This book explores the paradoxes and unique characteristics of the World Economic Forum, highlighting contemporary issues and debates on global governance, economic development and corporate social responsibility. The Forum is one of the most influential, but least understood, global institutions. Its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland and its regional summits held around the world attract a significant and powerful audience from the worlds of business, economics, politics and civil society. The participants, who include business and political leaders, representatives of international institutions and civil society organizations, academia and the media, meet to debate issues of global concern and to develop possible solutions. Forum members see the organization as an innovative venue bringing together different types of stakeholders to solve global problems. To its critics, however, the Forum's public face conceals a private venue for making business deals. With clear and concise sections, including boxes containing key ideas and arguments, The World Economic Forum is a much needed introduction to an important and controversial organization and will be of considerable interest to students and practitioners of international business, international political economy, economics, development, international relations, and globalization.

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This is the first book to tell the story of the diplomacy that has made the international trading system what it is today. It reveals how three major transformations over the past two centuries have shaped the way goods, services, capital and labour cross borders, as buyers and sellers meet in the global marketplace.

This book explores the paradoxes and unique characteristics of the World Economic Forum, highlighting contemporary issues and debates on global governance, economic development and corporate social responsibility. The Forum is one of the most influential, but least understood, global institutions. Its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland and its regional summits held around the world attract a significant and powerful audience from the worlds of business, economics, politics and civil society. The participants, who include business and political leaders, representatives of international institutions and civil society organizations, academia and the media, meet to debate issues of global concern and to develop possible solutions. Forum members see the organization as an innovative venue bringing together different types of stakeholders to solve global problems. To its critics, however, the Forum's public face conceals a private venue for making business deals. With clear and concise sections, including boxes containing key ideas and arguments, The World Economic Forum is a much needed introduction to an important and controversial organization and will be of considerable interest to students and practitioners of international business, international political economy, economics, development, international relations, and globalization.

Trade Diplomacy Transformed: Why Trade Matters for Global Prosperity reveals how three major transformations over the past two centuries in how and why trade diplomacy is done have shaped the essential movement of goods, services, capital and labour across borders, as buyers and sellers meet in the global marketplace. Beginning with the intimately linked origins of diplomacy and international trade in ancient history, the narrative explores the tariff negotiations that first liberalized international trade in the nineteenth century, the emergence and growth of institutions like the European Union and the World Trade Organization, and the recent rapid explosion in the diplomacy of trade dispute resolution. In its provocative conclusion, Trade Diplomacy Transformed argues that, if it is to remain effective as a venue for the globe's trade diplomacy, the WTO must reform itself to become more like the EU.

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Text extracted from opening pages of book: HE THAT COMETH A Sequel fo Teil John' bsing further essays on the Afgsftige of Jesus and Present Day Religion By GEOFFREY ALLEN FELLOW AND CHAPLAIN OF LINCOLN COLLEGE, OXMHtD Uto THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1933 PREFACE IN a moment which we know not God reveals His Grace. . . . Where the way is prepared there will then come in an hour which we know not, and in a way which we cannot foretell, the baptism with the Holy Spirit of God. 5 Thus I wrote in Tell John, and the words were prophetic. They had the inevitable obscurity which belongs to the prophet, called to look and to point others forward toward a reality not yet clearly seen. As some of the critics discerned. Tell John was written in the spirit of the Baptist, and writ ten to call others to the Baptist's mood of penitent expectancy. Now it is possible for me to reaffirm its message by bearing witness that my hope is fulfilled. Where the way has been prepared, the living Christ does come, bringing forgiveness and liberation and the gift of His Spirit of joy and love. * John did no miracle; but all things that John spake of This Man were true. 5 PREFACE The coining of the Christ has meant, as always, that the writer was called out of a lonely individualism, into a deep fellowship of common need and common obedience with other disciples of the Christ. Much that follows has been learnt in fellowship with other disciples in the Oxford Group Move ment. My gratitude is due, where they would have it due, to the Christ who is using them to proclaim in these days His life changing love; as a mark of gratitude, the usual author's royalties for this book will be given to their work of Christianevangelism. GEOFFREY ALLEN. CONTENTS PACB I THE GUEST - 3 II A HOST 21 III As BABES - 4.7 IV STEWARDS - - - - - 71 V UNDER ORDERS - 95 VI THE GREAT ILLUSION - - - 117 VII SYMPTOM AND Snsr - 141 VIII THE SWORD OF LOVE - - 167 IX THE CHURCH - - - 189 I THE GUEST John said, * He that cometh after me is mightier than I 9 whose shoes I am not worthy to bear; he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost. 9 6 Behold I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice., and open the door, I will come in to him. 9 4 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares* CHAPTER I THE GUEST WHEN first he came to the threshold of my soul I know not. This at least I know, that as I went to open the door it dawned on my dull mind that his knocking had been going on for some time, and that I had half heard it without heeding it. For all I know, he may have called often before and failed to make me hear. The first time he came, I asked him to come into my front room, and there sought to entertain him. My words came haltingly, for somehow I felt myself strangely diffident in his presence. Perhaps through nervous ness, I spoke much and let him speak little. Nevertheless the courtesy of his silence impressed me with the strange charm of his character; and I resolved to ask him to stay longer, if ever he should call again. 3 HE THAT COMETH Life after all was lonely, and any guest was welcome. The house wherein I dwelt was large and gaunt and bleak, and I lived there alone. I had inherited a spacious mansion, but it had proved far too large for me to manage its maintenance. Gradu ally whole wings of it had fallen into disuse, so that there were rooms which I had longsince ceased to enter, and rooms of whose very existence I had well-nigh forgotten. Some of the rooms seemed haunted, with their broken panes and rattling shutters, and I visited them from time to time, drawn by a fear which attracted while it repelled. Near the front where I dwelt there were rooms, gaunt and bare, into which I seldom went. The windows were closed and the doors locked; and on the rare occasions when I entered there struck my face the smell of dampness, and of paper rotted and moulder ing. It was sad; but I could not manage all, and I had gradually