Purpose - The study aims to examine the geoeconomic significance of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to China's global geopolitical ends. In this vein, the paper also seeks to explore the interplay between China's grand geoeconomic strategy and China's geopolitical ends from a...

As geopolitical factors increasingly influence markets, investors need to gauge the impact on investments. Most experts consider political risks unquantifiable, but this publication shows how such risks can be quantified and used for risk management

Today’s investors need to understand geopolitical trends as a main driving force of markets. This book provides just that: an understanding of the interplay between geopolitics and economics, and of the impact of that dynamic on financial markets.To me, geo-economics is the study of how...

"In the third decade of the 21st century, Asia remains the global center of economics, politics and security. Asia is at the forefront of wealth creation, innovation, and sustainability. There is a growing demand for knowing more about Asia. This Major Reference Set (MRS) is designed to help...

Some argue that the Trump administration's use of economic tools to achieve broader strategic goals signals the emergence of a new Geoeconomic World Order. However, the reality may not live up to the rhetoric. Rather than a paradigm shift in international affairs, the Trump administration's...

Recent developments suggest that the international economic order is transitioning away from the Neoliberal Order that has flourished for much of the post-Cold War period toward a new Geoeconomic Order. The shift to this new order, which is characterised by a growing ‘securitisation of...

Canada's trade diversification drive confronts daunting challenges given that economic geography places it deep in the gravity well of the United States while its main diversification opportunities require partnership with the US' chief geostrategic rival, China. In this note, I sketch out how...

Die Europäische Union gerät international zunehmend zwischen die Fronten. Die Corona-Pandemie verstärkt den weltwirtschaftlichen Wettbewerb, insbesondere die feindliche Rivalität zwischen den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika und China. In diesem Konflikt scheidet Neutralität für Brüssel...

"Sanctions as War: Anti-imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy offers the first comprehensive account of economic sanctions as a tool for exercising American power on the global stage. Since the 1980s, the US has steadily increased its reliance on economic sanctions, or the...

Introduction / Adluri Subramanyam Raju -- China and South Asia : new drivers / Srikanth Kondapalli -- China and South Asia : future scenario / Adluri Subramanyam Raju -- BRI, neo-tribute system and international financial assistance : perspectives for South Asia / R Srinivasan -- China's...

"This book studies the geopolitical and geoeconomic aspects of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It argues that BRI has the potential to redesign the spatial and territorial dimensions of governance and effectively counterbalance the hitherto predominant hegemonies of the Anglo-American...

When policy-makers opt for sanctions or other economic power instruments in response to geostrategic challenges, the stage is set for geoeconomic diplomacy. Challenging traditional conceptions about the interplay between governments and markets, this book sheds a new light on the diplomatic...

The last weeks of 2018 have set new records in net new institutional investment flows into infrastructure funds, with more generalist private equity and investment management players joining this strategic asset class par excellence, as the trend is likely to continue well into 2019 – 2020.The...

Will the increased economic connectivity across the Eurasian supercontinent transform Europe into the western peninsula of Greater Eurasia? The unipolar era entailed the US organising the two other major economic regions of the world, Europe and Asia, under US leadership. The rise of “the...

The Jamaican Entrepôt -- Joining the International System -- Institutionalizing International Trade, 1867-1904 -- Colombia and the Emerging Latin American Market, 1904-1910 -- Internationalizing Banking and Insurance, 1886-1939 -- Tropical Oil and the Andian National Corporation, 1918-1945 --...

Since the East Asian Miracle report was published by the World Bank in 1993, East Asian countries have achieved economic development with the "flying geese pattern" respectively as well as advancements in informatization based on each political and cultural context. In particular, the revolution...

"This contribution to the World Scientific series on the Belt and Road Initiative focuses on the overland connections west from China, the Silk Road Economic Belt component of the BRI. It emphasizes the economic underpinning of the Belt in the market-driven creation of the Eurasian Landbridge...