Abstract The conviction that economic ties will engender peace in Asia has been a lynchpin of the US strategic response to a rising China for…
Topic: Political Economy
Abstract In “Protecting ‘The Prize’: Oil and the U.S. National Interest,” Eugene Gholz and Daryl G. Press present an important counterargument to many common but…
Abstract The East Asian “tribute system” from 1368 to 1841 comprised an enduring, stable, and hierarchic system, with China clearly the hegemon, in which cultural…
Abstract This paper builds on the work carried out by OEAS in China, which established the framework of ocean economy accounting in China. It also…
Abstract China’s maritime development having come up against pressures and challenges in recent years, the concept of “strategic hedging”—that is, pursuit of and investment in…
Abstract This paper builds on the work carried out by OEAS in China, which established the framework of ocean economy accounting in China. It also…
Abstract The traditional mode of governance of national and global monetary and financial markets was obviously too weak and piecemeal to hinder the recurrent outbreak…
Abstract In 2007, the World Bank was in crisis. Some saw conflicts over its leadership. Others blamed the institution itself. When the International Bank for…
Abstract To debtors, creditors can be like dictators. Governments in financial trouble often turn to the International Monetary Fund as supplicants, and acting at the…
Abstract In April 2013, Ukraine was sporting a massive current account deficit of eight percent, and it badly needed dollars to pay for vital imports.…
Abstract When Nitish Kumar became chief minister of the dirt-poor Indian state of Bihar in 2005, kidnapping was said to be the leading industry in…
Excerpt Over the past several years, the most talked-about trend in the global economy has been the so-called rise of the rest, which saw the…
Excerpt The idea that we live in an increasingly interconnected and turbulent world is something of a cliché — yet true and important nevertheless. Decisions…
Excerpt South Korea’s development over the last half century has been nothing short of spectacular. Fifty years ago, the country was poorer than Bolivia and…
Excerpt When the United Progressive Alliance, a group of center-left parties led by the Indian National Congress, came to power for a second term in…
