Economic Globalization and its Implications for International Diplomacy

Foreign Trade and International Financial Flows: Implications for Economic Stability in the Selected ECOWAS Countries

T his study investigates the effects of extra-ECOWAS merchandise trade and investment flows on the transmission of business cycles in the selected ECOWAS between 1985 and 2014.  The study finds that total trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) significantly influence the transmission of business cycles with elasticities of 1.1 and 0.7, respectively in the long run. There are little vari...

China and the globalization of ICTs: Implications for international relations

As the People’s Republic of China accedes to the WTO, much speculation has been generated about the political impact of the opening of its telecommunications market to foreign firms and investors. Western policy-makers have tended to assume that the effect will be one of political liberalisation, but the view from Beijing sees siliconisation as useful for economic development but not a threat t...

Software Engineering: Globalization and Its Implications

The offshoring of software development is over three decades old and has been at the leading edge of the offshoring of information technology services. Over the past decade, the pace of offshoring has dramatically increased due in large part to new communication technologies and the opening up of India. This report discusses the evolution of software’s globalizing supplychain. It argues that hi...

The globalization of public health: the first 100 years of international health diplomacy.

Global threats to public health in the 19th century sparked the development of international health diplomacy. Many international regimes on public health issues were created between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries. The present article analyses the global risks in this field and the international legal responses to them between 1851 and 1951, and explores the lessons from the first century ...

Agricultural Biotechnology: Economic and International Implications