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...

Chapter 1. The Sino-Brazilian Strategic Partnership: In Search of a Multipolar World -- Chapter 2. The Global Commodities Boom and the Sino-Brazilian Trade -- Chapter 3. The Chinese Are Coming: China´s Investments in Brazil -- Chapter 4. China, the Amazon and Climate Diplomacy -- Chapter 5. The...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Second Return to the Fund -- Chapter 3. Restoring Credibility: Passing All the Tests -- Chapter 4. Tracking the Themes through the Medium Term Economic and Financial Programs -- Chapter 5. A New Element: The Governance Paradigm and EPOC -- Chapter 6....

Chapter I Introduction -- Part I The International Relations of Population Resources and Environment -- Chapter II Development: Global Strategy of the Balance of Population Potential and Resource -- Chapter III Global Warming and China’s Development -- Part II Strengthening the External...

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....

1. Introduction -- 2. The Economics of State Fragility -- 3. Zimbabwe’s First Decade: Building the One-Party State and Controlling the Economy -- 4. Regime Interests and the Failure of Economic Reform in the 1990s -- 5. Regime Survival and the Fast Track Land Reform Programme -- 6. Regime...

Chapter 1. Introduction: Chinese Economic Statecraft from 1978 to 1989: The First Decade of Deng Xiaoping’s Reforms. By Priscilla ROBERTS -- Chapter 2. Seven Policies That Opened China to the Outside World, 1979-1990. By Lawrence C. REARDON -- Chapter 3. Deng Plays the ‘China Card’: Deng...

Chapter 1: From the Northern Triangle to Northern Europe: How Good Governance Can Rescue Central America -- Chapter 2. Economic Reform Priorities and the Governance Trap -- Chapter 3. Enhancing Global Engagement -- Chapter 4. Conclusions and Potential Futures.

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