Abstract While East Asia is often cited as a region at high risk of interstate military conflict, it has remained free of major hostilities since…
Topic: Political Economy
Excerpt In November 2012, I found myself at the Trident Hotel in Mumbai—one of a tiny handful of Americans attending a forum, sponsored by prominent…
Abstract Are the BRICs driving a fundamental transformation of the world economy? Journalists, investors, policymakers, and academics alike prognosticate about the global impact of these…
Abstract The growing international influence of so-called emerging powers has had a major impact on global governance, leading to new challenges for established and emerging…
Abstract In recent years, efforts to institutionalise resource security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region have intensified. Soaring world prices for minerals and energy have seen…
Abstract This article examines the participation of China’s Yunnan Province in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) in order to understand the dynamics behind the regionalisation…
Abstract This paper investigates the policy space open to developing countries under the WTO regime. It is apparent that industrial policy options in developing countries…
Abstract The history of great power conflicts waged by maritime/island powers clearly shows the criticality of supporting continental allies with a ground force commitment. Now…
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to consider certain consequences of large post-crisis capital flows in advanced economies. Specifically, I offer an examination of…
Summary This book offers a comparative and historical analysis of foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization in China and India and explains how the return of…
Summary The global financial crisis of 2007–2008 was both an economic catastrophe and a watershed event in world politics. In American Power after the Financial Crisis,…
Summary This balanced and thoughtful book presents a thorough analysis of the dynamics of China’s foreign relations. Sebastian Heilmann and Dirk H. Schmidt provide a…
Abstract How has the involvement of the North Korean state influenced the geographic development of North Korean drug trafficking networks? In this paper, I use…
Abstract The palm oil industry exemplifies the ‘regionalisation without regionalism’ pattern seen in other industries in Asia: extensive, regionally concentrated transnational economic integration accompanied by…
Abstract With the intensification of the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF’s) worldwide campaign to promote anti-money-laundering regulation since the late 1990s, all Asian states except…
