the available evidence of Chinas S&T, R&D, and innovative capabilities, to provide an assessment of the effectiveness and potentialities of its national system of innovation (NSI) ), and to formulate some preliminary policy suggestions aimed at perfecting Chinas overall innovation strategy. Our approach focuses particularly on the evolving relationship between Chinas NSI and the countrys overall market socialist social and economic system and on related policy challenges. In addition to generating technical progress, Chinas development strategy shall also take into account...

This text is the product of collaborations between Cuban and European social scientists. Without ignoring the devastating impact of the US embargo, it shows that Cuba's grave economic impasse is endogenously rooted in the contradictions of its peculiar version of state socialism.

This book maps out the temporal and geographic coordinates of the trope of sensationalism in the long nineteenth century through a comparative approach. Not only juxtaposing different geographical areas (Europe, Asia and Oceania), this volume also disperses its history over a longue duree, allowing readers to perceive the hidden and often unacknowledged continuities throughout a period that is often reduced to the confines of the national disciplines of literature, art, and cultural studies. Providing a wide range of methodological approaches from the fields of literary studies, art history,...