Mozambique has become a significant destination for a diverse portfolio of investments in mining, liquid natural gas, power plants, industrial complexes and large-scale agricultural schemes. Acquiring investments across sectors has re-emerged as a top national priority, though few of these...

Instructions: Hariri & Wingender add new nuance to the traditional wisdom that economic modernisation is a path to democracy. They show that the diffusion of repressive, military technologies, causes a decline in the number of democratisations in the following years, and argue that this is...

Preface by Ping Xinqiao -- An Important Innovation Achievement of Economics Theory with Chinese Characteristics -- On Li Yining's contribution to economics -- Introduction -- I. Formation of Economics Theory with Chinese Characteristics -- II. The Framework Structure and Main Content of this...

Modernization theory is a cornerstone of much of political science, despite the mounting evidence against its predictions. In this paper, we argue that the theory's failings are rooted in predictions that are not conditioned on history and cultural configurations. We outline a theory in which...

Modernization theory is a cornerstone of much of political science, despite the mounting evidence against its predictions. In this paper, we argue that the theory's failings are rooted in predictions that are not conditioned on history and cultural configurations. We outline a theory in which...

Chapter 1 What Kind of Book is This? -- Chapter 2 The World that Trade Created -- Chapter 3 The Military Revolution in the Era of Early Economic Globalization -- Chapter 4 The Big Shuffle: theEast Asian World in the Era of Early Economic Globalization -- Chapter 5 Fighting on Sea and Land:...

"In this ambitious new interdisciplinary study, Useche proposes the metaphor of the social foundry to parse how industrialization informed and shaped cultural and national discourses in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spain. Across a variety of texts, Spanish writers, scientists,...