Presenting a paper at SNEE 2015, Mölle, in the session entitled ’Trade and Communications in Europe’ with session Chair, Mats Hellström, former Minister of Foreign Trade for Sweden.
Text & Photo © JE Nilsson, CM Cordeiro, Sweden 2015
Name of Author: Cheryl Marie Cordeiro, PhD
Brief author bio:
Cheryl Marie Cordeiro, Research Fellow, is an active faculty member at the Centre for International Business Studies (CIBS), at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg. She has a PhD in applied linguistics, with her research interest broadly focusing on Language in International Business.
Acknowledgement: This project on Sweden’s trade relations with China is funded by the Anna Ahrenberg Foundation in Sweden.
Abstract
This two part article traces the qualitative aspects of Sweden-China trade relations from the 1700s, from the time of the Swedish East India Company, to modernity, as exemplified by the case of Chinese Geely acquiring Swedish founded Volvo Car Corporation in 2010. This article leverages conceptually, on the dual structure of world history, that highlights the differences between “international society” and “global society” and uses the example of trade relations between Sweden and China in illustration of a unique relationship between countries that have thus far seemed to find their own equilibrium of both being part of “international society” whilst having between themselves, a long term understanding of collaborating towards an envisaged “global society”.
Keywords: Sweden, China, global trade, international society, global society Continue reading ”SNEE 2015. 19-22 May. SE.”