Because increased economic growth depends on the protection provided by the security force, the population becomes less tolerant of violent elements threatening its investments. Experience significantly influences the capabilities that go into designing a security force's economic operations. Because of the experiences of the French in Algeria, the British in Oman and Malaysia, and the United States in Vietnam, most Western militaries think of economic development as road construction, rice-paddy irrigation, school construction, well drilling, seed and livestock distribution, and the like.
US intelligence services should be used in a limited role to promote fair business practices between US industries and foreign competitors. The intelligence community should not be deployed to directly spy for American corporations, but it could be used to support government policies aimed at promoting free trade. International economic intelligence efforts have been ad hoc in the absence of clear policy guidelines. However, such guidelines are being considered by the administration of Pres Bill Clinton.
Information is power. In the globalization sense, international trade and marketing seek to develop markets and products to enhance economic goals. At the same time, international political affairs depend upon information to support similar goals. Globalization is characterized by the free flow of data, commodities, and people across porous borders. There is a strong impetus for the theft of information to short-cut the legitimate acquisition and development of intellectual assets. Industrial espionage and military technology theft is a thriving growth industry. Competitive Intelligence is a legitimate attempt to provide information about competitors and environments. The Economic Espionage Act of 1996 was enacted to deal with theft of trade secrets in either the international or domest...
LONDON, Dec. 16, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- fDi Intelligence, the global authority on corporate expansion and investment flows, released a report and ranking which compares all 50 U.S. States and the success they have had in attracting inward investment before the Credit Crunch and after. The report measures U.S. economic performance related to the attraction of foreign direct investment and interstate investment, comparing the 21 months before the start of the 2008 Credit Crunch to the 21 months since it began. Despite the global economic slow- down, the report indicates that inward investment continues to be bullish. Year-to-date data for 2010 investment flows remains positive and figures indicate 2010 will most likely exceed 2009.
Generally, the current executive order allows classification of military plans, foreign government information, intelligence activities, foreign relations of the United States, scientific, technological or economic matters relating to national security, programs to safeguard nuclear facilities, infrastructure system vulnerabilities that relate to national security and weapons of mass destruction. The government argued the "release would present a grave risk of inciting violence . . . and providing [terrorists] with valuable tools for recruiting and propaganda," whereas years earlier the government had told the court the "disclosure of the photos could reasonably be expected to incite violence against United States troops, other Coalition forces, and civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan," ...
The author knows sellers of new vehicles are having a harder time, but even in the good times he could never understand why you would want to pay all that money, only to lose a third of it the moment you drove off the forecourt. It's far more sensible to buy pre-owned, and this is indisputably a booming market. One of the problems faced by any sellers of expensive goods is the continuing constrictions on the US economy because of the absence of freely available credit. The self-important Economic Intelligence Unit recently alerted a massive erosion of confidence since the onset of the financial crisis. The majority of risk professionals in financial services apparently no longer subscribe to the basic principles of risk management, it has concluded. Out of 334 senior risk professionals ...
CHICAGO, Dec. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce Foundation announced that the response to the draft of the Tri-State Chicago Metropolitan Region economic study will be delivered this morning in the Paris headquarters of the OECD by former Governor Jim Thompson and Illinois DCEO director Warren Ribley. Mssrs. Thompson and Ribley head a tri-state delegation of government and business leaders who represent dozens of organizations and hundreds of professionals, contributing to the study since work started approximately one year ago. Wisconsin, Indiana and Illinois have been heavily involved in providing economic intelligence to the OECD team conducting this study," stated Lance Pressl, president of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce Foundation and lead of the Chi...
In today's France it is waywardness in entrepreneurship and the frustrating lack of investment capital that have limited world-class innovation. Beginning early in the 21st century, when the fashions of marketing and total quality analysis had taken hold among designers, engineers and production controllers, the new buzz words became knowledge society and economic intelligence. The nationwide network designed for excellence in management as well as innovative approaches is also France's specific contribution (worth E31 million) to the EU's E77 million, eight-year project known as Osiris. France is undergoing a vast re-examination of its teaching potential, beginning with the role of tomorrow's university. Within France, industry and government are exploiting the research potential and t...
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