In the second half of the last century the attitude with respect to foreign investment has changed, and the role of this investment on development of Latin-American economies has become crucial. A fierce competition is taking place among these countries in a even more integrated region where environmental policies have become one of the suitable instruments to manage the perturbations on welfar...

one of the important issues which deals simultaneously with the european :union: (eu) enlargement policy and its common foreign and security policy, is eu's policy towards its neighbors. after eu enlargement. it is a crossroad of eu foreign, security, development and trade policies which aims at europeanization and creating a ring of friends around its borders where good governance, political a...

caucasus has been an important region for turkey since the collapse of the soviet :union:. this importance emanates from the region’s own natural resources, its position at the crossroads of the oil and gas rich regions of the world and chronic political instability and security threats. turkey as the key neighbour of the caucasus has experienced state – led fundamental and structural changes w...

Forest loss and degradation remains a leading environmental problem. The long history of sustainable forest management has often failed to meet expectations—constrained by funding, governance, capacity and competing interests. Initiatives from the climate change policy arena are opening new ways for a broader mainstreaming of forest management, specially through foreign aid mechanisms towards R...

Three experiments investigated how perceived foreign threats to the United States can influence Americans' endorsement of assimilation and multiculturalism as models for foreign and domestic intergroup relations. The initial study, conducted during the 6-month anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks (9/11), discovered that a diverse group of Americans preferred assimilation as ...

extended abstract 1. introduction geopolitical genome is the potential of a country. as the genomics is the study of hundreds or perhaps thousands of simultaneous genetic reactions for identifying the main causes of disease and understanding the mechanism of an organism, the activation and extinguishing of the geopolitical genomes are those adopted policies based on the geographical and human p...

The foreign policy of the United Arab Emirates has one fundamental goal: the enhancement through its dealings with foreign governments, individuals and organizations of the prosperity, stability, power and independence of the country and its citizens. In this general sense, UAE foreign policy is similar to that of other countries. There are, however, two factors that distinguish UAE foreign pol...

We investigate the dramatic transformation of ownership policies and ownership structure in Sweden during the postwar period. After WWII, Swedish ownership policies were guided by a socialist vision where the ultimate goal was abolition of private ownership. These policies came to an end in the early 1980s. Since then a large number of Swedish firms have been acquired by foreign owners or merge...