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New International Economic Order (Prepared for R.J.B. Jones ed., Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy; London: Routledge, 1999). Formal proposals for a New International Economic Order (NIEO) were put forth by developing countries at derive from a summit meeting of the nonaligned movement in 1973. The origins of the NIEO however, can be traced back […]

Where did the theory of sovereignty originate, and what does it say about the rights of states? The concept of sovereignty originated when Europeans in the 16th and 17th centuries were looking for a secular basis for the authority of the emerging nation-states. In international relations, a sovereign state is equal to all other states; […]

Who was Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) and what relationship does he have to the naturalist theory of international law? Sometimes called the father of modern international law, Hugo Grotius was one of the pioneering natural rights theorists of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. He based his system on the law of nature and proposed […]

Insurance Industry With a large population, fast and rapid growing economy and constant improvement of its people’s living standard, the insurance industry in China thus enjoys tremendous market potentials. The Chinese insurance industry, starting from quite a low terrace, developed in a slow pace. 20 years since the reform and opening up witnessed the true […]

The Haskins Society is an international scholarly organization dedicated to the study of Viking, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and early Angevin history and the history of neighboring areas and peoples. Based at Cornell University, which serves as host to annual Haskins conferences in November, the society also organizes and sponsors scholarly sessions at the International Congress of […]

There are primarily three types of enterprises with foreign investment (foreign-invested enterprises) in China: wholly foreign-owned ventures, contractual joint ventures and equity joint ventures. As of the end of 1991, there were about 42,000 approved foreign-invested enterprises in China. Representative offices are also popular vehicles for establishing ties between foreign firms and the Chinese market. […]