Summary The increasing economic and political importance of East Asia in the global political economy requires a deeper analysis of the nature of the…
Topic: Political Economy
Summary A collaborative effort by scholars from the United States, China, and Japan, this volume focuses on the period 1972-1989, during which all three…
Summary In September 2014, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba raised $25 billion in the world’s biggest-ever initial public offering. Since then, millions of investors and…
Summary In this historically grounded, richly empirical study of social and economic transformation in North Korea, Hazel Smith evaluates the ‘marketization from below’ that…
Abstract Since mid-2008, Russia has endured an economic crisis so serious that it has emboldened many Russians, including President Dmitry Medvedev, to call for a…
Summary China was the largest and one of most advanced economies in the world before the eighteenth century, yet declined precipitately thereafter and degenerated into…
Summary Can regional mechanisms better institutionalize the increasing complexity of economic and security ties among the countries in Northeast Asia? As the international state system…
Summary East Asian countries are now pursuing greater formal economic institutionalization, weaving a web of bilateral and minilateral preferential trade agreements. Scholarly analysis of “formal”…
Abstract This article seeks to analyze the development of free trade agreement (FTA) policies adopted by China, Japan, and South Korea with particular interests in…
Summary In recent years China has overtaken the United States as the world’s leading producer and consumer of energy. Since 2009 China’s energy requirements have…
Abstract In the study of China-Taiwan relations, scholars view the so-called “1992 consensus” as essential to economic ties across the Taiwan Strait. However, such an…
Abstract The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has agreed to establish an ASEAN single-shipping market (ASSM) by 2015. This paper aims to assess the…
Abstract Given North Korea’s desire to maintain nuclear weapons—and barring its unexpected collapse—how can the US and its allies establish and maintain a peaceful Northeast…
Summary Since the early 1990s and the end of the Cold War, the implications of China’s rising power have come to dominate the security agenda…
Abstract Iran’s oil and gas sector remains critical to the country’s economic prospects. Its future depends not only on whether, and how quickly, sanctions are…
