Why China would benefit from Western SWIFT sanctions against Russia
Since last year, a small but vocal number of Western commentators and politicians have been calling for banning Russia from the SWIFT payment system, a move that would impact Russia's economy far more...
View ArticleEntrevista com o jornal Brasil Econômico sobre o Banco Asiático de...
Banco de investimento chinês cria era de multipolaridade, diz especialista Oliver Stuenkel, especialista da FGV em emergentes, diz que os EUA usam a ajuda militar como principal moeda de troca para...
View ArticleBrazil should join China’s new development bank
------- Observation: This article was published on March 19. On March 27, Brazil announced that it would join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. This move will grant Brasília a seat the table...
View ArticleChina’s Grand Strategy to Become No. 1
Book review: The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower. By Michael Pillsbury. Henry Holt and Co Publishers, 2015. 336 pages, $15.58, kindle...
View ArticleResponsible Protection: Chinese norm entrepreneurship?
Liu Jieyi, Permanent Representative of the People’s Republic of China to the UN Review: Garwood-Gowers, Andrew (2014) China’s "Responsible Protection" concept : re-interpreting the Responsibility to...
View ArticleChina and the Rise of Competing Modernities
Book review: When China Rules the World. The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World. by Martin Jacques. Penguin, 2012, 848 pages (U$ 15.14, paperback, www.amazon.com) Five years...
View ArticleA Contest for Supremacy in Asia?
Book review: A Contest for Supremacy. China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia. By Aaron L. Friedberg. W.W. Norton & Company, 2011. 385 pages. R$ 32,46 (www.amazon.com.br, kindle)...
View ArticleChina’s Grand Strategy to Become No. 1
Book review: The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower. By Michael Pillsbury. Henry Holt and Co Publishers, 2015. 336 pages, $15.58, kindle...
View ArticleBook review: “Sinicization and the Rise of China: Civilizational Processes...
Sinicization and the Rise of China: Civilizational Processes Beyond East and West. By Peter Katzenstein (ed.) Routledge, 2013. 313 pages. R$ 153, 51 (kindle, www.amazon.com.br) ----- Sinicization:...
View ArticleAIIB: China takes the lead
On June 29, representatives from 50 countries gathered in Beijing to participate in the signing ceremony of the articles of agreement of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). The...
View ArticleMarket turmoil and the future of Chinese institution building
As the financial crisis in China unfolds, analysts are scrambling to grasp the implications for the global economy. As Martin Wolf wrote in his excellent analysis in the Financial Times, One must...
View ArticleThe Long Road to Currency Multipolarity
At the IMF board meeting tomorrow, the Chinese yuan is expected to join the elite basket of currencies used to value its own de facto currency. If approved, it will be the first important change to...
View ArticleThe Shanghai Cooperation Organization expands into South Asia
Last month, India and Pakistan were accepted as full members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a platform to discuss politics, economics and security matters in Eurasia. While some...
View ArticleCan Shanghai become a global financial center?
Shanghai's current stock market turmoil has left the many observers wondering about short-term implications for the global economy. Looking beyond immediate worries, two issues are worth noting. First...
View ArticleThe death of the US pivot to Asia?
If implemented, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which would liberalize trade in 40% of the global economy, would represent Barack Obama's greatest foreign policy legacy. He could claim that,...
View ArticleEntrevista de História Oral com Affonso de Ouro Preto
Affonso Celso de Ouro Preto Embaixador em Bissau (1983);Chefe na delegação brasileira na Conferência Técnica sobre a Institucionalização do Parlamento Latino-Americano (1987); Embaixador em Estocolmo...
View ArticleEasternisation: War and Peace in the Asian Century
Book review: Easternisation. War and Peace in the Asian Century. Gideon Rachman. Vintage Digital, 2016. 320 pages. $28.19 (kindle, amazon.com) The Financial Times' Gideon Rachman recently told his...
View ArticleThe Post-Western World and the Rise of a Parallel Order
By Oliver Stuenkel September 26, 2016 http://thediplomat.com/2016/09/the-post-western-world-and-the-rise-of-a-parallel-order/ The Financial Times‘ Gideon Rachman recently told his readers about a...
View ArticleEntrevista: “Rússia é hoje um ator que não se compara com China ou EUA”
http://www.dn.pt/mundo/interior/russia-e-hoje-um-ator-que-nao-se-compara-com-china-ou-eua-5457861.html Oliver Stuenkel, especialista em Relações Internacionais brasileiro, esteve em Lisboa a convite...
View ArticleThe Political Economy of China’s New Silk Road
Review: The Emerging Political Economy of OBOR. The Challenges of Promoting Connectivity in Central Asia and Beyond. A Report of the CSIS Simon Chair in Political Economy. By Alexander Cooley....
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