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28 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 1,553 Global Political and Economic Relations papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • Notably, the differences among certificates of origin are not limited to the names of the form and the size of the paper but also to the specific entries of those certificates that are tailored and specific to each ASEAN+1 FTA.

    A New Field of Rivalry in the Indo‐Pacific: <b>IPEF Versus RCEP?</b> · 2026 · DOI

  • Viewing the entire negotiation process as a three-level game, the paper argues that in all four post-Soviet states the national governments believed the cost of ‘no agreement’ with China on the border issue to be so high that they chose to risk dealing with complex issues at home over passing up the opportunity to settle the border with their strongest neighbour.

    Post-Soviet settlement of the Sino-Soviet border: a failed attempt at a three-level game, 1991–2012 · 2022 · DOI

  • Drawing on interviews with Mongolian experts and officials as well as qualitative document analysis, the paper adds empirical nuance to the debate about Sino-Russian interaction in Eurasia, but also to the understudied dimension of the agency of the “in-between countries” in their shared neighborhood.

    The new silk road heads north: implications of the China-Mongolia-Russia economic corridor for Mongolian agency within Eurasian power shifts · 2020 · DOI

  • However, research on the EAEU is mostly Russia-centred and focused on trade issues, which leaves the small states’ perspectives and developmental aspects, such as the EAEU’s industrial cooperation agenda, understudied.

    Moving towards developmental regionalism? industrial cooperation in the Eurasian Economic Union from an Armenian and Belarusian perspective · 2020 · DOI

  • Despite the signing of the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) between mainland China and Taiwan in 2010, Taiwan's future status in the field of Asian regional integration remains unclear.

    Cross-Strait Relations and Regional Integration: A Review of the Ma Ying-jeou Era (2008–2016) · 2017 · DOI

  • Also, in terms of the study of China-Taiwan relations, the analysis conducted in this paper uncovers a more comprehensive picture of how China-Taiwan relations affect their economic than the previous and sometimes conflicting findings which, as this paper will demonstrate, just tell us part of the whole story.

    The Effect of International Relations on Cross-Border Economic Ties: A Case Study of Taiwan's Economic Policies toward China · 2016

  • Beijing eschews open challenge to the US over Iran as potentially undermining Sino-US comity precisely because the US drive against Iran is so strategically important to what China views as a US drive to secure control of Persian Gulf oil.

    China–Iran Relations: Cautious Friendship with America’s Nemesis · 2013 · DOI

  • justifiably dubbed the contest of century by The Economist in 2010, this remarkably complex relationship is often poorly understood, sometimes even within two countries.

    Sino-Indian Relations: History, Problems and Prospects · 2012

  • By using the method of the theory of constraints, the fundamental obstacles that conditioned the problems in Lithuania’s foreign trade have been identified: a cheap labour force in the country—an insufficient advantage in the long run, export and production structure typical of developing countries, lack of data on foreign countries’ trade regulations, and Lithuania’s low image.

    Trade policy in Lithuania: past experience and benchmarks for the future · 2010

  • The latest crisis to shake the stability of the world economy, the sub-prime mortgage crisis of the summer of 2007, was the unintended consequence of profitable yet poorly understood innovations in global financial markets.

    Rivals or Partners? Globalization and US-China Relations · 2007

  • This article draws attention to an understudied phenomenon, transnational political alliances (TPA), which occur when multinational corporations cooperate with local companies to influence public policies of the host government.

    Transnational Political Alliances · 2007 · DOI

  • Although there are a number of important writings on China's involvement in the ARF (Foot 1998; Johnston 1999 and 2003; Pan 1999), studies on China's participation in the APT and the ASEAN-China cooperation (also known as the ASEAN-China dialogue, hereafter ACC) remain sparse in the literature.

    Multilateralism in China´ s ASEAN Policy: Its Evolution, Characteristics, and Aspiration · 2005 · DOI

  • Experts note that the legal framework and scientific justification for the existence of a Eurasian scientific and educational space remain insufficiently developed.

    Stability, Adaptability, and Consolidation of the Scientific and Educational Space of Eurasia under Global Turbulence · 2025 · DOI

  • Because the center of global economic power is slowly but surely shifting from the western countries to Asia, the geopolitical moves of Asian countries on „The Grand Chessboard†need to be studied and analyzed, especially the ones of the leading actor, China.

    The geostrategic choke points of Bosporus and Dardanelles in the context of the New Silk Road · 2019

  • Therefore, it is a right and desirable direction to proceed, they consider that in the background of the modest results there might be the insufficient knowledge of the market mechanisms, the actors of the local supply chains and the potential partners.

    Hungarian endeavours for the enhancement of economic relations in Southeast Asia focusing on a new partnership with Vietnam · 2018 · DOI

  • However, the surprisingly common occurrence of TPAs in China indicates the power of economic incentives for political cooperation yet also suggests the need for further studies of TPAs in a wide variety of economic and political settings.

    Transnational Political Alliances · 2007 · DOI

  • While China's involvement in these regional multilateral institutions has not been an overlooked phenomenon, it is nonetheless an understudied field of inquiry.

    Multilateralism in China´ s ASEAN Policy: Its Evolution, Characteristics, and Aspiration · 2005 · DOI

  • Analysis of subregionalism has tended to he limited to the economic functions performed within them; involving as they do national state actors in their creation and development, subregional zones are also an appropriate category for political analysis.

    The Foreign Policy Dimensions of Subregional Economic Zones · 1995 · DOI

  • The action there is not limited to Afghanistan today; the wide "Asian Drama," never a one-act play set just in one locality, continues in all its breadth, depth and complexity.

    Russia in the Gorbachev Era: Still Looking East · 1986 · DOI

  • Domestic budget rivalries and the relative lobbying power of Naval leaders are responsible in part for the relatively high allocation of military funds to the Navy but give insufficient evidence for the marked increase in the Pacific Fleet's share of these funds.

    The Buildup of the Soviet Pacific Fleet: An Indication of Foreign Policy in Northeast Asia · 1983 · DOI

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