Stalemate and ‘DTS’ depth to stalemate endgame tables

Avoiding Stalemate in China

Many multinational companies have been blaming their deteriorating performance in China on the country’s economic doldrums. They expect their businesses to improve within a few years, when the economy rebounds. But China’s economic difficulties are masking a more fundamental problem: too many me-too strateg ies. Succeeding in China requires a more targeted, creative, and differentiated approach...

The GMO stalemate in Europe.

IN SEPTEMBER 2012, EUROPE WAS SHOCKED BY A PUBLICATION, FROM CAEN UNIVERSITY IN FRANCE, claiming that rats fed for 2 years with transgenic herbicide-resistant corn suffered from tumors. Even though the results have been criticized as fl awed,* this research continues to be hailed as a confi rmation that genetically modifi ed organisms (GMOs) are intrinsically dangerous. The European Union (EU) ...

Nanotechnologies and Ethical Argumentation: A Philosophical Stalemate?

When philosophers participate in the interdisciplinary ethical, environmental, economic, legal, and social analysis of nanotechnologies, what is their specific contribution? At first glance, the contribution of philosophy appears to be a clarification of the various moral and ethical arguments that are commonly presented in philosophical discussion. But if this is the only contribution of philo...

DDT stalemate stymies malaria control initiative.

Money, Priorities, and Stalemate: How Lobbying Affects Public Policy

Based on a large-scale interview-based study of 98 randomly selected cases of lobbying in Washington from 1999 to 2003 (reported in Baumgartner et al. 2009), we found virtually no impact of money on outcomes. We believe that this counterintuitive finding derives from the huge business and corporate bias that permeates Washington and is already built into the policies of the status quo. Lobbying...