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"Coinciding with the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency's (MIGA) twentieth anniversary, "Investing with Confidence: Understanding Political Risk Management in the 21st Century" examines key political risk issues including claims and arbitration, perspectives on pricing from the private, public and multilateral providers, as well as exploring new frontiers in sovereign wealth funds and Islamic finance. These topics are particularly relevant for...
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Jonathan Kirshner here examines how states can - and have - used international currency relationships and arrangements as instruments of coercive power for the advancement of state security. Kirshner thus succeeds in developing a general framework for the analysis of an important yet neglected form of state power that is likely to be of increasing importance in the post-Cold War era. Although some distinguished scholars have touched on the issue of...
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"Throughout the past three decades East Asia has seen more peace and stability than at any time since the Opium Wars of 1839-1841. During this period China has rapidly emerged as a major regional power, averaging over nine percent economic growth per year since the introduction of its market reforms in 1978. Foreign businesses have flocked to invest in China, and Chinese exports have begun to flood the world. China is modernizing its military, has...
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Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science. They are wrong on the science, but may be right with respect to its political implications. A hotter world, writes the author, will bring unprecedented migrations, famine, war, and disease. It will be a social and political disaster of the first order. In this book the author takes climate change out of the realm of scientific...
11) Europe adrift
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With authority and clarity, Europe Adrift provides a keen and astute analysis of why in the post-Cold War era Europe lacks direction and sensible priorities. John Newhouse - a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a consultant to the State Department - is perfectly placed to examine the deep and continuing divisions in a unified Germany, France's reluctance to accept Germany's ascendancy in European affairs, the self-marginalization of Britain,...
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