{"title":"Assessment of Neomercantilism in India's Economic Policies in Post-COVID Era","authors":"Nichen Dai","doi":"10.54691/bcpssh.v21i.3861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54691/bcpssh.v21i.3861","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 outbreak has exposed various problems in global governance and impacted the international system and the old international order. In order to cope with the epidemic and the changing international situation and to leave from economic difficulties, the Modi government has adopted a series of neomercantilism policies to meet the uncertain challenges. This paper analyzes the implementation of Indian policy from the manufacturing, international trade, and consumption industry. Because the epidemic factors will be long-term and policies are effective only within a period, neomercantilist policies are only viewed as a phased tool. They cannot provide long-term support for economic development. Coupled with structural contradictions in the Indian economy, the effect of Indian policies is not good. The long-term development of the Indian economy still needs to be worked hard to solve the economy's fundamental problems and realize industrial transformation and upgrading.","PeriodicalId":380947,"journal":{"name":"BCP Social Sciences & Humanities","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115534858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Remodeling of International Regimes in Neoliberal Institutionalism Perspective: Case Study of the South China Sea Arbitration","authors":"Zhongsheng Shu","doi":"10.54691/bcpssh.v21i.3656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54691/bcpssh.v21i.3656","url":null,"abstract":"Among the various disputes in the South China Sea, the China-Philippines arbitration case embodies the legalization of international conflict resolution. However, after the ruling was issued, China viewed it as a “scrap of paper,” and the Philippines had no intention of restraining China through the ruling. International law is considered a “paper tiger” due to the lack of mandatory enforcement, and international regimes were once seen as dysfunctional and chaotic systems. Then both China and the Philippines put bilateral relations back on track through economic diplomacy and negotiations. It is clear that sovereignty is at the core of maintaining international law and regimes, but it does not mean that states can adopt the principle of “self-help”. How can international regimes be reshaped to be flexible and resilient, and how can a virtuous model of balances between state power and international regimes be achieved in future international conflict resolution? To answer these questions, this study will explore the possibility of transforming and reshaping international regimes, using neoliberal institutionalism as a logical starting point and complex interdependence theory as a model framework. International regimes are not a means for the weaker states to achieve their claims; achieving a win-win situation in economic and power reciprocity is the most direct way to resolve disputes over the South China Sea, and the resilience of international regimes is reflected by expanding from bilateral to multilateral models of shared governance in the South China Sea through alliance politics and economic diplomacy.","PeriodicalId":380947,"journal":{"name":"BCP Social Sciences & Humanities","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131034608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Economic Policy Changes in the Great Depression of the United States and the Great Depression of COVID-19","authors":"Jian-ye Wang","doi":"10.54691/bcpssh.v21i.3623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54691/bcpssh.v21i.3623","url":null,"abstract":"Since the COVID-19, the U.S. domestic economy has been hit hard, causing currency devaluation and a dramatic increase in unemployment. Economic policy during the Great Recession and COVID-19 had the impact of stabilizing the economy and saving the unemployment rate. It is of great significance to study the enormous positive and negative effects of these policies on the U.S. and global economies at that time and later. This paper analyzes and contrasts these effects with the support of literature and data. The Fed first changed its stance on rate hikes to cushion economic pressures, and then turned to rate cuts because of escalating trade frictions to sound recession alarms in the market. The spillover effect of U.S. macroeconomic policy adjustment is comprehensive. Affected by the financial hegemony of the United States, not only emerging economies are unable to resist the impact, developed countries are also difficult to escape the 'tail effect'. At present, many countries have government banks in order to avoid devaluation of their currencies, to prevent capital outflows, had to follow the Federal Reserve to make the decision to raise interest rates. The policies aimed at easing have all had a different impact on the U.S. economy and society.","PeriodicalId":380947,"journal":{"name":"BCP Social Sciences & Humanities","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128778181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From 'Looking East' to the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis: How Mahathir Mohamad Steers Malaysia's Economic Development from the 1980s to 2000s","authors":"Wenqing Liu","doi":"10.54691/bcpssh.v21i.3520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54691/bcpssh.v21i.3520","url":null,"abstract":"The last two decades of 20th century signifies a time of burgeoning economic growth but also a time of financial turmoil and vulnerability for Southeast and East Asian Countries. Extensive studies have focused on the newly industrialized countries such as Japan and Singapore. The examination and critique on how the emerging new economies like Indonesia and Malaysia adapt to and resist the wave of globalization to achieve its political and economic autonomy remain a compelling topic of discussion, which can be further scrutinized through the lens of leadership roles and impacts. This paper will focus on the time of first tenure of Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamod. Specifically, the paper will answer the question that how the national leadership and its political stance and economic policies play a role in realizing the rapid growth and modernization while revitalizing the economy amidst the contagion of financial crisis. By conducting a chronological analysis on legal documentations on policies implemented through end of 1970s to 2000s and probing onto the official statistics reflective of Malaysia’s economy’s performance, the paper concludes that an effective national leadership and its affiliated political and socio-economic policies play instrumental roles in helping Malaysia achieve a rapid economic growth and modernization since 1980s, while sustaining the economy’s vitality through the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis.","PeriodicalId":380947,"journal":{"name":"BCP Social Sciences & Humanities","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127451845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chinese University Female Students’ Consumption Tendency towards Different Product Promotion Ways on New Media Platforms","authors":"Shiyi Lin","doi":"10.54691/bcpssh.v21i.3638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54691/bcpssh.v21i.3638","url":null,"abstract":"In an era when various new media platforms are widely entering people's lives, the content on these new media platforms is becoming more and more extensive. Various product merchants are also aiming at this trend, using the influence of netizens and bloggers to put more of their own product promotion on such platforms. Female college students, as a kind of customer group with strong willingness to consume and more exposure to new media platforms, have naturally become the target customers of many product merchants. The purpose of this study is to analyze the consumption tendency of female college students towards the existing mainstream new media platforms, and provide some reference and ideas for customers, product merchants, and new media platform operators. This study collected the familiarity, acceptance and consumption frequency of 150 female college students on five types of new media platforms’ common marketing modes by means of questionnaires. After analyzing their responses, it is concluded that female college students are more familiar with the product marketing forms placed by well-known and female-targeted new media platforms and are more likely to accept more subtle marketing strategies with a smaller ratio of advertisements to the content itself, and to make multiple purchases under the marketing platforms and marketing styles that have easier and complete shopping channels and more emotional appeal.","PeriodicalId":380947,"journal":{"name":"BCP Social Sciences & Humanities","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132628361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Saudi Arabia’s Accession to the WTO and Policy Implications","authors":"Enze Huang","doi":"10.54691/bcpssh.v21i.3749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54691/bcpssh.v21i.3749","url":null,"abstract":"Saudi Arabia's unique ideological culture and unique geographical location allow it to adopt a foreign policy with multiple elements. From the very beginning of the establishment of the state, Abdel Aziz bin abdullahman bin Faisal Al Saud has formulated the general direction of Saudi Arabia's diplomacy-close to the West and put Islam in a prominent position. Whether it is the first propaganda of Islam or the current propaganda of pan-Islamism, it is the development and deepening of Islam. The Islamic foreign policy has multiple influences. The continuous exploitation of oil also provides the basis for Saudi Arabia to develop itself and donate to other countries. These policies are all Saudi Arabia’s efforts to seek a more favorable international environment for its own development.","PeriodicalId":380947,"journal":{"name":"BCP Social Sciences & Humanities","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129290057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applying Punctuated-Equilibrium Theory to Analyze the Evolving Process of Socioeconomic Policies in Post-war Taiwan","authors":"Zhengyu Xiao","doi":"10.54691/bcpssh.v21i.3519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54691/bcpssh.v21i.3519","url":null,"abstract":"This research paper investigates the evolving socioeconomic policies in post-war Taiwan. To better conceptualize and comprehend the dynamics of policy fluctuations and stability, this paper adopts the Punctuated-Equilibrium Model (PEM), which is a model to explain the process of policy stability and changes, to illustrate key variables in policymaking and make the historical review of Taiwan development more predigested. This study in a historical approach by applying the PEM to analyze the policy shifts in Taiwan is unprecedented, and extend the original theoretical model more applicable in a system with both authoritarian system, democratic system and a transition from underdeveloped economy to a modernized economy as the case of Taiwan have demonstrated. Both domestic empirical evidence and comparative researches will be applied to embed the theoretical model into the case. And the results showed that Taiwan’s socioeconomic policy development can be categorized into five different stages in accordance with the PEM, namely Equilibrium of Authoritarian Stability from 1950-1958, First Punctuation from 1958-1965, Equilibrium of Active Statism from 1965-1986, Second Punctuation from 1986-2000, and Equilibrium of Democratic Stability since 2000. In the first punctuation, the freeze of US aid, the incapacity of import substitution strategy and the need for further economic development reframed the government’s policy to be more active in advancing socioeconomic development. In the second punctuation, the imbalance between economic and social development, with the failed political agenda which encouraged the rise of Taiwanese nationalism, produced negative feedback to the policy framing. The policy venues consequently shifted from the government to the opposing groups and public arenas, which eventuated the liberalization and democratization.","PeriodicalId":380947,"journal":{"name":"BCP Social Sciences & Humanities","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128841574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the important strategic significance of accelerating the construction of 2030 \"healthy China\" action system from the perspective of global social development","authors":"Yuan Gao, Junze Yang, Guolei Du, Zhuowen Zhong","doi":"10.54691/bcpssh.v21i.3428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54691/bcpssh.v21i.3428","url":null,"abstract":"With the increasing development of social and economic globalization, the living standards of people around the world have been continuously improved. While people enjoy high-quality life, it also brings huge potential health risks. Due to a series of unhealthy lifestyles, such as lack of exercise, unreasonable diet and irregular work and rest, people have gradually developed many chronic diseases such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes, which are gradually on the rise, and the threat is increasing day by day. This also increases people's health risk factors and the medical burden of the whole society on disease injury. According to the data reported in the World Health Statistics 2022, by 2020, nearly 1 / 6 of the world's adults will die prematurely due to chronic diseases; The total number of deaths from chronic diseases accounts for more than 60% of all deaths, and the number of people who lose their lives due to chronic diseases accounts for about 38 million every year (WTO data source). It can be seen that chronic disease has become a common problem faced by all countries in the world. It has become an urgent task for global public health to introduce relevant response measures and take relevant actions to reduce and curb the growth trend of chronic diseases. Spain's El Pais once reported that half of the countries in the world lack plans to combat chronic diseases. Therefore, accelerating the construction of the 2030 \"healthy China\" action is of great strategic significance for improving the prevention and control of chronic diseases and improving the health level of the whole people.","PeriodicalId":380947,"journal":{"name":"BCP Social Sciences & Humanities","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129138860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Development of the Telephone Network: Relationship between Telecommunication and Globalization","authors":"Yiran Dang","doi":"10.54691/bcpssh.v21i.3429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54691/bcpssh.v21i.3429","url":null,"abstract":"Globalization is understood as one of the most significant historical trends motivated by technological innovation. The technique of telecommunication is definitely with that innovation. To study the relationship of how telecommunication has an impact on the progress of globalization, this article provides a picture of their development, combined with synthesis by applying the theory of cultural determinism. A factors analysis with social needs is constructed for further researchers who share the same interest in social mobilizations under globalization.","PeriodicalId":380947,"journal":{"name":"BCP Social Sciences & Humanities","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116985780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Critical Research of Spotify’s Business Model—The Case of Discover Weekly","authors":"Jingwen Wang","doi":"10.54691/bcpssh.v21i.3873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54691/bcpssh.v21i.3873","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past few decades, the Internet and digital technologies have radically transformed the way in which music is distributed, sold, licensed, and consumed. Against this context, one of the most prominent industry players, Spotify, has received increasing attention from scholars. Despite its multifaceted role as a cultural intermediary and a gatekeeper, this study primarily frames Spotify as a DSP (Digital Service Provider). The purpose is to explore the dynamics of its business model innovation from a value perspective. Building on a systematic literature review, therefore, it argues that Spotify constructs its value streams mainly around the personalized curation of users’ listening experiences. Specific attention is paid to its freemium subscription model and its algorithmically filtered playlist called \"Discover Weekly.\" Finally, the findings demonstrate that Spotify's business model innovation is an iterative, cumulative and incremental process through which its focus on the personalization strategies could be conceived as a core competency.","PeriodicalId":380947,"journal":{"name":"BCP Social Sciences & Humanities","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116777811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}