Many scholars predict that China will soon challenge the United States for global primacy. This prediction is largely based on power transition theory, which assumes that rising challengers inevitably ...

During a major crisis, the transitional dynamics of conditional convergence are unlikely to apply. In this paper, we introduce a Markov chain approach which integrates the study of crises and ...

1. the act, degree, or a point of converging. 2. Concurrence of opinions, results etc 3. Maths. The property of or manner of approaching a finite limit, esp of an infinite series: conditional ...

In recent decades research into convergence dynamics of carbon emissions and energy intensity has sought to understand whether countries or regions with differing initial levels of emissions or energy ...