Review
International Relations
Clive L. Spash, Frederic Hache
Summary: The Dasgupta Review attempts to frame critical biodiversity loss as an issue of asset management and population size in order to divert attention away from questioning economic growth, despite apparently recognizing natural limits. However, it ignores long-standing problems with capital theory and social cost-benefit analysis, offering impossible to achieve valuations based on old flawed theories and methods embedded in an unsavoury political economy.
Article
Economics
Saori Shibata
Summary: This article examines the impact of digitalization in the service sector in Japan, highlighting potential issues such as skill degradation and increased work intensity, rather than the optimistic improvements in working conditions and stable growth as some commentators have suggested.
REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
Jinghui Wu, Bo Li
Summary: The study shows that from 2008 to 2019, carbon emissions and carbon sinks of the marine industry in China increased annually, with the growth rate of carbon emissions higher than that of carbon sinks. Different provinces (cities) showed varying levels of carbon emissions and sinks based on their time-dependent models.
Article
Business, Finance
Jianchun Fang, Giray Gozgor, James H. Nolt
Summary: This study found that globalization promotes labor market flexibility, while economic uncertainty has a negative impact on it. The interaction of globalization with economic uncertainty further affects labor market flexibility. The findings were robust to various sensitivity analyses, including different estimation procedures and globalization indicators, as well as various controls and excluding outliers.
Article
International Relations
Stephane J. Baele, Lewys Brace, Travis G. Coan
Summary: This article provides an analytical framework for studying the multifaceted and fast-growing activity of right-wing extremists on the Internet. It conceptualizes the online presence of the far-right as a dynamic ecosystem and highlights the size, breadth, and heterogeneity of today's far-right online ecosystem through key examples.
STUDIES IN CONFLICT & TERRORISM
(2023)
Article
Economics
Philippe Le Billon, Samuel Spiegel
Summary: This article examines the hidden costs of three prominent mineral supply chain solutions and highlights how global capitalism shapes regulatory injustices. The 'clean' mineral supply chain schemes can hide inequitable territorial and economic regimes of accumulation and labor exploitation, resulting in negative impacts on communities, the environment, and extractive political economies dominated by large corporations. There is a need for increased critical attention to how mineral supply chain schemes limit the potential for pursuing counter-hegemonic transformation.
REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
(2022)
Article
International Relations
Basma Hajir, Sara Clarke-Habibi, Nomisha Kurian
Summary: This article extends the current debates about the value of resilience-focused interventions in conflict-affected settings by highlighting the importance of positionality and the relationship between structural change and individual needs. It calls for the creation of new forms of global justice that capture the multifaceted, dynamic nature of adversity, resilience, and transformational change by prioritizing geopolitical conflict, local voices and needs, and critical reflection on Eurocentric knowledge production.
JOURNAL OF INTERVENTION AND STATEBUILDING
(2022)
Article
International Relations
Erik Lin-Greenberg, Reid B. C. Pauly, Jacquelyn G. Schneider
Summary: The article assesses how political scientists can use wargames for scholarly inquiry and establishes a research agenda for wargaming in International Relations. It differentiates wargames from other methodological approaches, focuses on their ecological validity, and outlines how researchers can build and run their own games or draw from archival wargames for theory development and testing.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
(2022)
Article
Economics
Federico Fabbrini
Summary: The article analyzes the measures adopted by the EU to address the economic effects of COVID-19 from a law and policy perspective, assessing their implications for the EMU. It highlights the transformative effect of these policies on the EU's economic governance architecture and discusses the need for further constitutional adaptations to sustain the unprecedented transfer of fiscal power to the EU level. The responses to COVID-19 have led to a significant rebalancing of the EMU, bridging the asymmetry between EU monetary and economic policy, but questions remain about whether these responses are temporary or the new normal for the EMU.
JCMS-JOURNAL OF COMMON MARKET STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
Sedat Bastug, Hercules Haralambides, Soner Esmer, Enes Eminoglu
Summary: This study indicates a disparity in the criteria used by shipping companies and port operators to measure port competitiveness. While port operators prioritize factors like port location and service level, shipping companies prioritize port operational efficiency. The research suggests that better mutual understanding between ports and carriers can lead to a more efficient economic system and societal development.
Article
Economics
Ulrich Krotz, Lucas Schramm
Summary: France and Germany played a decisive role within the EU by establishing joint positions through their tight bilateral political cooperation, despite starting from different poles, advancing European integration during the coronavirus crisis.
JCMS-JOURNAL OF COMMON MARKET STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Economics
Marek Naczyk
Summary: The research found that in Poland's market economy, comprador bankers co-opted state actors to implement a series of policies that support the development of local enterprises. After the global financial crisis, comprador bankers actively promoted the implementation of development policies to improve the management restrictions of foreign-headquartered multinational corporations and prevent parent banks from occupying the liquidity of Polish subsidiaries.
REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
(2022)
Article
Business
En-Ze Wang, Chien-Chiang Lee
Summary: This research examines the dynamic correlation between China's policy uncertainty and crude oil markets. The results show that the correlation is time-varying and non-linear. The independence between policy uncertainty and oil returns varies more constantly, while the interaction between policy uncertainty and global oil production varies at a lower frequency. The different types of policy uncertainty also have different associations with global oil returns.
EMERGING MARKETS FINANCE AND TRADE
(2022)
Article
Economics
Thomas Dietz, Janina Grabs
Summary: Voluntary Sustainability Standards have become popular for more sustainable agri-food value chains, but competition between standards has increased and driven down price premiums. The study finds that the most widely used standards in the coffee sector have not effectively improved the social, environmental, and economic sustainability practices of smallholder farmers under these conditions.
NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY
(2022)
Article
Economics
Kenneth W. Abbott, Benjamin Faude
Summary: The concept of the Hybrid Institutional Complexes (HICs) is introduced as a novel descriptive and analytical lens for the study of contemporary global governance, with emphasis on the greater diversity of institutional forms and systemic features. HICs offer governance benefits such as good fit for multi-faceted problems and diverse preferences, but also pose risks like confusion and conflict amplification. The research agenda focuses on exploring the structures, operations, and governance implications of HICs.
REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
(2022)
Article
International Relations
Roxani Krystalli, Philipp Schulz
Summary: This article explores the practices of love and care in the context of armed conflict, highlighting their importance in understanding the remaking of worlds after violence. The authors argue that attention to love and care expands scholarly understandings, sheds light on the meanings of politics, and raises ethical dilemmas. They propose a set of questions and avenues for future research on love and care in armed conflict.
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES REVIEW
(2022)
Article
International Relations
Mia Bloom, Ayse Lokmanoglu
Summary: The roles of women have significantly changed within terrorist groups, with explicit gender strategies seen in organizations like ISIS and Boko Haram, and gender-equal political advances made by the PKK. Scholars should challenge the notion of limited roles for women.
STUDIES IN CONFLICT & TERRORISM
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Xintian Liu, Suisui Chen
Summary: This study systematically examines the influence mechanism of environmental regulation on the green transformation of the marine industry in the context of high-quality development of the marine economy from theoretical and empirical perspectives. The study finds that environmental regulation plays a significant role in promoting the green transformation of the marine industry and that market-based environmental regulation instruments have a more pronounced promotion effect compared to command-and-control instruments.
Article
Business, Finance
Iana Liadze, Corrado Macchiarelli, Paul Mortimer-Lee, Patricia Sanchez Juanino
Summary: This paper uses the NiGEM model to quantify the impact of Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine on the global economy. It indicates that Europe will be the region most affected, with GDP expected to shrink by over 1%. Furthermore, the war will result in a 30% reduction in GDP for "Developing Europe" where Ukraine is the largest representative. Additionally, the war will contribute to an increase of 2% in global inflation in 2022 and 1% in 2023.
Article
Environmental Studies
P. P. E. Weaver, J. Aguzzi, R. E. Boschen-Rose, A. Colaco, H. de Stigter, S. Gollner, M. Haeckel, C. Hauton, R. Helmons, D. O. B. Jones, H. Lily, N. C. Mestre, C. Mohn, L. Thomsen
Summary: Deep-sea mining, particularly the mining of polymetallic nodules, is likely to have both positive aspects such as increasing metal supply for battery production, and negative aspects such as large-scale environmental impacts. This article discusses the potential impacts of sediment plumes generated by mining vehicles near the seabed, as well as methods for measuring and comparing different mining vehicles. The findings of this study will assist the International Seabed Authority in regulating deep-sea mining activities and promoting the use of best available technology and environmental practices.
