Over the last few days, media and observers have taken renewed interest in China’s growing debt burden and asked what the effects of a crisis in China may be on the rest of the world. A fair question if one believes that China can be analysed using the methods of western economies. But that’s not...Read More

There is a certain similarity in the way China and France carry out cross-border M&A.Both countries act in a systemic manner, both when dealing with inbound and outbound transactions. Both countries, sometimes, put emphasis on the nationalistic angle, due to both national pride and the strategic necessity to create national champions in key industrial sectors....Read More

On 2nd July 1997 the Bank of Thailand allowed the baht to float, thus ending its struggle to maintain the peg with the US$ in the face of massive speculative attacks, during which the country’s foreign reserves were almost entirely exhaust. The collapse of the Thai currency was rapidly followed by similar events in Indonesia,...Read More

Last Friday, the Pangoal Institution and TWAI organized the conference “The Belt and Road Initiative and China-EU Economic and Trade Ties.” Guests included Former Prime Minister of Italy, Former President of the European Commission Romano Prodi, President of the Pangoal Institution Yi Peng, Professor from Peking University Enrico Fardella, Former Deputy Administrator of State Administration of...Read More

Members of the Banking and Monetary Committee of the Global Policy Institute London are assessing the relative effectiveness of the US Federal Reserve Bank in comparison to the European Central Bank. The project takes as its assumption that federal political systems are always dynamic and subject to change. Central banks are a key institution in...Read More

The outcome of the recent referendum on the question of Britain’s membership in the European Union has many important implications. These range from the exact modalities of Britain’s future relationship with the EU and other EU-member states, the free movement of labour on the continent, the continued stability of the UK housing market, financial services...Read More

Viara Bojkova, Head of Geo-Economics Programme & Senior Research Fellow at the GPI, has written a chapter on “The nature, impact and lessons of Abenomics”, which will be published in “Advances in Geoeconomics” (edited by J Mark Munoz, Routledge 2016) in April 2017. In her chapter, Viara Bojkova outlines the background to the implementation of the...Read More

GPI Senior Research Fellow, Bob Savic, has been quoted in a recent article on CNN, commenting on the increasingly close ties between Russia and China: “”Driven by strengthening personal ties between Putin and Xi, the breadth and depth of China-Russia relations have spilled over into multiple spheres of governmental and institutional policymaking”. To read the...Read More

Atlanticists on both side of the pond have used the current standoff with Russia over Ukraine to reassert the centrality of NATO and of the transatlantic partnership. Continued interest in a united and purposeful West is a good thing, but the conceptual basis of the transatlantic relationship is outdated and in urgent need of overhaul....Read More

Given the dimensions of the human tragedy that has unfolded in Japan since the earthquake struck on 11 March 2011, it is not surprising that the possible consequences for the rest of East and South East Asia have received comparatively little attention. Most commentators have followed the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank in...Read More