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Geopolitics and Asia's Little Divergence : A Comparative Analysis of State Building in China and Japan after 1850
Koyama, Mark; Moriguchi, Chiaki; Sng, Tuan-Hwee - 2015
We provide a new framework to account for the diverging paths of political development and state building in China and Japan during the second half of the nineteenth century. The arrival of Western powers not only brought opportunities to adopt new technologies, but also fundamentally threatened...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014132189
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Re-orient? : MNC penetration and contemporary shifts in the global political economy
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2009
This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the "Re-orient" approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation shifting to the Indian Ocean/Pacific region, the article also analyses the role of MNC (foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003896161
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Re-Orient? MNC Penetration and Contemporary Shifts in the Global Political Economy
Tausch, Arno - 2009
This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the Re-orient approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation shifting to the Indian Ocean/Pacific region, the article also analyses the role of MNC (foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155598
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Atlantic Trade and the Decline of Conflict in Europe
Ahsan, Reshad - 2020
We use over 250 years of conflict and market integration data to provide the first quantitative evidence that Atlantic … trade contributed to Europe's pacification between 1640 and 1896. While the decline in conflict in Europe during this period … intra-European conflict onset by 14.90 percent from the baseline onset probability of 2.02 percent. We find empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012846086
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Networks of military alliances, wars, and international trade
Jackson, Matthew O.; Nei, Stephen - 2014 - Draft: February 2014
We investigate the role of networks of military alliances in preventing or encouraging wars between groups of countries. A country is vulnerable to attack if there is some fully-allied group of countries that can defeat that country and its (remaining) allies based on a function of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350454
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Arming in the global economy : the importance of trade with enemies and friends
Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Syropoulos, Constantinos; … - 2019 - Current version: December 10, 2018
We analyze how trade openness matters for interstate conflict over productive resources. Our analysis features a terms …, greater trade openness brings with it a reduction in resources diverted to conflict and thus wasted, as well as the familiar … with a third (friendly) country, a move from autarky to trade intensifies conflict between the two adversaries, inducing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966909
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Gods, guns, and globalization : religious radicalism and international political economy
Tétreault, Mary Ann (ed.); Denemark, Robert Allen (ed.) - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001911814
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Globalization and terror in Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Biekpe, Nicholas - 2017
This study examines the role of globalization on terrorism in 51 African countries for the period 1996-2011. Four terrorism indicators are used, namely: domestic, transnational, unclear and total terrorism. Political, economic, social and general globalisation variables are employed and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794973
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Institutionalization and sequencing - instruments building confidence as precondition to universal development
Żukrowska, Katarzyna - In: Economic papers / Warsaw School of Economics, Institute … (2006) 40, pp. 69-89
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003529898
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China's Strategies in Economic Diplomacy : A Survey of Updated Lessons for Africa, the West and China
Asongu, Simplice - 2015
The Washington consensus, the hitherto dominant scheme is being encroached by the Beijing model. Many African nations are increasingly embracing this Beijing approach because the dominant Western model has failed to deliver on a number of fronts. This is increasingly evident because China's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027303