Canadian Centre for South Asian Studies

Val Samonis

Val Samonis has an advanced international education in Engineering, International Management, and Business/Finance, as well as an extensive "hands-on" secular and academic experience spanning different cultures, economic systems, and disciplines.

Val Samonis is one of the two co-founders of the Journal of East-West Business, the only international scholarly journal in the field.

An extensive traveler, Val Samonis is fluent in Russian, Polish, German, Lithuanian, English, and has a reading knowledge of Spanish, French, Esperanto, and other languages. He has US SSN and holds passports of Canada, Poland, Lithuania, and of the Internet (samonis.com), United Nations in one person. He therefore dares to repeat after Socrates that "I am not an Athenian or a Greek but a citizen of the world".

"Roadmaps From Plan to Market: Issues in the Theory of the Postcommunist Transformation", an essay.

"From Interrepublican to International: Towards the Economics of Feasible Post-Soviet Business", an essay.

"The Shifting Competitive Advantage of Former Communist Countries: A Comparative Perspective", a longer study.

"From Interrepublican to International: Transforming Economic Relations in the Former Soviet Union: An Outline", a typescript.

"The Competitive Advantage of Eastern Europe: Some Lessons from the Communist Past and Post-Communist Present", an essay.

Economic Transformation in Lithuania", Osteuropa-Wirtschaft /Germany/.

"Towards Progress in the Quality of Economic Relations between East and West: Opportunities in the Gorbachev Era", a typescript.

"Some Reflections on East-West Economic Relations in a Time of Deep Change", a typescript.

"In Lieu of Marshall Plan: The Case for a Concerted Trilateral Action in Support of East European Reforms", a typescript.

"Joint Ventures in Eastern Europe: A Research Agenda", a typescript.

"Joint Ventures in the Former USSR: A Strategy of East-West Learning", a research proposal.

"The Dilemma of Privatizing a Soviet-type Economy: Solutions and Nonsolutions", a research proposal.

"Debt for Equity Swaps in Post-Communist Poland: Opportunities for Canada", a typescript.

"Moscow McDonald's: The Changing Political Microeconomy of One Slow Food Restaurant".

"The Changing Environmental Models of Foreign Investment in Eastern Europe: Theory and Evidence", a prospectus.

"On the Competitive Advantage of the Post-Communist Nations: An Application of Porter's Theory", a research report.

"Enterprise Indebtedness in Post-Communist Countries: Causes, Dimensions, Consequences, Solutions", MOST: Economic Journal on Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. /with Alfred Biec and Milan Petrovic/.