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...

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 /...

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...

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 --...

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...

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...

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...

Sino-African relations: a framework for analysis -- Geopolitical-economic dynamism and nexus of China's engagement in Africa -- Clashing worldviews and discursive representations of China -- China's aid and energy geopolitics -- Foreign aid in China's Africa power projection -- Geo-economic...

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,...

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...

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...

Situating the Arctic in China's strategy -- The snow dragon : China, polar science, and the environment -- Sovereignty and shipping -- Arctic resources and China's rising demand -- China and Arctic governance : uncertainty and potential friction -- The way ahead

German colonialism, development policy, and colonial power -- Development education and the (de-)stabilisation of colonial power -- Billboard advertising and the potential for subverting colonial power -- Transforming childbirth-related care in East Africa and challenges to colonial power --...

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 --...