Illicit transnational flows of goods, money, information, and people – the clandestine side of globalization – have become a growing source of tension and conflict in world politics. Nevertheless, the illicit dimensions of the global economy are largely overlooked in the international political economy (IPE) literature.1 This is evident by surveying the major textbooks, readers, and journals in...

Panel data analysis has become very popular in comparative political economy. However, in order to draw meaningful inferences from such data, one has to address specification and estimation issues carefully. This paper aims to demonstrate various pitfalls that typically occur in applied empirical work. To illustrate this, we refer to the debate on the globalization-welfare state nexus. We reexa...

Economies around the world have become increasingly integrated, thereby enhancing productivity growth and expanding consumer choices. In many nations, globalization has been accompanied by an increase in living standard hardly imagined just a generation ago. But perceived consequences for income distribution, environmental quality, and national sovereignty have also made globalization the focus...

Mankind civilization in the globalization age depends heavily on advanced information technologies resulting from automation of control and decision expertise and their respective scientific disciplines. These have a multitude of impacts on development of national economies within the global economy. The broad area of social systems, being essentially human centred systems, is a cross-, interan...

this paper proposes a structural model for the analysis of correlation between knowledge economy index and sustainable development across the world. an analytical model is devised for investigation of the role of the major factors in the process of development. the proposed structural model is calibrated using statistical data from the world bank, and the united nations for national economies a...

In the 1990s Southeast Asia became prominent in discussions of globalization. Comparative studies often pointed to the region’s capitalist economies as exemplars of pro-globalization development strategies, countries whose economic and political fortunes have been tied (for better or worse) to a deepening embrace of global trade and investment. The region’s sudden economic reversal in 1997-98 c...

China has undergone economic transition characterized by marketization, globalization and decentralization, which has resulted in profound change in land use and urban space. This paper integrates globalization, institutional change, and China's economic transition to better understand urban land expansion in China. We use land use survey data in Jiangsu province at the county level to shed the...

In biological systems, the capacity of anticipation—that is, entertaining a model of the system within the system—can be considered as naturally given. Human languages enable psychological systems to construct and exchange mental models of themselves and their environments reflexively, that is, provide meaning to the events. At the level of the social system expectations can further be codified...

All over the world “globalization has brought the fears that the social fabric of societies could be brought down by the market.“Anti-globalization” protest claim that the “world is not for sale”. French Prime Minister Line Jospin tried to draw a line in the sand by granting that he would go for a “market economy but not for a market society” and many more quotes from all quarters would point t...

In his paper, "Globalization, Ideology, and Narratives of the East Asian Financial Crisis," Ezra Yoo-Hyeok Lee analyzes the narratives of the East Asian financial "crisis" in 1997-98, arguing that it took place in the course of restructuring the world economy so that the first world would keep its hegemonic power. The East Asian financial crisis spread rapidly to the rest of the globe and in th...