Contents
Introduction .......................................................................................................... 7
Part 1. Macroeconomic Trends in the Global Economy............................ 15
1. Recent trends of mega-regional integration and global value
chain upgrading in the Asia-Pacific region (Takamune Fuji).... 17
2. Disciplines of industrial subsidies: issues and directions for
improvements in the changing world (Osamu Umejima).......... 29
3. From cybersecurity to economic security – the EU and the
Polish perspective (Bogusława Drelich-Skulska, Paweł Brusiło) .. 73
References .............................................................................................. 105
Part 2. Challenges of Economic Cooperation – the Mesoeconomic
Perspective.................................................................................................... 115
4. Network markets: cooperation and competition shaped by
the network effect (Szymon Mazurek)........................................... 117
5. Production network of the automobile industry in the Greater
Mekong Sub-Region: a comparison to Europe (Kenji Nozaki).... 133
6. Industrial cooperation as a form of transfer of arms and
military equipment (Przemysław Skulski) .................................... 148
References .............................................................................................. 163
Part 3. Cultural Aspects of the Global Economic Phenomena ................ 167
7. Comparing the roles of residents in the resort town of
Karuizawa in Japan and residents on Martha’s Vineyard in
the US (Mami Hiraike Okawara)..................................................... 169
8. Communication issues related to the cultural diversity of
clusters (Anna H. Jankowiak).......................................................... 182
References .............................................................................................. 194
List of figures ........................................................................................................ 196
List of tables .......................................................................................................... 197
