"Yakov Feygin argues that Soviet decline owes much to internal tensions over economic reform. Focused on socioeconomic competition with the West, Khrushchev and his successors sought to build a consumer society but had only Stalinist institutions of mass mobilization to work with, resulting in...

Interessante Denkanstöße für die Entwicklung eines gesamteuropäischen Wirtschaftsraums einschließlich Russlands, der sich bis an die Grenzen Chinas ausdehnt, und die Expansion des Euro als eine der führenden Weltwährungen. (Reinhild Khan)

This edited volume is an outcome of the first major collaborative project between Japanese economists and political scientists, funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. The authors of the individual chapters show that Asian states play games of conflict and cooperation...

The book provides insights into the development of special economic zones, which are an important factor in the political and economic reforms in China. It discusses a number of topics, including the history and the modernization of special economic zones in China, the contributions of special...