Imperial China used an empire-wide system of examinations to select civil servants. Using a semiparametric matching …

This paper studies the causes and consequences of political centralization and fragmentation in China and Europe. We … argue that the severe and unidirectional threat of external invasion fostered political centralization in China while Europe … the frequency of nomadic attacks and the number of regimes in China. Our model allows us to explore the economic …

The South China Sea has attracted considerable attention among politicians, journalists and scholars since it has …. The South China Sea is defined as "Mediterranean." By comparing it to other maritime spaces, like the Baltic and the … from concepts of the cultural theory of Oswald Spengler. The paper will look at the South China Sea from two perspectives …