Twenty-five years ago, in a celebrated rebuttal to various theories of 4'convergence" then in
vogue, Zbigniew Brzeziński and Samuel Huntington argued that neither technological …

As China's power grows, the search has begun in earnest for what superpower status will
mean for the People's Republic of China as a nation as well as the impact of its new-found …

Page 1 CURZON CHINA'S THIRD REVOLUTION TENSIONS IN THE TRANSITION TO
POST-COMMUNISM Ian G. Cook and Geoffrey Murray Page 2 Page 3 Ian G. Cook is …

Since the late 1970s the Chinese Communist Party, under the leadership of a group that we
will describe as the “pragmatists,” has embarked on a course of economic reform designed …

2008—Annus Horribilis for the world economy—produced successive food, energy and
financial crises, initially devastating particularly the global poor, but quickly extending to the …

" No-one can give a credible answer to the question: What is China?” insisted an editorial in
Svenska Dagbladet on the 50th anniversary of the Chinese Revolution. The New York …

With one of the world's fastest-growing economies and a population quickly approaching
two billion, China holds substantial sway over global financial, social, and cultural networks …

The 'rise of China'is proving to be one of the most consequential developments of the early
21 century One of the key questions it raises is about the impact this historically …

China's 30 years of reform are often presented as a seamless progression towards greater
liberalization and opening up. This review article of Yasheng Huang's Capitalism with …

After the 1989 fall of communism in the Soviet bloc, five self-declared communist states
remain today: China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam. Belarus and Venezuela can …