different countries because each country has its own culture . The managers examined to make up the data base of this reaserch have two different ways of building the
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Life as an Immigrant Beginning in the late 19th century and continuing to the early 20th century‚ many Chinese families struggled to gain social‚ economic‚ and educational stature in both China and the United States. In the book‚ A Transnational History of a Chinese Family‚ by Haiming Liu‚ we learn about the Chang family rooted in Kaiping County‚ China‚ who unlike many typical Chinese families’ exemplified hard-work and strong cultural values allowing them to pursue an exceptional Chinese-American
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The issue of transnational organized crime has been debated since early 1990s by security experts who have viewed crime group as one of many direct challenge to take over the state authority and threats to the well being of their citizens. Transnational organized crime is a collective action problem where the groups operate across borders. Transnational organized crime can also undermine the social‚ economic‚ political and military components of state power. The label ‘transnational’ is therefore
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Explain the pros and cons of TNCs on the developing world. TNCs‚ transnational corporations are large companies that have operations in more then one country. An example of a TNC is Coca Cola. There are many pros to TNCs such as they build infrastructure‚ bring new technology to the country and provide jobs for local people. But there are also many cons like land degrading‚ they exploit workers‚ and they avoid taxes. TNCs invest in poor countries‚ they build new infrastructure. TNCs commonly build
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TRANSNATIONAL ADOPTION The adoption of children on a transnational basis is one of the blessings of the modern human culture. Resulting from the worries of humanity to find homes for the orphans of wars such as the World War II‚ governments established legal frameworks to expand this exercise (Masson 2001). Therefore‚ whereas there were about 30‚000 children being adopted from 50 countries in 2001 (Selmon 2000)‚ the count has now reached over five times as much. Transnational adoption has led
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paper aims to debate whether transnational corporations are important non-state actors and in which ways they exert power over states. Transnational corporations : A theorist debate about their role as non-state actors Viewing the existing literature on the topic one identifies that different schools of thought have positioned themselves on the matter of non-state actors with diverging and many times pretty unclear opinions. In the specific case of transnational corporations neo-institutionalists
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