Despite the fragility of authoritative governing institutions at the international level, the politi-cal capacity to deal with global risks is developing. The sense of legitimacy that will ultimately derive from a deeply transnational sense of shared fate continues to lag, but even in that...

In the context of a collaborative project on the meaning and legacy of a cultural construction commonly called ‘the West,' and specifically its key Anglo-American dimension, this paper provides a comparative examination of two key bilateral relationships at the core of that construction:...

Financial risks as well as opportunities now flow more freely across the borders of all but the poorest countries in the world. But globalizing finance became an observable fact before appropriate political structures were in place to steer it. The basic proposition that robust financial markets...

Geography continues to shape the character and promise of Hong Kong's financial sector. Its physical and human links to the heartland of China made it a natural center for trade in goods and services. And when trade between nations mediated by merchant companies was largely transformed by the...