New developments in east-west economic relations

East is East and west is west.

This position paper addresses the long-standing criticism that the International Baccalaureate (IB) is too closely associated with Western values and, despite its title, does not enable students to see the world from a truly international perspective. Considering evidence from different authorities, it analyses the IB learner profile and asks how appropriate it is for the cultures of East Asia....

West Meets East: New Concepts and Theories

Management scholarship has grown tremendously over the past 60 years. Most of our paradigms originated from North America in the 1950s to the 1980s, inspired by the empirical phenomena and cultural, philosophical, and research traditions of the time. Here following, we highlight the contextual differences between the East and the West in terms of institutions, philosophies, and cultural values ...

Is East Asia’s Economic Fate Chained to the West?

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East-West Integration and the Economic Geography of Europe

New Developments in Hominid Paleontology in South and East Africa

Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in the unraveling of hominid evolution. The main advances registered--and which are now crying out for provisional synthesis--may be grouped under the following broad rubrics: (a) The discovery of further hominid fossils in East Africa [Omo, East Rudolf,. Chesowanja (27) and Olduvai] and in South Africa (Sterkfontein and Swartkrans) and their demo...