Author: Christian Brandt
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 131545520X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Football is undoubtedly the sport with the largest following in the world, attracting billions of fans across the globe. These fans play an integral part in determining the identity of the football club they support. Many studies have focused on the intense rivalry between clubs, their fans and the opposing identities they represent. However, little attention has been paid to examples of cooperation between rival fans. This book is the first to explore antagonistic cooperation in football; the idea that rival fans can work together despite their animosity. With examples from Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Mexico, Croatia, Poland, Turkey, Ukraine, the UK, the US and Zimbabwe, this book brings together case studies on rival fans working together and explores how and why such cooperation takes place. Showcasing original research from a team of international football scholars, it sheds new light on the social and political complexities of contemporary football fan culture. Football Fans, Rivalry and Cooperation is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in football studies, the sociology of sport, sport and politics, or sport and social theory.
Author: Lyle J. Goldstein
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 162616634X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Though a US China conflict is far from inevitable, major tensions are building in the Asia-Pacific region. These strains are the result of historical enmity, cultural divergence, and deep ideological estrangement, not to mention apprehensions fueled by geopolitical competition and the closely related “security dilemma.” Despite worrying signs of intensifying rivalry, few observers have provided concrete paradigms to lead this troubled relationship away from disaster. This book is dramatically different in that Lyle J. Goldstein’s focus is on laying bare both US and Chinese perceptions of where their interests clash and proposing new paths to ease bilateral tensions through compromise. Each chapter contains a “cooperation spiral” —the opposite of an escalation spiral—to illustrate these policy proposals. Goldstein makes one hundred policy proposals over the course of this book to inaugurate a genuine debate regarding cooperative policy solutions to the most vexing problems in US-China relations. Goldstein not only parses findings from American scholarship but also breaks new ground by analyzing hundreds of Chinese-language sources, including military publications, never before evaluated by Western experts. Meeting China Halfway, new in paperback, remains a refreshing and unique contribution to the study of the world’s most important bilateral relationship.
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ISBN: 9814466255
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Languages : en
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Author: Partha Gangopadhyay
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814289833
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Presents a study of the dynamics of rivalry, evolution of costly and violent conflicts, and potential cooperation among powerful players. This work is suitable for those interested in some of the pressing problems of the global system, such as intra-national and interethnic conflicts, climate change challenges, poverty and terrorism.
Author: Tony Chafer
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781409405177
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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From Rivalry to Partnership is the first to study a potentially valuable way forward in tackling the challenges of Africa, namely bilateral partnerships. Written in a clear and accessible style, From Rivalry to Partnership offers a much needed fresh insight on whether and how bilateral partnerships make a real difference to people's lives on the African continent.
Author: Mark Beeson
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9811201919
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1007
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Rivalry and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the most important strategic and economic region in the world. Asia-Pacific is a region that is undergoing a major transformation, largely as a consequence of the rise of China and its growing rivalry with the United States. Whatever happens in the Asia-Pacific will profoundly influence global events, not just regional ones. Looking ahead, the region's future direction — and even its name — is contested and uncertain.This two-volume reference work, by one of the world's leading analysts of regional affairs, places these events in historical context and considers what they may mean for future political, economic and strategic relations. By focusing on the United States, China and the region's most significant middle powers, the book explains why and how the Asia-Pacific has become the fulcrum of international events.
Author: Adam M. Brandenburger
Publisher: Crown Currency
ISBN: 0307790541
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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Now available in paperback, with an all new Reader's guide, The New York Times and Business Week bestseller Co-opetition revolutionized the game of business. With over 40,000 copies sold and now in its 9th printing, Co-opetition is a business strategy that goes beyond the old rules of competition and cooperation to combine the advantages of both. Co-opetition is a pioneering, high profit means of leveraging business relationships. Intel, Nintendo, American Express, NutraSweet, American Airlines, and dozens of other companies have been using the strategies of co-opetition to change the game of business to their benefit. Formulating strategies based on game theory, authors Brandenburger and Nalebuff created a book that's insightful and instructive for managers eager to move their companies into a new mind set.
Author: Shoji Nishijima
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429720351
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
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This book examines two opposing interpretations of NAFTAs potential expansion into a Western Hemisphere Free Trade Association (WHFTA)one fearing the creation of a deliberately exclusionary Fortress America, the other welcoming the prospect of substantial economic opportunities for Asia and the countries of the Pacific Rim. Contributors evaluate the commercial, financial, cultural, and political linkages between the Americas and the Pacific Rim, assessing the magnitude of interests that might be affected by NAFTA or FTAA. }Authorities and experts in Japan and other Asian countries have expressed considerable fear that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) will create a Fortress America that will deliberately exclude nations of the Pacific Rim. Others argue that economic integration will provide substantial opportunity for Asia/Pacific countries and thus contribute to the dynamism of the Pacific Century ahead. This book explores the varying interpretations and looks at their implications for countries of the Pacific Rim. Might NAFTA provoke the formation of an economic bloc in the Asia/Pacific area? Or will economic liberalization occur on a global and multilateral scale? What are the political dimensions of these possible options and processes? Examining the interconnections such policy alternatives may have for both the Pacific Rim and Latin America, the contributors evaluate the commercial, financial, cultural, and political linkages between the regions to assess the magnitude of interests that might be affected by NAFTA or FTAA. Assessing the range of policy options available to countries involved, they seek to make an original contribution to the debate about the formation and structure of the post Cold War world order
Author: Lester G. Telser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521306195
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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This book looks at competition in a new way. It attacks the notion that competition always leads to good results and that more competition is better. It also attacks the notion that cooperation is always harmful. An efficient economic equilibrium requires an optimal combination of both cooperation and rivalry. Telser first examines the genesis of certain late nineteenth-century laws that affected competition in the United States. Going on to give new theoretical insights into cooperation and rivalry, he shows when unrestricted competition can lead to an efficient equilibrium, as well as when restrictions on competition can provide for the same. The tensions between these two forces are especially pertinent to the study of innovation--the more costly it is to protect the property rights of ideas, the greater is the reliance on secrecy, and hence, the more likely is the wasteful duplication of results.
Author: Rados law Fiedler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783832552916
Category : COVID-19 (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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The negative impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic is difficult to assess because of its far-reaching regional and global effects. We need to consider how the pandemic has affected individuals and their personal interactions, children and youth, economy, health care, trade, tourism, entertainment, culture, and gastronomy. In other words, we need to understand the negative impact of COVID-19 on entire societies. International politics and global supply chains have also been negatively impacted by the pandemic. This volume offers twelve essays that tackle the various aspects of the pandemic's effects, in diverse geographical regions from Latin America, USA, Europe to the Middle East, Asia, and the former Soviet space. Each essay also considers the conditions for the possibility of a more peaceful and productive global cooperation amidst the growing antagonisms between global powers recently intensified by the pandemic.
