Geopolitical Uncertainty and International Business

Edited by Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan, University of Limerick, Ireland and Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany and Daniel Rajmil, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain

Contents
Introduction to Geopolitical Uncertainty and International
Business – shaping our future world 1
Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan and Daniel Rajmil
1 Globalization in crisis: Sino-American rivalry and Asian
regional integration 5
Robert Taylor
2 Crises and globalization: the delineation of a new path 19
Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan and Daniel Rajmil
3 Uncertainty in the energy sector and evolving energy mix:
a Europe–Asia comparison 33
Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan, Lucía Morales,
Sophie Nivoix and Serge Rey
4 Prime Minister Kishida’s “New Capitalism” for Japan 59
Jana-Larissa Grzeszkowiak
5 The Chinese and the Japanese positions on the Russian–
Ukrainian War and their influences 69
Jana-Larissa Grzeszkowiak, Junshi Li and Jacqueline Foucar
6 Realignment of the EU–China political strategy: an
analysis of the EU’s asymmetrical interdependences 88
Jacqueline Foucar and Jana-Larissa Grzeszkowiak
7 Income policy and income distribution in selected Asian
countries: China, Singapore, Japan and Australia 113
Tatsuyuki Ota and Kiminari Tachiyama
8 Chinese investment in French SMEs: creating
opportunities by compensating for liabilities 135
Bruno Amann, Carole Jean-Amans, Jacques Jaussaud and Boqi Zhang
9 Cultural and social factors behind the Sino-Japanese
cooperation in connected and autonomous vehicles 161
Anna Maria Dzienis and Agnieszka McCaleb
10 An empirical analysis of the difficulties of integrating
high performance newly hired personnel: the case of
subsidiaries of Chinese telecom companies in France 184
Wei Zhang, Sam Dzever and Jacques Jaussaud