1. The politics of dependence -- 2. Multum in Parvo : questions about diversity and diversification in small developing countries -- 3. Industrial development in peripheral small countries -- 4. Small states : the paradox of their existence -- 5. Dependent development : problem of economic...

1. Theoretical basis of UN peacekeeping -- 2. The history of UN peacekeeping operations -- 3. From traditional to multidimensional operations, or the development of UN peacekeeping -- 4. Financing UN peacekeeping : an inequitable peacekeeping assessment scale -- 5. UN peacekeeping expenditure...

1. The ABCs of a comparative economic history of organized crime : a national and transnational approach -- 2. Italian mafias -- 3. Russian mafias --4. Vignette : the Albanian mafia -- 5. US mafia -- 6. The Mexican drug cartels -- 7. Vignette : organized crime in Canada -- 8. The Colombian drug...

1. Institutions, change, and diversity / Geoffrey T. Wood and Christel Lane -- 2. A new epoch but still diversity within and between capitalisms : China in comparative perspective / Robert Boyer -- 3. Institutional change and organizational diversity in Japan / Mari Sako and Masahiro Kotosaka --...

1. Sea change in the west -- 2. Global theories of secular stagnation -- 3. Transition theory -- 4. Empirical aspects of the transition theory -- 5. The long wave hypothesis -- 6. Transition in the nineteenth century : the British climateric 1860-1900 -- 7. A re-run of the 1970s -- 8. The...

Navigating Global Business integrates and synthesizes all available country cluster studies into a nested meta-structure accompanied by eco-cultural correlates that distinguish amongst clusters. The broad range of analyses will appeal to researchers and practitioners, seasoned multi-firm...