Upstart

how China became a great power

A powerful new explanation of China's rise that draws from the business world to show that China is not simply copying established great powers, but exploiting geopolitical opportunities around the world that those other powers had ignored. Thirty years ago, the idea that China ...

The Russian economy

Since Tsarist times, Russia's leaders, rather than pursue economic growth for its own sake, have sought control over economic activity as a means to manage their own support base, respond to perceived security threats and to facilitate their wider geopolitical ambitions. Balancing the needs ...

Encrucijadas: China desde el presente

La idea Encrucijadas: China desde el presente, surge a raíz de los frecuentes encuentros entre varios profesores e investigadores interesados en temas de Asia Oriental. A pesar de la abundante literatura actual sobre el tema de China llegamos a la conclusión que existen pocas obras ...

The future of the Asia-Pacific in the new world order

emerging markets & emerging powers

This book is the result of a research work developed within the framework of the Chair of Strategic Studies of the European Institute of International Studies. During the last twenty years, the geopolitical transformation has been profound. Without a doubt, a historical cycle is ending ...

The japanese economy

Although still the world's third largest economy, Japan continues to feel the effects of the collapse of a massive asset price bubble in the early 1990s. In recent years further setbacks, including both the Asian and global financial crises, and the 2011 Fukushima earthquake ...

In the dragon's shadow

Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century

Today, Southeast Asia stands uniquely exposed to the waxing power of the new China. Three of its nations border China and five are directly impacted by its claims over the South China Sea. All dwell in the lengthening shadow of its influence: economic, political, military ...

Oro, petróleo y aguacates

Las nuevas venas abiertas de América Latina

Andy Robinson desvela en estas crónicas los entresijos de la extracción y el negocio de las materias primas más valiosas de América Latina, como la carne, el oro, el petróleo, el aguacate, el hierro, los diamantes, la patata, el cobre, la soja o el niobio ...

Red flags

why Xi's China is in jeopardy

A trusted economic commentator provides a penetrating account of the threats to China's continued economic rise Under President Xi Jinping, China has become a large and confident power both at home and abroad, but the country also faces serious challenges. In this critical take ...

China and the next crash

Emerging relatively unscathed from the banking crisis of 2008, China has been viewed as a model of both rampant success and fiscal stability. But beneath the surface lies a network of fissures that look likely to erupt into the next big financial crash. A bloated ...

The indian economy

The Indian economy has undergone marked changes over recent decades encompassing episodes of rapid growth and stagnation. It is a complex economic story that stretches back to the seismic events of 1947. This new title in the World Economies series explains the development of the ...

Communists constructing capitalism

state, market, and the Party in China’s financial reform

Why has China's 'transition' to a market economy not catalysed corresponding political transformation? In an era of deepening synergy between authoritarian politics and capitalist economics, this book offers a novel perspective on this central dilemma of contemporary Chinese development, shedding light on how the ...

The chinese economy

adaptation and growth

The new edition of a comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy, revised to reflect the end of the "miracle growth" period. This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert on China's economic development offers a quality and breadth of ...

L'économie américaine

Chaque année, le quart du PIB mondial est produit aux Etats-Unis par une population qui représente moins de 5% de celle de la planète. Le rapprochement de ces deux chiffres donne une idée de la puissance de l'économie américaine. Elle n'est d'ailleurs ...

Will China dominate the 21st century?

China's spectacular growth and expanding global role have led to visions of the 21st century being dominated by the last major state on earth ruled by a Communist Party. In this new edition of his widely acclaimed book, renowned China expert Jonathan Fenby shows ...

Capitalism from below

markets and institutional change in China

More than 630 million Chinese have escaped poverty since the 1980s, reducing the fraction remaining from 82 to 10 percent of the population. This astonishing decline in poverty, the largest in history, coincided with the rapid growth of a private enterprise economy. Yet private enterprise ...

A legal guide to doing business in South America

This new book, A Legal Guide to Doing Business in South America, discusses the legal environment of 10 major countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

China within the emerging asian multilateralism and regionalism

as perceived through a comparison with the european neighbourhood policy

Este documento de trabajo se esfuerza en identificar si China ha llegado a desarrollar en la pasada década(s) una serie coherente de políticas encaminadas a identificar y organizar su vecindad de forma multilateral. Si un tipo tal de "política de vecindad" puede ser identificada ...

The economies of Latin America

The economic backwardness of Latin America and the Caribbean has long been discussed, but seldom been the subject of such a wide-ranging quantitative study. The twelve essays in this collection present a twenty-first-century analysis of a long-term issue, providing extensive geographical coverage and allowing reinterpretations ...

Chocolate nations

living and dying for cocoa in West Africa

FROM BEAN TO BAR - WHERE DOES YOUR CHOCOLATE COME FROM? Chocolate - the very word conjures up a hint of the forbidden and a taste of the decadent. Yet the story behind the chocolate bar is rarely one of luxury...From the thousands of children who ...

China, The United States, and global order

The United States and China are the two most important states in the international system and are crucial to the evolution of global order. Both recognize each other as vital players in a range of issues of global significance, including the use of force, macroeconomic ...