... or hesitant to enter into alliances while encouraging other REMOs to seek out new partnerships. More specifically it shows how the same kind of constraints that shape REMOs’ cultural work, discussed in the preceding chapter, also influence their cooperative relationships, while the imperatives of niche...

...This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this volume which is about keiretsu, post-war Japanese insular business alliances. This volume argues that keiretsu is nothing more than an urban legend propagated by Marxist scholars in the 1950s. It also debunks...

...This chapter evaluates the concept of Japanese insular business alliances called keiretsu. It analyzes whether information about keiretsu matches business data from Japan and examines the so-called vertical keiretsu. The analysis reveals...

... the Magnificent. Leo’s election raised his mercantile family to international status and afforded the pope a means to secure strategic marriage alliances with the French royal family. With 1532 came the final ennoblement of the Medici as dukes of Florence (later grand dukes of Tuscany), with the right...

...For nearly two decades, Rogers Smith and Desmond King have mapped the rival racial policy alliances shaping American politics. In America’s New Racial Battle Lines: Protect or Repair, they utilize an innovative theoretical framework and a wide range of sources, including interviews with leading...

... in Woodstock for helpful comments. Later sections draw on joint work with Carlo Perroni. This chapter argues that a wide range of considerations arise when countries seek to negotiate regional trade agreements. Some see trade agreements as providing underpinnings to strategic alliances, and hence implicitly...

...This chapter examines the coalitions among advocacy organizations, asking whether such alliances are an alternative vehicle for activity on issues affecting disadvantaged subgroups. Alliances with other organizations represent one of the most promising avenues for meaningful attention...

... constraints and opportunities. The chapter evaluates the group's internal cohesiveness, its external alliances with other organizations, and the Arab public support for its goals and objectives. It also explains that while Al Qaeda never produced a high volume of attacks, its attacks have attracted...

.... Evidence for convergence includes similarly extended life histories, with prolonged development and societies characterized by multi-male, multi-female groups, sex-segregation, promiscuous mating, alliance formation, and high fission-fusion dynamics. However, the distinct ecologies of these species drives...

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...For Western economists and journalists, the most distinctive facet of the post-war Japanese business world has been the keiretsu, or the insular business alliances among powerful corporations. Within keiretsu groups, argue these observers, firms preferentially...