Abstract The future of the dollar depends partly on China and the US being able to effectively manage the tensions arising from the large bilateral…
Country or Region: China
Abstract This paper assesses the sources of potential instability of China’s political economy by expositing the limits of the post-Mao regime of capital accumulation in…
Abstract This paper surveys constructivist scholarship in the study of international political economy (IPE) in China. Chinese scholars in the field of IPE have until…
Abstract China is widely viewed as exceptional in its free trade agreement (FTA) activity for two reasons. First, the existing literature on East Asian regionalism…
Abstract This article uses the concepts of critical juncture and feedback effects in historical institutionalism to examine China’s role in promoting a China–ASEAN Free Trade…
Abstract In this short piece, I return to the articles in this special issue to examine the relationship between the material reality of the concept…
Abstract Has a Beijing Consensus emerged to challenge the Washington Consensus? If so, what is the essence of this alternative consensus and why does it…
Abstract This paper explores the origins and trajectory of the Washington Consensus – the ideas associated with the developing countries’ move to free markets in…
Abstract Over the past two decades, the spread of ideas and policies associated with the Washington Consensus has captured the attention of political economists. As…
Abstract We present the strategic hedging framework as a structural theory of interstate competition. Strategic hedging extends the logic of traditional balance of power theory…
Abstract The United States and China are shadowboxing each other for influence and status in the Asia Pacific. Rhetorically pulling punches but operationally throwing jabs,…
Abstract Since the mid-2000s it has become common, although far from universal, to characterise the world as ‘multipolar’. There has, however, been scant attention to…
Abstract The literature on China’s regional rise reveals divergent understandings of why China changed its regional strategy and when such a transformation occurred. There are…
Abstract China has (re-)emerged as a great power in a world not of its own making. The distribution of power in major organisations and the…
Abstract The global financial crisis reinvigorated ongoing debates over whether China has its own distinct and separate ‘model’ of political economy and/or development. There is…
