Essays on Ceps

Events that led to the influx of refugees in Turkey

The Arab Spring that was experienced in African countries like Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, inspired the protest against President Bashar Hafez al-Assad’s government in March 2011. The government, in response, sent its forces to contain the protest, and as a result, Syria plunged into civil war (Carpenter 2). As the war continued, alliances, mini-alliances and shifts took place throughout the region, and this led to a complex situation as the war developed dimensions involving Islamic extremists, Assad’s government, rebel groups and ethnic groups. In July 2011, defectors from the Syrian army organized a Free Syrian Army and ...

On-demand economy is a technology-based platform in which economic activities are created to fulfill the demands of consumers through a convenient provision and immediate access to goods and services across the marketplaces. The on-demand economy is characterized by supply driven via a highly efficient instinctive digital mesh coated on top of the existing framework of infrastructure networks. Besides the on-demand economy, several terms like the “uber-economy,” “gig-economy,” and “sharing economy’ have been applied in different circumstances to depict almost an equally close operational relationship. This results to a conceptualization of the on-demand phenomenon advocated by Frenken et al. (2015) ...

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The ongoing "refugee crisis" remains one of the troubling issues and increasing problem in the European integration. Over the last few years, the European Union (EU) has experienced crises resulting from Russia and Ukraine conflict and economic instability in Greece. However, these issues cannot be compared to the current unprecedented influx. The communities in the EU are now struggling to cope with the unanticipated increase of the migrants and asylum-seekers, which started few years ago but considered to reach a climax in 2015. In this year, it is estimated that more than one million refugees and migrants entered into ...

‘Fashion and quality at the best price’ is the motto on which H&M bases its business concept. H&M had humble beginnings over sixty years ago in Vasteras, Sweden. It is now a highly successful, contemporary fashion group with a global reach. H&M’s Annual Report for FY 2013 reported 3,132 department stores worldwide; H&M department stores are now in 53 countries.

Outward processing trade (OPT) agreements work well for many segments of the textile production and marketing sectors. OPT is better than free trade regulations for H&M when using production facilities in countries in closer proximity to ...

The National Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was created when a treaty was signed in 1949 by all the Allies except for the Soviet Union after World War II. That means that approximately 65 years after WWII ended and thirteen years after the end of the Cold War NATO is still active. The NATO website states that there were three main reasons for creating NATO. One reason was to build an organization of countries that could rely on each other to work together against any threat from the Soviet Union. The second reason mentioned was to get a North American presence in ...

The debate of whether offshore outsourcing of services weakens the US economy or strengthens it has drawn various opinions. Some believe that it drains away jobs and investment thus should be abolished, while others look at it as a cost-cutting approach that should be encouraged. In economic terms, offshore outsourcing is tricky and presents a win-lose situation, and not the conventional win-win situation as framed by the economic theory equations. There are winners and losers! The individual companies and the economy at large benefits while the workers who watch as their jobs are shipped overseas lose greatly. The benefits are hard ...