Abstract On their summit in May 2011, Japan and the EU decided to negotiate on a Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA). Against this background, the study…
Topic: Political Economy
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 article argues that the “principled multilateralism” of the immediate post-Cold War period is increasingly giving way to what may be called a “diminished…
Abstract South Asia is a latecomer with regard to regionalisom compared with other regions of the world and the Indian Ocean Region in particular, which…
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 A rising Africa has caught the attention of the world not merely because of its vast natural resources but also because it is the…
Abstract This paper discusses China and Russia and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Organisation (SCO), a Eurasian regional organisation established in 2001 and consisting of China,…
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 The EU and China, the first and third largest economies in the world, launched a strategic partnership in 2003. From the onset, this partnership…
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 Economies of scale are an alternative source of growth particularly at a time when countries are suffering from global economic malaise. The proposed EU-India…
Abstract The proposed bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) between India and the European Union has thrown up many contentious issues among which public procurement is…
Abstract This paper analyses the motivation determining the European Union’s (EU) aid allocation to Vietnam. Existing literature and EU official documents are used to build…
Abstract Chinese outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) in developed economies has increased substantially in recent years, driven by policy liberalization and structural adjustments in China’s…
