The policy response of many African commodity exporting economies to the slump in commodity prices after mid-2014 has been markedly different from that of commodity exporters elsewhere. First, few African countries allowed their currency to depreciate as much as other EMEs, for instance in Latin...

Using a purposive online and paper-based survey and focus group discussions with select target groups, this study makes inferences about the level of awareness of the Filipino people on ASEAN; their perceived problems confronting the Philippines and ASEAN; and their aspirations, concerns, and...

Analyser les rapports économiques et diplomatiques entre le Nigeria et la Suisse revient à se pencher sur des mécanismes peu connus de la globalisation: ceux d’une relation Nord-Sud entre deux puissances moyennes et non coloniales. Pays le plus peuplé d’Afrique, le Nigeria semblait en...

We derive new tests for proper calibration of multivariate density forecasts based on Rosenblatt probability integral transforms. These tests have the advantage that they i) do not depend on the ordering of variables in the forecasting model, ii) are applicable to densities of arbitrary...

In order to be able to assess the future institutional relationship between the UK and the EU, this study organises the relevant facts systematically. This is done by using a framework in which two aspects are compared with each other: On the one hand, the extent of the Single Market access for...

1. Economic Growth, Challenges, and Competition : The Era of Economic Giants ; China's Two Big Economic Challenges / John Cassidy ; Beijing Inc?: The Chinese Aren't Coming--They're Here / Roland Flamini ; Can China's Companies Conquer the World?: The Overlooked Importance of Corporate Power /...

Regional trends after the dissolution of "old orders" in the Middle East and North Africa / Guido Steinberg and Isabelle Werenfels -- The price war, OPEC and the future of the MENA region / Giacomo Luciani -- Global gas and LNG markets : the role for MENA countries / Anne-Sophie Corbeau --...

This book explores regionalism in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and highlights the influence of the European Union (EU) as an extra-regional actor on the organization and integration process. The analysis is guided by theory and explains the emergence, institutional design...

The East Asian paradox -- Insecurity and economic interdependence in East Asia -- Rare earth : China's economic coercion and the demise of Chinese monopoly -- Shale gas and oil : Japan's quest for alternative sources of energy -- Trade agreements as geo-economic Instruments -- Japanese...

Introduction : the changing pattern of world trade and politics -- Post-Soviet regions : from interdependence to countervailing powers? / David Lane -- The changing governance and geography of world trade / Stefan Schmalz -- China's initiatives in Asia : "one belt, one road" as a development...

Beastly politics : Dankwart Rustow and the Turkish model of modernization -- Questions of modernization : empathy and survey research -- Material encounters : experts, reports, and machines -- "It's not yours if you can't get there" : modern roads, mobile subjects -- The innkeepers of peace :...

The United States and the global oil era -- A new security framework -- The United States, economics, and energy -- China's steep ascent in the Persian Gulf -- Global oil and China's economic penetration -- Russia, from Cold War to the modern era -- Russia's trade and energy shift -- How...

Introduction: Hungarian medieval economic history : sources, research and methodology / Jozsef Laszlovszky, Balazs Nagy, Peter Szabo and Andras Vadas -- Structure -- Long-term environmental changes in medieval Hungary : changes in settlement areas and their potential drivers / Laszlo Ferenczi,...

This book offers a theoretically informed study of recent Chinese initiatives to provide forms of regional economic governance; or as it is often termed in Chinese discourses, regional "public goods". It does so by considering the evolution of Chinese thinking on international relations and the...

This book is among the first to systematically analyze and discuss the Chinese government's 'One Belt, One Road' initiative to promote infrastructure investment and economic development, bringing together a diverse range of scholars from China, Russia, and Eastern Europe. The book assembles a...

Regulatory parity in post-Brexit UK-EU financial regulation : EU norms, international financial standards, or a hybrid model? / Eilís Ferran -- The UK financial market : free movement of persons / Catherine Barnard -- EU financial governance after Brexit : the rise of technocracy and the...

Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Part I: Introduction: Theoretical and Methodological Insights -- 1. Global Education Policy and International Development: An Introductory Framework, Antoni Verger (Universitat Autonoma, Spain), Mario Novelli...

Introduction: the forgotten importance of the National Council -- Disorder under heaven: the deep uncertainty of Sino-American trade -- Backchannel to China: the nontraditional diplomacy of the National Council -- Informal trade diplomacy in detente and rapprochement: a comparative analysis --...

This book presents a cultural history of European integration. It revisits the European Community's postwar origins through the lens of symbolic representation and so reveals a hitherto unknown side to Europe’s notorious technocrats. They were not simply administrators: they were skillful...

Foreword -- 1. Father and son : at the apex of eighteenth-century culture -- 2. Date Munehiro in exile (Jitoku-ō) : intellectual pilgrimage of an Edo dignitary -- 3. Meiji restoration : into the age of revolution and gun smoke -- 4. Giant wings broken : the rise and fall of a Prussian-style...

Cross-strait economic ties, Taiwan's domestic politics, and China-Taiwan relations -- Taiwanese nationalism and the effect of Taiwan's identity politics on Chinese leaders: attitudes toward unification, 1990-2008 -- Taiwanese nationalism within the Taiwanese government and its effect on...