Summary The Asian Financial Crisis dramatically illustrated the vulnerability of financial markets in emerging, transitional, and advanced economies. In response, international organizations insisted that legal…
Topic: Political Economy
Abstract The number of bilateral nuclear cooperation agreements surged during the “nuclear `renaissance” of the past decade. This proliferation is only partially explained by the…
Summary This new edition brings Stanley Wolpert’s brilliantly succinct and accessible introduction to India completely up to date for a new generation of readers, travelers,…
Summary As the Japanese economy languished in the 1990s Japanese government officials, business executives, and opinion leaders concluded that their economic model had gone terribly…
Summary Asia is experiencing major changes in its security relations. This book brings together respected experts to assess both the theoretical and empirical dimensions of…
Summary “The world has enough for both of us” has come to be a regular refrain of Chinese and Indian leaders. Even academic commentaries sometimes…
Summary This authoritative and comprehensive assessment of U.S. relations with East Asia offers a cogent analysis of the issues affecting the region, as well as…
Abstract 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…
Abstract This article considers three questions: 1) what progress has been made in achieving MDG1 targets?; 2) what challenges remain?; and 3) what more could…
Abstract Russia made uneven progress in democratization during the 1990s, but this limited progress was reversed after Vladimir Putin rose to power in 1999-2000, according…
Summary Southeast Asia has long fascinated development practitioners and researchers for being one of the few regions of the world that has resisted global trends…
Summary Something new is happening across East Asia. A part of the world long noted for its lack of internal economic links is discussing regional…
Abstract Fifteen years ago, Japan appeared to be an emerging new center of regional and global power. Although constrained from exercising military force by its…
Summary This is the first comprehensive analysis of the ways in which changes in the geopolitical context have altered the nature of the long-stable U.S.-Japan…
Summary From the oilfields of Saudi Arabia to the Nile delta, from the shipping lanes of the South China Sea to the pipelines of Central…
