Global Mission – “Glocal” Internationalization

Global + local = glocal public health.

Internationalization of Commercial Services: Global Dispersion

Recent world trade statistics emphasise rapid globalisation of commercial services (CS) and underpin the criticality of a country’s positioning strategy in the growing world CS market. Drawing on trade statistics of 77 countries, this paper assesses configurations and composes a matrix of CS internationalisation as a framework to classify and map countries in the world CS market. Overall the st...

Running head : INTERNATIONALIZATION 1 Contributions of Internationalization to Psychology : Toward a Global and Inclusive Discipline

I define and describe the current state of internationalization in psychology. Internationalization refers here to the approach in which existing or new psychological theories, methods, procedures or data across cultures are synthesized so as to create a more culture-informed, inclusive, and globally applicable science and profession. This approach is essential to advance psychology beyond its ...

Global Change Observation Mission (GCOM)

ADEOSIIwas launched on Dec., 2002. However, after about 10 months operation, it has lost most of its power due to the solar paddle failure. As a follow on of ADEOSIImission, JAXA is now planning GCOM mission which is composed of a series of satellites. They are now called GCOM-W and GCOM-C satellites. Both satellites are composed of 3 satellites with 5 year lifetime. Hence, 13 years of continuo...

Global cities, glocal states: global city formation and state territorial restructuring in contemporary Europe

This article examines the changing relationship between global cities and territorial states in contemporary Europe, and outlines some of its implications for the geography of world capitalism in the late twentieth century. Most accounts of global cities are based upon a ‘zero-sum’ conception of spatial scale that leads to an emphasis on the declining power of the territorial state: as the glob...