Contemporary Issues in International Political Economy

This book is the product of a team-teaching course entitled, “Issues in Economic Development” offered to the final-year students of Department of Economics and Finance at Hong Kong Shue Yan University. In this volume, the authors comprehensively survey wo

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Contemporary Issues in International Political Economy

Fu-Lai Tony Yu  •  Diana S. Kwan Editors

Contemporary Issues in International Political Economy

Editors Fu-Lai Tony Yu Hong Kong Shue Yan University North Point, Hong Kong

Diana S. Kwan The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, Hong Kong

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Acknowledgements

Chapter 7 is modified from Yu, Fu-Lai Tony and Kwan, Diana S. (2008) “Social Construction of National Identity: Taiwanese versus Chinese Consciousness”, Social Identities, volume 14(1/January), pp.33–52. Chapter 8 is adopted from Yu, Fu-Lai Tony (2017) “Neo-Mercantilist Policy and China’s Rise as a Global Power”, Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International Journal, volume 3(3/December), pp.1043–1073.

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Contents

Part I Political and Religious Conflicts in the Middle East   1 1 Religious Conflicts in the Middle East: Christianity Versus Islam and Sunni Versus Shiite  3 Diana S. Kwan and Fu-Lai Tony Yu 2 An Iran Nuclear Deal Without the United States? Chinese, European, and Russian Interests and Options After the US Withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action 35 Moritz Pieper 3 Islam and Nationalism with Special Reference to the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan 55 Yoshiyuki Kitazawa 4 Origins of the Property Rights of the “Holy” Land and Religious Con