This article reviews China's position in international society over the past couple of
centuries, and against that background assesses the prospects for China's strategy of …

China has gone global, but most China experts in the American academic community have
gone local, moving in the opposite direction. As Shambaugh has observed rightly,'big …

This book develops the idea that since decolonisation, regional patterns of security have
become more prominent in international politics. The authors combine an operational theory …

This publication brings together two reference works by Angus Maddison: The World
Economy: A Millennial Perspective, first published in 2001 and The World Economy …

In the late eighteenth century, the political economist Adam Smith predicted an eventual
equalization of power between the West and the territories it had conquered. In this …

The translators are indebted, first of all, to Niklas Luhmann for his help in clarifying difficult
passages and for his generous permission to translate freely when necessary …

In this paper, we set out to explore the world's first major standardised examination system.
In the field of language testing and assessment, works such as measured words (Spolsky,) …

During the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, while key decisions were debated by the
victorious Allied powers, a multitude of smaller nations and colonies held their breath …

A decade ago in 2007 we published a forum in International Relations of the Asia-Pacific
(IRAP) on 'Why there is no non-Western IR theory?'. Now we revisit this project ten years on …

The rise of China and other great powers raises important questions about the persistence
and stability of the'liberal international order'. This book provides a new perspective on these …