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    China’s Vulnerability Paradox: How the World’s Largest Consumer Transformed Global Commodity Markets

    When:
    Friday, November 14, 2025
    12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
    Where:
    Robert Sutherland Hall
    Room: 334
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    Description:

    IDP Speaker Series - China’s Vulnerability Paradox: How the World’s Largest Consumer Transformed Global Commodity Markets with Pascale Massot

    "China’s Vulnerability Paradox,” recently published by Oxford University Press, is the winner of the 2025 IPE Best book award from the International Studies Association and the 2025 Peter Katzenstein Book Prize.

    The book presents an original framework to explain the uneven transformations in global commodity markets resulting from China’s contemporary, dramatic economic growth. At times, China displays vulnerabilities towards global commodity markets because of unequal positions of market power. Why is it that Chinese stakeholders are sometimes unable to shape markets in their preferred direction? Why have some markets undergone fundamental changes while other similar ones did not, including uneven liberalization dynamics across markets? And what does this mean for current debates around critical minerals and economic security? At a time of deepening US-China economic tensions, this book provides an alternative, granular understanding of the interacting dynamics between the political economy of Chinese and global markets.

    Contact:
    Brian Houtman
    cidpcomms@queensu.ca
    Cost:
    FREE
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