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Introduction : Trans-Europe : Interlocking and Clashing Relations Across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East / Serena Giusti and Irina Mirkina -- From a Regional to a Global Power, in Potency : The EU's Global Strategy / Serena Giusti -- Russia's Strategy of Forging Spaces Around Itself / Tomislava Penkova -- China's Belt and Road Initiative in Eurasia : Space-Shaping as Ordering / Anna Caffarena and Giuseppe Gabusi -- Shifting Dynamics in Turkish Foreign Policy in the Trans-European Space / Elena Baracani and Merve Çalımlı -- Saudi Arabia's Regional Space-Shaping : Making or Unmaking a Region / Irene Costantini and Ruth Hanau Santini -- Iran : An Unrecognised Regional Power / Annalisa Perteghella -- Facing a Fragmented Neighbourhood : The EU and Six Eastern Partnership Countries / Kateryna Pishchikova -- Re-conceptualising EU-North Africa Relations : 'Outside-In' and 'Inside-Out' Dynamics / Silvia Colombo -- Economic Challenges in Trans-Europe / Irina Mirkina -- Do Good Neighbours Make Good Fences? Migration in the Trans-European Space / Natasja Reslow -- Energy Security and Geopolitics in the Trans-Europe Space / Caterina Miriello.

AbstractThis paper examines whether social spending cushions the effect of globalization on within‐country inequality. Using information on disposable and market income inequality and data on overall social spending, and health and education spending from the ILO and the World Bank/WHO, we analyze whether social spending moderates the association between economic globalization and inequality. The results confirm that economic globalization—especially economic flows—associates with higher income inequality, an effect driven by non‐OECD countries. Health spending is strongly associated with lower inequality, but we find no robust evidence that any kind of social spending negatively moderates the association between economic globalization and inequality.

AbstractWhat explains subnational policy choices over tax cut after decentralization? We test two different explanations in the context of the 2002 tax reform in Russia. A popular strand of literature suggests that decentralization induces more regional competition over investment, motivating subnational tax cuts. A second body of literature suggests that personal business interests of regional governors can account for their different policy choices. Governors with personal business ties refrain from tax cuts because they increase market competition. We find no support for the regional competition hypothesis, but strong statistical evidence for the business connection hypothesis. Our findings have important implications for research on fiscal decentralization and on the connections between business interests of leaders and their policy choices.