This book is a comprehensive combination of strong, practical experience and need-based analytical techniques employed in the management of real life opportunities in international development. The book deals extensively with: The international opportunity assessment The isolation of development obstacles The project elements process, as well as those analytical techniques specifically fit for complex international projects The development plan formulation The equity joint venture development and financing. Additionally it covers the attributes of internationally skilful managers, several case studies, and a collection of reference materials. The book serves partly as an awareness manual, a general focus manual, and a 'how-to-do' manual for conducting international development. As such it will be useful to global investors, financiers and investment officers; those looking for financing and joint venture partners; those involved in global business development; executives, management and engineering consultants and those involved in global manufacturing industries. Dr. Kauppi's management engineering background and industrial project development experience is truly international. He has degrees in mechanical engineering from Finland, in pulp and paper engineering from Sweden, as well as an M.S. and PhD in management engineering from the US. He has worked in Scandanavia and in Canada with multi-national industrial technology and machinery companies, with resource based industrial manufacturing operations and with some of the world's leading consulting engineering companies on international project development. He has published many papers on international projects, served as an editorial advisor on the Paper Trade Journal Magazine and obtained several industrial process and equipment patents in the US, Canada and Scandinavia. Since the late 1980s Dr. Kauppi has spent most of his time in the international arena involved in planning, development and engineering of high capital resource-based manufacturing projects in developing countries. He has experience of projects in China, India and Russia.