Conflict and co-operation within Lebanon's business community: relations between merchants' and industrialists' associations.

From: Middle Eastern Studies | Date: October 1, 2001| Author: Baroudi, Sami E. | Copyright information

International Relations scholars, and writers from a variety of disciplines, have been devoting increased attention to the subject of globalization. One feature of globalization has been the growth in the role of private capital in Third World economies as a result of privatization policies and the universal relaxation, or in some cases complete dismantling, of barriers to private sector activities. The effects of globalization have not been restricted to the economic sphere; for g...

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