Is China Buying the World?
By Peter Nolan
China’s ‘catch-up’ has been one of the most remarkable aspects of the era of capitalist globalisation. Below, Peter Nolan argues that the...
Entry Strategies for Middle Eastern Markets
By Tim Rogmans
Despite political turbulence, Middle Eastern markets provide great opportunities for international investors. The region’s advantages include its location at the crossroads of...
China Looks West: What Is at Stake in Beijing’s “New Silk Road” Project
Flynt Leverett, Hillary Mann Leverett and Wu Bingbing
Not even two years into what will almost certainly be a ten-year tenure as China’s president, Xi...
Brazil: Shaping a New Strategy for Global Trade & Investment
By Marcos Troyjo
Brazil’s economic strategy is the expression of an approach that is mostly insular, privileging through every angle its domestic market over a...
The Crisis in the Eurozone
By Justin Yifu Lin & Volker Treichel
Four years after the beginning of the global financial crisis, the protracted sovereign debt crisis in the eurozone...
The Responsibility to Protect: Reading Ethical Responsibilities Into the Rule of Law
By Charles H. Camp and Theresa B. Bowman
The scope and source of permissible use of force in response to a humanitarian crisis frames a...
Contemporary Business and Management Challenges in China
By David De Cremer and Jess Zhang
In today’s global context, Chinese companies face significant challenges in internationalising their services – not least that posed...
The United Nations Charter and Extra-State Warfare: The U.N. Grows Up
By Charles H. Camp & Theresa Bowman
In recent years, the United Nations has come under attack as wholly inadequate to confront the modern realities...
A System Perspective on India’s Healthcare Industry
By Lawton Robert Burns
As one of the recently industrialized nations, India has a fast-growing economy as well as an ever-expanding, ever-urbanized population, however its...
The Dirty War on Syria: No Popular Uprising
By Tim Anderson
The world has been deceived over the conflict in Syria. It was always a ‘regime change’ dirty war and never a popular...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
The World Bank and Neoliberalism: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Making of an Agenda
By Howard Stein
Since the latter part of the 1990s the World Bank has increasingly claimed its main focus is on poverty reduction and development. Among other things, the Bank introduced poverty focused loans, a...
