... include academics and economists, reflecting the need for people from different backgrounds and skills to deal with the broadening of the diplomatic agenda. For example, China's criteria for selecting its first contingent of diplomats were "virtue and ability", and FDR encouraged businessmen to undertake diplomatic missions in the 1920s. Negotiations under classical diplomacy were usually bilateral and shrouded in secrecy. Considering ... ...

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... organizations had begun to spring up at a greatly accelerated pace. The prime minister at the turn of the decade, Hara Takashi, was the first commoner to hold the position in Japan's history. Education had been universalized, and social mobility seemed to be on the increase. The Bolshevik ... and the Peace Preservation Law, both of 1925, as together they illustrate the cautious balance between progress and retreat that punctuated interwar Japanese politics. The first focus of this essay will be on the official side to Japanese democracy – the elected legislature. Party politics had, ...

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... because, several technological develpments since last decades or so facilitated the expansion and integration of intra-industry trade, not only among OECD countries, but aslo between industrialized and developing countires; First, progress in transportation and communication systems has substatially reduced the transaction costs of factor mobility across national boundaries. Secondly, "progressive simplification of set engineering" (Dicken 1992, p. 323) ... economies were starting to take off. As a result, the development of labor-intensive industires in these host countries was accompa...

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