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The Success of K-pop. How Big and Why So Fast?
Over the past decade, a specific form of Korean popular music—K-pop—has enjoyed huge success around the world. Previous explanations have mostly...
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China’s Technology Protectionism and iIts Non-negotiable Rationales
China's restrictions on the internet and the ICT sector are tightening, with over 50 measures targeting this sector implemented just in the last...
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TTIP, the Revenant
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Edward BowlesEdward Bowles is a Member of the European Commission’s Advisory Group on TTIP, and writes this in a personal capacity. For those of...
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Embracing Innovation and Economic Development: A Policy Perspective for the Asia-Pacific Region
Research Areas: Far East Innovation, IP, and Human Capital South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Fredrik ErixonGreat Opportunities for Asia-Pacific Economies to Prosper through the Digital Economy — The Asia-Pacific region has great opportunities to...
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What Will Happen to U.S. Trade Policy When Trump Runs the Zoo?
What kind of political animals will be making U.S. trade policy in the Trump administration? The tone of the campaign suggests that the...
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Manufacturing Discontent: The Rise to Power of Anti-TTIP Groups
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Matthias BauerOld beliefs, new symbols, new faces. In 2013, a small group of German green and left- wing activists, professional campaign NGOs and...
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China in the Global Economy: Leaping Dragon or Paper Tiger?
By some measures already the world’s biggest economy, China is seeking energetically to flex its muscles abroad by launching grand projects such as...
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Europe in the Trumpworld: EU Trade and Security Under the New US Executive
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe election of Trump into the Oval Office is much of a non-event for EU trade-policy detail, possibly even the TTIP: they have been deteriorating...
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Why Concluding CETA is so Important for the EU
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityPassions have been running high this week as the EU failed to get an agreement about signing off its trade deal with Canada, what is called CETA. As...
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Financial Repression and the Debt Build-up in China: Is There a Way Out?
China’s old recipe book for economic success, based on market distorting policies, is hindering the process toward a market-driven economy and the...
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Turning the Single Digital Market into a House of Cards? The European Local Content Quota on Netflix
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Korea Project Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: audiovisual industry audiovisual policy cultural industries Digital Single Market EU European CommissionOn May 25, 2016, the Commission proposed to amend two dozen articles of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (hereafter the “Directive”). One...
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Xi Jinping’s Long Road to Somewhere? China’s OBOR Initiative and how Europe Should Respond
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe true nature and purpose of China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative are subject to much speculation. The one certainty is that OBOR commands...