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  • Transnational Organized Crime

    Transnational Organized Crime Transnational organized crime (TOC) poses a significant and growing threat to national and international security, with dire implications for public safety, public health, democratic institutions, and economic stability across the globe. Not only are criminal networks expanding, but they also are diversifying their activities, resulting in the convergence of threats that were…

  • Economic Diplomacy

    Economic Diplomacy Resources See Also international relations, diplomacy, state actors, nonstate actors, international political economy, globalization, commercial diplomacy, trade diplomacy, finance diplomacy, consular visa services Further Reading Antkiewicz, A., and Whalley, J. (2005) BRICSAM and the Non-WTO. Centre for International Governance Innovation Working Paper No. 3, Waterloo, Canada. Baldwin, D.A. (1985) Economic Statecraft. Princeton: Princeton…

  • Company Profiles

    Company Profiles Materials America’s Corporate Finance Directory B2B Live from 1Stop Data Belgian Company Information Bürgel-Firmenprofile Business Monitor International Company Profiles Canadean – Company Profiles Canadean – Market Industry Research Canadian Manufacturer’s Database CI Technology Database Company Briefs – Gale Group (Intl) Company Briefs-Gale Group (US) Company Intelligence – US Company Intelligence International – Int’l…

  • Bilateral Restraint Agreement

    Any agreement, understanding, or program involving governmental authorities, producers, trade associations, or labor unions in one country and their counterparts in another country to control or limit trade in specified products. Generally, such agreements arise where one nation finds that […]

  • Alternative Trading Systems

    Alternative Trading Systems (ATSs) The alternative trading systems, with presence in many of the world’s main financial markets, were created by rapid advances in information technology. This has enabled the creation of new market places which have no need for physical trading floors. The main risks to consumer protection are from: difficulties for clients in…

  • Strategic Alliance

    Strategic Alliance in International Trade Meaning of Strategic Alliance, according to the Dictionary of International Trade (Global Negotiator): A strategic alliance is an agreement between two separate business entities to pool resources in order to achieve a common goal. In strategic […]

  • Sogo Shosha

    A Japanese general trading company. Customarily, the term is used in connection with the largest of such companies. According to the Trade Business Statistics report for 1981 issued by the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry, there are over 8,500 trading companies operating in […]

  • Company Information

    Company Information Legal Materials: Some Basics When someone asks for information about a company, a complete answer will include: company profiles, financial data, news articles and any other information particularly relevant to that company. Some researchers generally use the following sources, not necessarily in order, to compile a packet with a reasonable amounts of each…

  • Competitive Performance

    Competitive Performance and International Trade Economy In relation to international trade economy, Christopher Mark (1993) provided the following definition of Competitive Performance: The measurable results of competitiveness –i.e., the outcome of a country's or a firm's efforts in […]

  • Internet Brands

    Internet Brands The Company Internet Brands is an Internet media company that builds, acquires and enhances branded websites in categories marked by high consumer involvement, strong advertising spending, and significant fragmentation in offline sources of consumer information. We operate a rapidly growing network of more than 40 principal websites, currently grouped into three vertical categories:…

  • Injury

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  • International Political Economy Trends

    Trends in International Political EconomyIntroduction to International Political Economy TrendsSince the end of World War II, the pace of international economic transactions has risen steadily. At the same time, different regions of the world have experienced dramatically uneven pa…

  • List of Law Publishers in the World

    List of Law Publishers in the World Note: there are a most comprehensive list in the Resources section. Domination of the legal information market Over the last decades, more in some countries (United States, United Kingom, Spain) than others, many of the smaller, independent legal publishers have been acquiring by major legal and non-legal publishing…

  • Infant Industry

    An industry that is not fully developed in a given country, resulting in a high susceptibility to foreign competition. This condition is often particularly acute in the case of basic industries, such as steel, where the expansion of the industry locally is important to economic development, but econ…

  • Viagra

    Viagra Viagra Lawsuits by Rene Ciria-Cruz (2010) Since Viagra’s patent expired in March 2012, Pfizer faced the prospect of saying good-bye to more than $1 billion a year in exclusive sales of its impotence drug. But the pharmaceutical giant isn’t about to give up its market share without a fight. Last March, Pfizer filed a…