Summary Since 2008, energy and food markets―those most fundamental to human existence―have remained in turmoil. Resource scarcity has had a much bigger global impact in…
Topic: Political Economy
Summary It is not uncommon to hear states and their leaders criticized for “mixing oil and politics.” The U.S.-led Iraq War was criticized as a…
Summary With its expanding economy and formidable military growth, China is positioning itself to challenge the United States as the greatest international power on the…
Abstract Growth prospects for Southeast Asia in 2014 turned out to be less than what many expected earlier in the year. The International Monetary Fund…
Summary Western liberal order is in a protracted process of transition. There is no new hegemon willing or able to replace the United States and…
Summary DEALING WITH CHINA takes the reader behind closed doors to witness the creation and evolution and future of China’s state-controlled capitalism. Hank Paulson has…
Abstract This article provides a Chinese perspective on the terms of China’s WTO accession, highlighting the negative impact of some discriminatory conditions that China accepted…
Summary Twenty years ago, India launched its “Look East” policy. For most of those 20 years, Myanmar’s isolation, mistrust between India and its neighbors, and…
Abstract Japan’s active engagement in the development of the Mekong region since the 1990s needs to be understood not only from an economic but also…
Abstract Two primary mechanisms for managing competitive interstate claims to maritime areas are evaluated: the creation of private ownership of maritime zones in the form…
Summary Commodities permeate virtually every aspect of modern daily living, but for all their importance—their breadth, their depth, their intricacies, and their central role in…
Summary Bringing together renewable energy and energy security, the authors cover both the politics and political economy of renewables and energy security and analyzes renewable…
Abstract This paper analyses how the situation in China’s most northwestern province-level unit Xinjiang has affected China’s overall foreign relations since disturbances in its capital…
Summary Oil and natural gas are now acknowledged to be the driving forces of international politics. What has not yet been fully explored is how…
Abstract The fundamental research question we seek to answer is this: why has this resource boom, say in contrast with the Korean War and post…
