Abstract While the demise of the dollar has been predicted in the past, expectations of a fundamental change in the international role of the dollar…
Topic: Political Economy
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 makes the case for a ‘tipping point’ model for understanding economic change in India. This gradual and largely endogenously driven path calls…
Abstract This article aims to assess the role of neoliberal ideas in shaping Russia’s transition to a market economy. Prevailing ideas of the Washington Consensus…
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 This article explores Japan’s relative decline and its responses to the changing global balance of power through a case study of one symptom of…
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…
Abstract While the economic rise of new powers, frequently identified as the ‘BRICs’ (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), has been dramatic, the implications of this…
