Will IR Theory with Chinese Characteristics be a Powerful Alternative?

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In Search of Chinese Ir Theory

From a “Western” perspective, International Studies in the PRC have long time not be seen as an academic discipline but as highly ideological field controlled by the Chinese state. This certainly holds true for the early period of International Studies following the founding of the PRC, when Marxism-Leninism and the ideas of Mao Zedong served as guiding theories. But after the decisions of open...

A Complete Theory of Everything (will be subjective)

The progression of theories suggested for our world, from egoto geoto helio-centric models to universe and multiverse theories and beyond, shows one tendency: The size of the described worlds increases, with humans being expelled from their center to ever more remote and random locations. If pushed too far, a potential theory of everything (ToE) is actually more a theory of nothing (ToN). Indee...

Creative Objectivism, a powerful alternative to Constructivism

It is problematic to allow reasoning about infinite sets to be as unconstrained as that about finite sets. Yet Constructivism seems too restrictive in not allowing one to assume that an ideal computer program will either halt or not halt. Creative Objectivism considers as meaningful any property of integers which is determined by a recursively enumerable set of events. This captures the hyperar...

Can futures price be a powerful predictor? Frequency domain analysis on Chinese commodity market

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: C13 C32 G14 Keywords: Futures price Spot price Chinese commodity market Frequency domain approach Garbade–Silber Model This paper presents the causal relationships between futures and spot prices of six metal and agriculture commodities in Chinese commodity market, using GC test, frequency domain approach proposed by Brietung and Candelon (2006) and Gar...