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343 results in International economics

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Dependency Politics
  • How Foreign Aid Shapes Electoral Behavior
  • Ryan Jablonski
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    July 2026
    Print publication:
    31 July 2026
  • Ryan Jablonski's Dependency Politics examines how democracy works in aid-dependent countries. He draws on over six years of fieldwork to investigate relationships between donors and politicians, showing how politicians make policy and how aid dependency changes voters' assessments of politician performance. He reveals that voters don't simply reward politicians for aid, rather they condition their votes on beliefs about how politicians influence aid delivery. This leads to a 'visibility-uncertainty' paradox where aid can either enhance or erode democratic accountability. Revisiting assumptions about the effects of foreign aid on political behavior, he also explains how aid can cause citizens to vote against their interests and sometimes benefit opposition candidates over incumbents. Drawing on surveys, interviews, focus groups, and field experiments, Jablonski challenges conventional wisdom about foreign aid and offers lessons for balancing trade-offs over aid effectiveness, political capture and capacity-building. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Reshaping Global Value Chains
  • Approaches and Insights from Economics
  • Edited by Randolph Luca Bruno, Maria Cipollina
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    July 2026
    Print publication:
    31 July 2026
  • Global value chains (GVCs) are an important way in which modern businesses optimise their production processes by choosing to locate them in different countries. Given their importance to the world economy, it is no surprise that there is now a large literature in business. However, much less has been said about how insights from economics can be used in the analysis of GVCs. Reshaping Global Value Chains offers an in-depth and interdisciplinary analysis of global value chains, highlighting their crucial role in transforming global trade, production and development. It focuses on methods and toolkits closer to economics rather than other social sciences to explore key themes such as resilience, sustainability, innovation and inclusion, addressing the challenges posed by geopolitical, environmental and pandemic crises. Written by an impressive line-up of international scholars, this book provides practical and conceptual tools for understanding and rethinking GVCs in an era of increasing global uncertainty.

National Security and International Economic Law
  • Restoring Balance
  • Olga Hrynkiv
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    April 2026
    Print publication:
    31 March 2026
  • This book offers a timely and insightful exploration of security exceptions in international trade and investment law, focusing on the growing tension between national security measures and global economic stability. Through in-depth analysis and case studies of major global players, it uncovers how current practices are shaping international trade governance. The book examines the challenges posed by overly broad or narrow security exceptions, proposes practical reforms to improve legal clarity, and suggests ways to enhance cooperation between international organizations like the WTO and the UN. Aimed at policymakers, legal professionals, and scholars, this book provides valuable recommendations to help navigate the evolving landscape of global trade, offering concrete solutions to balance national security concerns with the need for economic cooperation.

Digitalisation, New Technologies and International Investment Law
  • Edited by Panagiotis Delimatsis, Georgios Dimitropoulos, Anastasios Gourgourinis
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    February 2026
    Print publication:
    28 February 2026
  • The objective of this edited volume is to explore the role that digitalisation and new technologies play in the law and practice relating to international investment. The traditional view of international investment law, focusing on physical movement of investors and greenfield establishment, is currently confronted by the increasing diffusion and varying use of technological advances around the world. Digital assets and digital services pose challenges to conventional conceptions of territorial nexus in investment protection. Utilisation of algorithms and artificial intelligence in investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) is also not free of controversy when it comes to ensuring fair (and reasoned) outcomes and due process. Moreover, cybersecurity-related concerns exacerbate geopolitical fragmentation often negatively affect investment flows, both at the inward and at the outward levels. The contributors of this edited volume examine these and other related issues of contemporary investment law and critically reflect on how digitalisation and new technologies reshape the foundations of international investment law.

Markets and power in digital capitalism
  • Philipp Staab
  • Published by:
    Manchester University Press
    Published online:
    07 January 2026
  • In the digital age, markets become property. Today’s most powerful companies are internet giants like Google, Apple, Amazon and Tencent. The dominant platforms now control digital ecosystems that represent a fundamental transformation of capitalism. Liberalism imagined the market as a free space dedicated to the exchange of goods and services, a creator of knowledge and innovation. The internet meta-platforms have transformed the marketplace into a set of tightly controlled domains. This book examines the historical roots of this phenomenon and outlines its contemporary manifestations. It shows how digital surveillance and algorithmic management are employed to control entire markets, and how the same methods appear in the digital labour process. Widening social inequality is one inevitable outcome. What is specific to digital capitalism, the book argues, is the emergence of ‘proprietary markets’. This signals not only an end to the liberal notion of the economy. The conflicts over its future trajectory will be decisive for life chances in digital capitalism.

The GCC in the Global Economy
  • Edited by Richard Youngs
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    01 October 2025
    Print publication:
    30 March 2013
  • Changing geopolitical realities have seen the Gulf region turning to Asia and Africa to build new economic links, while strengthening old ones. This proactive internationalism is visible not just in economics and energy, but also in politics and security where a host of new agreements has been developed. This work provides an overview of the ways in which the GCC states now need to move ahead with reforms that will reflect issues such as raised expectations from a period of high revenues and the region's demographics.The work brings together state-of-the-art analysis by international scholars who participated in a major joint initiative by the EU and the GCC, the al-Jisr Gulf-Europe Research Program.

National Employment, Migration and Education in the GCC
  • Edited by Steffen Hertog
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    01 October 2025
    Print publication:
    30 March 2013
  • This volume provides a cross-cutting analysis of the policy challenges related to GCC labor markets. It analyzes the different dimensions of segmentation of these markets, factors of change influencing labor supply such as trends in education and demography, as well as the impact of potential future reforms in areas such as immigration policy, labor sponsorship, taxation and minimum wages. The work therefore provides an overview of what arguably will be the core socio-economic challenge for the GCC in the coming years. The work brings together state-of-the-art analysis by international scholars who participated in a major joint initiative by the EU and the GCC, the al-Jisr Gulf-Europe Research Program.

Resources Blessed
  • Diversification and the Gulf Development Model
  • Edited by Giacomo Luciani
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    19 August 2025
    Print publication:
    30 March 2013
  • The Gulf countries have adopted a unique combination of policies to encourage diversification with largely positive results, while there are significant distinctions between the individual cases. This work evaluates various examples to show the extent to which the Gulf economies have diversifed to date, and how results can be measured, taking into consideration factors such as composition of GDP or exports; government services; and the categorization of industrial activities downstream of resources extraction (oil refining, petrochemicals) and their availability (aluminium, phosphates, iron, steel, glass and other energy- and resource-intensive industries). This work brings together state-of-the-art analysis by international scholars who participated in a major joint initiative by the EU and the GCC, the al-Jisr Gulf-Europe Research Program.

Asia-Gulf Economic Relations in the Twenty-first Century
  • The Local to Global Transformation
  • Edited by Tim Niblock
  • With Monica Malik
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    19 August 2025
    Print publication:
    30 April 2013
  • Asia constitutes the hub of the transformation of global economic power today. The Gulf, itself part of Asia, is of increasing importance in this transformation. This book documents the growing interactions between the economies of the Gulf states and those of the rest of Asia. These relationships are critical to how the world economy develops over the next decade, and how economic (and perhaps strategic) power is distributed.This volume assembles cutting-edge thinking by sixteen specialists on a wide variety of topics covering Arab Gulf relations with China, Japan, ASEAN, Korea and India, as well as with Russia, Iran and Turkey.

GCC Financial Markets
  • The World's New Money Centers
  • Edited by Eckart Woertz
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    19 August 2025
    Print publication:
    30 March 2013
  • Bond markets in the GCC countries are underdeveloped, and the capital mix is heavily skewed towards banks, while ambitious development plans in fields like petrochemicals and infrastructure, as well as a rapidly growing population, create an increased need for finance. This study outlines the structure of various segments of GCC financial markets and points to regulatory challenges and future developments, ranging from capital market structures to the planned GCC Monetary Union, Islamic banking, and sovereign wealth funds. The work brings together state-of-the-art analysis by international scholars who participated in a major joint initiative by the EU and the GCC, the al-Jisr Gulf-Europe Research Program.

From Paper to Practice
  • Utilizing the ASEAN Guide on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance and Ethics
  • Kristina Fong
  • Published by:
    ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
    Published online:
    04 July 2025
    Print publication:
    09 June 2024
  • The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies has been nothing less of awe-inspiring. Policymakers are put in a bind as debates over how the deployment of these AI systems is to be managed - with good governance and ethical considerations in mind, and without stifling innovation. ASEAN's response has been the formulation of the ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics, or the ASEAN AI Guide. This Guide serves more as a 'practical guide' for organizations involved in the development and deployment of AI for commercial and non-military or dual-use applications, as opposed to a policy playbook for governments. Though voluntary in application, it does have some positive attributes including laying out the groundwork for regionwide discussions around AI governance and ethics issues, promoting human involvement in AI system management and having an ecosystem approach to policy.

    For the ASEAN AI Guide to translate into actionable outcomes, some public policy areas warrant additional consideration. Firstly, some focus will need to be redirected to ex-post regulations, such as legal recourse for AI-generated Intellectual Property (IP) infringement. Furthermore, how new technologies and human capital can be leveraged to better manage potential ill-effects of AI system deployment should be given more focus, along with keeping tabs on psychological changes among different segments of society with greater AI system usage. Lastly, the ASEAN AI Guide should be used as a basis for greater regional engagement in this integral area.

Myanmar's Resistance and the Future of Border Trade
  • Challenges and Opportunities
  • Jared Bissinger
  • Published by:
    ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
    Published online:
    04 July 2025
    Print publication:
    25 April 2024
  • Since the start of Operation 1027, Myanmar's resistance groups have gained control over large parts of key overland trade routes and a number of important border crossings, fundamentally changing the realities in the control of border trade. Despite these losses, the State Administration Council (SAC) retains control-of-trade-related institutions that are vital for accessing an international trading system characterized by state-to-state interactions - giving them significant influence over trade even if they do not control trade routes and border crossings.

    International precedents from territories such as Palestine, Transnistria, Abkhazia and South Ossetia show that non-state actors face significant challenges engaging in trade, and are vulnerable to frequent changes in trading arrangements. Perhaps the most important factor shaping trade in these territories is the state of their relationship with either the state of which they are nominally a part, or a neighbouring state. Thailand allows small-scale trade and limited movement of people through 'checkpoints for border trade', which exist outside the formal system and are unilaterally established by Thailand. These checkpoints represent an alternative opportunity to reshape border trade.

    If Myanmar's resistance hopes to transform trade from a revenue source to a meaningful strength, their prospects are best if they collaborate and develop a status-neutral plan (e.g., not requiring diplomatic recognition nor denying recognition to the SAC) for trading arrangements with neighbours, and enhance dialogue with them about this plan.

ASEAN Post-2025
  • Reimagining the ASEAN Economic Community
  • Julia Tijaja, Simon Tay, Sanchita Basu Das
  • Published by:
    ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
    Published online:
    04 July 2025
    Print publication:
    01 March 2024
  • ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) building is a long journey. For continued relevance and impact, the AEC must remain dynamic while taking into consideration evolving contexts and emerging opportunities and challenges. Notable progress has been made under the two AEC Blueprints (2015 and 2025), particularly in laying down the frameworks for regional economic integration and community building. Nonetheless, gaps remain in implementation, calling for a more streamlined but result-oriented agenda and stronger institutional coordination. Today, the AEC is faced with a markedly different context and unprecedented challenges resulting from a poly-crisis, involving geo-economic fragmentation, supply chain restructuring, and climactic changes. Without adjustment, ASEAN's pillar and sector-centric approach can be expected to fall short in effectively responding to these challenges. As AEC 2025 enters its final quarter, ASEAN needs to recalibrate its priorities. It also increasingly needs to take a whole-of-community approach to integration, as issues and their solutions are spread across multiple sectors. Furthermore, as it develops the AEC Post-2025 agenda, it needs to strike a balance between ambition and pragmatism, and to support substance with institutions and processes.

International Financial Institutions and Sustainable Development
  • Lawmaking and Accountability
  • Johanna Aleria P. Lorenzo
  • Published online:
    09 June 2025
    Print publication:
    26 June 2025
  • Balancing theoretical and practice-oriented elements, this book introduces researchers, teachers, and students in international sustainable development law to the IFIs' safeguard policies. It also scrutinizes the case law of independent accountability mechanisms that interpret those policies and afford recourse to individuals and communities adversely affected by development projects. The book's focus on the procedural and substantive features of IFIs' safeguard systems contributes to a more concrete understanding of these organizations' participation in the international lawmaking process on sustainable development. It puts IFIs in the spotlight and provides an international legal critique of their activities to match their notoriety in popular consciousness and to enhance their accountability to those they harm. By approaching international (economic) law and sustainable development through the lens of economic, environmental, and social issues arising in development projects primarily in the Global South, the book presents a needed counterbalance to existing literature on the topic.

The Concept Design of a Twenty-First Century Preferential Trade Agreement
  • Trends and Future Innovations
  • Edited by Kathleen Claussen, Manfred Elsig, Rodrigo Polanco
  • Published online:
    04 April 2025
    Print publication:
    06 March 2025
  • The Concept Design of a 21st Century Preferential Trade Agreement describes the current status and possible future evolution of trade agreements. The individual contributions provide fine-grained analyses of the various challenges trade agreements face and how these differ across countries. The book brings together leading researchers from international law and international relations to provide conceptual and empirical insights to inform the ongoing reform debates. By taking stock of scholarly advances, the book further aims at stimulating cross-fertilization in the study of trade agreements in the field of international economic law. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

The Making of an International Investment Facilitation Framework
  • Legal, Political and Economic Perspectives
  • Edited by Axel Berger, Manjiao Chi
  • Published online:
    13 March 2025
    Print publication:
    20 March 2025
  • This book comprehensively investigates the rationale and effects of the first multilateral agreement on investment facilitation for development, including the interests of key WTO members. It adopts a multidisciplinary, transregional and data-driven approach to explore the political, economic and legal aspects pertaining to the most recent WTO agreement. The book highlights how this agreement broadens the scope of the WTO to the contentious area of foreign investment and adopts the innovative facilitation approach. The book presents cutting-edge research on the (non-)adoption of investment facilitation worldwide, the economic impact of the agreement, its legal implications and the political economy explaining why the investment facilitation for development agreement came about. The book brings together leading experts from various disciplines and practices and aims at inspiring more substantive research in this new field of international economic rule-making. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

International Finance
  • Menzie D. Chinn, Douglas A. Irwin
  • Published online:
    14 January 2025
    Print publication:
    16 January 2025
  • Understanding the globalized world economy is more important than ever before. This book provides a clear, concise, and up-to-date look at the economic foundations of international finance. The authors explain the principal concepts in an engaging and accessible manner open to students from any discipline, incorporating contemporary finance data through full-colour diagrams and graphs. Throughout, economic models are discussed in the context of recent and current international finance issues, to ensure students gain a concrete understanding and see how the field impacts the real world. Written for upper undergraduate courses, the book includes feature boxes that marry theory and economics in practice to show models applied, a featured real-world application for every chapter, and over 140 end-of-chapter questions help students fully engage with and consolidate their learning. Online resources for instructors include a solutions manual, lecture slides and the book figures as JPEGs.

International Trade
  • Menzie D. Chinn, Douglas A. Irwin
  • Published online:
    13 January 2025
    Print publication:
    16 January 2025
  • Understanding the globalized world economy is more important than ever before. This book provides a clear, concise, and up-to-date look at the economic foundations of international trade. The authors explain the principal concepts in an engaging and accessible manner open to students from any discipline, incorporating contemporary trade data through full-colour diagrams and graphs. Throughout, economic models are discussed in the context of recent and current international trade issues, to ensure students gain a concrete understanding and see how the field impacts the real world. Written for upper undergraduate courses, the book includes feature boxes that marry theory and economics in practice to show models applied, a featured real-world application for every chapter, and over 100 end-of-chapter questions help students fully engage with and consolidate their learning. Online resources for instructors include a solutions manual, lecture slides and the book figures as JPEGs.

International Economics
  • Menzie D. Chinn, Douglas A. Irwin
  • Published online:
    10 January 2025
    Print publication:
    16 January 2025
  • The globalized world economy is more important than ever before. This book provides a clear and up-to-date look at the economic foundations of international economics. Through accessible language and attractive presentation with abundant full-colour diagrams and graphs incorporating contemporary trade data, the authors explain the principal concepts in an engaging manner open to students from any discipline. Throughout, economic models are discussed in the context of recent and current international trade issues to ensure students gain a concrete understanding and see how the field impacts the real world. Written for upper undergraduate courses, the book includes feature boxes that marry theory and economics in practice to show models applied, a featured real-world application for every chapter, and over 240 end of chapter questions help students fully engage with and consolidate their learning. Online resources for instructors include a solutions manual, lecture slides and the book figures as jpgs.

International Economic Law in the Era of Datafication
  • Shin-yi Peng
  • Published online:
    28 March 2024
    Print publication:
    04 April 2024
  • This book addresses the challenges of datafication through the lens of international economic law. We are undergoing a wave of datafication practices. If such practices simply continue to evolve without being examined and repaired along the existing path of development, the same issues will continue to accumulate and will more than likely be amplified. The unprecedented economic and social influence of big tech has served as the catalyst for the concept of 'digital sovereignty,' which is rooted in the need to safeguard regulatory autonomy in a datafied world. The current wave of data-driven innovations has placed the policy debates on digital trade and data governance into an even more challenging context. The book – whose chapters are connected by the many facets of 'data' - systematically explains how international economic law can reduce the perils of datafication instead of enhancing them. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

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