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Meet the economic gangster. He's the United Nations diplomat who double-parks his Mercedes on New York City streets at rush hour because the cops can't touch him--he has diplomatic immunity. He's the Chinese smuggler who dodges tariffs by magically transforming frozen chickens into frozen turkeys. The dictator, the warlord, the unscrupulous bureaucrat who bilks the developing world of billions in aid

As companies expand their international operations, smart women who are prepared to pursue opportunities overseas can dramatically accelerate their careers, enjoying high-profile projects, bigger promotions, and impressive financial rewards. Get Ahead by Going Abroad is the go-to resource that reveals how women, single or married, can leverage this trend to showcase their skills and move up quickly on their own terms.

In the early years of Adams Golf, entrepreneur Barney Adams labored in obscurity. He collected six patents for his golf products, manufacturing fine equipment but enjoying no sales. Everything changed for him and his company in 1996, though, when he invented the Tight Lies fairway wood. Working as a custom fitter, his customers repeatedly asked for a club they could play from "long iron" distance, from 180 to 220 yards to the green. Adams knew the technical secret was to lower the club's center of gravity.

In Terror Incorporated, Loretta Napoleoni maps out the arteries of an international economic system that feeds armed groups the world over. Chasing terror money, she takes the reader from CIA headquarters to the smuggling routes of the far East, from the back rooms of Wall Street to hawala exchanges in the Middle East.

The urgent truth about the privatization of America’s national security that exposes where this industry came from, how it operates, where it's heading—and why we should be concerned. Thirty years ago there were no private military and security companies (PMSCs); there were only mercenaries. Now the PMSCs are a bona-fide industry, an indispensable part of American foreign and military policy.

A century ago, migrants often crossed an ocean and never saw their homelands again. Today, they call - or Skype - home the moment their flight has landed, and that's just the beginning. Thanks to cheap travel and easy communication, immigrants everywhere stay in intimate contact with their native countries, creating powerful cross-border networks. In Borderless Economics, Robert Guest, The Economist's business editor, travels through dozens of countries and 44 American states, observing how these networks create wealth, spread ideas and foster innovation.

One of the most vexing human rights issues of our time has been how to protect the rights of individuals and communities worldwide in an age of globalization and multinational business. Indeed, from Indonesian sweatshops to oil-based violence in Nigeria, the challenges of regulating harmful corporate practices in some of the world’s most difficult regions long seemed insurmountable. Human rights groups and businesses were locked in a stalemate, unable to find common ground. In 2005, the United Nations appointed John Gerard Ruggie to the modest task of clarifying the main issues.

Winners and Losers tells the stories of some of the most innovative businesses of recent times, explaining how a few succeeded in creating and dominating entirely new markets while so many others die in today¹s ferociously competitive online era. Explaining clearly, with many interesting examples, what contributes to success and failure in creating and developing a company.

The former editor-in-chief of the Economist returns to the territory of his best-selling The Sun Also Sets to lay out a fresh analysis of the growing rivalry between China, India, and Japan and what it will mean for America, the global economy, and the 21st-century world.

Economist and syndicated journalist Loretta Napoleoni argues that the world is undergoing rapid and unexpected great transformations fueled by what she calls rogue economics. Eagerly awaited around the world (translation rights have already been sold throughout Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia), Napoleoni's account is based on top-to-bottom primary-source interviews from banking executives in New York to Russian prostitutes to London morgue workers.

In Terrorism: What Everyone Needs to Know, Todd Sandler, one of America's leading scholars on the topic, provides a broad and example-rich overview of this perennially important issue. After clearly defining terrorism, he then discusses terrorism's causes, the nature of terrorist groups, how governments seek to counter terrorism, its economic consequences, and the future of terrorism.  

La mondialisation, ce terme aujourd'hui à la mode, n'est pas un phénomène récent. Elle résulte de l'européanisation du monde, c'est-à-dire de l'expansion des nations européennes dans leur mouvement de conquête. L'auteur se propose à la fois de démystifier ce phénomène fondateur de la modernité occidentale, en montrant qu'il n'est porteur d'aucun sens de l'histoire, et d'en étudier les enjeux les plus actuels.

Crash oder Jahrhundertchance? Dirk Müller ist sich sicher: Wir stehen vor der nächsten Weltwirtschaftskrise und einer gigantischen Umverteilung. Ob China, Russland, Nordkorea, Naher und Mittlerer Osten oder USA und Europa - Müller erklärt in seiner gewohnt verständlichen Art Hintergründe, Zusammenhänge und Konsequenzen der aktuellen Konflikte. Klug und glaubhaft schildert er den voraussichtlichen Ablauf dieser kommenden Weltwirtschaftskrise. Er zeigt, welche Rolle Digitalisierung und Automatisierung spielen, wo die Zukunft des Geldes, der Arbeit und der Gesellschaft liegt.

What if Latin America Ruled the World? deftly braids together the histories of North and South America from the exploits of Hernán Cortés to the political showmanship of Hugo Chávez and Evo Morales. Scholar Oscar Guardiola-Rivera is an ideal guide for a searching portrait of the Latin America that we rarely hear about.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of China's Disruptors by Edward Tse, read by Arthur Morey. In China's Disruptors, Edward Tse takes an unprecedented inside look at rapidly emerging Chinese entrepreneurs and their game-changing impact on both China and the world...

"Si tu veux être international, chante ton pays", disait Beethoven. Sur quoi se joue un match de foot ? Sur le talent des joueurs ? Non, sur un terrain de foot. De même, la stratégie ne se joue pas sur un timbre-poste mais sur le plus vaste terrain qui soit, le monde. C'est dire que développement international n'est pas qu'une aventure passionnante qui ne peut pas être entreprise en dilettante. C'est aussi un axe stratégique que seule la crainte du pléonasme nous interdit de qualifier de fondamental pour une entreprise digne de ce nom.

Présentation du Cours : "On franchit une montagne et on bute sur un caillou", disait le subtil Georges Bernanos dans sa pièce "Dialogue des Carmélites". Élite ou pas d'ailleurs, c'est souvent ce qui se passe avec le développement international. Quand les risques provoquent des catastrophes avec des détails dans lesquels le diable est venu se nicher. Une fois la stratégie internationale définie, le passage à l'action sur le terrain et la réalisation des opérations commerciales demandent de pouvoir mettre en œuvre un ensemble de techniques (commerciales, financières, logistiques, douanières...) qui vont garantir la sécurisation des affaires.

"J'aime l'Allemagne, j'aime tellement l'Allemagne que je me réjouis chaque jour qu'il y en ait deux ", disait François Mauriac qui avait une conception très personnelle de la charité. L'Allemagne est la première économie d'Europe et le premier partenaire de la France. C'est dire qu'une stratégie internationale ne saurait faire l'impasse sur nos cousins germains si germains. Il se dit que les organisations économiques des deux pays ne sont pas les mêmes et que la compréhension mutuelle n'est pas toujours d'une fluidité parfaite.

The process by which nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress has been the subject of extensive examination for hundreds of years. The notion of development itself has evolved from an original preoccupation with incomes and economic growth to a much broader understanding of development. In this Very Short Introduction, Ian Goldin considers the contributions that education, health, gender, equity, and other dimensions of human well-being make to development.

You've heard of the burgeoning consumer markets in China and India that are driving the world economy. But do you know enough about these new consumers to convert them into customers? In The $10 Trillion Prize, bestselling author Michael J. Silverstein and The Boston Consulting Group colleagues in China and India provide the first comprehensive profile of the emerging middle class, primed to transform the global marketplace.