...the structure, functions, interactions, and activities of marketing channels. Analysis and development of integrated physical distribution and logistics systems for the firm. This course explores the relationships among manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors, and retailers. 2. International Retail Marketing: MK42041E-1-RN. ECTS 5 Understanding the evolution of consumer attitudes and purchasing patterns both in developed and developing countries. Studying how retail companies operate to attract consumers, to differentiate themselves from competitors, to develop at the national and international level. 3. Geopolitics and International Relations: GS42027E-2-RN. ECTS 5 The objective of this seminar is to introduce the students to the analysis of international relations and geopolitics. Geopolitics and international relations provide tools to understanding the contemporary world. The nature, function and components of geopolitics, the power of emerging countries, the role of international trade and the influence of regional organizations will be scrutinized from various theoretical perspectives that have helped to conceptualize and understand contemporary international affairs. 4. Service Marketing : MK42031E-2-RN. ECTS 5 The objective of this course is to supplement basic marketing and marketing strategy courses by focusing on problems and strategies specific to marketing of services. Problems commonly encountered in marketing services -- such as inability...
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...The United States government has four predominant functions. Namely, it is responsible for handling foreign enemies, alliances, and affairs; promoting social peace, justice, and prosperity; regulating economic activity; and collecting taxes. In the realm of international affairs, the federal government’s primary duty is to protect the American people from foreign threats. The military--as well as a host of government intelligence agencies, most notably the CIA, FBI, and NSA--is charged with counteracting terrorist organizations and enemy countries when need be. As a member of numerous international organizations--the United Nations, NATO, and so forth--the federal executive branch is also charged with handling American alliances. On a constant basis, the government navigates the world of international geopolitics and economics: State officials sign trade deals, grant international aid, and converse diplomatically with foreign states. When it comes to protecting the American people, the government is generally effective: it provides a stronger, more dependable military than any private sector business conceivably...
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...personal consumption grew by almost 2 percent. however, private investment fell by more than 30 percent. on the other hand, the banks charged off $27 billion in bad bet for 2006, but this exploded to $191 billion in 2009. personal and business bankruptcies field in federal courts accelerated dramatically over the 2006-2009 period, with personal bankruptcies increasing by 136 percent, while business bankrupts increased by 209 percent. Since the outbreak of the financial crisis, the American banking system and the whole financial industry's problems have been exposed: many United States financial institutions went bankrupt, especially some big investment banks collapsed, greatly contained the American financial industry in the domestic and international expansion. The U.S government in order to help these financial enterprise, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, also carried on a heavy financial burden. At the...
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...Year of publication: 2006 Library ID: 915 CHE NIM LIBRARY The book Asian Juggernaut, The rise of China, India and Japan is a piece of work by Brahma Chellaney, who has been a Member of the Policy Advisory Group headed by the External Affairs Minister of India and is now a Professor of Strategic Studies at the New Delhi-based Centre for Policy Research. The author has very well tried to state and relate various perspectives that have helped China, India and Japan in emerging as the most powerful nations of Asia. The book since was published in 2006 miss some of the most significant economic incidents that have happened in the last four years but nevertheless it very well justifies the conditions and relationships that were prevailing in and before 2006 among nations in Asia as well as the rest of the world. Author has discretely tried to classify and cover different concepts in five different chapters as The Asian Renaissance; Why Asia is Dissimilar to Europe, Asian Geopolitics of Energy, Equations in the Strategic Triangle and Averting Strategic Conflict in Asia. The author starts the book describing the revival of the three nations and Asia altogether in the last quarter of the twentieth century. The centre of gravity of the world affairs is slowly moving towards Asia. Asia has the world’s fastest growing, fragmented and rapidly changing markets. Asia confronts contradicting trends. On one side, there are territorial disputes, competition for scarce resources and improved...
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...Neorealism – or structural realism – is a theory of international politics which is usually associated with Kenneth Waltz and his book, Theory of International Politics. The main objective of the book is to construct a very general framework for explaining recurring patterns of state behavior and state interaction in the international system. Neorealism is the bedrock theory of International Relations. Starting from a simple set of assumptions, it seeks to explain how states, in particular the most powerful ones, behave, and how they interact with each other on the international arena. It asserts that the nature of the international structure is determined by its principle of order, anarchy, and by the distribution of capabilities which is measured by the number of great powers within the international system. The anarchic ordering principle of the international structure is decentralized, meaning there is no formal central authority; every sovereign state is formally equal in this system. These states act according to the logic of self-help, meaning states seek their own interest and will not subordinate their interest to the interests of other states. While neorealists agree that the structure of the international relations is the primary impetus in seeking security, there is disagreement among neorealist scholars as to whether states merely aim to survive or whether states want to maximize their relative power. These viewpoints are respectively of Kenneth Waltz and his defensive...
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...There has been much debate about whether globalization is undermining state sovereignty in the study of world politics today. This is due to the fact that the term ‘globalization’ itself is rather subjective and broad. There are two rather distinct arguments used in this debate. Hyperglobalists, such as Ohmae1 and Scholte2, hold a pessimistic view and argues that globalization brings about the demise of the sovereign nation state: global forces undermine the ability of governments to control their own economics and societies. In contrast, ‘the sceptics reject the idea of globalization as so much “globaloney”’3: by emphasizing the continuing importance of states in world politics, academics such as Krasner4 and Gilpin5 argue that states and geopolitics remain the principal agents and forces shaping world order today. In this essay, we will firstly define the terms ‘globalization’ and ‘state sovereignty’. Looking at the impact of globalisation domestically and internationally of a state, we will pin point which aspects of state sovereignty are being undermined before looking at the arguments proposed by the “sceptics”. Then we will conclude whether or not, or to what extent is globalization undermining state sovereignty. 1 Ohmae, K. (1995), The End of the Nation State, New York: Free Press. Scholte, J.A. (2000), Globalization: A critical Introduction, London: Macmillan. 2 McGrew, A. (2011), “Globalization and Global Politics” in Baylis...
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...Emma Wareus International Relations Theories 3/13/2016 Marxist theory: War on Terror Marxist theories of international politics are commonly dismissed out of hand as being outdated, preoccupied with economics rather than politics, and concerning itself more with domestic rather than international social relations. Viewed from the perspective of Marxism however, both liberalism and realism are profoundly limited, for each takes as its premise a world of pre-constituted social actors (whether self-interested individuals or security-seeking states). These theories are therefore unable to consider the social processes through which these kinds of actors have been historically constructed. Thus in analyzing the so-called war on terror, Marxism forces us to understand the development of the structures of global capitalism and the ideologies and agents situated within these structures. This essay therefore evaluates whether Marxist theories of international politics offer convincing explanations of the war on terror. I start with the Marxist understanding of capitalism as a historically particular way of organizing social life that entails political, cultural and economic aspects that need to be understood as a dynamic ensemble of social relations not necessarily contained within the territorial boundaries of nation states. I then apply this understanding to frame the war on terror through the context of economic security which has animated US policy-makers from the Second World...
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...Geopolitics of Thailand TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 2 Geographic location in Asia 2 Economy of Thailand 2 Demographic 2 Culture 3 China and Thailand 3 What China would want from Thailand 3 What are the Chinese needs ? 3 What can Thailand provides to China in this optic ? 4 China and Thailand relationships 5 Thailand and its neighbours 7 ASEAN7 Myanmar8 Laos 8 Cambodia 8 Vietnam 9 Thailand and USA9 Relations threw the history9 Economic relations10 Current bilateral issues 11 Strategies11 Geopolitical imperatives11 Strategies with historical evolution 12 Conclusion 15 Bibliography 15 I. Introduction 1.1 Geographic location in Asia Totaling 513,120 km² Thailand is the world's 51st-largest country by total area. 1.2 Economy of Thailand Thailand is an emerging economy and considered as a newly industrialized country.It exports an increasing value of over $105 billion worth of goods and services annually.> Thai rice, textiles and footwear, fishery products, rubber, jewellery, cars, computers and electrical appliances. Its Substantial industries are : electric appliances, tourism (6%), sex tourism and prostitution…It also has a GDP worth US$602 billion. This classifies Thailand as the 2nd largest economy in Southeast Asia, after Indonesia.It is the 4th richest nation according to GDP per capita, after Singapore, Brunei and Malaysia. Finally the IMF has predicted that the Thai economy will...
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...the EU. 1The ‘living’, ‘evolving’ treaties and agreements of the EU very much guide the living agreement of TPP/TTIP. NAFTA originated from CUSFTA (Canada-US FTA), which was implemented in 1989, and followed by NAFTA, ratified in 1994. Both EU and NAFTA existed before the WTO finally replaced GATT at the beginning of 1995. The replacement not only greatly expanded sectoral coverage but also replaced the GATT’s quite weak dispute-settlement mechanism.2 The liberalization and integration of trade had mainly proceeded under the auspice of WTO prior to the year 2000. With the evolvement characterized by the widening of the trade agenda to include the movement of people and not just that of goods, services, investments and capital,3 international society called for an update of the WTO. Although the Doha round did inspire some discussion in 2001, developing states fundamentally refused to open their market to the services and goods of the developed ones. With very little progress and protracted timetable, many states had become disappointed with the development and had turned to bilateral or regional FTAs as alternatives rather than under the auspice of the WTO4, seeing as the WTO charter allows for regional, preferential and plurilateral trade associations to coexist. A cluster of new FTAS soon attracted the attention of all states from...
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...This article was downloaded by: [Texas A&M University-Commerce] On: 05 January 2015, At: 16:08 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Geopolitics Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/fgeo20 Rethinking Climate Change, Conflict and Security Jan Selby & Clemens Hoffmann a a b Department of International Relations, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK b Department of International Relations, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey Published online: 30 Oct 2014. Click for updates To cite this article: Jan Selby & Clemens Hoffmann (2014) Rethinking Climate Change, Conflict and Security, Geopolitics, 19:4, 747-756, DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2014.964866 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2014.964866 PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE Taylor & Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the “Content”) contained in the publications on our platform. However, Taylor & Francis, our agents, and our licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose of the Content. Any opinions and views expressed in this publication are the opinions and views of the authors, and are not the views of or endorsed by Taylor & Francis. The accuracy of the Content should not be relied upon...
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...spending in line with “Russian aggression” will no doubt please NATO’s top leaders, but the chances of solving any real problems as a result will be close to zero. We are likely to see a local arms race on both sides and periodic flare-ups in the Baltic-Black Sea region. Military activity on either side of the border will be seen as a provocation and an element of “hybrid warfare.” The two sides will mirror each other in that respect. Trend #2 Any attempt by the West to penetrate the post-Soviet space militarily or economically will be perceived in Russia as hostile and disproportionate. Whereas such intrusion was once diluted by partnership, it is now viewed unequivocally as a zero-sum game. The post-Soviet space is seen as an arena of geopolitics, not partnership. The problem is exacerbated by the inherent weakness of many post-Soviet states. Even...
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...INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - CA2 | Do Regional Organizations Have a Role to Play in International Relations? | Krystal Tan Yi Zhen 1227831 DIB/FT/2A/02 | What is Regional Organizations? Regional organizations incorporate international membership of states based on boundaries characteristic to a unique geography, such as continents, or geopolitics, such as economic blocks. Some regional organizations are African Union (AU) and European Union (EU). The UN recognises regional organizations as stakeholders in international relations and has granted some of them observer status at the UN General Assembly and permanent representation in New York. The right to speak at the United Nations General Assembly meetings, participation in procedural votes, and to sponsor and sign resolutions means that regional organisations can influence relationships between countries. The three main roles of regional organizations that justify their existence are Peacekeeping and Security, Combating Terrorism, and Disaster Risk Reduction Peacekeeping and Security Regional organizations have an increasing responsibility to maintain a peaceful and stable environment among countries, accelerate growth and development in their member countries through joint endeavours, and maintain beneficial cooperation with existing international and regional organisations. The increasing need of strengthening the role of regional organizations in maintaining international peace and security demonstrates the importance...
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...sadExercise 1 B. Which Field of political science is associated with each of the following items? 1. The influence of geography, population, and resources on a country’s politics. – GEOPOLITICS 2. Actual management of the affairs of the state by the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of government – PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 3. Development of ideas relating to the origin, form, behavior and purposes of the State – POLITICAL THEORY 4. Structure and functions of national and local government units – GOVERNMENT 5. The interplay of societal forces influencing political actions and decisions – POLITICAL DYNAMICS 6. Description and analysis of the similarities and differences among states – COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT 7. Principles governing and regulating the relationship and conduct of states – INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 8. The vital role of law-making bodies in rule making – LEGISLATURE 9. The exercise of the regulatory function of government affecting the national economy – GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS 10. Constitutional and legal principles governing governments and individuals as they relate with one another – PUBLIC LAW C. Which image of politics in the Philippines is associated with each of the following? 11. Predetermined decisions and actions of the men and officers of the AFP to influence government decisions - GAME OF THE GENERAL POLITICS 12. Decision-making by Bro. Eraño Manalo and Mike Velarde with important political...
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...“Globalization”. We can describe Globalization as “A widening, deepening and speeding up of worldwide interconnectedness in all aspects of contemporary social life such as economic, politic, and culture. It took place about a century ago between roughly 1850 and the start of World War I in 1914. We can defined "economic globalization" as the opening and deregulation of commodity, capital and labor markets which led to the present neoliberal globalization. "Political globalization" named the emergence of a transnational elite and the phasing out of the nation-state. "Cultural globalization" was the worldwide homogenization of culture. Globalization happened when transport costs rapidly declined making it economically efficient to boost international trade. In globalization, political leadership was critical in shaping global institutions and norms in a pro-trade direction. Globalization happened because countries are willing to expand their influence around the world, they want more sources, and they need to gain more in economic, social, even in political dimensions....
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...Paper-I Principles of Geography Physical Geography i) Geomorphology : Factors controlling landform development; endogenetic and exogenetic forces; Origin and evolution of the earth’s crust; Fundamentals of geomagnetism; Physical conditions of the earth’s interior; Geosynclines; Continental drift; Isostasy; Plate tectonics; Recent views on mountain building; Vulcanicity; Earthquakes and Tsunamis; Concepts of geomorphic cycles and Landscape development ; Denudation chronology; Channel morphology; Erosion surfaces; Slope development ;Appl ied Geomorphology: Geohydrology, economic geology and environment ii) Climatology : Temperature and pressure belts of the world; Heat budget of the earth; Atmospheric circulation; atmospheric stability and instability. Planetary and local winds; Monsoons and jet streams; Air masses and fronto genesis, Temperate and tropical cyclones; Types and distribution of precipitation; Weather and Climate; Koppen’s, Thornthwaite’s and Trewartha’s classification of world climates; Hydrological cycle; Global climatic change and role and response of man in climatic changes, Applied climatology and Urban climate. iii) Oceanography : Bottom topography of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans; Temperature and salinity of the oceans; Heat and salt budgets, Ocean deposits; Waves, currents and tides; Marine resources: biotic, mineral and energy resources; Coral reefs, coral bleaching; sealevel changes; law of the sea and marine pollution. iv) Biogeography :...
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