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The challenge of ensuring equitable access -- International obligations to achieve equitable access -- Steering governance frameworks to deliver equitable access -- Reducing geographical disparities -- Ensuring access for vulnerable and marginalized groups -- Keeping water and sanitation affordable for all

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on bloomsburycollections.com. In Retooling Global Development and Governance a team of UN experts debate new ideas about how to overcome deficiencies in the ongoing process of globalization and in the existing mechanisms for global economic governance. They do not claim to offer a blueprint, rather a set of ideas that could become the basis for a coherent "toolbox" designed to guide development policies and international cooperation. Promising directions for reform discussed in the book include: - Strengthening government capacities for formulating and implementing national development strategies - New strategies for ensuring that official development assistance is aligned with national priorities - Enhancing international trade and financial systems so that countries with limited capabilities can successfully integrate into the global economy - Creating new mechanisms for dealing with deficiencies, such as specialized multilateral frameworks through which to govern international migration and labour mobility, international financial regulation, multinational corporations and global value chains regulation and sovereign debt workouts. Above all, the book highlights the need for a strong mechanism for global economic coordination to establish coherence across all areas of global economic governance.

Using data on bilateral trade flows from both before and after World War II, this article examines the impact of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade on trade between its members and on the system of interwar trade blocs. It shows that the distribution of the benefits produced by the GATT was much more highly skewed than conventional wisdom assumes. The article also shows that the gold, Commonwealth, Reichsmark, and exchange-control blocs exerted positive and significant effects on trade after 1945. The authors attribute these effects to the bargaining protocol that governed successive rounds of GATT negotiations, the signature element of the postwar trade regime. (World Politics / SWP)

Der Aufsatz nennt Gründe, warum die Aktivitäten multinationaler Unternehmen positiv auf den Weltfrieden wirken: die Aufnahme internationaler Geschäftsbeziehungen führt zu gemeinsamen ökonomischen Interessen, die nur durch Frieden und Stabilität gesichert werden können. Diese sind auch für die Unternehmensplanung erforderlich. Deshalb haben die multinationalen Unternehmen ein Interesse daran. Die Rüstungsindustrie wird streng staatlich kontrolliert. Die multinationalen Unternehmen haben i.d.R. keine Monopolstellung auf ihren Märkten, und sie stammen auch nicht nur aus der kapitalistischen Welt, sondern ebenso aus der kommunistischen. Beide agieren nach denselben Prinzipien und bringen eine positive internationale Interessenverflechtung hervor. (MH)

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Shadow Banks, the IMF and the Politics of Financial Crisis -- Chapter 3: Financial Crisis, The IMF, and State Repression -- Chapter 4: IMF Programs, Shadow Banks, and Financial Crisis -- Chapter 5: State Repression, the IMF, and Financial Crisis: Empirical Evidence -- Chapter 6: The Fund, Financial Crisis and Repression in Turkey -- Chapter 7: Financial Crisis Prevention and Repression in India and Brazil -- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

Chapter 1: India-ASEAN Confluence: Centrality and Synergies -- Part A: Maritime Confluence -- Chapter 2: Locating AOIP-IPOI convergences in evolving maritime consciousness -- Chapter 3: Maritime security cooperation between India and ASEAN -- Chapter 4: Evolving geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific: India-ASEAN Engagement in constraining China -- Chapter 5: Building a community of shared future in Indo-Pacific region: Challenges and potential -- Chapter 6: Can India-ASEAN partnership reinvigorate the Indo-Pacific? -- Part B: Sub-regional linkages -- Chapter 7: Changing economic alignments: A sub-regional perspective -- Chapter 8: Indian Ocean axis of India's free and open Indo-Pacific vision -- Chapter 9: Andaman & Nicobar islands: India's new maritime frontier in the Indo-Pacific -- Chapter 10: Shared initiatives in education and knowledge between ASEAN and the Indo-Pacific countries for sustainability -- Part B: Major Partnerships -- Chapter 11: The rise of the Indo-Pacific and the theoretical foundations of India-Indonesia defence cooperation -- Chapter 12: AOIP-IPOI's conflux: A perspective from the Philippines -- Chapter 13: India-Vietnam security convergence in Indo-Pacific: through the lens of AOIP-IPOI synergy -- Chapter 14: Big power rivalry in the Indo-Pacific: Situating India's role.

In this book, Bruce Riedel, one of America's leading experts on the Middle East, provides a history of US relations with the various entities of north and south Yemen, and the first in-depth review of America's role in the deadly Saudi directed war in the Yemens. Three Presidents - Obama, Trump, and Biden - have been deeply involved in this conflict. Riedel places this current war in the context of America's history of engaging with the Yemens. From President Kennedy's handling of a Soviet and Egyptian coup in Yemen in the fall of 1962 to multiple Presidents interaction with the dictator Ali Abdallah Salih who united the Yemens this is a fascinating story with a colorful cast of characters, America and the Yemens will be of interest to readers seeking to have a better understanding of America's role in the Middle East and the tragic encounter that has created the worst humanitarian catastrophe in our lives.

Chapter 1. China Strategic Analysis -- Chapter 2. China and Negotiations -- Chapter 3. China Market Environment -- Chapter 4. China Market Entry -- Chapter 5. China Cultural Environment -- Chapter 6. China and Guanxi -- Chapter 7. China Ethics -- Chapter 8. China Contract Drafting and Dispute Resolution -- Chapter 9. China Circular Economy towards Environmental, Social, and Governance? - Chapter 10. China Strategic Social Media Marketing -- Chapter 11. China Outlook 2021-2025 -- Chapter 12. China and Technology -- Chapter 13. Challenges of Chinese Factories, Negotiations, and Middlemen -- Chapter 14. Fintech Market Development in China -- Chapter 15. China Belt & Road Initiative -- Chapter 16. How We Got Here - China 2022 -- Chapter 17. China Post Covid 19.

Brazil - Japan Relationship: A Partnership? (Henrique Altemani de Oliveira and Antonio Carlos Lessa) -- Global Environmental Governance and ODA from Japan to Brazil (Shuichiro Masukata, Cristina Y. A. Inoue, and Nanahira de Rabelo e Sant'Anna) -- Global Health (Rodrigo Pires de Campos and Saori Kawai) -- Trilateral Cooperation for Infrastructure (Akiko Koyasu and Danielly Ramos) -- Brazilian Workers in Japan and Public Policies for Promoting their Social Integration with a Focus on Basic Education to the Children (Mauricio Bugarin and Keiichi Yamazaki).