This book explores the growing list of non-tariff trade barriers raised by the US, EU and Japan and assesses the prospects for significant trade liberalization. The author examines the liability of global free trade through a review of the complaints that these three countries raised about each...

1. On national differences in managerial cultures -- 2. Other approaches to the analysis of culture -- 3. Leaders in France and China : agents for departed monarchs -- 4. Germany and Japan : military leadership and development -- 5. The United States and the United Kingdom : merchants and an...