Preface / Joseph Caron -- Introduction: International political economy and explanations of China's globalization / David Zweig, Chen Zhimin -- Beyond the disciplinary heartlands: studying China's international political economy / Shaun A. Breslin -- Soft balancing and reciprocal engagement:...

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 trade partner. In the 1990s, a second growth engine emerged with the European investment boom in Latin America. Now, at the...

Introduction -- Aid effectiveness debate disputed -- Palestinian economic performance and donor response: a pre-and post--intifada analysis -- (De-)development and collapse of Palestinian trade: 1967--present -- Trade-related assistance in Palestine -- Evaluation of the trends in donor...