International Economics

Jordan is one of the most important countries of the Fertile Crescent. Although it is not richly endowed with material resources its political sign...

International trade must be analysed within the historical context within which it occurs. Behind the statistics on trade flows lie power structure...

As firms increasingly rely on knowledge as a key factor for innovation, the ability to innovate is increasingly perceived as a key asset for being ...

This collection supplies fascinating insights into aspects of East Asian economic development. It will interest scholars in a variety of related fi...

Islamist political parties have enjoyed unprecedented election victories in recent times. The Islamic Revolution in Iran, the election of the Justi...

At the end of the 20th century, mainstream economics was based on theories which viewed capitalism as a self-regulating system, whereby crises come...

This book analyses the economic and policy relationships between China and Latin America. One of the major economic developments in the world in th...

Were oil supplies everlasting and the demand for oil strong and continuous, economic diversification in the Gulf would be pointless. However oil re...

The ‘Everything But Arms’ (EBA) regulation of the European Union (EU) has been hailed as a groundbreaking initiative for developing countries. Sinc...

Rapid changes have taken place in the structure of the global economy, and this book looks at how South Asia can take advantage of these changes. T...

This major study assesses prospects for economic recovery in the Russian Far East, evaluating foreign trade and investment, political and economic ...

China's immersion in the world economy and trading system is a continued source of great interest throughout the globe.The book is divided into thr...

This book examines the increasingly international division of labour, which promotes transnational integration. It analyses the change in worker so...

What role does the EU play in WTO trade negotiations? What are the implications for the EU of the expansion of the international trade agenda that ...

The last three decades has witnessed miraculous economic growth of China. What has accounted for its miracle? What is the nature and future of the ...

The book covers the results of trial and error of regional economies in Japan, Korea, Austria, New Zealand, and the UK over the past two decades. S...

This volume examines the opportunities and challenges in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and trade, particularly service trade, for developing and ...

As China continues to ride out the global economic crisis while still retaining year on year GDP growth it is increasingly important to understand ...

In recent years economic activity has become increasingly globalized. One of the main instruments behind this process is the multinational enterpri...

Few economic events have caused such controversy as the privatization process in Russia. Some see it as the foundation of political and economic fr...

The dynamics of Northeast Asia have traditionally been considered primarily in military and hard security terms or alternatively along their econom...

The essays of the book are contributions to the game theoretic analysis of the State. Two of the essays develop further the analysis of political a...

As small, open economies the Nordic states have always been more dependent on foreign trade than larger powers, and have thus had a historic prefer...

This book provides new perspectives on recent Asian dynamism which go beyond the mainstream views, by attempting to situate the recent economic exp...

News headlines warn of rivalries and competing nations across Asia and the Pacific, even as powerful new cross-border relations form as never befor...

This book examines the implications of China’s economic reforms for domestic work and domestic workers. The author examines the factors that give r...

The financial crisis – originated in 2008 in the United States – had a dramatic impact on the world economy. The European Union was immediately inv...

Pre-eminent among the requisites for economic integration is monetary integration. It is the premise of the chapters in this book that if the Arab ...

The multiple and diverse forces of globalization have, indeed, affected Japan significantly over the past decades. But so, it must be said, has Jap...

Based on new datasets, this book presents an economic history of Indonesia. It analyses the causes of stagnation of growth during the colonial and ...

China's rapid and sustained growth over last thirty years has propelled it to become the world's second largest economy today and potentially the l...

The book aims to identify key issues and developments in ASEAN-5 that illustrate the transition of this region towards a knowledge-based economy. T...

Until 1973 few people, either in the advanced, industrial countries or in the developing countries of the Third World, thought seriously on the iss...

This book brings together the latest research in the areas of market microstructure and high-frequency finance along with new econometric methods t...

Idea for those studying advanced macroeconomic and written by a widely published author, this book outlines a new and more fruitful way of understa...

This book analyzes the evolution and impact of the concept of risk on processes of transnational banking and financial market regulation, as well a...

The European Union has launched an important debate on the future of the EU budget from 2013. This discussion is to cover all aspects of EU revenue...

The recent financial meltdown and the resulting global recession have rekindled debates regarding the nature of contemporary capitalism. This book ...

Freight Transport and the Modern Economy adapts a well-known textbook by Michel Savy, revising, extending and updating it for British, European and...

This book discusses the role of knowledge in European transformation under a regional actors perspective. It brings together diverse contributions ...

This volume takes up bankruptcy in early modern Europe, when its frequency made it not only an economic problem but a personal tragedy and a social...

Regional disparities and spatial clustering are ubiquitous in today’s world. This study contributes with empirical findings on the distribution of ...

This book provides a longitudinal study of developing country involvement in multilateral trade negotiations.The trade regime established at the en...

The global financial crisis that reached its peak in late 2008 has brought the importance of financial services regulation and supervision into the...

The crisis of the current global financial order is challenging us to critically reflect on how this order has been driven, and the development out...

This book analyses the economic and policy relationships between China and Latin America. One of the major economic developments in the world in th...

As the world continues to recover from one of the most dramatic financial crises in a generation, expanding corporations are increasingly, yet caut...