Dutch Republic The decline of naval and trading superiority experienced by the Dutch began because of the lack of strong leadership after William III died and because there wasn't another strong stadholder, the wars with France and England, the lost of technological advances once the British caught up, the domestic industries losing in the competition with British merchants, and the reality that the Dutch couldn't compete in overseas markets with larger powers such as France and Britain all lead to the economic decline of the Republic. ... The Dutch Provinces" size and locatio...

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With the spawn of the industrial revolution in the 19th century came a new sense of economic competition. ... This step up the evolutionary ladder was lead by the spirit of competition and greed. ... The yearning for economic growth and prosperity from the times of the industrial revolution changed a few countries from the "crevices" of society to industrial strongholds that essentially changed the world's balance of power. ... The advances in technology and economy both replicated from foreign powers and fashioned in their own right empowered the new country to advance ahead of the e...

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Western European imperialism in Africa greatly influenced the economic, cultural, and military development of countries in that area. ... The speed with which Africa was divided demonstrates the intense competition involved with imperial expansion. This European influence did not have a positive effect on the economic, cultural, and military development of the African countries, and most of these countries eventually formed into third world nations. ... The French, rather harsh in their administration and their attempts to increase their economic footholds, used forced labor and imprisonme...

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Why didn't those other societies experience a similar economic revolution? ... Feudo-manorialism was mostly a bane to economic, scientific, and technological progress in medieval Europe. ... Despite the huge changes in Europe's social and economic structure from the 12th century on, capitalism as a working economic institution did not progress past the embryo stage until well into the 16th century. ... Guilds were initially formed to protect the interests of all master craftsmen in the same trade; many guilds "sprang up as spontaneous, autonomous unions of masters attempting to en...

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With the exception of China invaiding Taiwan, or Iraq/Iran invasions, Global Trends suggests that the major powers, the Post-Modern regions of the world, no longer care about gaining space nor do they place so much concern on territorial boundaries, but rather are focused on economic growth and development which are predicted to "increase rapidly" of the next 15 years as globalization becomes fully integrated. ... The data shown above concludes that the EU has the economic stability, and miliary expenditure to take care of itself, rather then always looking to the United States for help...

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At the end of the 1970's, a wide economic process of privatisation and deregulation has spread over Europe and most of the world. ... Franchising is a response to the lack of competition, which leads natural monopolies to take advantage of its position. The originality of this concept is that it sets the competition for the market instead of in the market. This competition for the market takes place in the bidding process, which preludes the attribution of the market. ... Without competition, the bidding process has no point of being. ...

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Just as the "mass" in mass production defined the 20th Century with mass media, mass markets and mass education, the idea of "network" will define the social, political, economic and business concepts and visions for the 21st century. ... The emergence of these new forms and competition on the global stage will define the shape of socioeconomics to come. ...

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Imperialism, in definition, is the domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region in order to increase its own wealth and power. ... The Imperial powers used economic ways to reorganize important regions and bring them into the economy as suppliers of food and raw materials and as consumers of industrialized products. ... Economic causes also led to imperialism. ... The most dangerous aspect of imperialism was competition among the colonial powers themselves. ...

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True, the rapid spread of digital technology is forging powerful economic and social links across nations and regions. But this globalization process, rather than eliminating nationalism, is ironically also giving rise to a new era of national economic and political competitions. ... Even a casual look at global employment patterns, for example, shows that these remain overwhelmingly national and regional in character and are still influenced primarily by national political and economic policies. ... They could be the bow of the ship leading a wonderful American economic resurgence in global m...

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However much of the reasons for war can be seen as an accident, the scramble for Africa, was not a design towards a world war, although there was tough competition for the colonies it was a way of expanding their empires, not a reason to go to war. ... Russia's remarkable economic recovery upset the military equilibrium. ... The problem for Germany was political because Russia were able to mobilize faster without economic worries Germany an economic powerhouse was in danger of being out spent. ... This competition came to focus on the revolutionary new ships based on HMS Dreadnought, w...

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Each revolution had a different approach to enlightened philosophy, political goals, and economic ambitions. ... Smith believed that rational self-interest and competition can lead to economic prosperity through free market capitalism opposed to mercantilism. ... John Locke and Adam Smith influenced phase one to me because they both wanted to reform government through rising up to create a better government and to create economic prosperity. ...

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The Modern World we live in exists in a state of cultural, political and economic globalization. ... Many factors influenced Western Europe's ability and desire to launch voyages of discovery; these include motivation, religion, technology, competition and luck. ... In conclusion, it is evident that without the ideas of Prince Henry the Navigator, the determination of Christopher Columbus, the development of improved nautical technology, a drive to spread religion, and principally the desire to expand and increase empires and economic holdings, these voyages of discovery by Western Europe...

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MACRO ENVIRONMENT (P.E.S.T) The components of the macro environment are the political-legal environment, the economic environment, the socio-cultural environment, and the technological environment in which Euro Disney operates. ... Economic Environment: Euro Disney mainly failed to recognize the recession period in Europe. ... Considering the shocking economic factors and the cultural mistake that they have made Euro Disney has opened an opportunity for competitors to conquest the market. ...

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There are only few large competition in the industry and they fulfill desires to mostly wealthy people. ... Secondly, another important factor to consider is the world's economic condition. ... The world economic condition has slowly been recovering, and from estimation, the high demand located in the Asia-Pacific region contributes more revenues, which therefore enables the region to have a high growth rate. ...

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In some cases, a combination of mounting nationalist pressure and declining domestic economic performance persuaded colonial powers to depart relatively peacefully as occurred in India and Malaysia. ... And even though nationalism entails a darker side such as emphasizing the differences rather than the similarities between humans to inevitably lead to rivalry and competition, it won't necessarily be expansionist nor aggressive. ...

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Capitalism is an economic system where such items that can generate monetary value are owned by private businesses and corporations which trade in a 'free market' of competition. ... In this essay, I will examine the actions of both the European nations and later on the newly independent United States to distinguish if the transatlantic slave trade was the main contributor to the development of a capitalist modernity by looking at four major developments in the social and economic structure of the world from 1440-1870. ... The centrality of the transatlantic slave trade to the econo...

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The first category includes such details as the economic, political and social condition in the countries of emigration. ... Our topic put immigrants at the center stage by raising the causes such as the early immigration, condition of exit, and the consequences such as economic, socio-politic and how the country looked for to resolve the issue of entrants and receiving context and the cohesion between black and white people in Britain. ... It is made for many reason including economic political, family re-unification, national disaster, poverty or the wish to change one's surrounding vo...

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Europe has just suffered the economic depression and thus an individual wants and needs start to intensify, and the competition for new resources i.e. raw materials and new markets began to escalate. ... " 1 On the topic of competition, colonial powers start to become strategic and especially the British begin to feel threatened by other rival colonial states, a form of protectionism starts to emerge whereby states want to shield their own domestic commodities and businesses from external influences. ...

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The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history and, prior to the mid-nineteenth century, formed the major demographic well-spring for the re-peopling of the Americas following the collapse of the Amerindian population. Cumulatively, as late as 1820, nearly four Africans had crossed the Atlantic for every European, and, given the differences in the sex ratios between European and African migrant streams, about four out of every five females that traversed the Atlantic were from Africa. From the late fifteenth century, the Atlantic O...

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