Globalization Books

Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive introduction to international political economy and to the different trade and financial issues in the contemporary international system. The modern international political economy is characterized by globalization of production and finance. This book explains the growth and consequences of globalization from a historical and evolutionary perspective. It explores not only the long-standing issues of trade protectionism and financial stability, but also the newer issues of international labor standards, liberalization of investment regulations, and environmental protection. One of the greatest challenges of financial globalization is the potential for destabilizing national economies through a rapid outflow of capital, as seen recently in East Asia. In this book, the East Asian currency and debt crises are examined in relation to earlier crises in Latin America in the early 1980s and in Mexico in the mid-1990s. It will help readers to understand how politics and economics interact to produce the rules and structures of international political economy, and also to better appreciate the contemporary issues, crises, and challenges in international political economy.Table of ContentsIntroduction to international political economy; international trade - from the Gatt to the WTO; international monetary relations -Bretton Woods and beyond; protectionism, regionalism and the global economy; the transition economies - Russia and China; international debt crises; political economy of foreign investment; the political economy of environment management; the political economy of international labour standards.

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Book SynopsisThis is a book on the Belt and Road Initiative, written from an unusual perspective — it is written by someone who was born in India but raised in Singapore; who has never spent a day of schooling in the greater China (Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau) but has Chinese heritage; who eventually built a long and distinguished career in the West. With such an atypical background, he took an off-the-beaten-path approach by asking the fundamental question of how such an important initiative, began entirely by China, can deeply impact and transform the millennium mindset of Chinese.Such a transformation of the Chinese shall render a new definition of what a 'powerful nation' in the 21st century should be, for the betterment of humanity. This is unlike the one made by Western civilization for many centuries since the Renaissance days. Three main outcomes of the BRI have been embedded directly or indirectly throughout the book: Supercontinent, Neo-Renaissance and Cultural Communications. The author felt that these three outcomes are the possible mitigation for the world in the 21st century, facing existential challenges.Related Link(s)

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Book SynopsisThis is a book on the Belt and Road Initiative, written from an unusual perspective — it is written by someone who was born in India but raised in Singapore; who has never spent a day of schooling in the greater China (Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau) but has Chinese heritage; who eventually built a long and distinguished career in the West. With such an atypical background, he took an off-the-beaten-path approach by asking the fundamental question of how such an important initiative, began entirely by China, can deeply impact and transform the millennium mindset of Chinese.Such a transformation of the Chinese shall render a new definition of what a 'powerful nation' in the 21st century should be, for the betterment of humanity. This is unlike the one made by Western civilization for many centuries since the Renaissance days. Three main outcomes of the BRI have been embedded directly or indirectly throughout the book: Supercontinent, Neo-Renaissance and Cultural Communications. The author felt that these three outcomes are the possible mitigation for the world in the 21st century, facing existential challenges.Related Link(s)

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Book SynopsisCoronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been an unprecedented, once-in-a-century gamechanger for the world. The central focus of Post-COVID Asia is the new world that will emerge after the coronavirus. In particular, this book explores how deglobalization will proceed in the post-COVID world and what kind of impact deglobalization will have on Asian economies. After all, in the last few decades, Asia has leveraged globalization to become the world's fastest-growing, most dynamic region. Therefore, an urgent challenge facing Asian economies is to figure out how to survive and thrive when the globalization which served them so well is giving way to deglobalization.Opportunities have emerged for Asian economies amid the winding down of the third wave of globalization. In fact, the next wave of globalization is already beginning to take shape, in tandem with the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which is full of exciting new technologies. This book offers insights that would help governments, companies and people in Asia to ride the next wave of globalization to power their prosperity.Table of ContentsWorld after Coronavirus: COVID-19 will Accelerate Deglobalization: Another Great Depression?; Global Value Chain is Halted; Exit from China and Reshoring; Deglobalization Gains Momentum; Root Causes of Deglobalization: A Brief History of Globalization; Widening Income Inequality Triggers Resentment Toward Globalization; Catchup Causes Tension Between Advanced Economies and Emerging Markets; Fourth Industrial Revolution will Reshape the Global Value Chain; Population Aging Leads to Secular Stagnation; World after Coronavirus: History Repeats Itself; Cold War Between America and China; Fourth Industrial Revolution Gathers Speed; Fourth Wave of Globalization will be Digital Globalization; Asia's Critical Choices: A Tough Road Ahead: Deglobalization Pushes Asian Economies to the Brink; Asia's Looming Demographic Crisis; Asia's Widening Inequality and Polarization; Asia's Environmental Degradation; Riding the New Wave of the Fourth Globalization and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Outward-Looking Growth is a Necessity, Not A Choice; Asia as the Agenda Setter of the New Wave of Globalization; Asia Must Ride the Wave of the Fourth Industrial Revolution; Lessons from Countries at the Forefront of the Revolution; Beyond Smart Cities to Smart Countries; Sustainable Development in Post-COVID Asia: Thinking Outside the Box to Overcome the Population Crisis; An A-System of Sustainable Development Unique to Asia; Inclusive Growth for Sustainable Development; Green Growth for Sustainable Development; An Asian New Deal Based on Three Axes; Final Thoughts: Toward Pax Asiana;

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Book SynopsisCoronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been an unprecedented, once-in-a-century gamechanger for the world. The central focus of Post-COVID Asia is the new world that will emerge after the coronavirus. In particular, this book explores how deglobalization will proceed in the post-COVID world and what kind of impact deglobalization will have on Asian economies. After all, in the last few decades, Asia has leveraged globalization to become the world's fastest-growing, most dynamic region. Therefore, an urgent challenge facing Asian economies is to figure out how to survive and thrive when the globalization which served them so well is giving way to deglobalization.Opportunities have emerged for Asian economies amid the winding down of the third wave of globalization. In fact, the next wave of globalization is already beginning to take shape, in tandem with the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which is full of exciting new technologies. This book offers insights that would help governments, companies and people in Asia to ride the next wave of globalization to power their prosperity.Table of ContentsWorld after Coronavirus: COVID-19 will Accelerate Deglobalization: Another Great Depression?; Global Value Chain is Halted; Exit from China and Reshoring; Deglobalization Gains Momentum; Root Causes of Deglobalization: A Brief History of Globalization; Widening Income Inequality Triggers Resentment Toward Globalization; Catchup Causes Tension Between Advanced Economies and Emerging Markets; Fourth Industrial Revolution will Reshape the Global Value Chain; Population Aging Leads to Secular Stagnation; World after Coronavirus: History Repeats Itself; Cold War Between America and China; Fourth Industrial Revolution Gathers Speed; Fourth Wave of Globalization will be Digital Globalization; Asia's Critical Choices: A Tough Road Ahead: Deglobalization Pushes Asian Economies to the Brink; Asia's Looming Demographic Crisis; Asia's Widening Inequality and Polarization; Asia's Environmental Degradation; Riding the New Wave of the Fourth Globalization and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Outward-Looking Growth is a Necessity, Not A Choice; Asia as the Agenda Setter of the New Wave of Globalization; Asia Must Ride the Wave of the Fourth Industrial Revolution; Lessons from Countries at the Forefront of the Revolution; Beyond Smart Cities to Smart Countries; Sustainable Development in Post-COVID Asia: Thinking Outside the Box to Overcome the Population Crisis; An A-System of Sustainable Development Unique to Asia; Inclusive Growth for Sustainable Development; Green Growth for Sustainable Development; An Asian New Deal Based on Three Axes; Final Thoughts: Toward Pax Asiana;

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Book SynopsisThe rapid rise of emerging economies has produced deep-ranging changes in the global order during recent decades. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the bipolar confrontation of the Cold War seemed to be replaced by a universalized model of political liberalism and economic neo-liberalism. In recent years, however, rising nationalism and protectionism indicate the end of unfettered globalization, a looming crisis of liberal democracy, and a return to ideologies of 'systemic competition', especially vis-a-vis China.Against this background, this volume takes a fresh look at the evolution of governance models in Western and non-Western civilizations — Africa, India, China, and the Muslim world in particular. These models have been largely self-contained and without intensive interaction for a long time. In the wake of globalization, systems, ideologies, and political values have become part of global discourse, eventually turning into what Samuel Huntington called a 'clash of civilizations.'The chapters in this volume offer perspectives on the diversity of civilizations of governance as a base for a new multilateralism in the global context. The contributions explore relevant theoretical concepts of transnational governance, law, and multiple modernity. The empirical focus is on analyzing different governance systems in non-Western civilizations and Europe, including national states and transnational institutions, traditions, and networks.The volume assembles papers presented at the 2019 International Conference of the Institute of Public Policy at South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, China. The contributions and the introductory framework have been updated to reflect the unexpected and unprecedented challenges from the coronavirus pandemic and the related economic and social crises.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the catching-up process of a group of large emerging markets: the New Economic Powers. This process is extremely robust and should be considered as the defining trend of our age, resulting in a pivotal change in world economics and politics. The outcome is that the West cannot dominate the world as it did in the previous 200 years. Today's world is pluralistic, and the larger emerging markets are becoming increasingly influential. That is the new reality, which at times caused, and will cause, further discomfort and uncertainty in the West. In the eight chapters, the viewpoints on globalization of nine New Economic Powers are discussed. Each chapter is an essential element in understanding the process of globalization and the role the New Economic Powers play in it. Essentially, their views are guided by a fundamental different look about the role of the market and the government in society, compared to what we see in the West. The New Economic Powers understand the power of the market to create prosperity, but at the same time emphasize the need for government interference. This delicate balance is particularly visible with respect to their international trade and investment policies, which bring them in conflict with Western countries and multilateral institutions such as the WTO and the IMF. The book helps the reader to understand the fundamental choices made by policymakers in the New Economic Powers.

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Book SynopsisDespite China’s rise to the status of global power, many Chinese youths are anxious about their personal future, in large measure because the rapid changes have left them feeling adrift. This book, available in open access, provides a manifesto of intellectual activism that counsels China’s young people to think by themselves and for themselves. Consisting of three conversations between Xiang Biao, a social anthropologist, and Wu Qi, a rising journalist, the book probes how China has reached its current stage and how young people can make changes. The conversations touch on issues of mobility, education, family, relations between the self and the authority, centers and margins, China, and the world. The Chinese version was named the “most impactful book of 2021” by Douban, China’s premier website for rating books, films, and music. The English version is translated by David Ownby, who also penned an introduction. Table of Contents1. Introduction.- Part I. Beijing Interview, March 2018.- 2. Setting the Stage.- 3. Childhood Picture.- 4. The 1980s Culture Craze.- 5. Beida after 1989.- 6. Researching Zhejiang Village.- 7. Youth Melancholy.- 8. The Center and the Margins.- 9. Personal Crisis.- 10. Globalization and Anti-Globalization.- 11. Using the 1980s to Critique the 1980s.- 12. What is Criticism?.- 13. Empathetic Scholarship.- Part II. Oxford Interview, August 2018.- 14. Setting the Stage.- 15. Impressions of Oxford.- 16. A Sense of Distance and Directness.- 17. Anthropologists and their World.- 18. Non-Fiction Writing.- 19. Academics is not a vocation.- 20. Nationalism and Populism.- 21. Singapore Enlightenment.- 22. The Importance of Community.- 23. Building your own Cross-Border Worlds.- 24. Universities Should Look for the Exceptional.- 25. Problematizing Individual Experience.- 26. New Research.- 27. Common Ideals.- 28. Local Gentry as Method.- Part III. Wenzhou Interview, December 2018.- 29. Setting the Stage.- 30. Social Reproduction.- 31. The Paradox of Class Mobility.- 32. Looking for a New Discourse.- 33. Anthropology as Intermediary.- 34. The Local Gentry: Once More with Feeling.

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Book SynopsisThe dynamics of a global economy is being reshaped by the economic emergence of two Asian giants, China and India. How the world's two most populous countries manage globalization as they pursue economic reform and liberalization will impact significantly their societies, the rest of Asia, and the world.This book brings together articles by first rate scholars of China and India to share and discuss their research findings in four areas: Challenges, Opportunities and Responses to Globalization; Social Security and Governance; National Security in the age of Globalization; and Ethnicity and Identity in the New World.The book includes an opening address by Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, from his speech on “Managing Globalization: Lessons from China and India”, delivered at the official opening of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy on 4 April 2005.Table of ContentsIntroduction to Managing Globalization: Lessons from China and India (D A Kelly & R S Rajan); Challenges, Opportunities and Responses to Globalization: China in the Global Economy (X-J Zhang); India Globalizing (K Basu); Elephants Can Dance: India's Response to Globalization and the Challenges She Faces (O Goswami); Social Security and Governance: Rebuilding China's Social Safety Net: Why Governance Matters (M-X Pei); Corporate Restructuring and Social Security in State Owned Enterprises: Lessons from China (J C Oi); Indian Pension Reform: A Sustainable and Scalable Approach (A Shah); Globalization, Demographic Transition, and Reform of Social Safety Nets in India (M G Asher & D Vasudevan); National Security in the Age of Globalization: A Dialectic of Multipolarity and Multilateralism: China's Regional Security Practice in the Age of Globalization (X Xu); Facilitating Peaceful Rise: Principles and Practice of China's Security Policy (Q-G Jia); India in the International Order: Challenger and Stabiliser (K P Bajpai); Globalization and India's Changing National Security Strategy (C R Mohan); Ethnicity and Identity in the New World: India's Identity Politics: Then and Now (V Pingle & A Varshney); Identity Politics in an Era of Globalization (P B Mehta); Politics of Identity in Post-Reform China (D A Kelly); International Relations, Ethnic Identity, and Minority Rights in the New Global Economy: The Chinese Diaspora in the United States (L L-C Wang).

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together a collection of papers that Robert M Stern and his co-authors have written in recent years. The collection addresses a variety of issues pertinent to the global trading system. One group of papers deals with globalization in terms of what the public needs to know about this phenomenon and the role of the World Trade Organization (WTO), whether some countries may be hurt by globalization, how global market integration relates to national sovereignty, and how and whether considerations of fairness are and should be dealt with in the global trading system and WTO negotiations. A second group of papers consists of analytical and computational modeling studies of multilateral, regional, and bilateral trading arrangements and negotiations from a global and national perspective for the United States and other major trading countries. The remaining papers include an empirical analysis of barriers to international services transactions and the consequences of liberalization, and issues of international trade and labor standards.Table of ContentsGlobalization: What the Public Needs to Know about Globalization and the WTO; Globalization's Bystanders: Are Countries That Do Not Participate in Globalization Hurt by It?; Global Market Integration and National Sovereignty; Concepts of Fairness in the Global Trading System; Analysis of Multilateral, Regional, and Bilateral Trading Arrangements: Multilateral Trade Negotiations and Preferential Trading Arrangements; An Overview of the Modeling of the Choices and Consequences of US Trade Policies; Issues of Manufactures Liberalization and Administered Protection in the Doha Round; An Assessment of the Economic Effects of the Menu of US Trade Policies; Trade Diversion under NAFTA; The Economic Effects of the Free Trade Agreement between Tunisia and the European Union; A North American Free Trade Agreement: Analytical Issues and a Computational Assessment; Computable General Equilibrium Estimates of the Gains from US-Canadian Free Trade; The Effects of the Tokyo Round on the Structure of Protection; Services Trade: Empirical Analysis of Barriers to International Services Transactions and the Consequences of Liberalization; International Trade and Labor Standards: Pros and Cons of Linking Trade and Labor Standards; The Effects of Multinational Production on Wages and Working Conditions in Developing Countries; US Trade and Other Policy Options and Programs to Deter Foreign Exploitation of Child Labor; Labor Standards and International Trade.

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Book SynopsisThis is a book about the politics of the global economy — about how firms prosper by understanding those politics, or fail by misunderstanding them. Understanding the politics of globalization may once have been a luxury; it is now, for most high-level managers, simply a necessity. The book contains cases which can be used by instructors and students to build a framework of analysis that enables them to understand the challenges of international trade and investment and master the opportunities they represent. This framework is based on a systematic evaluation of the informal and formal rules that define markets for goods, services, and capital. These insightful cases allow for evaluation of: the political and economic origins of our current era of globalization and how the rules that constrain and enable firms are changing; the impact of governments' policies and which tools are available for predicting, avoiding, or even employing the long arm of the government; and the influence of informal and formal institutions on opportunities for success in international finance and trade.Table of ContentsThe Emerging Challenge of Globalization: Globalization and the American Model (R H K Vietor & A Veytsman); The Globalization of Production and Branding (J Fear & C-I Knoop); The Domestic Politics of Globalization: Risks, Rewards, and Transitions (R Abdelal); Regulating Retail (G Trumbull & L Gay); Owning and Commercializing Genes (D Spar & C Bebenek); Corruption and Its Discontents (R Abdelal et al.); An American Backlash? (J J Rotemberg); The International Financial Architecture: Capital, Information, and Judgment (R Abdelal & C M Bruner); Exclusive Clubs, Capital Flows, and Crises (R Abdelal et al.); One Market, One Money, One Europe (R Abdelal & C M Bruner); Cool Politics, Hot Economics, and Venture Capital in China (R Abdelal & D Lane); The Politics and Rules of International Trade: The Low Politics of Trade (R Abrami); Africa Confronts the Norms and Rules of Trade (R Abdelal et al.); Intellectual Property and Global Markets (D L Spar & N Bartlett); Competition Policy, Intellectual Property, and Globalization (J Rotemberg & M Kalka).

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Book SynopsisThe phenomenon of South-South FDI flows, particularly those arising from multinational companies from China and India, has generated considerable interest among policymakers, academics and the popular press in recent times. This phenomenon raises several questions such as: What is behind the rise of such intra-regional investment flows? What is the magnitude of such flows, and can they be expected to persist/accelerate over time? What are the challenges faced by emerging market multinationals and the future prospects of intra-Asian FDI flows?This book, written by top scholars from academia, international organizations as well as think tanks, consists of a set of papers focusing on these issues. The book is unique in its coverage — focusing on China, India and Southeast Asia rather than limiting itself to a sub-regional or country-specific focus. The chapters in this book highlight important policy issues but are supported with relevant data and empirics, with rigorous empirical analysis being applied to important practical policy issues. The book also provides pertinent overviews of recent research on the questions explored. While the chapters have been crafted to be able to stand up to academic scrutiny, they are also written in a manner that makes them easily accessible to all policymakers, students and business/financial journalists who are interested in Asia and in the emergence of South-South FDI flows.Table of ContentsIntroduction and Overview: Overview: Explaining the New Surge of Outward Foreign Direct Investment from Asia (N Virgill, R Kumar & R S Rajan); Emerging FDI Trends in Developing Asia (D Aykut); Intra-Asian FDI Flows: Trends, Patterns and Determinants (R Hattari & R S Rajan); Asian Giants (Japan, China and India): Japan's Outward FDI in the Era of Globalization (D Hiratsuka); The Pattern and Magnitude of China's Outward FDI in Asia (S Cheng & R R Stough); Emerging MNCs: Trends, Patterns and Determinants of Outward FDI by Indian Enterprises (N Kumar); FDI from East and South-East Asia: Outward Direct Investment from East Asia: The Experiences of Hong Kong and Taiwan (N Aminian, K C Fung & C C Lin); New Multinationals from Singapore and Thailand: The Political Economy of Regional Expansion (A Goldstein & P Pananond); Outward Foreign Direct Investment: The Malaysian Experience (M Ariff & G P Lopez); Outward Investment Surge in the Midst of Weak Inward Investment: The Indonesian Experience (R Y Siregar & A H Gunawan).

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Book SynopsisThis timely book reviews how South Asia is rising to the challenge of globalization. In particular, how are South Asian countries maximizing the benefits of globalization whilst minimizing its costs? What lessons have these countries learned from the East Asian financial crisis? What actions have they taken at the national, regional, and global level? Some important topics covered in this book include policy reforms and economic integration in South Asia, comparisons between South Asia (mainly India) and China, and economic linkages between South Asia and East Asia including the possibility of an integrated Pan-Asia similar to the European Union. Academics, researchers, students, policymakers and observers of South Asian, and more broadly Asian, economic development and integration will want to read this book.Table of ContentsSouth Asia's Global Integration; A Comparative Analysis of Economic Performance and Policy Reforms in South Asia and PRC; Economic Integration between South Asia and East Asia -- The Second Phase of Pan-Asian Integration; Economic Integration in South Asia and Lessons from East Asia.

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of International Political Economy and Globalization is completely revised and updated to include new material on trade, monetary, and environmental issues. It provides a comprehensive treatment of major developments in the global economy and is suitable for adoption as a primer in undergraduate courses in international political economy. The author takes a stand that is supportive of globalization in principle, while acknowledging that there are many areas of inequity that disadvantage developing countries. This is explored in chapters that deal with trade, debt crises, and the environment. Students will find that the material is presented in a readable format that does not presuppose prior familiarity with economics.Table of ContentsInternational Trade; International Monetary Relations; International Debt Crises; Russia, China and India in the Global Economy; Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investments; Environmental Politics; Trade and International Labor Standards.

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Book SynopsisThe Asia-Pacific region is rapidly becoming the main area of growth in the global economy in the 21st century. Recent developments in the movement of people, goods, services, and information are closely linked to the latest round of globalization, of which the effects on this region are particularly dramatic.The papers in this volume are by leading scholars, business leaders and government officials from the region. They include Yuan-Tseh Lee, Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, who reflects on the global flow of knowledge and talent; and Alfonso Yuchengco, one of the region's most respected business leaders and diplomats, who discusses transnational businesses, diplomacy, and China's re-emergence as a world power. Other papers present new insights into the processes and policies governing flows of migrants, trade, investment, transport, information technology, and ideas. This book originated from the 2006 Annual Conference of the Ritsumeikan Center for Asia Pacific Studies, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Japan, supported by an International Scientific Meetings Grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. It will be of interest to all students and scholars of this dynamic region.Pookong Kee and Hidetaka Yoshimatsu are Professors in the College of Asia Pacific Studies, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University.Table of ContentsBrain Drain, Brain Gain and Brain Circulation; Transnational Business and Diplomacy in the Asia Pacific; International Mobility of the Highly Skilled; International Migration in Asia and the Pacific; Globalizing Householding; Migration Policy: Major Issues for Japan and Other OECD Countries; The Occupational and Geographical Locations of Transnational Immigrant Minorities in Japan; Between Privilege and Prejudice: Chinese Immigrants in Corporate Japan's Transnational Economy; Multicultural Coexistence Policies: Responses of Local Governments in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area; Movement of Natural Persons under a Japan-Philippines Free Trade Agreement; International Migration, Brain Drain and the Philippine Economy's Rocky Road to Development; The Growing Role of International Remittances in the Vietnamese Economy; Staying in the Global Economy; Emergence of the Global Development Network in the Personal Computer Industry; The Changing Global Environment of Logistics; The Growth of International Shipping Industries in China; The Future of the World's Number One Port - Hong Kong; Impact of Port Security on LNG and Container Cargo Movements; Transnational Architectural Production in Downtown Beijing.

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Book SynopsisIn the 26 years since market-oriented reforms were introduced, China has emerged onto the world stage as a major economic presence, particularly since her accession to the World Trade Organisation in 2001.This book is a collection of papers on the effects of globalisation on China's growth prospects and of China's growth on the wider economy. The issues explored include the sustainability of China's continuing economic reform and the necessary reforms to sustain that growth; the considerable effects of her integration into the global economy and its implications for the conduct of Chinese economic policies, including the exchange rate regime; and the influence of China on the regional and world economy. China's competitiveness in exports has also begun to challenge the market share of developing and developed economies; this role in promoting intra-regional trade is also explored.

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together a collection of papers that Robert M Stern and his co-authors have written in recent years. The collection addresses a variety of issues pertinent to the global trading system. One group of papers deals with globalization in terms of what the public needs to know about this phenomenon and the role of the World Trade Organization (WTO), whether some countries may be hurt by globalization, how global market integration relates to national sovereignty, and how and whether considerations of fairness are and should be dealt with in the global trading system and WTO negotiations. A second group of papers consists of analytical and computational modeling studies of multilateral, regional, and bilateral trading arrangements and negotiations from a global and national perspective for the United States and other major trading countries. The remaining papers include an empirical analysis of barriers to international services transactions and the consequences of liberalization, and issues of international trade and labor standards.

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Book SynopsisIn a world of uncertainty and change, current achievements are no guarantee for future survival. Even if the initial chosen set of principles, policies and practices are good, static efficiency and governance would eventually lead to stagnation and decay. No amount of careful planning can assure a government of continual relevance and effectiveness if there is no capacity for learning, innovation and change in the face of ever new challenges in a volatile and unpredictable global environment.This book provides an in-depth look at dynamic governance, the key to success in a world of rapid, increasing globalization and unrelenting technological advancements. If bureaucratic public institutions can evolve and embed the culture and capabilities that enable continuous learning and change, their contributions to a country's socio-economic progress and prosperity would be enormous. The lessons from their efforts in institutionalizing culture, capabilities and change could provide meaningful and valuable insights for transforming organizations in other contexts.

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Book SynopsisThe Asia-Pacific region is rapidly becoming the main area of growth in the global economy in the 21st century. Recent developments in the movement of people, goods, services, and information are closely linked to the latest round of globalization, of which the effects on this region are particularly dramatic.The papers in this volume are by leading scholars, business leaders and government officials from the region. They include Yuan-Tseh Lee, Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, who reflects on the global flow of knowledge and talent; and Alfonso Yuchengco, one of the region's most respected business leaders and diplomats, who discusses transnational businesses, diplomacy, and China's re-emergence as a world power. Other papers present new insights into the processes and policies governing flows of migrants, trade, investment, transport, information technology, and ideas. This book originated from the 2006 Annual Conference of the Ritsumeikan Center for Asia Pacific Studies, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Japan, supported by an International Scientific Meetings Grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. It will be of interest to all students and scholars of this dynamic region.Pookong Kee and Hidetaka Yoshimatsu are Professors in the College of Asia Pacific Studies, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays documents and investigates the conflicts in Europe, Russia and China that sparked populist revolts against the established globalist order in the European Union. It shows that the populist surge was not an anomaly. It was a reflection of the internal contradictions of globalism that sparked nationalist resentment inside the EU, and backlashes against Western 'soft power' aspirations in Russia and China. The idealist rhetoric of the globalist dream was persuasive. It lulled many into believing that the movement should not, and could not be stopped until the 2008 global financial crisis started the dream to unwind. The essays in this volume show that globalism is not dead, but will have to reinvent itself to revive.

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Book SynopsisHow does globalization in goods and asset markets alter the nature of economic recessions and the choices facing macroeconomic policy makers? This volume presents empirical and theoretical contributions of economist Paul Bergin to this vital question. By a number of metrics, including trade volume and price convergence, national goods markets have become more globally integrated over time. The same is true for asset markets, which today function more as a single global marketplace. Rigorous theoretical models are developed to explore how international integration in these markets provides channels by which shocks driving recession in one country can be transmitted to other countries. These theoretical concepts can shed light on the Great Recession of the last decade, which has been referred to as the first truly global recession. Theory is also brought to bear to explore how these international spillovers and the resulting international co-movement in recessions can create incentives for policy makers to coordinate their monetary and fiscal policies with each other, as they deal with the challenge of managing their national economies.

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Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is to provide the international readership a collection of articles authored by Chinese scholars on the subject of globalization and localization. In a world where no country is an island isolated from others, globalization is bound to be contested, debated, and de- and re-constructed at different levels across the international community. For this very reason, it is important to present this concept as developed, interpreted and discussed by the Chinese community.The scope of book is broad, ranging from theoretical reflection to more concrete opinions given by the Chinese academic community, and finally to case studies on globalization and localization. It includes eleven articles by leading Chinese scholars in the past decades.

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Book SynopsisNew Humanism and Global Governance is the first in this subject to study how a variety of factors related to globalization will shape the future of the human community. It discusses the major challenges to today's world order and governance, as well as international experience in responding to these challenges. It covers a wide range of issues including unequal distribution of wealth, the widening income inequality gap, contradiction between economic development and environmental protection, the middle-income trap, de-globalization, democratic crisis, anti-immigration sentiments, nationalism, and radical extremism. It addresses these issues by emphasizing policy implications for governance.The chapters are selected papers from two international conferences jointly held by the Institute of Public Policy(IPP) at the South China University of Technology and UNESCO. Contributors from China, Europe and the US present their questions, observations, and analyses in a narrative and descriptive style which appeal to a wide range of audience.

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together research papers dealing with the causes and consequences of offshoring. The first part considers causes and motives of offshoring. Using firm level data for countries such as Ireland, France, and the UK, this book looks at issues such as the increasing availability of business services or the internet, and improvements in intellectual property rights protection as stimulants of offshoring. The second part then looks at the implications of offshoring for the firms involved. Based on firm level data for Ireland, Sweden, the UK and a number of Emerging Market Economies, the book also focuses on productivity effects of offshoring as well as the implications for innovation activities of firms, and for profitability. The implications for workers of offshoring are dealt with in the third part of the volume. Studies are based on individual level data for Germany, Denmark and the UK and look at implications for individual level wages, in particular considering the importance of skills and occupations.

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Book Synopsis'Dr Donghyun Park is a prominent and rare economist in Asia who can combine frontline economic theories, lively data, and real-time policy analyses. Capitalism in the 21st Century is a masterful book by Dr Park, providing a comprehensive understanding of heterogenous trajectories of economies around the globe and more fundamental mechanisms of the modern capitalistic system. This is a 'must-read' for those who are interested in comparative economic systems, global economy, and international development.'Yasuyuki SawadaChief Economist, Asian Development BankProfessor of Economics, University of Tokyo'Donghyun Park makes clear that capitalism gets a bad rap, in large part because of too much emphasis on capital as in financial engineering, and too much emphasis on capitals as in government protectionism. Park argues a compelling case that genuine capitalism, which is about entrepreneurship, is necessary to solve the big problems most people face around the globe.'Adam S PosenPresident, Peterson Institute of International EconomicsGlobal capitalism is currently suffering from an unmistakable malaise, epitomized by wide and growing inequality that is eroding popular support for capitalism. Such anti-capitalist sentiment, coupled with a growing anti-globalization mood, delivered Brexit in a UK referendum and swept Donald Trump to the US presidency. In Capitalism in the 21st Century, internationally well-regarded economist Dr Donghyun Park articulately explains why more capitalism is needed to tackle global problems such as climate change and inhumane poverty. While defending capitalism against its unfair demonization, the author makes a positive case for entrepreneurial capitalism, which creates wealth and jobs as well as drives human progress. According to the author, reforming the financial industry, which has become a self-serving leviathan, and more fundamentally, tweaking the economic role of the government, which stifles growth-promoting entrepreneurship, are critical to restoring the vitality of capitalism. The book is explicitly written in such a way that the general reader without any background in economics or finance can easily understand it.Related Link(s)

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Book SynopsisTwo powerful forces measure their strength by acting upon globalization. One of them pushes globalization forward, while the other hinders its advance and promotes its decline.In which of those directions should Latin America move? Uncertainty hinders the region's strategic vision. If the future entails re-launching of globalization, it seems obvious that Latin America should follow along its lines. However, if globalization were to embark on a declining phase and an endangered future, the region would need to look at other options. Latin America, therefore, faces not only a dramatic uncertainty as a result of forces beyond its control, but also needs to anticipate unforeseen events to the best of its abilities, and react to or act upon them. Strategic reflection becomes imperative to manage both uncertainty and the possibility of rapid change.This exercise in strategic reflection implies an immersion in fraught international surroundings, analyzing the forces that push for and against globalization, trying to measure their respective strength, convergence capacity, and potential impact. At the same time, it requires looking into the flaws, weaknesses and contradictions of such forces. With these elements in hand, it will be easier to envisage where the trends are leading to, and by extension, where Latin America may end up standing and which goals it should follow.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an extensive and original study of the dynamics of rivalry, evolution of costly and violent conflicts, and potential cooperation among powerful players. It unravels the special features of the global socio-economic system that can make it extremely fragile and vulnerable. It serves as a good reference source for anyone interested in some of the pressing and emerging problems of the global system, such as intra-national and interethnic conflicts, climate change challenges, poverty and terrorism, and provides useful and rigorous insights into the collective bid to resolve some of these problems. Written in a simple and accessible manner, this book will help researchers and policy makers in understanding and abetting costly conflicts.Table of ContentsRivalry, Conflict and Cooperation: Lessons from the Business World: Endogenous Collusion and Rivalry: Theoretical Models and Empirical Conjectures; Politics of Campaign Contributions, Economic Rivalry and Endogenous Market Structures; Rivalry in the Formation of Social Capital in Networks and Endogenous Norms; Economics of Cooperation in Successive Markets; Secret Price Discounts and Chaotic Discrimination and Industrial Conflicts; Globalisation, Market Hostility and Endogenous Mergers among Rivals; Endogenous Rivalry, Conflicts and Cooperation in Vertical Markets; Rivalry, Conflict and Cooperation: Goliath against Goliath: The Art of Central Banking and Policy Conflict; Intellectual Property Rights and SIDS: Vertical Foreclosure and Roles of Ethics in Cooperation; Local Governance: Fiscal Decentralisation and Conflicts; Multinationals and Labour Unions: Cooperation vis-a-vis Conflicts; Globalisation, Democratisation and Urban Crisis in Developing Economies.

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Book SynopsisGlobalisation has become a rewarding but challenging fact of life for scientific and scholarly researchers. Intellectually, they work with shared understandings of their areas of research and research methods. Professionally, responsibility and best practices are subject to many different rules and standards that vary across disciplines, countries, and cultures. They know how to measure and study the objects of their research but are often less sure of what constitutes the responsible practice of research or research integrity.The World Conferences on Research Integrity provide a forum for an international group of researchers, research administrators from funding agencies and similar bodies, research organisations performing research, universities and policy makers to discuss and make recommendations on ways to improve, harmonise, publicise, and make operationally effective international policies for the responsible conduct of research. The second such conference, held in Singapore in July 2010, focused on challenges and responses. Where is integrity in research today most significantly challenged and what is being done to address these challenges? This volume brings together a selection of presentations and key guidelines and statements emerging from the Conference.Table of ContentsWelcomes; Research Integrity Structures; Research Misconduct; Codes of Conduct; Fostering Responsible Research; Integrity Issues for Authors and Editors; Integrity in the News.

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Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is to provide the international readership a collection of articles authored by Chinese scholars on the subject of globalization and localization. In a world where no country is an island isolated from others, globalization is bound to be contested, debated, and de- and re-constructed at different levels across the international community. For this very reason, it is important to present this concept as developed, interpreted and discussed by the Chinese community.The scope of book is broad, ranging from theoretical reflection to more concrete opinions given by the Chinese academic community, and finally to case studies on globalization and localization. It includes eleven articles by leading Chinese scholars in the past decades.Table of ContentsTheoretical Reflections: Universalism and Critique of Ideology in Global Politics; Toward the True World Culture: The Multiple Universalities in the Era of Globalization; Economic Globalization and Cultural Pluralism; Chinese Perspectives on Globalization: Premise Analysis of the Fundamental Tasks of China's Contemporary Legal Philosophy: "The World Structure" as a Historic Condition; China's Perspective on the Globalization Research; Chinese World Outlook: All-Under-Heaven System; The Dialectic and Historical Determination of Cultural Subjectivity; Globalization and Localization: Case Study: China: A Society of Intra-Systems; The Chinese Model of Development: An International Perspective; Globalization: Production of Culture and Cultural Identity: Ethnic Group, Local Society and Transnational Cultural Circle; Globalization and Regional Income Inequality Empirical Evidence from Within China.

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Book SynopsisThis multi-volume set focuses on a key region of the world which contains four of the biggest emerging economies, a large number of highly dynamic small- and medium-sized emerging economies, and one of the leading advanced industrial countries. It is a region which contains some of the biggest hydrocarbon and mineral deposits in the world, and some of the most energy- and metal-hungry economies in the world. With half the world's population, it is one of the most dynamic regions of the globe in terms of population movement, providing a key focus of foreign investment, both inwards and outwards, with a high degree of technological dynamism. The region plays a central role in the industrial supply networks of the globe.In four volumes, focusing on, respectively, foreign investment, innovation, energy and migration, the set focuses on each of the main elements in the production system in turn — capital, innovation, raw materials and labour. Volume 1 studies patterns of interchange of financial and direct investment within the region, focusing on governance, the development of supply chains, and technology transfer. In Volume 2, the technology theme becomes dominant, with a special focus on digital technology. It includes technical issues like mobile communications standardisation, developmental dimensions, including the role of clusters and science parks, and political economy issues like the rise of techno-nationalism. Volume 3 turns to energy issues — not just issues of supply and demand, but also key problems of climate change, security and sustainability across the Eurasian and Asian landmass. Volume 4 presents the human dimension, looking at people in movement, as workers, citizens, men, women, or colonisers. Among the key issues discussed are the migration from country to town in China, the ‘greying’ of countries like Japan, the effect of war on migration, marriage migration, human trafficking and the depopulation of the Russian Far East.The set is a must-have for anyone keen to understand the region whose manufacturing core can be described, without exaggeration, as the ‘workshop of the world’ of the twenty-first century.

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Book SynopsisWe live in an era of globalization: ever increasing international integration of goods, capital, and labor markets. The benefits and costs of increased trade and financial integration in the world today continue to be hotly debated. The reason globalization is controversial is that the impact of globalization is often nuanced, and theory reveals many possibilities. The impact of globalization on macroeconomic outcomes thus remains an empirical and quantitative question.Levchenko collects, in one volume, the results of a multi-year research program to build heterogeneous firm and sector models for the quantitative evaluation of globalization. The volume explores the impact of globalization on both welfare and macroeconomic fluctuations using these micro-founded quantitative models.Recent advances in international trade have built tractable theoretical models that can be implemented numerically and used to evaluate quantitatively the impact of a variety of phenomena. These models are global in scale — encompassing as many as 80 countries as well as multiple sectors — and at the same time feature rich micro-foundations of firm and technological heterogeneity. This combination means it is now possible to dramatically expand the set of questions that can be answered, in particular regarding the consequences of real-world heterogeneity present in the global economy, both at the firm and sector level.The book uses these frameworks to address the central questions about globalization around the world: the impacts of reductions in trade costs, long-run changes in comparative advantage, and migration of labor, among others. The book aims to provide a unifying perspective that merges traditional theory, econometric evaluation, and quantitative modeling. The running theme of this research program is that in order to understand the macroeconomic impact of globalization, it is essential to measure, and model, the microeconomic heterogeneity in the economy.Table of ContentsSectoral Heterogeneity: Ricardian Productivity Differences and the Gains from Trade (Andrei A Levchenko and Jing Zhang) The Global Welfare Impact of China: Trade Integration and Technological Change (Andrei A Levchenko, Julian di Giovanni and Jing Zhang) Comparative Advantage and the Welfare Impact of European Integration (Andrei A Levchenko and Jing Zhang) The Global Labor Market Impact of Emerging Giants: A Quantitative Assessment (Andrei A Levchenko and Jing Zhang) Space permitting: Comparative Advantage, Complexity, and Volatility (Andrei A Levchenko and Pravin Krishna); Firm Heterogeneity: Power Laws in Firm Size and Openness to Trade: Measurement and Implications (Andrei A Levchenko, Julian di Giovanni and Romain Ranciere) Firm Entry, Trade, and Welfare in Zipf's World (Andrei A Levchenko and Julian di Giovanni) Firms, Destinations, and Aggregate Fluctuations (Andrei A Levchenko, Julian di Giovanni and Isabelle Mejean) Country Size, International Trade, and Aggregate Fluctuations in Granular Economies (Andrei A Levchenko and Julian di Giovanni) Space permitting: A Global View of Cross-Border Migration (Andrei A Levchenko, Julian di Giovanni and Francesc Ortega);

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Book SynopsisThis book aims to provide comprehensive empirical and theoretical studies of expanding fandom communities in East Asia through the commodification of Japanese, Korean and Chinese popular cultures in the digital era. Using a multidisciplinary approach including political economy, East Asian studies, political science, international relations concepts and history, this book focuses on a few research objectives. In terms of methodology, it is an area studies approach based on interpretative work, observation studies, policy and textual analysis. First, it aims to examine the closely intertwined relationship between the three major stakeholders in the iron triangle of production companies, consumers and states (i.e., role of government in policy promotion). Second, it studies the interpenetration, adaptation, innovation and hybridization of exogenous Western culture with traditional popular cultures in (North) East Asia. Third, it studies the influence of popular cultures and how cultural products resonate with a regional audience through collective consumption, contents reflective of normative values, the emotive and cognitive appeal of familiar images and social learning as well as peer effect found in fan communities. It then examines how consumption contributes to soft cultural influence and how governments leverage on its comparative advantages and cultural assets for commercial success and in the process augment national (cultural) influence. These questions will be discussed and analyzed and contextualized through the case studies of J-pop (Japanese popular culture), K-pop (Korean popular culture or Hallyu) and Chinese popular culture (including Mando-pop and Taiwanese popular culture).Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction and Background; Historical Memories; Comparative Section; Korea: Korean Popular Culture; Culture War: Korean Wave on the Rise; Mechanics of Popular Culture; Japan: Introduction to the Section on Japan; Particularism within the Context of Universalistic Popular Culture: A Historiographical Survey Approach in the Literature Review of Soft Power in East Asia; Size and Reach of the Japanese Popular Cultural Industry; Centering Akihabara: The Positionality of Tokyo's Pop-cultural Nucleus in Cool Japan Industries and Globalized Fandom Consumption; Observation Studies Fieldwork in Japan from 2011-2015; Spirited Away: Conceptualizing a Film-based Case Study through Comparative Narratives of Japanese Ecological and Environmental Discourses. (subject to application of rights transfer); China: Cultural Factors in Comparative Analysis; Production Methodologies; Aesthetics & Style/Target Audiences; Mechanics of Popular Culture; Comparative Sections (Under Consideration): Comparative case studies of Marvel, DC, and Disney; Conclusion;

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