Part I -- Chapter-1: A short economic history of EMEs -- Chapter-2: The Age of Dirigisme (1950-1980) -- Chapter-3: The Age of Crises (1980-2000) -- Chapter-4: The Age of Globalization (2000-2020) -- Part II -- Chapter-5: The New Seeds of Instability -- Chapter-6: Mapping out the EME Fault-lines...

A collection of eighteen articles have been purposely chosen to demonstrate the development of the original and significant contributions of my research over the period 1990 to 2008. Despite the relatively large number of articles, which cover a range of related issues, there is a surprisingly...