Addressing the unprecedented international interest in China’s high-speed railways, this book adopts a global perspective to examine the success of the system and probes into its going-global strategy in the context of the “Belt and Road” initiative, providing readers around the world a...

Part I: The EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Context -- 1. Introduction: Resilience and the Eastern Partnership—What Relevance for Policies?- Gabriela Carmen Pascariu and Gilles Rouet -- 2. Increasingly Geopolitical: EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood in the Age of Multiple Crises- Cristian Nitoiu --...

1. Taking Chinese IR Scholars Seriously -- 2. On China’s Power and International Order: Is China a Challenger? -- 3. On US–China Relations: Problems and Prospects -- 4. On Chinese Foreign Policy and International Relations -- 5. Understanding China’s Rise through the Eyes of Scholars and...

Chapter 1. Russia’s Return to the Middle East: What’s Driving It? -- Chapter 2. New Old Key Player: What to Expect from the Russia’s Growing Role in the Middle East -- Chapter 3. GCC within the Russian Diplomacy towards the Middle East: Moscow’s Plans and Reality -- Chapter 4. Gulf...

1. Historical context: First Globalization, British Empire, effects on the colonies, Industrial revolution in Britain, Deindustrialization in Bengal, slave trade -- 2. New Globalization starts with the abolition of the Soviet Union in 1991. WTO in 1995, impacts on Yugoslavia, Brazil, India....

Monetary Issues: Monetary Unions: Between International Trade and National Sovereignty -- Why a Monetary Union?- Monetary Policy in a Monetary Union: Lessons from Simple Models -- Institutions and Monetary Policy -- Fiscal Issues: Government Deficits, Transfers and Debt -- Fiscal Policies in a...

Mit fortschreitender Globalisierung nimmt die Bedeutung internationaler Wirtschaftsbeziehungen zu. In diesem Buch werden deren Grundlagen in vier größeren Themenblöcken vorgestellt. In der Außenhandelstheorie wird gezeigt, inwiefern Freihandel für ein ganzes Land von Vorteil sein kann, und...

Introduction -- Emerging markets perspectives on G-20 led financial reforms -- Global Finance Ten Years after the Global Financial Crisis -- Where is the US trade policy headed under the Trump Administration? -- Trade, Investment, and the Multilateral Trading System -- Technological Change and...

1. International Business and Emerging Economy Firms: Present Characteristics and Future Trends; Marin A. Marinov, Svetla T. Marinova, Jorma A. Larimo and Tiina Leposky -- Part I. Universal Issues Concerning Emerging Economy Firms -- 2. Multinational Enterprise and Inclusive Innovation at the...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. New pragmatism for new times -- Chapter 3. Political system and socio-economic development -- Chapter 4. People’s planet -- Chapter 5. Leadership: economics and politics of great change -- Chapter 6. One-third of the century of transformation -- Chapter 7....