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At the start of the last millennium, the Chinese were the preeminent international traders. Although a truly global trading
system would not evolve until some 500 years later, Chinese silk had been available in Europe since Roman times.
At the start of the last century the British military, merchants, and manufacturers dominated the seas and international
commerce. Literally, the sun did not set on the British Empire. At the start of the last decade, the United States had
surged past a faltering Japan to retake the lead in global commerce. The American domination of information technology
has since been followed by the political upheaval of 9/11 and the economic shocks of 2001 and 2008. China
started that decade as the largest military threat to the United States, and at the decade’s end, it has become a leading,
often difficult trading partner. What surprises do the new decade, century, and millennium
hold in store for all of us? Toward the end of the last decade, natural disasters and wars hampered commerce and
human progress. The battle to balance economic growth and stewardship of the environment continues. The globalization
of markets has certainly accelerated through almost universal acceptance of the democratic free enterprise model and
new communication technologies, including cell phones and the Internet. Which will prove the better, Chinese gradualism
or the Russian big-bang approach to economic and political reform? Will the information technology boom of
the previous decade be followed by a demographics bust when American baby boomers begin to try to retire after
2012? Or will NAFTA and the young folks in Mexico provide a much needed demographic balance? Ten years out the
debate about global warming should be settled—more data and better science will yield the answers. Will the economic
tsunami of 2008–2009 evolve into something even worse? What unforeseen advances or disasters will the biological
sciences bring us? Will we conquer AIDS⁄HIV in Africa?
Will weapons and warfare become obsolete? International marketing will play a key role in providing
positive answers to all these questions. We know that trade Becauses peace and prosperity by promoting creativity, mutual
understanding, and interdependence. Markets are burgeoning in emerging economies in eastern Europe, the Commonwealth
of Independent States, China, Indonesia, Korea, India, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, and Argentina—in short, globally.
These emerging economies hold the promise of huge markets in the future. In the more mature markets of the industrialized
world, opportunity and challenge also abound as consumers’ tastes become more sophisticated and complex
and as the hoped for rebound in purchasing power providesbconsumers with new means of satisfying new demands
Philip R. Cateora, Mary C. Gilly and John L. Graham - Personal Name
15th Edition
978-0-07-352994-3
NONE
International Marketing
Makerting
English
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.,
2011
USA
1-659
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