The political economy literature shows that monetary hegemony guarantees significant privileges to a country's economy — governments gain greater flexibility in their budgetary and current accounts without incurring significant macroeconomic imbalances. Such greater economic policy flexibility...

Purpose - This study aims to investigate the decline of American hegemony as one of the most prominent crises of the modern world order, from a broader perspective that transcends narrow traditional interpretations. The paper assumes that the September 11 events in 2001 have launched the actual...

The author believes that the American hegemonic order is withdrawing as a world order, but this does not mean that the United States will not be regarded as the world's largest power in the future, but that hegemony as an order is withdrawing . In the real world, both countries and individuals...

The Economic Consequences of the Peace was first published in 1919, and since then, changed the economic discourse surrounding reparations and Carthaginian peace. This paper specifies how three elements hinted at in the introduction of the Economic Consequences of the Peace - social classes,...

We develop a theoretical logic and character of a Chinese model of international order. We begin by considering general problems of power transition and hegemonic order-building, with reference to the American experience with liberal hegemony. China will, like all powerful states, seek an order...

Chapter 1. The Strategic Logic of China’s Economy -- Chapter 2. The Dynamic Strategy Theory, a Formal Statement -- Chapter 3. Industrialisation Sub-strategies: Theory and Practice -- Chapter 4. Asia’s First Industrial Giant: Japan’s Strategic Pursuit -- Chapter 5. China’s Millennial...

We present a dynamic two-country model in which military spending, geopolitical risk, and government bond prices are jointly determined. The model is consistent with three empirical facts: hegemons have a funding advantage, this advantage rises with geopolitical tensions, and war losers suffer...

"A novel theory of how technological revolutions affect the rise and fall of great powers. When scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great powers, they draw on theories that center the moment of innovation-the eureka moment that sparks...

Theoretical approach: the cross-strait rapprochement as a contested hegemonic project -- The historical and structural origins of the hegemonic project -- Reformist resistance against the black box: technocratic management and the structured spontaneity of the wild strawberry movement -- The...

Introduction 1. Post-Marxism and the Materiality of Labour 2. Labour and Political Society: On the Contingency of Capitalism 3. Money and the Limits of Labour 4. Domination and the Antagonisms of Value 5. Subjectivity and the Logics of Value Conclusion: Labour, Class, and the Political

This paper develops an economic theory of empire building. This theory addresses the choice among three strategies that empire builders historically have used. We call these strategies Uncoerced Annexation, Coerced Annexation, and Attempted Conquest. The theory shows how the choice among these...

This volume offers two important contributions to the literature on sovereign debt. First, it provides a unique genealogy of debt collection practices in terms of their availability, acceptability and efficacy. We argue that creditors’ tactics and methods to enforce debt repayment emerged and...

The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine marked a turning point in American foreign policy. In 1904, President Roosevelt announced that, not only were European powers not welcome in the Americas, but that the U.S. had the right to intervene in the affairs of Central American and Caribbean...

Klappentext: Die Bewunderung für den schnellen Aufstieg Chinas innerhalb der globalen Wirtschaftsordnung weicht in westlichen Ländern zunehmend der Sorge vor einer autoritären Weltmacht. Heribert Dieter zeigt, wie China die Rolle der "Werkbank" überwunden hat und zunehmend...

Modern globalization's public goods (provided for the world economy as a whole and which include free flows of trade and factors of production across frontiers, stable rates of exchange, the containment of warfare and mercantilism, the preservation of the environment and latterly the protection...

Klappentext: Die Bewunderung für den schnellen Aufstieg Chinas innerhalb der globalen Wirtschaftsordnung weicht in westlichen Ländern zunehmend der Sorge vor einer autoritären Weltmacht. Heribert Dieter zeigt, wie China die Rolle der "Werkbank" überwunden hat und zunehmend...

"An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern timesThe world s first great empires established by the ancient Persians, Chinese, and Romans are well known, but not the empires that emerged on their margins in response to them over the course of...

"This book is the work of a research collective comprising authors from several parts of the world. It analyses issues from the perspective of Marxist political economy and puts forth alternative anti-capitalist proposals."

Seine riesigen Infrastrukturprojekte erstrecken sich inzwischen vom Meeresboden bis ins Weltall und von den Megastädten Afrikas bis ins ländliche Amerika. China ist dabei, die Welt zu vernetzen und die globale Ordnung neu zu gestalten. Der Kampf um die Zukunft ist eröffnet und verlangt von...

In den vergangenen Monaten wurden von einigen führenden Europapolitikern Strategien zur Erreichung einer sog. "europäischen Technologiesouveränität" gefordert. Die Fokussierung auf technologische und zuweilen auch "industrielle Souveränität" durch Politiker in Brüssel, Paris und anderen...

Recent research points out serious weaknesses in the current academic discourses of circular economy, among others the lack of understanding of the politics behind a transition towards circularity. In this paper we thus inquiry: What contingencies does the Circular Economy in Norway discourse...

This paper studies conflict in a hierarchical international system, the British Empire. How did the British Empire respond to violent and nonviolent resistance within its colonies? I develop a theory explaining how and why the metropole becomes involved in and grants concessions to its colonies....

The notion of the “Silk Road” that the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen invented in the 19th century has lost attraction to scholars in light of large amounts of new evidence and new approaches. The handbook suggests new conceptual and methodological tools for researching ancient...

This paper is concerned with the concept of hegemony and its applicability to understanding contemporary social and cultural developments. The concept of hegemony as used in social and cultural discourse has its roots in Marxist notions of class, oppression, ideology, base and superstructure, as...