Surprisingly, exports and imports, tariffs and quotas, and trade deficits and surpluses are central to American foreign relations. Ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt took office during the Great Depression, the United States has linked trade to its long-term diplomatic objectives …
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 ri…
"Since the end of the Cold War the human face of economics has gained visibility and generated new conversations among economists and other social theorists. The reductive and mechanical "economic systems" that characterized the capitalism-vs.-socialism debates of the mid-20th c…
Achieving the ASEAN Economic Community 2015: challenges for member countries & business ; [bas…
by ASEAN Roundtable:, Singapore), Basu Das, Sanchita, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Discussions at the "Brainstorming Session on Achieving the ASEAN Economic Community 2015: Challenges for Member Countries and Business", Singapore
ASEAN leaders proclaimed to create an ASEAN Economic Community by 2015. But achieving the target requires cooperation and coordination both within and among the ten ASEAN economies. Currently, with countries having varying considerations towards complete liberalization, protecti…
China-Africa and an economic transformation
This volume considers China-Africa relations in the context of a global division of labour and power, and through the history and experiences of both China and Africa. It examines the core ideas of structural transformation, productive investment and industrialization, internati…
"The relationship between China and the United States has become the most important global issue in the twenty-first century. It is urgent to understand what is happening in China and where China is heading. However, there are many misconceptions about China in the West, which a…
Historical landscapes of the modern world / Christopher R. DeCorse -- 1492 : a different kind of "discovery" / Matthew Johnson -- Indigenous Caribbean networks in a globalizing world / Corinne L. Hofman -- Rethinking colonial Maya peripherality : colonial frictions, salvaged val…
Introduction : analysis and "normalisation" of the surge of external powers in Latin America / Gian Luca Gardini -- The United States in Latin America : lasting asymmetries, waning influence? / Tom Long -- The European Union in Latin America : a "neighbour" of values / Gian Luca…
"Over the past two decades Chinese engagement in Africa has attracted an increasing amount of global attention. In November 2006, representatives from 48 African countries, consisting of over 1,500 businesspeople and 41 heads of state, attended the Forum on China-Africa Cooperat…
Recounts the Danish anthropologist's year living in exile in Siberia among Yukaghir hunters after fleeing from the police, who were set to arrest him because of his efforts to organize a fair-trade fur cooperative with the hunters.
