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The geopolitical position of state relative to other states or groups of states is based on the economic, financial and military status of the country. The United States will remain in human history as a great power, also the American supremacy has thus produced a new international order which not only imitates, but also institutionalizes beyond the borders of America, many features of the American system itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bailouts have become a pervasive phenomenon, particularly around the 2008 global financial crisis, as states came to the rescue of financial institutions considered Too Big to Fail (TBTF) faced with imminent bankruptcy. While TBTF bailouts are officially designed to prevent catastrophic domino effects in markets, critics view these bailouts as a result of industry manipulations of regulators and state officials, leading to regulatory capture. Scholars describe regulatory capture as a situation where regulators favor the private interests of regulated firms over public interests, in exchange for legally-dubious gains such as political capital, monetary support, or lucrative future employment opportunities. While the phenomenon of regulatory capture by large and resourceful firms is well researched by economists, jurists, and political scientists, a new unexplained phenomenon, yet to be addressed in academic literature, is emerging in modern economies: the bailout of small firms. Due to the relatively insignificant size and influence of those firms, they cannot be considered economically too big to fail and are usually unable to provide regulators with sufficient incentives to secure bailouts through classic capture. Aiming to explain this phenomenon, this paper develops a Too Small to Fail (TSTF) approach, asserting that small firms adopt an underdog rhetoric designed to facilitate regulatory capture. TSTF firms capture regulatory decision-making for lucrative bailouts by blaming regulation, regulators, global and local catastrophes, or by pleading for special consideration due to social importance. The case studies examined in this paper include U.S.-owned firms in both health and media sectors operating in Israel under Israeli regulation. This is an extremely useful arena for examining the underdog rhetoric of small firms because of its unique geopolitical characteristics and disposition to capture, stemming from an absence of comprehensive regulation policies. The paper concludes with normative suggestions for overcoming TSTF capture by imposing new legal duties on the regulatory decision-making process of administrative agencies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The geoeconomic discourses that underpinned the commercial expansion of the United States in the first decades of the twentieth century drew on and produced an imagined geography that positioned the United States in the center of a world in which commerce and trade moved freely around a globe comprised of nations whose economic growth potentials were just being realized. Drawing on two case studies of large corporations that expanded outside the United States, and in response to scholarly interrogations of the historicization of geoeconomics and geopolitics, I argue that geoeconomic imaginations fueled and legitimized economic expansion in the early decades of the twentieth century, thus refiguring the narrative that positions geoeconomics as a more recent phenomenon and reconceptualizing the term geoeconomics as a discursive field. In addition, by analyzing the intersections of the discourses of civilization, geoeconomics, and commercial geography, I provide an important new chapter in critical examinations of the histories of geography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Growing attention has been devoted in the last ten years to China's 'going-out' strategy around the world. The objective here is to analyse the modalities of China's presence in Latin America and to explore its strategic interests from Panama's privileged viewpoint. Panama is an interesting case, providing an example of a country capable to do business with both Taiwan and China. It therefore represents a regional success story in the fierce chequebook diplomacy between China and Taiwan, in which the shift of allegiance of Costa Rica in 2007 is only the latest episode. While securing energy and strategic materials still represents a priority for China, other aspects of the Chinese presence cannot be underestimated for a correct analysis. A key factor is the support Latin American countries, increasingly looking to China as a development model, can offer in multilateral fora, which suits China's objective of building multi-polarism. The special relation Panama entertains with the US makes it an important test of the bilateral relations between China and the US in the Western Hemisphere, which will ultimately determine many of the scenarios in Latin America in the coming years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the reasons for the increased crude oil prices in the U.S. According to the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration (EIA), the oil price increase was due to the ongoing geopolitics, strong world economic growth, and tight inventories. It mentions that a global oil model is used to estimate the dollar depreciation's effect on global oil prices. It also states that demand and supply growth effects on oil prices should be measured.

The article focuses on the effects of economic geography on the powers of the two largest energy-producing and consuming countries, the U.S. and the Soviet Union. It relates that the major oil production crisis in the Soviet Union would have the most profound consequences because its only prospective bright spot is the gas industry. It is argued that the U.S. should sell energy production equipment and technology to the Soviets to help develop their energy resources.

The article looks at the speech about China and the oil industry delivered by Foreign Policy Research Institute's (FPRI) Jacqueline N. Deal during a conference held in Washington, D.C. in 2012. It says that Deal identified oil and energy security as an important factor in the geopolitical competition between the U.S. and China. It also notes that Deal discussed the role of oil accessibility in global conflict, the use of an indirect approach to competition, and the importance of geopolitics.