This is an excellent and versatile textbook, as well as an intervention in the scholarly debate on the Asian economies. During the last few years Lim has paid particular attention to China, realizing that the Chinese and Japanese economies are complementary and dependent on each other. The chapters are free-standing, which makes it easier to use the book as a text, as the instructor can be sele…
In this well-researched and detailed book, the editors provide an extensive and critical analysis of post-Soviet regional integration. After almost two decades of unfulfilled integration promises, a new - improved and functioning - regime emerged in the post-Soviet space: the Eurasian Customs Union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan (ECU). The contributors seek to explain this puzzling and…
As Eurasia and the adjacent territories become more important to the world, there is increasing interest from international powers, accompanied by attempts to give institutional form to traditional economic and security links within the region. This book includes a range of substantive work from scholars based in the region, offering contrasting perspectives on the process of Eurasian integrati…
As Eurasia and the adjacent territories become more important to the world, there is increasing interest from international powers, accompanied by attempts to give institutional form to traditional economic and security links within the region. This book includes a range of substantive work from scholars based in the region, offering contrasting perspectives on the process of Eurasian integrati…
The citadel of security is carved on the cross-roads of economic coorperation. This emerging ethos is the beacon light for the peoples of the deprived world, who are languishing in poverty and are living lives of misery and squalor.
This book focuses on policies that truly work, offering fresh new thinking about the questions that shape the globalization debate, including a plan to restructure a global financial system made unstable by America's debt, ideas for how countries can grow without degrading the environment, a framework for free and fair global trade, and much more. Throughout, [the author] reveals that economic …
The ratification of the Treaty European Union, or 'Maastricht Treaty', brings to end era in the history of the European community and constitutes ideal vantage point from which to write a comprehensive survey of its evolution and current state.
Explores the development of Australia's foreign economic policy towards ASEAN. It examines in detail decisive factors, such as changes in the international and regional environment, and the replacement of one dominant policy coalition with another in Australia's domestic policy process. This analysis shows that the shifts in Australia's ASEAN policy have reflected changes in Australia's overall…
This book examines economic relations between the European Community and the Eastern Bloc. It begins with a review of the situation up until 1989, looking at such areas as trade agreements, trade protection measures, export credits, the structure and economic effects of various trading relationships between members of the two blocs, and agricultural trade. The book then addresses the subject of…
After five years of debates, consultations and negotiations, the European institutions reached an agreement in 2013 on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the 2014-2020 period. The outcome has major implications for the EU’s budget and farmers’ incomes but also for Europe’s environment, its contribution to global climate change and to food security in the EU and in the world. It was …