Introduction -- Opening of the Vietnamese economy: Achievements and challenges -- Public administration reform: Efforts and reality -- From state to market: Evolving ownership and corporate governance in Vietnam -- Labour and special economic zones -- Vietnamese political economy in an East...

This book highlights the critical relationship between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) associated with its trade interdependency. As the largest trade partner in the region, China has not only presented itself with opportunities for ASEAN to tap its market, but also...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Environmental Impacts of Globalization -- Chapter 3: Generating Spatial Time Series on Interstate Commodity Flows -- Chapter 4: The Evolution of Commodity Flows and Associated Non-Point-Source Black Carbon Emissions in the Midwest-Northeast Transportation...

Constructing Theories of Diplomacy: Preparing for China’s Transition to Global Great Power -- The Implications of Xi Jinping’s Thinking on Comprensive National Security -- Great Power Diplomacy with Chinese Characteristics -- From Keeping China’s True Strength Hidden to Striving to Shine...

1. Introduction -- 2. How countries evade negotiation stalemate : assumptions of the conceptual framework -- 3. China -- 4. Japan -- 5. South Korea -- 6. Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand -- 7. Conclusions.

Latin America is looking towards China and Asia -- and China and Asia are looking right back. This is a major shift: for the first time in its history, Latin America can benefit from not one but three major engines of world growth. Until the 1980s, the United States was the region’s major...