The logic and history of global capitalism -- Global capitalism and free markets -- Cultural diversity and cultural relativism -- Law, morality and natural rights -- Emerging and frontier markets -- Corporate bribery and the foreign corrupt practices act -- Political risk, corporate collusion...

The World Trade Organization and human rights providing some power to the people, some of the time -- South Africa : in the "rainbow nation," trade and human rights are anything but black and white -- Brazil : creating new rules of the road -- European Union : the behemoth is not a dinosaur --...

This paper investigates the effect of trade integration on military conflict. Our empirical analysis,based on a large panel data set of 290,040 country-pair observations from 1950 to 2000, confirms that an increase in bilateral trade interdependence and global trade openness significantly...