How do we explain why some countries have gone farther than others in their utilization of armed forces in non-military missions? After all, are the military as agent of modernization still relevant today? Mainstream theoretical approaches in comparative politics have difficulty responding to...

This paper considers the effect of exchange rate (ER) level on China’s domestic prices during the period of 2003–2012. We examine China’s consumer price index (CPI), import price index (IPI) and producer price index (PPI) by using time series vector error correction analysis. The main...