Abstract Its newly acquired status as the world’s second largest economy has entitled China to a more prominent role in global affairs, and increasingly, its…
Country or Region: South Korea
Abstract The article highlights the applicability of benchmarking methodologies to the shipbuilding industry, and how these could be utilized to improve the competitiveness of shipyards…
Summary Debate surrounding “China’s rise,” and the prospects of its possible challenge to America’s preeminence, has focused on two questions: whether the United States should…
Abstract Korea has been one of the most aggressive countries pursuing nuclear power expansion, ranking in the top five nations globally for the installation capacity…
Abstract Following the US “pivot” to Asia, the European Union (EU) announced its own pivot to Asia in 2012 with stepped-up engagement. A flurry of…
Summary Pithy and reflective, this book highlights the key economic and political issues that Australia should currently be considering as a Western country geographically and…
Abstract The debt crisis in several member states of the euro area has raised doubts on the viability of the European Economic and Monetary Union…
Abstract The development of unconventional gas exploration in the USA, in particular shale gas, caused a revolution in the American and the global gas markets.…
Abstract In November 2010, the G20 Summit was held in Seoul. The G20 has increasingly replaced the G8 as being the premier forum for international…
Abstract The Korean economy has suffered two major economic crises over the past 15 years — the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the 2008 global…
Abstract China’s gas industry has witnessed a massive expansion and Chinese energy planners envisage a huge development of natural gas in China until 2030. This…
Abstract The recent regionalization in East Asia can be defined in terms of regionalization cum globalization. In the case of Europe, regionalization was originally intended…
Abstract Faced with the dual challenge of depletion of fossil fuels and climate change, three Northeast Asian countries—China, Japan and Korea—introduced green energy initiatives in…
Abstract The global financial crisis (GFC) was widely perceived as accelerating a shift in the centre of global economic gravity towards Asia (Drysdale and Armstrong,…
Abstract China, Japan, and Korea have begun to engage one another vigorously since the 1997 crisis. As intraregional economic ties have further deepened and broadened,…
