This book describes, evaluates, and advocates for, sweeping changes in our global economic and political structure to ensure the prospects of global human civilization as we confront an uncertain future. It argues both for the Marshall Plan and for a limited federal world government to replace...

Ursachen und Erscheinungsformen der Globalisierung -- Akteure und ihre Strategien -- Folgen, Chancen und Risiken der Globalisierung -- Möglichkeiten der nationalen Politiken zur Beeinflussung der Globalisierung -- Modell einer Globalen Wirtschaftsordnung mit den Säulen Globale...

Ursachen und Erscheinungsformen der Globalisierung -- Akteure und ihre Strategien -- Folgen, Chancen und Risiken der Globalisierung -- Möglichkeiten der nationalen Politiken zur Beeinflussung der Globalisierung -- Modell einer Globalen Wirtschaftsordnung mit den Säulen Globale...

The attractiveness of product labeling stems from their voluntary nature to achieve environmental and social goals. Also, labeling of products has become the preferred instrument for solving high profile trade disputes amongst WTO members. This volume provides a look at labeling and its relation...

This book explains the role and limitations of liberalized international trade on the global environment and sustainable development. A distinguishing feature of this book is an integration of trade, environment and development perspectives for operationally meaningful policy purposes. The...

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...

This book provides a much-needed review of Asia’s economic growth and its challenges in the context of post-war industrialization. In the early 1990s, the World Bank (1993) recognized eight high-performing Asian economies (HPAEs) (Japan, the Asian tigers, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand) and...

This book discusses the economic and geopolitical effects of globalization from historical and institutional perspectives. While it has had unintended consequences, such as displacing developed countries' dominance of production markets, the overall benefits of globalization far outweigh the...

This book is aimed to analyze the effect of China, Japan and Korea's trade strategy on ASEAN countries. As closer economic ties between countries in the area have greatly expanded in the last decade, economic regionalization in East Asia has proceeded in a much more dynamic fashion while...

This book presents the series of lectures on the "Belt and Road Initiatives" from the Guang Ming Forum organized by Guang Ming Daily. Co-authored by Ge Jianxiong, Hu Angang, Lin Yifu, Qiao Liang and nine other respected scholars and experts, it provides a comprehensive analysis of the "Belt and...