PhD alum Pascale Massot wins Peter Katzenstein Book Prize

China’s Vulnerability Paradox explains the uneven transformations in global commodity markets resulting from China’s contemporary, dramatic economic growth.

Through a series of case studies, Dr. Massot argues that the balance of market power between Chinese domestic and international market stakeholders explains their behaviour as well as the likelihood of global institutional change.

Dr. Massot cites many of Dr. Katzenstein’s works in the book, including Dr. Katzenstein’s 1977 introduction to the volume “Between Power and Plenty,” where he tackled the impact of the oil crisis and the importance of what he called the “interaction of international and domestic forces in the shaping of the international political economy.” At a time of deepening US-China economic tensions, Dr. Massot’s book provides an alternative understanding of the interacting dynamics between the political economy of Chinese and global markets.