This year’s Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin marked the largest gathering in the organisation’s history, drawing more than 20 heads of state and 10 representatives of international organisations. At the SCO+ session, China’s Head of State and Party Leader Xi...

This year's Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin marked the largest gathering in the organisation's history, drawing more than 20 heads of state and 10 representatives of international organisations. At the SCO+ session, China's Head of State and Party Leader Xi Jinping...

What might a new world order look like and who will shape it? Looking to the historical precedent of the Bretton Woods system reveals how notions of order, security and fairness were intertwined with power, hierarchy and agency. Contemporary global challenges, from geopolitical tensions to...

The BRICS' expansion should be seen in the context of an ongoing challenge to the international order in general, and the West's competition with China and Russia in particular. China views the current difficulties of the liberal international order as a moment of "strategic opportunity,"...

This article analyzes the shifts in the global order that occurred in relation to governments' actions and their search for an increased global status within the capitalist global system. Examining the deliberate application of governmental economic interventions, the article examines how Brazil...

Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Conceptual Framework -- Chapter 2 AI and International relations:A new balance of power in a new world order.-Chapter 3 Artificial Intelligence: New wars, new arms, and new players in international relations -- Chapter 4 Terrorism and Lethal Autonomous...

This book facilitates exchanges between scholars and researchers from around the world on China-Eurasia relations.Comparing perspectives and methodologies, it promotes interdisciplinary dialogue on China’s pivot towards Eurasia, the Belt and Road initiative, the Shanghai Cooperation...

This essay discusses the new forces at work about the conduct of the war of aggression of Russia against the sovereign state of Ukraine. The essay starts in a first section with a discussion on the sanctions imposed by the Western countries to react to the Russian war against the Ukraine; the...

Claims that "globalization is dead" are premature, though some commentators refer to post-globalization and recognise various developments as signalling a move away from some of the globalized "certainties" of recent decades. Established trends in world trade, international relationships and the...

Claims that "globalization is dead" are premature, though some commentators refer to post-globalization and recognise various developments as signalling a move away from some of the globalized "certainties" of recent decades. Established trends in world trade, international relationships and the...

This paper assesses the future of international governance and norms in the contest for global leadership. It evaluates the impact of China’s rise and the prospects and limits of transatlantic cooperation given the internal and external challenges besetting the United States and Europe. Part I...

From the perspective of international economic governance, other than casting aspersions on the judgement of those that negotiated previous multilateral trade accords and the accession of China to the World Trade Organization, the deglobalisation narrative is silent on how to reform that...

A world of risks and uncertainties can also be a world of opportunities. How and how quickly the EU adapts to the socio-political, economic, energy and climate transitions at hand, and how it responds to geopolitical shifts and shocks, will determine whether it can sustain its role and standing...

From the standpoint of the focus of this article, we need to find a better way to compensate the losers from globalisation so that voters re-engage through the democratic process with openness and benefit from the potential for increased prosperity that this holds.

The economic consequences of the war could potentially be used to postpone climate policy, energy saving and the shift to renewable energy. This includes investments in atomic energy - perhaps in smaller plants - as there is still no satisfactory solution for the storage of nuclear waste.

There are various dimensions to International law and its applicability. They include the political, diplomatic, military, and economic dimensions. Politically, the countries might reshape International Legal Order (ILO). Diplomatically, there is a need for efforts to develop approaches to...

Hegemonic powers, like the United States and China, exert influence on other countries by threatening the suspension or alteration of financial and trade relationships. Mechanisms that generate gains from integration, such as external economies of scale and specialization, also increase the...

"An exploration of how China's Belt and Road Initiative seeks to reshape international order and how it has catalyzed a new era of infrastructural geopolitics. Over the past decade China has put infrastructural and urban development at the heart of a strategy aimed at nothing less than the...

"This book underscores the historical evolution of the capitalist world system since the sixteenth century, elucidating the eighteenth-century fall and contemporary rise of China, India, and Pakistan. Emphasizing the importance of both economic and strategic powers for nations, the narrative...

""This carefully researched book views the history and prospects of twelve extremely different economies through four societal prisms: their work, thrift, trust, and risk-taking characteristics." Wilbur Ross US Secretary of Commerce 2017-21 and Author of Risks & Rewards "A must-read for...

Social change and Chinas dream will the Chinas Dream come true -- Understanding Chinas strategic public management -- The New Public Management comes to China -- The rebalancing of Chinese society -- The opening of Chinas economy and the changing role of the Party State -- China and the new...

Foreign aid and world order(s), a political economy of crisis and disruptors -- A critique of the neo-liberal world order : a foreign aid perspective -- Crises and disruptors of world order(s) : the first decades of the 21st century -- A critique of contemporary foreign aid -- The...

"The 1970s are widely seen as a turning point for the world economy and a transformative decade for the international order. This volume explores the role played by the oil crises in this transformation, focusing particularly on their impact in previously little-studied regions such as Asia and...