"Morgan Stanley's Asia Chairman offers his views on investment opportunities in Asia. As Morgan Stanley's chief Asia specialist, getting Asia right is Stephen Roach's personal obsession, and this in-depth compilation represents more than 50 of Roach's key research efforts not just on Asia, but also on how the region fits into the broad context of increasingly globalized financial markets. The book argues that the "Asia factor" is not a static concept,...

"A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart of an international web of surveillance and control, which it weaves in the form of globe-spanning networks such as fiber optic cables and obscure payment systems America's security state first started to weaponize these channels after 9/11, when they seemed like necessities to combat terrorism--but now they're a matter of course. Multinational companies...

"Orchestration explores the origins, operations, and effectiveness of China's distinctive 'orchestration' approach to economic statecraft. It describes how China engages in economic statecraft, explains why China uses this approach, and identifies when Beijing's efforts are most effective. The first two chapters trace how China's unique historical experiences and complex political-economic structures led to Beijing's orchestration approach. Today,...

Although similar cultures and economic interests promoted an explosion of economic ties between Taiwan and China since the late 1980s, these ties have not improved their political relationship, let alone brought about the unification that both governments once claimed to seek. Recently Taiwan's Sunflower Movement successfully delayed further expansion of trade with China. Why is Taiwan's policy toward China so inconsistent? Through research and interviews...

This new and updated edition of Michael Hudson's classic political economy text explores how and why the US came to achieve world economic hegemony. Originally published as the sequel to Hudson's bestselling Super Imperialism, Global Fracture explores American economic strategy during a key period in world history. In 1973, many of the world's most indebted countries sought to free themselves of trade dependency and the debt trap by creating...

"This book distills eleven years of expert reporting for The New York Times, Reuters, and The Atlantic Monthly into a clarion call for change. An incisive look at the evolving nature of war, Rohde exposes how a dysfunctional Washington squandered billions on contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, neglected its true allies in the war on terror and failed to employ its most potent nonmilitary weapons: American consumerism, technology, and investment....

China and India are home to one-third of the world's population. And they're undergoing social and economic revolutions that are capturing the best minds--and money--of Western business. In Billions of Entrepreneurs, Tarun Khanna examines the entrepreneurial forces driving China's and India's trajectories of development. He shows where these trajectories overlap and complement one another--and where they diverge and compete. He also reveals how Western...

In the past decade, the developed world has spent almost US$ 2 trillion on foreign aid for poorer countries. Yet 1.2 billion people still live in extreme poverty and around 2.9 billion cannot meet their basic human needs.
But should rich nations continue to help the poor? In this short book, leading global poverty analyst David Hulme explains why helping the world’s neediest communities is both the right thing to do and the wise thing...

"In Three Billion New Capitalists, the acclaimed international trade expert Clyde Prestowitz explains why this belief is a mirage. He describes the powerful trends whose convergence is rapidly shifting wealth and power to Asia - and why geopolitical clout will follow economic strength. These trends include America's increasingly unsustainable trade deficits and the equally unsustainable buildup of massive dollar reserves in places like Japan and China;...

"Emerging markets are attractive investments for many reason, including their enormous growth potential and their diversification benefits. The problem is, money doesn't discriminate between democratic and anti-democratic leaders: Markets routinely reward authoritarians like Jair Bolsonaro, Vladimir Putin, Recep Erdogan, and Hugo Chavez. Indeed, foreign money has played a major role in helping some of today's most anti-democratic leaders build, maintain,...