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...

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...

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...

"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...

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 --...

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...

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...

The essay provides a brief overview of the transition that occurred in major legal systems from golden share to golden power provisions in order to protect national strategic interests in the economic field, with a focus on Italy. A closer look is then dedicated to a recent proposal for an EU...

"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...

The development of major oil and gas reserves in the autonomous Kurdish Region of Iraq (KRI) is a recent phenomenon which has attracted major media and industry interest. It represents the rare case, in recent history, of the discovery of a large new onshore conventional petroleum province. The...

Contents: Foreword by Dariusz Wójcik -- Introduction. Theorizing semi-peripheral geographies of finance and banking / Christian Sellar, Silvia Grandi and Juvaria Jafri -- 1. Geofinance/banking between political and financial geographies / Christian Sellar, Silvia Grandi and Juvaria Jafri --...