Preface -- Part I Size -- Chapter 1: Mega-states vs. Compact Powers: Risks in the Emerging International System -- Chapter 2: Effects of the Size of a Country on its Economic Performance -- Part II Political Regimes and Social Structure -- Chapter 3: Analyzing Dependence and Conflict in a...

The report was written by senior scholars of international studies and Indian Ocean studies and focuses on international relations in the Indian Ocean region and covers many aspects of OBOR policy and South Asia. The report includes both a strategic review and major events, as well as related...

1. Introduction: The BRI as Strategic Camouflage -- 2. The Road to the Belt and the Road -- 3. The BRI and its Different Manifestations -- 4. India May Join and Benefit from the BRI – A Chinese View -- 5. The BRI and the Good, Not So Good and Bad Business with India -- 6. India as Jealous Foe...

1. A Hierarchy of Threats -- 2. The survival of the Euro: whatever it takes -- 3. Immigration: what now? -- 4. Populism -- 5. The EU's Illiberal Democracies -- 6. The EU, China and their changing relations -- 7. Re-invigorating the EU Project -- 8. Conclusion

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...

1. 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Trends and the Current State of Communism and Post-Communism in Europe and Asia -- 2. A Taxonomy of Post-Communist Economies after 30 Years of Reforms -- 3. The Central Asian Countries’ Economies in the Twenty-First Century -- 4. The...

1. Introduction -- 2. Liaoning: The Smothering Effects of Local Protectionism -- 3. Slow, Steady, Cheap, and Painless: Making Sense of China’s Bad Loan Strategy -- 4. Who Loses from Restricting Chinese Student Visas? -- 5. From Windfalls to Pitfalls: Qualcomm’s China Conundrum -- 6. In Xi We...

Political Risk Complementarity Between Business Economics and International Relations -- The Impact of Public Debt on Economic Growth: Empirical Analyses for Western Balkan Countries -- Inflation and Economic Growth in Turkey -- Distance as Determinant of FDI in Transition Countries -- The...

1. Introduction. -2. Jamaica “Comin’ in from de Cold” -- 3. The Moyne Commission -- 4. Jamaica: Independence Realized -- 5. Introducing the International Monetary Fund -- 6. A Clash of Ideologies: Jamaica and the International Monetary Fund -- 7. The 1980s and 1990s: Inflection Points? --...