Essays about: "World Trade Organisation"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 29 essays containing the words World Trade Organisation.

  1. 11. Labour Rights Protections within International Trade: A study of Free Trade Agreements and Generalised Systems of Preferences

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Fraser Simpson; [2015]
    Keywords : International Trade; Free Trade Agreements; Generalised Systems of Preferences; Human Rights; Labour Rights; Social Clauses; EU; European Union; United States of America; Canada; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This study examines the phenomena of “social clauses” that aim to uphold labour standards within the international trade regime and discusses examples of their implementation. “Social clauses”, despite their contentious past within the World Trade Organisation and preceding frameworks, can be found in a number of Free Trade Agreements and Generalised Systems of Preferences. READ MORE

  3. 12. Civil Society Participation in Global Governance. A Road to Empowerment?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Mario Zetino Hernandez; [2015]
    Keywords : Gramsci; Global Governance; Civil Society; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Whether it is global warming or financial crisis, more and more challenges we face today are increasingly of a global or transnational character. As global governance increasingly has been perceived as having a democratic deficit however, increased forms of participation by non-state actors in global governance processes has attracted scholarly attention. READ MORE

  4. 13. The Killing of Osama bin Laden, Was it Lawful?

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete

    Author : Amanda Elfström; [2012]
    Keywords : Target; ICCPR; Use of force; self-defence; anticipatory self-defence; unwilling; unable; Human Right to Life; Arbitrary Deprivation of Life; Jus ad bellum; jus in bello; Distinction; Global War on Terror; GWOT; Extraterritorial Applicability; Direct Participation in Hostilities; Geographical Scope; Armed Conflict; Temporal Scope; Continuous Combat Function; IHL; IHRL; HR; International Human Rights Law; International Humanitarian Law; Osama bin Laden; al Qaeda; International Armed Conflict; Non-International Armed Conflict;

    Abstract : The main purpose of this work is to investigate if the US ́s killing of Osama bin Laden on 2 May 2011 in Abbottabad in Pakistan was lawful. The background to the killing is what happened on 11 September 2001 when four US airplanes were hijacked and crashed into World Trade Center and Pentagon. READ MORE

  5. 14. Entering Japan : A qualitative literary study on potential barriers to market entry for Swedish retail companies in Japan.

    University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Institutionen Textilhögskolan

    Author : Rebecka Andom; Patricia Joxelius; [2012]
    Keywords : foreign market entry barriers; the cultural dimensions theory; Japan; retail;

    Abstract : Background and problem: There are strong incentives for Swedish retail companies to establish their business in Japan. With its 128 million inhabitants the country accounts for 40 percent of the total world consumption of luxury goods and is the world’s largest importer of foreign fashion. READ MORE

  6. 15. Long distance design-manufacturing interaction: Perspectives from Chinese manufacturing site

    University essay from JTH, Industriell organisation och produktion

    Author : Bei Sun; Mehdi Poosti; [2011]
    Keywords : Design Manufacturing Interface; Product Development; Inter-cultural Cooperation; Communication; Production Transfer; Dispersed Settings;

    Abstract : After opening of China‟s borders to foreign trade and investment, over the last decades, a growing number of foreign company‟s attention has been drawn to China due to the immense market potential, and a huge source of cheap labor. Swedish industry, however, is not an exception from this tremendous trend in the world, as their recent acquisitions have given access to production facilities in China. READ MORE