Kazushige Kobayashi is a doctoral student in International Relations at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Switzerland, and a research fellow with the Europe-Asia Programme at the Balkan Security Agenda in Serbia. He holds Bachelor of Economics from Tohoku University in Japan, Master in International Affairs from the Geneva Graduate Institute, and has also studied at University of California at Davis and Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
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The Soviet Union did not lose the Cold War; it was the United States who lost the Soviet Union. After the Soviet disintegration, it was America who felt a huge hole of nostalgia in her heart while the U.S. remained an important global power to new Russia. Historically, the U.S. has built its unprecedented prosperity through strategically countering its prime enemy of each time; first it was the British Empire, then the Soviet Union after the World War II, and today the honorable seat of recognition...
Today’s global business faces a pressing call for incorporating social responsibility into a calculus of strategic profit making. Although good corporate citizenship has become one of universal criteria to access the overall success of any global firm, market share, along with profitability, remains as the most fundamental measure of global business performance and development. Business systems are conventionally designed to expand the market share in any given market, and failure to do so...
... economic downturn demolished the economic hegemony of advanced countries. The crisis proved that G8 was no longer an effective forum of global policy coordination and it is increasingly replaced by G20. Despite the ongoing redistribution of power, however, emerging countries particularly Russia and China are often portrayed as a threat to the existing regimes of global governance, both in political and economic terms.[3]
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In my view, contemporary scholars ...
