LibGuides: BUS 4150 Contemporary Issues in Global Business: Articles and Books

Core Business Articles

ABI/INFORM Global This link opens in a new window
Peer-reviewed and non-scholarly trade articles from leading business and management publications, including English-language titles outside the U.S.
Business Insights This link opens in a new window
Provides a broad and detailed coverage of international business. It includes case studies, peer-reviewed articles, and data sets, coupled with references and tools for analysis.
Features of Gale Business Insights: Global include:
- Global company, country and business topic overviews featuring detailed information as well as interactive rankings and statistics, with quick links to associated content
- Company histories and market share data
- Global industry research reports
- Full-text articles from academic journals, business periodicals, newswires and other media outlets
- Hundreds of economic and business indicators that allow for analyses of economies, companies and industries
- Case studies from Gale's CaseBase as well as from our publishing partners worldwide
- Interactive LiveCharts for economic and business indicators that let researchers generate their own analyses and custom charts for reports and presentations
Global Issues In Context This link opens in a new window
Gives overviews of some of today's most pressing issues on a global stage. Integrates news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more in a single search—updated daily.
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
The most widely used business research database. Includes peer-reviewed articles and non-scholarly articles on a wide range of topics, including accounting, banking, economics, finance, international trade, marketing, and more.

Global Economics Books

O'Reilly Online Learning eBooks This link opens in a new window
eBooks, case studies, interactive tutorials, and audiobooks on business and technology. Subjects include problem-solving and leadership, customer service, employee performance, art and design technique, IT certification, enterprise computing, Java, Linux/Unix, Web development, Windows, and XML, as well as big data, artificial intelligence, and gaming.
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Peer-reviewed and non-scholarly articles useful for starting a business, marketing a product, developing policy, analyzing trends, and more.

Politics of Oil and Nuclear Technology in Iran by Akbar Torbat
ISBN: 9783030337650
Publication Date: 2020-02-20
This book focuses on oil politics and the development of nuclear technology in Iran, providing a broader historical context to understand Iran's foreign relations and nuclear policy. The author assesses Iran's encounters with the West in light of major confrontations both in terms of open conflict as well as controversies surrounding treaties with foreign powers. In seeking to understand the geopolitics of oil in direct parallel to the geopolitics of nuclear technology, the book concentrates on Iran's struggles to nationalize its oil, neo-colonialism, the formation of the oil consortium, and the more recent US backtracking on the nuclear deal with Iran.
Non-Western International Relations Theory by Amitav Acharya (Editor); Barry Buzan (Editor)
ISBN: 9780415474733
Publication Date: 2010-02-05
Given that the world has moved well beyond the period of Western colonialism, and clearly into a durable period in which non-Western cultures have gained their political autonomy, it is long past time that non-Western voices had a higher profile in debates about international relations, not just as disciples of Western schools of thought, but as inventors of their own approaches. Western IR theory has had the advantage of being the first in the field, and has developed many valuable insights, but few would defend the position that it captures everything we need to know about world politics. In this book, Acharya and Buzan introduce non-Western IR traditions to a Western IR audience, and challenge the dominance of Western theory. An international team of experts reinforce existing criticisms that IR theory is Western-focused and therefore misrepresents and misunderstands much of world history by introducing the reader to non-Western traditions, literature and histories relevant to how IR is conceptualised. Including case studies on Chinese, Japanese, South Korean, Southeast Asian, Indian and Islamic IR this book redresses the imbalance and opens up a cross-cultural comparative perspective on how and why thinking about IR has developed in the way it has. As such, it will be invaluable reading for both Western and Asian audiences interested in international relations theory.
Capitalism in the Age of Globalization by Samir Amin; John Bellamy Foster (Foreword by)
ISBN: 1780329849
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Samir Amin remains one of the world's most influential thinkers about the changing nature of North-South relations in the development of contemporary capitalism. In this highly prescient book, originally published in 1997, he provides a powerful analysis of the new unilateral capitalist era following the collapse of the Soviet model, and the apparent triumph of the market and globalization.Amin's innovative analysis charts the rise of ethnicity and fundamentalism as consequences of the failure of ruling classes in the South to counter the exploitative terms of globalization. This has had profound implications and continues to resonate today. Furthermore, his deconstruction of the Bretton Woods institutions as managerial mechanisms which protect the profitability of capital provides an important insight into the continued difficulties in reforming them. Amin's rejection of the apparent inevitability of globalization in its present polarising form is particularly prophetic - instead he asserts the need for each society to negotiate the terms of its inter-dependence with the rest of the global economy.A landmark work by a key contemporary thinker.