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| Traffic in arms. Suppliers and buyers |
Pavel Usov | 12.11.2008
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Si vis pacem, para bellum
States, nations and humankind used to put and still put the greatest effort possible into manufacturing and selling arms for mutual destruction. It seems as if the world's states were continually prepared for a war with an unknown enemy. Every year, approximately 8 million pieces of light weapons and 12 billion cartridges are produced around the world. According to statistics, one gun falls on ten world's inhabitants. Thousand people die every day in the aftermath of firearm use. In accordance with the latest data by Small Arms Survey as many as 500,000 people die as a consequence of firearm use. According to the Swedish organisation SIPRI dealing with the issues...
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| Will the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) succeed in multipolarisation? |
| Tigran Aleksanyan | 27.08.2008
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On 2nd August, 2008, expired the two week term during which Iran was supposed to respond to the offer of western powers, namely Germany and five permanent members of the UN Security Council, i.e. the United Kingdom, China, France, the Russian Federation and China. In terms of the offer Iran was submitted proposals concerning the acquisition of diverse advantages in the field of civil power engineering, trade, finance, agriculture and technology which were put forward by French European Union presidency. The condition was the compliance with the request to freeze disputable uranium enrichment. Teheran stated in its reaction that it would accept any requests to negotiate about its controversial nuclear program. However, it would insist on its rights and would not budge an inch. Nevertheless, on 6th August, 2008, the six world powers agreed...
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| Chinese business culture |
| Dan Yuan | 09.04.2006
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For the last two decades, China enjoyed an enormous growth of its economic and political importance. "The sleeping giant” was transformed into an important and lucrative destination of numerous European, American and Japanese business interests. To perfectly know Chinese business etiquette, culture and its beauty is crucial for a stranger, who is or who wants to be in a close contact with China or other areas influenced by this culture (e.g. Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia - to a certain degree), because of the rich history, complexity and specific character of the Chinese civilization. It can be expressed concisely in one phrase: "When in Rome, do as the Romans do!” As a proverb says: "When in a band of wolves, cry as wolves do.” If you keep to this advice, you will be rewarded for your efforts to understand...
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| Trade strategy of Japanese companies on foreign markets |
| Bruno Hromý | 09.01.2006
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One of the most common character traces of Japanese internal market is the struggle of big corporations for a share in the market. Unlike the Western style of competitive fight, in which companies are trying to maximaze profit and thus create the highest financial satisfaction for their share holders through dividends, Japanese companies concentrate on proving the abilities of their managements and quality of their goods by gaining control of the biggest part of certain market segment. And so that this „harmony of competition" was not disturbed by foreign competitors, Japanese subjects with the generous support of the government often unfairly unite and push the „intruder" from the market (e.g. dumping prices) and after that they concentrate again on their own competitive fight. Many historians, political economists and sociologists explain this phenomenon...
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