International Brigades

within countries” (Caliguiri, 2010). Challenges: Similarly, managing in global environment is not an easy task. Most of the time, managing international projects require special skills. The manager has to work in a consistent manner with the team for the success of the project. The article by Poddar (2010), explains the challenges in managing international projects. As by the…

Introduction Expansion of business and operation of entities internationally have always been enhanced by many local and globalization factors. At the center of all these are globalization and trade liberalization. Globalization is understood to be the increased unification of nations and economies worldwide through commercial activities, merging of laws that govern trading activities as well as increased technological innovation (Henry, 2012). This has made it easy for entities to carry out…

who to accept to their university and who does not is to create a diverse and unified community. Nonetheless, not all the international students like the idea of mingling with domestic students. There is no explanation to such fact, but it happens and it seems as if no one is ready or simply does not care to talk about it. However, I want to talk about it, an international student, named Chengcheng Xiang ’18, has her own thoughts on this issue. According to Xiang, a foreigner will inherently…

American countries had economies that were heavy exporters of goods due to their abundance of natural resources. In 1930, the Great Depression struck the global economy and foreign demand for Latin American goods became virtually nonexistent. International trade died down and deflation increased the burden of foreign debt. "Latin American presidents led efforts to foster industrialization through increasing state intervention in their economies" (Geddes 138) and proceeded to respond to the…

Introduction These years, international trade has a huge development in whole society. The definition of international trade is the voluntary exchange of goods or services between organizations and countries (Grimwade, N. 2000). It covered import trade and export trade, and it can be seen as foreign trade as a nation’s angle of view, and it come from social productive forces and state formation. Besides, international trade is very important and necessary to a country’s development. For example,…

In the United States Capital Punishment is the sentencing of a convict that has committed a serious crime such as murder. Capital Punishment is also known as the death penalty. Once a judge sentences a convict to death penalty the process begins. The inmate now waits his or her turn on death row. An executioner is assigned to carry out the death process with lethal injection. In the past executioners used the electrocution also known as the electric chair before switching to lethal injections.…

components of the internationalization process, places the United States prevails as the top destination for international students, especially from East Asian students. Each year, the number of students from East Asian countries keeps rising (Institute of International Education, 2015), for this reason, I decided to conduct a qualitative research study to understand the reasons that motivate international students from East Asia to pursue an overseas higher education versus a domestic higher…

What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)? It is defined as, ‘The value of a country’s overall output of goods and services at market prices, excluding net income from abroad.’ There are three ways it can be estimated, expenditure basis-the amount of money spent, output basis-the amount of goods and services sold, and income basis-the amount of money earned. The estimates are published on a quarterly basis. (GDP 2016) The most common way the gross domestic product is expressed, as a comparison to…

International relations, like most things in the political arena, is influenced by ideology which is at the root of the competing impulses driving U.S. foreign policy, internationalism and unilateralism (Kaufman, 2014). The decisions political leaders make are often influenced by their preconceptions about how the world works. These preconceptions are often created from theories. In his “One World, Rival Theories”, Jack Snyder makes the case that out of the three dominant theories guiding…

The death penalty is a controversial means of punishment that divides society on whether it is morally acceptable to allow individuals to die as retribution for serious crimes. Australia abolished the death penalty in 1973 under the Commonwealth Death Penalty Abolition Act. Under this Act, a person under the laws of the Commonwealth “is not liable to the punishment of death for any offence (1973, s.4).” The Australian government later passed the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Torture Prohibition…