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The US government has long sought investment opportunities for US companies in developing countries. But the results have been mixed: firms have preferred to invest in the industrial world and developing-world leaders have not always welcomed foreign investment. Violence and the presence of natural resources have also hindered foreign development.

Keine Beschreibung.

This book analyses American interventions in the developing world, asking what can be done to reduce their economic and human cost.

Unipolar Politics brings together prominent scholars in international relations to analyze the decisions that major powers have made since the Cold War to adapt to a rapidly changing economic and security environment.The book points to powerful evidence that nations around the world are "bandwagoning" with the United States in most respects, while still trying to maintain some independence of action in the event that America becomes isolationi...

Keine Beschreibung.

Unipolar Politics brings together prominent scholars in international relations to analyze the decisions that major powers have made since the Cold War to adapt to a rapidly changing economic and security environment.The book points to powerful evidence that nations around the world are "bandwagoning" with the United States in most respects, while still trying to maintain some independence of action in the event that America becomes isolationi...

Uses the success of the AIDS treatment advocacy movement to show how social movements can successfully transform global markets.

Uses the success of the AIDS treatment advocacy movement to show how social movements can successfully transform global markets.

Why do states collaborate in the production of advanced weaponry? Under what conditions do such collaborative arrangements succeed? What are the implications of armaments collaboration for the international economic and security environments? Arms collaboration is not a new phenomenon, but there is increasing debateóboth in the United States and abroadóover the associated costs and benefits. Critics charge that collaborative projects result in...

Why do states collaborate in the production of advanced weaponry? Under what conditions do such collaborative arrangements succeed? What are the implications of armaments collaboration for the international economic and security environments? Arms collaboration is not a new phenomenon, but there is increasing debate-both in the United States and abroad-over the associated costs and benefits. Critics charge that collaborative projects result in...

A must-read for all those who care about the fate of the world's youngest democratic states.

A must-read for all those who care about the fate of the world's youngest democratic states.

The sweeping political and economic changes of the past decade--including the spread of democracy, pro-market policies, and economic globalization--have dramatically increased the demand in developing countries for social programs such as unemployment compensation, pensions, and income supplements for the poor. When Markets Fail examines how emerging market economies in Eastern Europe, Latin America, North Africa, and the Middle East are shapi...