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This article is about the international relations of Latin America between 1950-1980. No systematic account of such history is attempted here. Rather attention is paid above all to the main thrust of such history. In this study it is argued that most dominated countries have very little capacity to affect the general and most fundamental structures of the World System. These countries tend to be mere object of history. There foreign policies to a very large extent contribute to the reproduction of the World System. Indeed it is one of the functions they must assume as far as the development of the system is concerned. But given the fact that underdeveloped countries are also subject of history, they do not submit passively to such a general law of social system. Their foreign policies are sometimes designed to modify the International Division of Labor "or their place within it" and with it the distribution of power without however drastically changing or upsetting the inner logic of the World System. It is within such an approach that one must study the international role of dominated countries in general and of the Latin American states in particular.
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AbstractIn the 1980's Canada's nuclear technology company, Atomic Energy Canada Limited (AECL), designed and attempted to sell a next-generation, small-scale nuclear reactor called the Slowpoke Energy System (SES). AECL pursued export markets for the SES, of which the most promising was South Korea. The SES project was forced to compete for funding and this necessitated the formation of partnerships with private and public sector agents in South Korea. AECL's experience in South Korea suggests that crown corporations are more commercially oriented than established policy scholarship admits, and that in some cases competitive forces work to blunt innovation rather than reward it.
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The concern for protecting environment has penetrated all the sectors of the international life including the trade sector. In spite of this excrescence, the ecological preoccupations remain weak at the World Trade Organization (WTO) an organism that has been set up in order to serve as the common institutional framework for guiding the commercial relations of its members. This is because the conditions to argue successfully for an environmental exception in front of this international organization are very restricting and are not very well taken into consideration in the precedents of its disputes settlement organ. Nevertheless, it is possible to have hopes in so far as not only the judges of the WTO didn't close definitely the door to the environmental preoccupations but also because of the emergence of a principle of mutual support in the international law order, which appears as an opportunity of reconciling two apparently contradictory branches of international law. These are the international trade law and the international environmental law.
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ABSTRACTThe Canadian dollar is presently (1990) overvalued. The Canadian authorities should let it depreciate promptly to a level of 78 to 80 US cents, and then keep it firmly within this range. The general case is based on modern monetary theory and history. Specific criticisms of the Bank of Canada's defense of flexible exchange rates complete the argument.