1. 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Trends and the Current State of Communism and Post-Communism in Europe and Asia -- 2. A Taxonomy of Post-Communist Economies after 30 Years of Reforms -- 3. The Central Asian Countries’ Economies in the Twenty-First Century -- 4. The...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Second Return to the Fund -- Chapter 3. Restoring Credibility: Passing All the Tests -- Chapter 4. Tracking the Themes through the Medium Term Economic and Financial Programs -- Chapter 5. A New Element: The Governance Paradigm and EPOC -- Chapter 6....

Chapter I Introduction -- Part I The International Relations of Population Resources and Environment -- Chapter II Development: Global Strategy of the Balance of Population Potential and Resource -- Chapter III Global Warming and China’s Development -- Part II Strengthening the External...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Economics of State Fragility -- 3. Zimbabwe’s First Decade: Building the One-Party State and Controlling the Economy -- 4. Regime Interests and the Failure of Economic Reform in the 1990s -- 5. Regime Survival and the Fast Track Land Reform Programme -- 6. Regime...

Chapter 1. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): The South-South Cooperation (SSC) with Chinese Characteristics -- Chapter 2. The Belt and Road Initiative: China’s New Role in Geopolitics and Security Issue -- Chapter 3. The BRI and its Economic Corridors: Opportunities for Development --...

Preface -- Part I Size -- Chapter 1: Mega-states vs. Compact Powers: Risks in the Emerging International System -- Chapter 2: Effects of the Size of a Country on its Economic Performance -- Part II Political Regimes and Social Structure -- Chapter 3: Analyzing Dependence and Conflict in a...

1. A Hierarchy of Threats -- 2. The survival of the Euro: whatever it takes -- 3. Immigration: what now? -- 4. Populism -- 5. The EU's Illiberal Democracies -- 6. The EU, China and their changing relations -- 7. Re-invigorating the EU Project -- 8. Conclusion

Part I: The EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Context -- 1. Introduction: Resilience and the Eastern Partnership—What Relevance for Policies?- Gabriela Carmen Pascariu and Gilles Rouet -- 2. Increasingly Geopolitical: EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood in the Age of Multiple Crises- Cristian Nitoiu --...

1. Introduction -- 2. Liaoning: The Smothering Effects of Local Protectionism -- 3. Slow, Steady, Cheap, and Painless: Making Sense of China’s Bad Loan Strategy -- 4. Who Loses from Restricting Chinese Student Visas? -- 5. From Windfalls to Pitfalls: Qualcomm’s China Conundrum -- 6. In Xi We...

Political Risk Complementarity Between Business Economics and International Relations -- The Impact of Public Debt on Economic Growth: Empirical Analyses for Western Balkan Countries -- Inflation and Economic Growth in Turkey -- Distance as Determinant of FDI in Transition Countries -- The...