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New economic statecraft and global technology conflicts: The dilemma for middle powers
|By Andrew Reddie – Deputy Director| Vinod Aggarwal – Director|
Market-oriented theorizing fails to capture the reality of government intervention in the global economy. Trade and investment measures by governments around the globe, designed to protect strategic industries and maintain a security of supply in the wake of a return to strategic competition, are emblematic of the need to shift our analysis of the global […]
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APEC: Seeking Relevance in a Changed World
|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|
APEC has undergone a significant evolution since its founding more than three decades ago, but given its original commitment to open regionalism and co-operation among countries of diverse levels of economic development, it now faces perhaps its greatest challenge as the Trump administration upends the global trade order. Despite this, it’s also clear that the […]
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Nesting Minilateralism in the Asia-Pacific
|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|
The renewed focus on the trilateral relationship involving China, Japan and South Korea following their May summit can be seen from the perspective of a dynamic evolution of ‘minilateral’ arrangements in the region. These have sometimes come at the expense of multilateral arrangements, which have been a hallmark of the post Second World War international […]
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Rethinking the Political Economy of Industrial Policy
|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director| Sonia N. Aggarwal|
Industrial policy has long been used by developing countries to promote industries through broad import substitution industrialization efforts.
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