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World Health Organization Philip Morris
652 wordsTobacco Loss at Home Is a Gain Overseas Under the stress of battling US regulators, the internal tobacco industry mindset is getting easier to see. It realizes it has lost the battle for America's hearts and minds. It knows the public holds Big Tobacco in low esteem and expects it to make as few concessions to our health as possible. So why do tobacco corporations bother to continue the charade and keep putting their case before an unreceptive public? Big Tobacco has turned up the volume on dome...
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Transnational Social Movements And The Campaign Against Nike
2,410 words"Using the case of the anti-Nike sweatshop labour campaign, discuss the basis, the process and the problems faced by new transnational social movement coalitions. " In an increasingly globalized world Transnational Corporations (TNCs) have acquired unprecedented levels of power and autonomy. Spurred on by neo-liberal economic ideology, deregulation of markets and increasing international flows of capital, TNCs are relocating manufacturing to countries where labour costs are cheapest as a means o...
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Transnational Social Movements And The Campaign Against Nike
2,462 words... es (1997, cited by Bullert, 2000). Economic development in post-modern societies provides a relative level of affluence and security so young people focus increasingly on the meaning and purpose of life, self-expression, and subjective well-being. Issues are being championed on the basis of personal identity politics rather than on broader political party affiliations or fixed alliances. The direct challenging of elites is a style of political activity that fits well with a post-materialist ...
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Domestic Politics Social Relations
1,105 wordsThe relation between the transnational and domestic politics have always been a very important issue. According to Joseph S. Nye and Robert O. Keohane the attention was traditionally concentrated on relations between states. State were regarded as an basic units of action, as actors with purposes and power. But it is obvious that interactions among them do not take place in 'environmental vacuum'. They are effected by geography, the nature of the domestic politics, characteristic for every count...
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Charismatic Leaders Developed Countries
1,192 words... ical leaders done greater damages than our four charismatic leaders of this century, "Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler and Mao" (Drucker 1989, p 102). Drucker argues that what matters is not charisma what matters is whether the leader leads in the right direction or mislead. In the present condition, Drucker sees a charismatic leader arising it our world hat could lead us toward yesterday rather than toward the new realities. I personally like his analysis because this is what we are seeing in many...
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Economic Globalization Multinational Corporations
2,789 wordsAre Nations Political and Economic Sovereignty Threatened by the Forces of Globalization? Outline I. Introduction. 1) The nature of political economy. II. Main body 1) Definition of globalization 2) Sovereignty and its key principles 3) Four types of changes globalization causes 4) Globalization in economics 5) Globalization in politics III. Conclusion Bibliography I. Introduction. 1) The nature of political economy. Due to appearance of global market and corresponding international exchange bas...
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Virtual Teams Team Members
1,976 words... Johansen). For teams that have a greater degree of spatial distance separating them (as with a transnational team), the likelihood of members seeing one another may be smaller than for those for which the distance is smaller. However, merely seeing the faces of other team members has been shown to have a positive effect on the salience of team identity (Shapiro et al. ). If the team is a global one there may be less opportunity for virtual team members to meet one another face-to-face, parti...
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Deaf Community Sign Language
1,758 words... that are used in the games come from logic. As one learns each sports sign: he or she starts to understand what the term means conceptually. Then one has to produce the sign from the picture in the sports sign dictionary. There are some categories that help participants on the way of learning the signs. The hand signals and gestures made by basketball referees are really a form of sign language. Basketball is very demonstrative, says Coach Flanagan. That makes it pretty easy to sign. For a j...
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Nations Security Council United Nations Security
3,485 wordsThe term laws of war refers to the rules governing the actual conduct of armed conflict. This idea that there actually exists rules that govern war is a difficult concept to understand. The simple act of war in and of itself seems to be in violation of an almost universal law prohibiting one human being from killing another. But during times of war murder of the enemy is allowed, which leads one to the question, if murder is permissible then what possible laws of war could there be? The answer t...
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Civil Disobedience Terrorist Actions
926 wordsLeon Tolstoy once said: kill one, intimidate one thousand (Wolf, 14). The common denominator of the I. R. A. , the Rate Send International Brigade (France), the Baader-Meinhoff (Germany), and the Symbionese Liberation Army (S. L. A) is that they are all political groups that use terror and violence to achieve their goals. Terrorism at the global level can be divided into two sub-categories: international terrorism and transnational terrorism. International terrorism is terrorism that is carried ...
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Date Rape Drug Drug Trafficking
2,173 wordsThe Drug Trafficking Drug Trafficking The dealing of illegal drugs has existed for a very long time in Canada. People have been smuggling drugs in many different ways and there have been many popular drug busts that occurred as a result. Some of the most common illegal drugs being dealt are marijuana, cocaine, opium, crack, and so on. Some of these drugs damage your body while others act as medicine and help people to overcome certain types of illnesses and diseases. The big debate these days is...
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