Abstract China is commonly seen as having abandoned the national route to development in favour of one centred on global integration. Zili gengsheng—conventionally translated as self-reliance—is…
Topic: Political Economy
Abstract The remarkable economic rise of China and the recent turmoil in US financial markets inevitably raises questions about the respective fortunes of both countries.…
Abstract Agenda 21is the voluminous policy document that emanated from the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. Using a brief case study of…
Abstract This paper engages in a preliminary examination of US antidumping actions against China and addresses the conditions under which US industries are likely to…
Abstract This paper compares the current global financial crisis with the one that struck East Asia a little more than a decade ago. The analysis…
Abstract Political economists have long noted that the prospects for trade liberalization diminish in a climate of economic recession. A stagnant economy intensifies the burden…
Abstract The global financial crisis of 2008–09 presented a critical challenge to East Asian regional financial cooperation. Over a decade of efforts to reduce regional…
Abstract After the devastating experience of the Asian financial crisis more than ten years ago, East Asia launched regional economic cooperation efforts. East Asia’s mixed…
Abstract The United States has been widely blamed for the recent financial crisis. As the U.S. economy floundered and China continued to grow in the…
Abstract This paper discusses the role of the Beijing Consensus type of foreign and economic policymaking in China’s development since the Asian financial crisis and…
Abstract The widely touted concept of the ‘Beijing Consensus’ (BC) suggests that China’s economic success violates conventional theories of development and offers developing countries an…
Abstract The central phenomenon underlying the global financial crisis is a combination of financial globalization and national monetary policy. The surge of liquidity and the…
Abstract In recent years, the economic determinants of international currency status have attracted growing attention among economists. But what about the political determinants? This paper…
Abstract We argue that, owing to the conspicuous failure of Washington Consensus-guided reforms in most parts of the developing world in the 1990s and the…
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…
