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Ian Maclay

@ian-maclay.bsky.social
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Political Science major at Georgia State University | interested in China-Global South IPE, Development, Green Industrial Policy, State Capitalism, Regional Integration & BRI

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Mathias Larsen @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
New article out in Politics & Society with @danieldrisc.com and @maxkiefel.bsky.social : "Internationalizing Industrial Policy: How China and the United States Use State Capacity to Secure Critical Minerals for Electric Vehicles" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Through an examination of the Piraeus Port acquisition from 2009-2016, Stampoliou Marina assesses the benefits & risks of Chinese investments in European ports and considers policies that could optimize those investments while mitigating the risks. dione.lib.unipi.gr/xmlui/bitstrea… 1/12
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Rodrigo Barra Novoa applies insights from Mazzucato, Aghion, Howitt, Mokyr, Samuelson & Sampedro to understand Chile’s middle innovation trap and how to better apply industrial strategy to achieve social & economic development. arxiv.org/abs/2510.20863 1/8
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State capacity, innovation, and endogenous development in Chile
The study explores the evolution of Chile's industrial policy from 1990 to 2022 through the lens of state capacity, innovation and endogenous development. In a global context where governments are rea...
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Tran Xuan Hiep, Nguyen Tang Nghi & Nguyen Cam Tu utilize a foreign policy analysis framework to assess the motivations & driving forces behind how the BRI functions both in SE Asia generally & Vietnam specifically. tinyurl.com/57yrzpha 1/8
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
In their recent paper, Huseyin Emrah Karaoğuz, Berkay Ayhan & İlgi Doğa Albasar use bibliometric techniques to address the conceptual stretching and methodological issues plaguing the debate over the “developmental state” as a term. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/7
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Developmental state in the context of globalization: definitional, conceptual, and methodological issues
Developmental state has offered one of the most widely used analytical toolkits to study political economy of development. One of the intriguing debates in the scholarship is whether ‘conceptual st...
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Yunxin Chang & Yunus Özcan break down Green BRI investment investment in Africa by country & sector from 2013-2023. www.jital.org/index.php/ji... 1/3
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Under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China’s Green Investments in African Countries | Chang | Journal of International Trade, Logistics and Law
Under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China’s Green Investments in African Countries
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Using role theory, David Mitchell examines how China’s BRI engages with & shapes the prospect of regional integration in South Asia. While China isn’t conceived of as South Asian, through the BRI it plays a master role in helping define the region. tinyurl.com/ytmfburk 1/5
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Role conflict and ‘regionness’: the effects of the belt and road initiative on South Asia
Different studies have examined China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) impact on states in different regions; less attention has been given to the impact on the development of regions or ‘regionnes...
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Canada has a long history with industrial policy but it is in need of well crafted industrial policy to combat low productivity growth, rising geopolitical tensions, competitive pressures, advances in digital technologies and climate change.  tinyurl.com/7m55hz62 1/6
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Using role theory, David Mitchell examines how China’s BRI engages with & shapes the prospect of regional integration in South Asia. While China isn’t conceived of as South Asian, through the BRI it plays a master role in helping define the region. tinyurl.com/ytmfburk 1/5
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Role conflict and ‘regionness’: the effects of the belt and road initiative on South Asia
Different studies have examined China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) impact on states in different regions; less attention has been given to the impact on the development of regions or ‘regionnes...
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Carolin Ioramashvili argues for evidence based industrial policy that factors in highly devolved cases like the UK & US. She examines barriers to policy evaluation & argues for developing a better ecosystem for testing the impact of the particular policy in question. tinyurl.com/yf337cxv
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Does this work here? Evaluation and evidence for local industrial strategy and policy
The successful implementation of industrial strategies relies on high-quality evidence of interventions that work. Yet, there is a lack of such evidence, particularly for local and regional economi...
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Using a new economic geography approach, Cao Ting examines the impact of Chinese infrastructure investment in Latin-America. He finds that Chinese infrastructure investment in Latin America has significantly benefited the region economically. scielo.br/j/rbpi/a/yshY5… 1/8
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Yue Pu, Xinyi Zeng & Tao Chen use the Difference-in-Differences method to evaluate the higher educational impact of the Belt and Road Initiatives Education Action Plan in 66 BRI participant countries between 2010-2023. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/6
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Improving education levels of BRI participating economies: Evidence from the Education Action Plan for the Belt and Road Initiative
As a pivotal measure for educational internationalization, the Education Action Plan for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is of great significance f…
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Abiodun Adiat & Kayode Olawoyin offer a top line comparison of Western & Chinese models of modernization & their viability as models for African countries. They conclude policymakers should apply lessons from the 🇨🇳 model with their own characteristics. tinyurl.com/mt6mmj9x
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(PDF) China's Modernization Approach: A Genuine Break from the Past or a Repackaging of familiar Developmental Discourse for African States?
PDF | Many new states in the developing world after their independence adopted the western modernization approach which focuses on liberal democracy and... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...
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Dexter Tiff Roberts @dtiffroberts.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
𝙒𝙚𝙡𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 285𝙩𝙝 𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙒𝙖𝙧. 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀. open.substack.com/pub/dexter/p...
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Trade War
China orders real estate information providers to stop publishing property sales. numbers. Shanghai tells internet companies to scrub bad news from their platforms. And UBS predicts 2.4 million apartm...
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The Diplomat @thediplomat.com · 08/12/2025
China gives conflicting signals because it has three different “personas”: Moral China, Defensive-Assertive China, and Striving China.
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What Does China Want? Depends Which China You’re Talking About.
China gives conflicting signals because it has three different “personas”: Moral China, Defensive-Assertive China, and Striving China.
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Maximiliano Véjares @maxvejares.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
New piece for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social on Chile's green industrial policy efforts and its role in the global energy transition. Can resource-rich countries become relevant players in the upcoming global green economy? Full analysis: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/lit...
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Lithium Experiments | Maximiliano Véjares
Chile’s mineral strategy and geopolitical realignment in the global energy transition
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Giles Mohan, Ran Hu, Philipp Katsinas & Samuel Rogers assess China-European investment deals in the Piraeus & Hamburg ports through a modalities of power framework. www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1... 1/2
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Giles Mohan, Ran Hu, Philipp Katsinas & Samuel Rogers assess China-European investment deals in the Piraeus & Hamburg ports through a modalities of power framework. www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1... 1/2
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
It’s been bothering me how terrible the “Your Party” name is since first hearing it so this was a definitely welcome read.
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
In their recent paper, Tieshan Wang, Yuxuan Zhang, Tieyan Wang, Haoxin Yuan, Yibo Hu & Xuepeng Zhang assess degrees and conditions of coordination between green finance and the renewable energy sector at the provincial level in China. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/4
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Exploring the Role of Green Finance in Advancing the Shift to Green Energy: Insights from Industrial Enterprises in China
China's green energy transition is a central component of its sustainable development strategy. This transition relies heavily on the Green Credit Sys…
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Connectivity of ECOWAS member states to the global economy has been improved through the Belt and Road Initiative, however, it has not further advanced regional ECOWAS integration. This risks debt imbalances, duplication and political fragmentation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/7
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Which way ECOWAS? China’s Belt and Road Initiatives and regional economic integration in West Africa
This study critically examined the implications of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for economic regionalism in West Africa. Despite increasing BRI engagements in West Africa, the alignment o...
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Belt and Road Podcast @beltandroadpod.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Check out Ellen Li's great profile of the Saysetta SEZ near Vientiane, Laos! It built on my visit (@profjulietlu.bsky.social) w Tyler Harlan & Nicholas Bosoni. Thanks to @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social and @globalchinamap.bsky.social for support! @ellenlhl.bsky.social thepeoplesmap.net/project/vien...
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Vientiane Saysettha Development Zone - The People's Map of Global China
The Vientiane Saysettha Development Zone (SDZ) is China’s only national-level overseas economic and trade cooperation zone in Laos. Established through a ‘land-for-funding’ arrangement, it was develop...
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Connectivity of ECOWAS member states to the global economy has been improved through the Belt and Road Initiative, however, it has not further advanced regional ECOWAS integration. This risks debt imbalances, duplication and political fragmentation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/7
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Which way ECOWAS? China’s Belt and Road Initiatives and regional economic integration in West Africa
This study critically examined the implications of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for economic regionalism in West Africa. Despite increasing BRI engagements in West Africa, the alignment o...
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
@mazzucatom.bsky.social & her co-author Lorenza Monaco build on Mazzucato’s past work on the entrepreneurial state by addressing the challenges and opportunities countries in the Global South face when designing and implementing industrial strategy. muse.jhu.edu/article/938579 1/12
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Project MUSE - Rethinking Industrial Strategies and the State: A Global South Perspective
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
@mazzucatom.bsky.social & her co-author Lorenza Monaco build on Mazzucato’s past work on the entrepreneurial state by addressing the challenges and opportunities countries in the Global South face when designing and implementing industrial strategy. muse.jhu.edu/article/938579 1/12
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Project MUSE - Rethinking Industrial Strategies and the State: A Global South Perspective
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
William Vogt, Guilan Moghaddam & Robert Chong briefly overview China’s BRI investments in Brazil through their Digital Silk Road (DSR), how Sino-Brazilian relations are an understandable developmental fit and where this partnership may be heading. tinyurl.com/p3yjs534 1/4
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Brazil in the Belt and Road Initiative and Digital Silk Road | Observa China 观中国
Fourth article in the series Chinese Technological Investment in Portuguese-speaking Countries
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Brice Tseen Fu Lee, Ignacio Vicuña Betancourt, Juan Pablo Sims, Linh DieuDinh & Yun-Tso Lee ask: Between China’s BRI & the EUs Global Gateway initiative, which strategic approach is more effective for gaining legitimacy and influence in Southeast Asia? tinyurl.com/3ywyezfn 1/11
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
“Boundary maintenance between the haves and the have nots is why the conceptualization of the Global North as the walled world has resonance in an era in which migration is a major, politicized issue. 13a/15
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
New free open source book by Nicholas Lees examining the terminology used to address the most consequential global divide since the end of the Cold War. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/monobook-oa/... 1/15
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Shenzhen continuing its streak as a leader in regional integration. “Against a backdrop of slowing global growth and rising protectionism, China and ASEAN countries are strengthening economic integration and have been each other's largest trading partners for five consecutive years”
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
In their recent, important paper, Hui Li, Wenzhuo Lu, Aoxin Wang & Xiaochen Xie assess the global welfare impact of China’s rise from 1979-2019, using trade data they project possible future impact China could have on welfare globally. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/5
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China’s technological rise and its global welfare effects
This paper examines how China’s technological progress has evolved since 1979 and its impact on global welfare. Using a multi-country Ricardian trade …
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Assessing Malaysia & the Philippines through a neoclassical IR lens, Mohid Iftikhar considers the conditions for SE Asian states to accept & successfully implement BRI investment in infrastructure projects. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/6
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Regional security structure and domestic political economy interests: Comparative analysis of belt and road initiative investments in the Philippines and Malaysia
Why do regional states respond to BRI, especially when established financing mechanisms are in place? Second, what pathways shape the success and fail…
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Assessing Malaysia & the Philippines through a neoclassical IR lens, Mohid Iftikhar considers the conditions for SE Asian states to accept & successfully implement BRI investment in infrastructure projects. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/6
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Regional security structure and domestic political economy interests: Comparative analysis of belt and road initiative investments in the Philippines and Malaysia
Why do regional states respond to BRI, especially when established financing mechanisms are in place? Second, what pathways shape the success and fail…
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Maria Ghayas and Waqas Kamal assess the opportunities and challenges of the BRI initiated CPEC in Pakistan’s Sindh region and what that might mean for Karachi. www.theeyepublications.com/index.php/fi... 1/7
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CHINA-PAKISTAN ECONOMIC CORRIDOR (CPEC): A REVIEW ON OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR SINDH’S LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORT ECONOMY | Eye-The International Social Science Review
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Tim Page examines the capacity for trade unions to inform and shape industrial policy. Using a varieties of capitalism approach, he concludes that, like the state, unions are capable of distorting & shaping markets toward more socially desirable ends. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/2
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The role of trade unions as experts in the industrial policy process: maximising the opportunity
A lively debate about the role of the state in economic affairs has existed since pre-capitalist times. This paper considers: the role of market and state under three different varieties of capital...
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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
This Yglesias quote is so bafflingly wrong that it's hard to believe people voluntarily pay for his thoughts on American politics.
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
In their 2018 paper, Jesse Salah Ovadia & Christina Wolf consider the applicability of “the East Asian Model” (EAM) of development for developing countries in Africa. 1/5 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
you’ll never believe the newest meme pair for “Find someone who looks at you like…”
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Alex Dupuy & Barry Truchil critically examine definitions and examples of state capitalism (in third world, advanced and socialist settings) to evaluate if it is helpful as a descriptive category in comparative political economy. 1/13 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Problems in the theory of state capitalism - Theory and Society
Our analysis has focused on the concept of state capitalism as applied by its various proponents to the Third World and advanced capitalist countries as well as the socialist countries. This concept w...
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
By examining investment patterns in SOEs during election years, Qingyuan Li, Chen Lin, Li Xu build on political business cycle theories as well as broader literature about the inefficiency of state owned firms relative to privately owned firms. 1/3 academic.oup.com/rfs/article/...
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Political Investment Cycles of State-Owned Enterprises
Abstract. Using a large panel of more than 140,000 state-owned enterprises (SOEs), this study examines SOEs’ investment behavior surrounding 82 national el
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James Jackson @james7jackson.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
🚨New Publication 🚨 in New Political Economy with the one and only@mathiaslarsen.bsky.social. We propose the term 'Green Financial Planning' to tie together many of the terms in political economy at the moment, and demonstrate that green finance is much more than a few loans/bonds with green names
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James Jackson @james7jackson.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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China doesn’t want to lead alone on climate policies, senior adviser warns
Exclusive: A top official in Beijing’s Cop delegation says China is committed to clean energy – but US’s absence is a problem
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The overall impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on firm performance has been widely studied, but Cuong Sy Vu, Quang Anh Nguyen and Hoa Thi Thanh Pham consider what firm ownership structure might mean for firm resilience in their recent paper. 1/6 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The COVID-19 pandemic, ownership structure, and firm performance: New evidence from Vietnamese listed firms
This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on firm performance, emphasizing the moderating role of ownership structure among non-financia…
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Raya Kanazireva offers a comparative analysis of a handful of case-study countries with varying degrees of state-led & market driven entrepreneurialism. Her paper asks a range of questions examining impact of SOEs on economic growth & innovation. 1/7 reference-global.com/article/10.2...
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Public Sector Entrepreneurship and the Role of SOEs:...
Public sector entrepreneurship (PSE) has a significant impact on economic development, innovation and governance across different economies....
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
In their recent paper Tanja Borzel, Julia Langbein, Lunting Wu & Valentin Krüsmann compare EU & China approaches to development in Eastern Europe by considering program, implementation & the propensity for these two powers to collide, compete or cooperate. 1/9 tinyurl.com/2s49866c
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
The Solomon Islands is looking for international aid to make Bina Harbor a Pacific-wide tuna processing and international port facility. The Manele government would prefer Western support to diversify international partners & balance risks and opportunities. 1/2
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The Diplomat @thediplomat.com · 15/11/2025
The Solomon Islands prime minister has signaled multiple times that his preferred partner for the Bina Harbor project is New Zealand, but without enough funding he may be forced to take on loans from China instead.
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Solomon Islands Doesn’t Want to Depend on China. Will the West Give It a Choice?
In the Pacific, infrastructure is influence – but China appears to be alone in recognizing that.
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Ian Maclay @ian-maclay.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Through a historical materialist approach, Dae-oup Chang highlights how South Korea’s recent experience with martial law validates the argument that neoliberalism & authoritarianism share the same logic of elite consolidation of power. 1/5 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Authoritarian neoliberalism in South Korea: origins and historical conjunctures
This article examines the authoritarian transformation of neoliberalism in South Korea. Tracing the origins and making of President Yoon’s attempted coup in December 2024, it argues that the event ...
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