China's Asian dream

empire building along the new silk road

'China', Napoleon once remarked, 'is a sleeping lion. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world.' In 2014, President Xi Jinping triumphantly declared that the lion had awoken. Under his leadership, China is pursuing a dream to restore its historical position ...

The people's money

how China is building a global currency

Many of the world's major economies boast dominant international currencies. Not so for China. Its renminbi has lagged far behind the pound, the euro, and the dollar in global circulation-and for good reason. China has long privileged economic policies that have fueled development at ...

Las amenazas del TTIP y el CETA

los acuerdos comerciales como estrategia de dominación del capital

Te imaginas que te invitan a una partida de cartas en la que, pase lo que pase, siempre pierdes? ¿Te imaginas que te ofrecen un trato en el que, pase lo que pase, siempre saldrás perjudicada o perjudicado? ¿Aceptarías ese trato o jugar esa partida ...

One world mania

a critical introduction to free trade, financialization and over-globalization

In this much-needed survey, Graham Dunkley challenges the oft-repeated notion that free trade and global integration are the best means of development for all nations at all times - an idea that has proved even more misguided in the wake of the global financial crisis. By ...

Russia

what everyone needs to know

Today's Russia, also known as the Russian Federation, is often viewed as less powerful than the Soviet Union of the past. When stacked against other major nations in the present, however, the new Russia is a formidable if flawed player. Russia: What Everyone Needs ...

Knowing China

a twenty-first century guide

Contemporary China appears both deceptively familiar and inexplicably different. China is a cauldron of forms of entrepreneurship, social organization, ways of life and governance that are at once new and unique, recognizably Chinese and generically modern. In analyzing and interpreting these developments, Frank N. Pieke ...

Unequal democracy

the political economic of the new gilded age

The first edition of Unequal Democracy was an instant classic, shattering illusions about American democracy and spurring scholarly and popular interest in the political causes and consequences of escalating economic inequality. This revised and expanded edition includes two new chapters on the political economy of ...

Desigualdad y desequilibrio

la economía mundial antes de la crisis

En el momento en que los mercados financieros tomaron las riendas de la economía global, las reglas del juego cambiaron radicalmente. Las sociedades capitalistas se enfrentaban a un escenario inédito de consecuencias imprevisibles y, desde entonces, la desigualdad empezó a acentuarse a un ritmo vertiginoso ...

Open for business

the new cuban economy

90 miles off the coast of Florida a new revolution is afoot. This time instead of guerrillas marching through the streets of Havana, it is a global economy that will revolutionize Cuba. Now open to the world, how will this nascent economy develop? Open for ...

China moderna

una inmersión rápida

China es otro mundo. Su condición de Estado-continente, su demografía o su historia y cultura le aportan reconocidas singularidades propias. Inmersa en un largo proceso de modernización, hoy ansía cerrar el capítulo de decadencia iniciado hace dos siglos para situarse de nuevo en el epicentro ...

¿Cuándo se jodió Venezuela?

sobre cómo el país con las reservas petroleras más ricas del mundo acabó sumido en la ruina, otra vez

En el subsuelo venezolano se encuentra la mayor reserva mundial de petróleo. Desgraciadamente, el país lo gobierna un régimen disfuncional cuya mala gestión ha sembrado el caos económico y la ruina entre su población. ¿Cómo puede darse tal paradoja? Como atestigua Raúl Gallegos, espectador de ...

Más allá de la crisis

el reclamo del desarrollo

Coordinada por Rolando Cordera y con un prólogo de José Narro Robles, esta obra reúne los ensayos realizados a partir del Grupo Nuevo Curso de Desarrollo (GNCD) de la UNAM. Economistas en su mayoría, los investigadores aportan en cada trabajo un panorama amplio a la ...

La paradoja del poder alemán

Desde que comenzó la crisis del euro, Alemania se ha establecido como potencia dominante de Europa. En el curso de los últimos años, en los medios europeos se ha comparado a la canciller alemana Angela Merkel con Bismark e incluso con Hitler. Y sin embargo ...

Brazil

what everyone needs to know

Brazil is one of the most important but puzzling countries in the world. A nation of 200 million people, it has vast natural resource reserves, rich cultural traditions, a middle class undergoing explosive growth, and social welfare policies that are models for much of the ...

The China challenge

shaping the choices of a rising power

Many see China's rise as a threat to US leadership in Asia and beyond. Thomas J. Christensen argues instead that the real challenge lies in dissuading China from regional aggression while eliciting its global cooperation. Drawing on decades of scholarship and experience as a ...

India como potencia emergente

Actualmente ya no llaman la atención las afirmaciones que revelan un desplazamiento del centro de gravedad mundial del espacio euroatlántico hacia Asia. En círculos políticos e intelectuales chinos e indios esta transformación no constituye una novedad, sino una vuelta a los equilibrios del pasado, cuando ...

Shadow banking in China

an opportunity for financial reform

An authoritative guide to the rise of Chinese shadow banking and its systemic implications Shadow Banking in China examines this rapidly growing sector in the Chinese economy, and what it means for your investments. Written by two world-class experts in Chinese banking, including the Chief ...

Representaciones de China en las Américas y la Península Ibérica

China se ha convertido en uno de los principales protagonistas del nuevo orden internacional. Su rápido, elevado y sostenido crecimiento económico desde las últimas décadas del siglo pasado la ha convertido en la segunda potencia económica del mundo globalizado. El paso de ser receptora de ...

China's economy

what everyone nedds to know

China is on track to exceed the United States as the world's largest economy in the next several years. It is already the leading global trading nation. Even though its growth rate has recently slowed from years past, China has had the fastest yearly ...

China's future

China's future is arguably the most consequential question in global affairs. Having enjoyed unprecedented levels of growth, China is at a critical juncture in the development of its economy, society, polity, national security, and international relations. The direction the nation takes at this turning ...