ADB projects East Asia to grow by 4.4% this year and 4.0% in 2026. The inflation forecast is at 0.6% this year and 0.9% next year. Click the link to learn more about the latest economic outlook for the region.

Many people were coming to NTU College of Social Sciences for Abraham Newman’s book talk on Economic Security under Trump 2.0. It concluded successfully!

youtube.com/live/UwHXCNAWE… Link to the recoding of the talk on Economic Security under Trump 2.0 by Abraham Newman in the College of Social Sciences, National Taiwan University.

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Has the IGF lost the Plot? internetgovernance.org/2025/04/23/has…

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Studying the long-run output losses of financial crises and global temperature shocks finds that crises are associated with detectable contractions in real GDP for five decades into the future, from Karsten Müller, Chenzi Xu, Mohamed Lehbib, and Ziliang Chen

Amid all the debate about trade and the dollar's global role, one facet of the United States international economic position hasn't gotten enough attention -- the traditional US surplus in investment income has disappeared 1/

World military expenditure rose by 9.4 per cent in real terms to $2718 billion in 2024, the highest global total ever recorded by SIPRI and the 10th year of consecutive increases. New SIPRI data on #MilitarySpending out now ➡️ bit.ly/3GH5GNe #GDAMS2025

Help spread the word. APSA's International Collaboration section has travel grants for grad students going to APSA.

Thrilled to host Prof. David A. Lake’s two master lectures at National Taiwan University College of Social Sciences. One is about the history of IR on Thu, May 15 at 13:30. The other is on Anarchy, Hierarchy, and Power in International Relations on Tue, May 20 at 15:30.

Zero-sum thinking feels everywhere lately, on trade, taxes, you name it. Does it define the current zeitgeist? Strikingly, younger generations are more zero-sum than older ones in many rich countries like the US. Chart from the Financial Times on our paper socialeconomicslab.org/research/worki…

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Inflation, Blame Attribution, and the 2022 US Congressional Elections. w/Leo Baccini bit.ly/4dtwcWT Economic voting behaviour depends not only on objective economic conditions but also on how political parties subjectively frame these conditions

New at JIE: "How infrastructure shapes comparative advantage", by Luis Baldomero-Quintana doi.org/10.1016/j.jint…

Calling all scholars of gender & politics! Join us for the pre-conference workshop of gender & politics IPSA and meet a vibrant community of scholars before #IPSA2025 in #Seoul. Pre-register here 👇

A legit way to pursue reciprocity with China: EU for 1st time uses its International Procurement Instrument to push China to open up its medical devices market or lose access to the EU's market. ft.com/content/ef8222… via @ft

Happy to have this out (open access)! I examine the conditions under which alliances can promote a division of defense labor, offering a new theory about how strategic compatibility and hierarchy mitigate opportunism and coordination costs that often plague collective action. 1/

The Wrap-up group photo for ESOC 2025 in Taipei!