Despite the globalisation of European soccer, each professional league exhibits specificities. French Ligue 1 sometimes contends with the trading-off of financial performance against sporting performance of its teams in European soccer competitions, and its inner auditing body, the Direction...

After a critical look at the Soviet-type economic model and experiences of many Third World countries with this model, the author examines Vietnam's unsucessful transition from underdevelopment until 1985, adoption of do'i mo'i ("renovation") reform by the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) in...