Political Economy

How Does the EU Exercise Its Power Through Trade?

Daniel Hakan Urquijo • Apr 7 2020 • Essays

The European Union derives significant power from its trade relations, but this power is largely exerted through indirect methods.

A Geostrategic Explanation of India-Myanmar Bilateral Relations since the 1990s

Balachander Palanisamy • Mar 31 2020 • Essays

Bilateral relations between India and Myanmar in the post-Cold War era are governed and defined by geostrategic interests more so than by identity and ideology.

Intermestic Realism: Domestic Considerations in International Relations

Tom Meinderts • Mar 24 2020 • Essays

A nation’s foreign policy is a product of both international and domestic considerations. This is particularly evident in economic scenarios like the US-China Trade war.

The Impact of Globalisation on Poverty and Inequality in the Global South

Julia Heinze • Mar 22 2020 • Essays

While some countries benefit from globalisation, the argument that globalisation has left the Global South worse off appears to be accurate.

Gendered Implications of Neoliberal Development Policies in Guangdong Province

Hannah Roberts • Mar 3 2020 • Essays

Development policies informed by neoliberal economics fail to challenge the underlying patriarchal structures that impede women’s development.

The Energy Relationship Between Russia and the European Union

Nemanja Popovic • Feb 24 2020 • Essays

The EU-Russia energy relationship resembles an uneasy marriage. Both parties want to exit in the long run, but remain bound to one another for the immediate future.

Has the US Learned from Its Experience in the Vietnam War?

Charles Sladdin • Feb 21 2020 • Essays

Successive administrations have failed to draw lessons from US involvement in Vietnam. This has proved detrimental to recent international interventions.

To What Extent Has China’s Security Policy Evolved in Sub-saharan Africa?

Tania González Veiga • Dec 26 2019 • Essays

China’s security policy toward Sub-Saharan Africa has grown more interventionist as its economic ties deepen and its desire to protect Chinese citizens abroad increases.

Buy Good, Do Good, Be Good? Ethical Consumption as Neoliberal Governmentality

Ruby Agatha Utting • Nov 24 2019 • Essays

Neoliberal capitalism is reproduced by discourse of ethical consumption as a global-corporate and individualised conflation of the economic and social spheres.

The Uneven and Combined Emergence of “Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics”

Georg McCutcheon • Nov 19 2019 • Essays

The emergence of China’s capitalist system and its “Chinese characteristics” can be understood as an outcome of uneven and combined development.

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