Israel's account of how such a small nation was able to achieve and sustain an ascendancy in world trade for so long emphasizes the connection between Dutch commercial activity in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Middle East, and its penetration of nearby European markets.
"'China, ' Napoleon once remarked, 'is a sleeping lion. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world.' In 2014, President Xi Jinping declared the lion had awakened. Under his leadership, China is pursuing a dream to restore its historical position as the dominant p…
Five companies dominate the U.S. petroleum industry. Five control the world-wide trade in grain. Two have a corner on the private market for drinking water. In terms of actual dollars, trade in heroin, cocaine, and tobacco ranks alongside that in grain or metals. There are more …
Merchants, pirates, and smugglers: criminalization, economics, and the transformatio…
by Lambert, Bart, Barros, Amandio, Baur, Kilian, Carr, Mike, Christ, Georg, Daniels, Tobias, Dartmann, Christoph, Kelleher, Marie, Krey, Alexander, Meichsner, Michael, Miranda, Flavio, Mozeijko, Beata, Sohmer Tai, Emily, Vognsen Hansen, Frederik
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Liberalism and the contradictions of American leadership -- Power, multilateralism, and neoliberalism at the WTO -- Power shift -- Brazil : new drivers of liberalization -- China : a delicate dance -- India : balancing complex trade interests
The world economic order has been upended by the rise of the BRIC nations and the attendant decline of the United States' international influence. Breaking the WTO provides a groundbreaking analysis of how power shifts in the world economic order have played out in one of the mo…