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The Group of Eight (G8) is an unofficial forum of the heads of state of the eight leading industrialized countries. In this paper, I examine the effect of the G8 (and its predecessor, the G7) on international trade. I use a gravity model of trade; the panel data set covers bilateral trade between 175 countries from 1948 through 1999. I find that membership in the G7/G8 is consistently associated with a strong positive effect on trade. -- institution ; organization ; agreement ; international ; multilateral ; summit

The international projection of Japan's corporate and technological power is transforming world manufacturing and the international political economy. Debate rages about Japan's economic success and the role of the state in nurturing it. The Japanese background to these debates is widely misunderstood and are analysed in research-based chapters by British and Japanese specialists on government-industry relations. Japanese policies for industrial promotion, regulation and decline are set in a context of comparative political economy. Sectors include pharmaceuticals, shipbuilding and telecommunications in the US and Japan

Content analysis of the book "Kuo-chi tou-cheng te chi-pen li-lun yii wo-kuo wai-chiao cheng-ts'e te chi-pen yüan-tse" (Basic theory of international struggle and basic principles of our policy) written by Hsieh I-hsien and used as a textbook at the Institute of International Relations and the Institute of Diplomacy (both located in Peking). The book is on the nature of world system, on the nature of the USSR, on the RRC's strategic position etc. (DÜI-Sen)

During the last years it has been appreciated the increase in the use of social networks in the field of diplomacy, politics and international affairs to improve communication between international actors and citizens, as well as the increase of civil society empowerment thanks to the advances made in information technologies. This work analyzes the press uses information obtained from social networks on issues related to diplomacy, politics and international relations as a primary source. For this purpose, it has been used a methodology of a content and speech analysis of the information present in the online versions of El País and La Vanguardia, that reference the use of social media in the field of diplomacy, politics and international affairs between 2010 and June 2017. ; En los últimos años se ha apreciado un aumento considerable en el uso de las redes sociales en el campo de la diplomacia, política y relaciones internacionales, lo que ha permitido mejorar la comunicación entre actores internacionales y ciudadanos. Esto evidencia el empoderamiento de la sociedad civil gracias a los avances producidos en las tecnologías de la información. Esta investigación analiza como los medios de comunicación tradicionales españoles en sus versiones online utilizan las publicaciones que aparecen en las redes sociales en los temas relacionados con diplomacia, política y relaciones internacionales como fuente primaria de información. Para ello se ha utilizado una metodología basada en el análisis de contenido en la cual se analiza la información producida por las versiones online de los periódicos El País y La Vanguardia en el periodo de tiempo comprendido entre 2010 y junio de 2017.

Based on analysis of the Conflict and Peace Databank (COPDAB), containing worldwide figures on acts of governments, 1948-78.

Race is understudied in International Relations generally and International Security specifically. To mitigate this omission, this article provides a racial theory of threat perception. It argues that, under certain conditions, racial prejudices embedded in racial identities shape threat perceptions and generate behavioral dispositions. In the first step, racial similarity deflates threat perceptions, while racial difference inflates them. In the second step, deflated threat perceptions facilitate cooperation among racially similar agents, while inflated threat perceptions facilitate discord among racially different agents. Using extensive archival and secondary sources, the article illustrates the explanatory value of the theory in the case of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance (1902-23). Adapted from the source document.

The director of the Library of Alexandria addresses the strategic importance of water; the regions that are susceptible to water conflicts & why; the lack of international agreements on cross-border water sharing; why water usage has increased so much & what might be done about; the idea of integrated water resource management as part of the UN Millennium Development Goals; whether the ability to irrigate or supply water will eventually belong to only the wealthy countries; how to manage all of agriculture's inputs so as to produce enough food for all; water as an internationally traded commodity; the need for international water law; & the link between private investment & water management. Adapted from the source document.

The global expansion of capitalism under American hegemony in the second half of the 20th century has changed the international division of labor and center-periphery scheme proposed under British hegemony. Under the new international division of labor, the United States is forced to generate an ever growing deficit in their trade account in order to accommodate the "mercantilist" expansion of Asian countries, produced by the trans-nationalization of big capital, under American aegis. This form of global economic articulation is at the root of the rupture of the Bretton Woods system and the growing financial liberalization imposed by the hegemonic power over other countries since the 80s. (Rev Econ Polit/DÜI)

Interview with the International Monetary Fund's managing director in which he discusses the IMF's relationship with governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), the IMF's emphasis on social policy and poverty reduction in developing countries, and other issues.

"Fränze Wilhelm's book is one of the rare studies in International Relations (IR) employing post-foundational theories to grasp the prospect of a global normative order. The combination of philosophical vocabulary with IR literatures is brilliant, making this book a must-read for students and scholars in various fields of the social sciences and humanities. While it does not develop the contours of a positive global normative order, it certainly succeeds in unveiling the complexities of globally articulated relations of difference. Only a handful of books in IR show a similar degree of innovation and rigorousness!" --Prof. Dr. Dirk Nabers, University of Kiel (Germany) "'Political Difference and Global Normative Orders' provides an excellent discussion of the current scholarship on the question of order and difference. The author, by resorting to the post-foundational approach of hauntology, makes a valuable contribution to the study of order in IR and beyond." --Dr. David Shim, University of Groningen (The Netherlands) Once considered a question of an international order based on consolidated statehood and homogeneous social communities within national borders, global order has become a question of alternative political articulations, resistance movements, and cultural diversity, among others. This book first analyzes critically the conditions for the struggles of theorizing global normative order in political and IR theory. Second, to make sense of the presence of difference and possibility for global normative order in view of the simultaneous absence of first foundations, the study draws on post-foundational thinking based on the seminal work of German philosopher Martin Heidegger and Argentine political theorist Ernesto Laclau. Finally, the author develops a theoretical framework for a hauntological approach to global normative order that provides an alternative and theoretically coherent explanation for the emergence of global order. This is of interest to scholars as well as practitioners (including activists) concerned with global social relations, global political discourse, and the construction of global identity and normative order(s). Fränze Wilhelm is a doctoral candidate at the Kiel University Research Group on International Political Sociology.