Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Belt and Road Initiative in South Asia: benefit for China or threat to participants -- Chapter 3: China’s Conundrum in Afghanistan -- Chapter 4: China in Bangladesh: Developing infrastructure or deepening influence -- Chapter 5: Growing Sino-Indian...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I: Theoretical Background -- Chapter 2 Lobbying – A Public Choice Perspective -- Chapter 3 Lobbying from the Perspective of Behavioral Political Economy -- Chapter 4 Policy Failure and Lobbying -- Chapter 5 Lobbying and Macroeconomic Development -- Part II:...

1. Introduction -- 2. Common Prosperity: Vision or Campaign? -- 3. The Bureaucracy Strikes Back -- 4. The Party and Common Prosperity -- 5. Can China Innovate without the Platform Economy? -- 6. Xi Jinping’s End Game.

The aim of this paper is to unveil the main cultural patterns adopted by the Chinese leadership to project smart power abroad, and to provide a new perspective on the claims by Chinese scholars and politicians who argue that a new paradigm in international relations is being promoted by Beijing....

The aim of this paper is to unveil the main cultural patterns adopted by the Chinese leadership to project smart power abroad, and to provide a new perspective on the claims by Chinese scholars and politicians who argue that a new paradigm in international relations is being promoted by Beijing....

The growing global presence of China’s state-owned enterprise (SOEs) has captured much of the world’s attention. Continuous waves of SOEs’ overseas ventures, a result of government-led transnationalization officially dubbed the “Going Out” strategy, have generated great uneasiness in...