Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to analyse international political economy (IPE) thought in Korea during its pre-modern and colonial eras. Design/methodology/approach - It divides these eras into three periods. The first period is the eighteenth century, in which Silhak arose. The second...

The international statuses of currencies shape a fundamental characteristic of the international monetary system, which has significant impacts on the world political economy by affecting the political as well as economic relationships among states. The study of international currencies has been...

As the internationalisation of the renminbi has progressed rapidly in recent years, research on it has also grown considerably. However, most of this research tends to focus analysing it from the supply side, looking, for example, at China's economic and political conditions and related policy...

As the internationalisation of the renminbi has progressed rapidly in recent years, research on it has also grown considerably. However, most of this research tends to focus mainly on analysing it from the supply side, looking, for example, at China’s economic and political conditions and...

The international statuses of currencies shape a fundamental characteristic of the international monetary system, which has significant impacts on the world political economy by affecting the political as well as economic relationships among states. The study of international currencies has been...

This study analyses international political economy (IPE) thought in Korea during its premodern and colonial eras. It divides these eras into three periods. The first period is the 18th century, in which Silhak arose. The second is the mid- and late 19th century, a time characterised by...

Despite the central bank's crucial position in the economy, as the issuer of the currency and the body responsible for monetary policy, its preferences regarding currency internationalization and its roles in that process have rarely been analyzed in the literature. This study attempts to fill...

Who are the first users of a newly-internationalizing currency? This issue, crucial to understanding the dynamics of the emergence of a new international monetary order, remains long underexplored in the existing literature, which tends to adopt a supply-side approach analyzing mainly the...