contrast is stark between
its openness under sweeping skies
and the cramped City of the Workers -
just as stark as the contrast between
the liberated and carefree movements
of the youths, dressed in white,
and the dull lethargy
of the darkly clothed Workers -
and the self-determined horizontal
movement versus the downward ride
of the Workers in the lift.
A light-hearted waltz,
no musical leitmoti
Soviet and Vietnamese strategic interests started to diverge from each other. From 1981 on, the Kremlin made persistent efforts to reach reconciliation with China, a precess viewed with distrust by Hanoi. Hanoi's reluctance to follow Moscow's example seems to have induced the CPSU leadership to put pressure on its independent-minded ally. Noteworthily, Aliyev's clash with the VCP leaders took
Convergent and Divergence paths of MNEs and Civil Society
Convergence; Parallelism
Divergence
The conditions when engagement of civil society is aligned
MNEs and developing countries
MNEs and NGOs
MNE and Civil society organizations
20th century statist capitalism
VS 21st century statist capitalism
Large scale economic growth
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from that of post-1986 Vietnam. For example, Vietnamese and North Korean foreign policies have had little in common in the last two decades, and this difference may have been interrelated with the dramatic contrast between Vietnam's economic boom and North Korea's recurrent setbacks. This subject is certainly worth investigating, since many of North Korea's current problems - inflation, high mi