"Wer den Aufstieg Chinas und die daraus folgenden politischen, wirtschaftlichen und geostrategischen Konsequenzen verstehen will, wird an diesem Buch nicht vorbeikommen. Kenntnisreich und interessant geschrieben, bietet es wertvolle Einsichten in Entwicklung, Gegenwart und Zukunftsaussichten...

Networks, norms, and alliances -- Japan's financial system and persistence of systemic support -- The politics of the Japanese credit rating industry -- Japan's ideational developments and corporate governance -- The dilution of systemic support and growing contradictions.

In Chinese Economic Statecraft, William J. Norris introduces an innovative theory that pinpoints how states employ economic tools of national power to pursue their strategic objectives. Norris shows what Chinese economic statecraft is, how it works, and why it is more or less effective.

This paper focuses on roots of strain in the European Monetary Union (EMU). It argues that there is need for a thorough reform of the governance structure of the Union in conjunction with radical changes in the regulation and supervision of financial markets. Financial intermediation has gone...