Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “yi xu”
Skip side bar filters

  • International Organizations and Small States

    Participation, Legitimacy and Vulnerability

    by Jack Corbett, Xu Yi-chong, Patrick Weller ...
    International Organizations (IOs) are vital institutions in world politics in which cross-border issues can be discussed and global problems managed.This path-breaking book shows the efforts that small states have made to participate more fully in IO activities. It draws attention to the challenges created by widened participation in IOs and develops an original model of the dilemmas that both IOs ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • The Political Economy of Sovereign Wealth Funds

    by Xu Yi-chong, Gawdat Bahgat ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines the origin, nature, the portfolio, organizational structure and operation of the seven largest SWFs from the perspective of the holding countries. Uniquely it tackles the issues from the perspectives of those non-OECD countries whose access to funds creates the most concern. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Sinews of Power

    The Politics of the State Grid Corporation of China

    by Xu Yi-chong ...
    Electricity is a basic requirement for a modern economy, and transmission grids at the center of transition to a low-carbon power system. They are the principal means to integrate large shares of wind and solar power and they are essential to ensuring a secure and reliable electricity supply. Grid companies around the world are struggling to find their niche in this transition. The State Grid ... Read more

    $140.99 USD

  • The Working World of International Organizations

    Authority, Capacity, Legitimacy

    by Xu Yi-chong, Patrick Weller ...
    International organizations (IOs) matter. This book uncovers the regular working world of IOs, examining whether, to what extent, and how these 'global governing bodies' can act independently of the will of states. This book explores this issue by asking who or what shapes their decisions; how and when decisions are made; how players interact within an IO; and how the interactions vary across IOs. ... Read more

    $85.49 USD

  • Powering China

    by Xu Yi-chong ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2002: This study of the Chinese electric power industry examines the ownership and the restructuring of the industry.The reform of the electric power industry is also seen as part of the wider economic development that has been taking place in China, thus providing fresh perspectives on the changes taking place in both the economy and society more generally. ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Politics of International Organizations

    Views from insiders

    Edited by Patrick Weller, Xu Yi-chong ...
    Series series Global Institutions
    International organisations (IOs) often receive a bad press, seen as intrusive, domineering and unresponsive to the needs of the people and countries they are meant to serve. The best way to understand the operation of these international organisations is to bring together those who represent their countries at IOs and those who have been working at IOs at various capacities and then to listen to ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary International Political Economy

    Edited by Timothy M. Shaw, Laura C. Mahrenbach, Renu Modi, Xu Yi-chong ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Published 35 years after Palgrave Macmillan’s landmark International Political Economy (IPE) series was first founded, this Handbook captures the state of the art of contemporary IPE. It draws on the series’ history of focusing on the oft-neglected study of the global South.Providing interdisciplinary perspectives from scholars hailing from the global North and South, the Handbook illustrates the ... Read more

    $242.99 USD

  • Computer Vision And Robotics In Perioperative Process

    by Yi Xu, Huan Tan, Ying Mao, Lynn-ann Derose ...
    Series Book 5 - Series In Computer Vision
    This invaluable compendium highlights the challenges of perioperative process in hospitals today. It delves into the development of a multi-agent robotic system where a dirty-side robot that sorts instruments returned from a surgical room into different containers for easy scrubbing, a Traybot that navigates the environment and transports the instrument containers to different stations, a clean ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Globalization

    North-South Perspectives

    by John Glenn ...
    Rather than claim that there exists a common concept of globalization that all parties can agree to, this book seeks to examine some of the conceptions and the way in which they render different interpretations of particular aspects of globalization.The last two decades have witnessed an explosive proliferation of academic writings on the subject of globalization, which has been accompanied by a ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)

    Challenges and Tasks for the Twenty First Century

    Edited by Ippei Yamazawa ...
    Series series PAFTAD (Pacific Trade and Development Conference Series)
    This book provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive account of the APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) organisation and examines the challenges APEC now faces in the new century. Subjects covered include: * the history of APEC * APEC and the latest WTO round * case-studies of countries in the region including China, Japan, Malaysia, Korea and Taiwan * APECs approach to competition and ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • How the West Was Lost

    Fifty Years of Economic Folly and the Stark Choices Ahead

    by Dambisa Moyo ...
    The renowned economist and New York Times– bestselling author presents a "succinct and sophisticated" account of Western economic decline (Paul Collier, The Observer ).Amid the hype of China's economic rise, the most important story of our generation is being pushed aside: America is not just in decline, but on course to become the biggest welfare state in the history of the Wes... ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • China's Economy

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Arthur R. Kroeber ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know® is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic growth story of the last three decades. In the 1980s China was an impoverished backwater, struggling to escape the political turmoil and economic mismanagement of the Mao era. Today it is the world's second biggest economy, the largest manufacturing and trading nation, the consumer of half the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook