Contemporary Issues In International Political Economy

437 Pages·2019·5.619 MB·English

by  Fu-Lai Tony Yu, Diana S. Kwan (Editors)

Contemporary
Issues in
International
Political Economy
Edited by
fu-lai tony yu
diana s. kwan
Contemporary Issues in International Political
Economy
Fu-Lai Tony Yu • Diana S. Kwan
Editors
Contemporary Issues
in International
Political Economy
Editors
Fu-Lai Tony Yu Diana S. Kwan
Hong Kong Shue Yan University The Chinese University of Hong Kong
North Point, Hong Kong Shatin, Hong Kong
ISBN 978-981-13-6461-7 ISBN 978-981-13-6462-4 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6462-4
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A
cknowledgements
Chapter 7 is modified from Yu, Fu-Lai Tony and Kwan, Diana S. (2008)
“Social Construction of National Identity: Taiwanese versus Chinese
Consciousness”, Social Identities, volume 14(1/January), pp.33–52.
Chapter 8 is adopted from Yu, Fu-Lai Tony (2017) “Neo-Mercantilist
Policy and China’s Rise as a Global Power”, Contemporary Chinese
Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International Journal, vol-
ume 3(3/December), pp.1043–1073.
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c
ontents
Part I Political and Religious Conflicts in the Middle East 1
1 Religious Conflicts in the Middle East: Christianity
Versus Islam and Sunni Versus Shiite 3
Diana S. Kwan and Fu-Lai Tony Yu
2 An Iran Nuclear Deal Without the United States?
Chinese, European, and Russian Interests and Options
After the US Withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive
Plan of Action 35
Moritz Pieper
3 Islam and Nationalism with Special Reference to the
Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan 55
Yoshiyuki Kitazawa
4 Origins of the Property Rights of the “Holy” Land and
Religious Conflicts in Jerusalem 75
Rita Yi-Man Li
5 Who Wants to Talk to Terrorists? 91
Peter J. Phillips
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viii CONTENTS
Part II Tensions in East Asia 111
6 The North Korean Crisis: Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons and the Threat of Nuclear War 113
Richard W. Mansbach and Kirsten L. Taylor
7 Interpreting the Taiwan Strait Conflict: Taiwanese Versus
Chinese Consciousness 149
Fu-Lai Tony Yu and Diana S. Kwan
8 Neo-Mercantilist Policy and China’s Rise as a Global
Power 175
Fu-Lai Tony Yu
9 China’s Belt-Road Initiative: The Political Economy of
Coordinated Coalitional Cooperation 197
David W. K. Yeung and Aloysius W. C. Lui
Part III Political, Social and Environmental Challenges to
Human Progress 227
10 Globalization and Populism 229
Oscar Bajo-Rubio and Ho-Don Yan
11 Brexit and the Future of the European Union 253
Edward Gotham
12 Same-Sex Marriage in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan:
Ideologies, Spaces and Developments 289
Joseph M. K. Cho and Lucetta Y. L. Kam
CONTENTS ix
13 Global Warming, Climate Change and World
Environmental Degradation 307
Edward C. H. Tang
Part IV The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Its Threats 331
14 The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Development
of Artificial Intelligence 333
Simon Chien-Yuan Chen and Ming-Chan Shen
15 How Realistic Is a Sustainable World? 347
Gunter Pauli
16 Cryptocurrencies: The Future of Finance? 359
Claire Wilson
17 The Role of Bitcoin in the Monetary System: Its
Development and the Possible Future 395
Aries Kin Ming Wong
Epilogue: Towards a Happier Global Village or the World
War III? 413
Index 417
c
ontributors
Oscar Bajo-Rubio Department of Economics, Universidad de Castilla-La
Mancha, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Simon  Chien-Yuan  Chen Department of Land Management, Feng
Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China
Joseph M. K. Cho The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin,
Hong Kong
Edward  Gotham Department of Economics, Feng Chia University,
Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China
Lucetta Y. L. Kam Department of Humanities and Creative Writing,
Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Yoshiyuki Kitazawa Department of International Relations, Faculty of
Foreign Studies, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan
Diana S. Kwan Office of Medical Education, The Chinese University of
Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
Rita Yi-Man Li Department of Economics and Finance, Hong Kong
Shue Yan University, North Point, Hong Kong
Aloysius W. C. Lui SRS Consortium for Advanced Study, Hong Kong
Shue Yan University, North Point, Hong Kong
Richard  W.  Mansbach Department of Political Science, Iowa State
University, Ames, IA, USA
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xii CONTRIBUTORS
Gunter Pauli Shaw College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Shatin, Hong Kong
Peter  J.  Phillips School of Commerce, University of Southern
Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
Moritz  Pieper School of Arts and Media, University of Salford,
Manchester, UK
Ming-Chan Shen Center of Public Policy Analysis, Feng Chia University,
Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China
Edward C. H. Tang Department of Economics and Finance, Hong
Kong Shue Yan University, North Point, Hong Kong
Kirsten L. Taylor Department of Government and International Studies,
Berry College, Mount Berry, GA, USA
Claire Wilson Department of Law and Business, Hong Kong Shue Yan
University, North Point, Hong Kong
Aries Kin Ming Wong Department of Economics, Hong Kong Baptist
University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Ho-Don  Yan Department of Economics, Feng Chia University,
Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China
David W. K. Yeung Department of Business Administration, Hong
Kong Shue Yan University, North Point, Hong Kong
Fu-Lai Tony Yu Department of Economics and Finance, Hong Kong
Shue Yan University, North Point, Hong Kong