Describes in a game-theoretical approach how the development success story Vietnam managed to keep rent seeking in check sufficiently to attract record numbers of foreign investors and exhibit strong economic growth in the early stages of its economic reforms. It concludes that pluralistic...

This book mobilises the theory of uneven and combined development to uncover the geopolitical economic drivers of China’s rise. The purpose is to explain the formation and trajectory of its economic "accumulation system" - which remains a confounding hybrid of statist and neoliberal forms of...

Introduction -- Restoring Tang splendour? : a critical historical assessment of China's new aspirational narrative of global leadership -- CPC elite perception of the US since the early 1990s : Zheng Bijian, Wang Huning and Liu Mingfu as test cases -- The "Singapore fever" in China : policy...

Introduction -- Restoring Tang splendour? : a critical historical assessment of China's new aspirational narrative of global leadership -- CPC elite perception of the US since the early 1990s : Zheng Bijian, Wang Huning and Liu Mingfu as test cases -- The "Singapore fever" in China : policy...