Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to analyse the international political economy of Korea and its effects due to geopolitical tension between China and the USA. Design/methodology/approach - Economic war between China and the USA has prolonged longer than expected. Aftermath of the COVID-19...

Introduction: Silks, A Global Perspective -- Part I: Exchanges, Markets And Trade -- 1. The Golden Age Of Valencian Silk? Rise, Crisis And Productive Reconversion Of The Valencian Silk Industry (18th-19th Centuries) -- 2. Auctions And The Distribution Of Silks In The United Provinces In The 18th...

One of the remarkable phenomena in recent years is the growing trend of globalization. Iran is also seeking to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) to expand non-oil exports and presence in global markets, and is currently a member of the organization's oversight body. Handmade industries...

The Silk Roads were a decentralized network of trade routes that connected ancient cities across Eurasia. Goods, ideas, people, and technology moved along the roads for over 1,500 years. Using a detailed georeferenced map of the entire trade network, this paper finds that areas within 50 KM of...

We exploit the natural experiment of Japan’s opening to international trade to examine how comparative advantage can shape a country’s long-run path towards financial development. In the late 19th century, many of Japan’s prefectures had a natural comparative advantage in silk reeling....

The idea of creating a single transport and logistics network infrastructure with neighboring countries and regions – the Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) and the Maritime Silk Road (MSR) - was first announced by Chinese President Xi Jinping in autumn 2013 during his speeches in Astana and...

The tourism industry and creative economy in Cirebon can not be separated from the historical aspect of the city's growth and development as silk lines in the spread of Islam, trade, and acculturation is very smooth so that the ethnic diversification becomes a major part in tourist activities....

The new Silk Road project for Central Asia and Europe is mutually beneficial and advantageous, since the project does not involve the creation of any structural entity, it is a variant of economic integration based on common interests, primarily the creation of a unified network of highways and...

Production: the development of sericulture and interacting with the natural environment -- Trade: negotiations between central governments and local societies -- Fashion: the desire for luxury silk, the color red, and foreignness -- Regulation: sumptuary laws and the decline of the traditional...

The Polar Silk Road is a 2018 announced policy of China's in relation to its ambitions with the Arctic Circle and adjoining countries. It is a further strategic move under the ambitious Belt & Road Initiative ("One Belt, One Road"). The Arctic is rich in mineral resources, with global warming is...

This contribution discusses legal methodology problems of multilevel trade and investment regulation (section I) and explores related problems of adjudication involving investment projects in the context of China's 2013 ‘One Belt, One Road' (OBOR) initiative involving more than 65 countries...

"This book describes the central role that these exotic luxuries - spices, scents and silks - played in the lives of the ancients, traces the development of the great international trade networks that delivered them, and explores how the demand for such luxuries shaped the world."

The concept of the Silk Road Economic Belt put forward by China in September 2013 has two major dimensions: ‘the Road' and ‘the Belt'. This article argues that building ‘the Road' may lead to: (a) the transformation of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) from hitherto primarily...

Handloom industry provides widest employment opportunities in West Bengal, where 5.8% of the households involved have been found to be silk handloom weavers, which bears a rich legacy. Shantipur and Phulia in Nadia district are the two major handloom concentrated areas in West Bengal. The main...

Sericulture is an important livelihood option in rural West Bengal providing employment to more than 1 lakh families in the rural and semi-urban areas. The productivity level of sericulture (land and leaf) is not low compared to that of the major silk producing states in the country, which opens...

This article argues that the Labor Movement should adopt a strategy of moving the National Labor Relations Board to revive the doctrine of Joy Silk Mills, a 77-year old doctrine that has lain moribund for over forty-five years. Under the Joy Silk doctrine, a union could obtain a bargaining order...

"Spontaneous Generation and Marvellous Transformations Under magnification, the fibres of cotton, linen, and wool appear twisted, hatched, knobbly or scaled. In contrast, silk strands were described in 1665 by the first English micrographer as "small, round, hard, transparent, and to their...

Six years after President Xi Jinping outlined the idea of the Silk Road economic belt during his visit to the University of Nazarbayev in Kazakhstan, followed a month later by the announcement of the construction of the twenty-first century maritime Silk Road, the Belt and Road Initiative has...

Music and "music making" as a means of communication have always played an important role on the Silk Road. It reflects intercultural and transcultural encounters as well as the discovery and change of humanity. In this great transnational and transcultural space, music developed into its own...

Along the historic Silk Road, tourism has established itself as an important economic sector in many regions with the support of key international organisations like the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). These...

In the July/August issue of Intereconomics, Silke Tober criticised a proposal put forth by Andrew Watt to solve the euro crisis through the use of monetary financing of the public sector. Tober argued that there are valid reasons to keep monetary and fiscal policy separate from one another and...

The production of silk occupies a unique place in Thai cultural and economic practices. However, the practice is rarely passed on to the younger generation and is widely considered to be a dying craft. In response, influential organizations have proposed use of the internet as a way to...

A study was carried out in the Teaching and Research Farm of Delta State University, Asaba Campus from August to December in 2005 and repeated between March and July, 2006 to evaluate the response of maize (Zea mays) to liquid organic fertilizer. The study was conducted using a split plot fitted...