Growing global brands in foreign markets: A brand equity perspective. Impact of national culture on trademark registrations in emerging economy: Evidence from Russia. ACES Working Papers, August 2010

In this study we explore how firms deploy intellectual property assets (trademarks) in international context and the impact of cultural characteristics on such activities. Trademarks capture important elements of firm's brand-building efforts. Using growth model, a special case of hierarchical linear model, we demonstrate that that stock of trademarks in foreign market increase future trademark activity. Also, we explore the moderating roles of two cultural dimensions, individualism and masculinity, on such relationships. The findings indicated that firms from countries closer to host market (Russia) on individualism dimension tend to register more trademarks in host market. The opposite result is observed for masculinity dimension.

Europe as International Actor: Maximizing Nation-State Sovereignty. CES Germany & Europe Working Papers, No. 06.3, 1996

The continually increasing literature on foreign- and security-policy dimensions of the European Union (EU) has provided no remedy for the widespread helplessness in gaining a purchase on Europe as an international actor. The basic hindrance to understanding this policy comes from an all-too-literal interpretation of the acronym involved: the CFSP is understood as a total or partial replacement of the nation-states' foreign and security policy. This article aims to point the way to a new understanding of the CFSP in which this policy is not based on the integration of nation­ state foreign and security policy. I suggest that the proper way to grasp the phenomenon of the CFSP is to describe it as an international regime whose goal is to administer links between economic integration and foreign- and security­ policy cooperation in the sense of maximizing the sovereignty of member states. This requires, on the one hand, the prevention of "spillovers" from the economic area that could interfere with the foreign- and security-policy indepen­ dence of member states. On the other hand, it demands applying the EU's economic potential to reinforce the foreign- and security-policy range of member states. Due to the logic of this policy, CFSP priorities and fields of ac­ tion differ profoundly from those of a national foreign and security policy. Expectations on the evolution of the CFSP must be aware of these basic characteristics of this policy.

Our nation's highways - selected facts and figures.

Mode of access: Internet.

Our nation's highways 2000.

Mode of access: Internet.

Our nation's highways - selected facts and figures.

Mode of access: Internet.

Desegregation of the nation's public schools : a status report.

Includes bibliographical references.

The Condition of bilingual education in the nation : a report from the Secretary of Education to the President and the Congress.

Description based on: 1982.

Connecting the Nation : classrooms, libraries, and health care organizations in the Information age : update 1995 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Investing in the nation's health in the computer age.

Cover title.

Au service de la nation; lettres de volontaires (1792-1798)

Introduction.--Avant le départ à la frontière (1792-1793)--Aux armées du Rhin (1792-1797)--Aux armées du Nord (1792-1799)--À l'armée des Alpes (1794)--À l'armée d'Italie (1796-1797)