Описание: This book brings together internationally prominent scholars renowned for their work on post-Soviet republics, as well as outstanding emerging scholars native of Central Asia in order to discuss the state of education in the Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
Описание: China is the world’s largest development country and second largest economy. Africa is the continent with the most developing countries and one of the fastest growing and most promising regions in the world. Although China and Africa are far apart geographically, friendship between the two regions traces its origins back to ancient times. Having gone through thick and thin together, China and Africa have always been a community with a shared future. Shared historical experiences and struggles have formed a profound friendship between the Chinese and African people. This friendship has in turn become a valuable asset that has been passed down to the present day.
The entry of socialism with Chinese characteristics into the new era will have a major impact on the world and bring new historical opportunities for African development and for friendly China-Africa cooperation. At the global level, the general trend of economic globalization is irreversible, world economic recovery and development is going well, and the international community is paying increasing attention to Africa. These factors provide a favorable international environment for China-Africa friendly cooperation. From China’s perspective, our country, which is entering a new era, will continue to expand and deepen its open policies, to focus on promoting industrial transformation and upgrading, to vigorously develop a digital economy, to lead in establishing new international financial institutions and innovative financing models, to actively promote international trilateral cooperation, and to promote the international use of the Chinese Yuan. By so doing, China will bring new opportunities and new impetus to China-Africa friendly cooperation.
From the perspective of Africa, the political, economic and security situation in Africa has generally improved in recent years, and the development outlook is promising, which provides good conditions for more practical and higher-level pragmatic cooperation between China and Africa. Meanwhile, we must see that China-Africa cooperation will not be smooth; it still faces many problems and challenges. It is precisely because of this that China and Africa must stick to the concept of ‘’genuine, sincere, friendly and honest’’ cooperation and the principle of equality and mutual benefit, aiming to work together to build a community of a shared future for both China-Africa and for mankind, comprehensively strengthening and deepening cooperation, meeting challenges together, and achieving shared development.
Описание: Foreword by Franco Frattini1. Introduction. EU-Russia Relations: Per aspera ad astra (Evgeny Pashentsev) Part 1. EU-Russia Strategic Communication: Tendencies and Controversies2. Strategic Communication in EU-Russia Relations (Evgeny Pashentsev)3. Focusing on Common Geopolitical Interests: Changing the Focus in EU-Russia Dialogue and Communication? (Pierre-Emmanuel Thomann)4. Cooperation and Trust: When Russia and the European Union Listen to Themselves (Marius Vacarelu) Part 2. EU-Russia Strategic Communication: Political and Economic Aspects5. Character Assassination and Image Prepare in Strategic Public Diplomacy: The Practice of EU - Russia Relations (Sergei A. Samoilenko, Marlene Laruelle)6. Reputation Management of Russian Companies in the European Union in the Context of Russia and the EU's Strategic Communication (Darya Bazarkina, Kaleria Kramar)7. "Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act" The Psychological Aspect and Its Meaning to the EU-Russia Relations (Evgeny Pashentsev) Part 3. EU-Russia Strategic Communication in Security Dimension8. Global Shifts and Their Impact on Russia-EU Strategic Communication (Evgeny Pashentsev)9. Counter-Terrorism as a Part of Strategic Communication: The EU's Experience and Possibilities for Russia (Darya Bazarkina) IndexContributors
Описание: This book conceptualizes the economic relations between China and Latin America in different national cases from the perspectives of international political economy-based structuralism theory, the core-periphery model and the world system theory.
Описание: Part I: The Rise of European-Asian Relations.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part II: Europe & East Asia.- Chapter 2: The EU as Pivotal Player in the Growing China-US Conflict.- Chapter 3: Making Sense of the EU-China Relations: Partners and Rivals.- Chapter 4: Korean, Japanese, and Chinese Free Trade Agreements with European States in an Age of U.S. Protectionism.- Part III: Europe & Southeast Asia.- Chapter 5: The ASEAN-EU Relations and the ASEAN Regional Integration.- Chapter 6: An Analysis of EU Free Trade Agreements and Negotiations with Southeast Asian Countries.- Chapter 7: EU-Southeast Asian Relations: What Lies Ahead?.- Part IV: Europe & South and Central Asia.- Chapter 8: EU-India Relations and New Political Realities: Normative Convergence and its Implications for Shared Strategic Concerns.- Chapter 9: The European Union's Impact in South Asia: Norms or Geopolitics?.- Chapter 10: The COVID-19 Pandemic: Crisis and Opportunity for a Different Approach to EU- Afghanistan Migration Management.- Part V: The Future of European-Asian Relations.- Chapter 11: Conclusion.
Описание: History has proved that communism failed at many levels during the first global competition between the capitalist and socialist camps during the Cold War. As a result, the socialist camp was dissolved. China is one of the few communist countries to survive in the twenty-first century. The Chinese economy was on the verge of collapse in the 1970s but began to take off in the early 1980s, guided by the China model. China became the world's second largest economy in 2010 and has quickly expanded its enormous global market and political influence. The second global competition between the capitalist countries and China has started. The second global competition is in fact between the China model and the Washington Consensus. Will Western hegemonies end as the result of the second global competition? Will China be able to rewrite the international rules? Will the Chinese communist political system collapse during the competition? What should the West do to the China model? This book will explore the implications of the China model in the context of the second global competition and argues that the downturn of the China model and China's global expansion are the two sides of the same coin. The China model is losing its power but not broken. China would be able to become even stronger, if it could reshape the philosophical foundation of the China model. The future of Western hegemony will depend on how the West understands the China model and deals with it. This book addresses these aspects and more.
Описание: International cooperation in higher education is not new, but gained new urgency in recent years with the expansion of the knowledge economy, the easy flow of communications and the emulation created by international rankings. In the European Union’s countries, international competition and the process of political and economic unification required national higher education institutions to give priority to international cooperation, while large countries such as Russia, China, Brazil and South Africa intensified their effort to modernise their institutions and link them to the international flow of science, technology and talent, leading similar trends in other countries in their regions. These global trends are shaped by the national culture and institutions of each country, and the existing national and international cooperation policies and instruments on all sides. In Building Higher Education Cooperation with the EU: Challenges and Opportunities from Four Continents, the authors look at how these interactions occur from the perspectives of the European Union and the countries involved and make recommendations on policies that could make international cooperation more fluid and beneficial to all parties involved.
Описание: International cooperation in higher education is not new, but gained new urgency in recent years with the expansion of the knowledge economy, the easy flow of communications and the emulation created by international rankings. In the European Union’s countries, international competition and the process of political and economic unification required national higher education institutions to give priority to international cooperation, while large countries such as Russia, China, Brazil and South Africa intensified their effort to modernise their institutions and link them to the international flow of science, technology and talent, leading similar trends in other countries in their regions. These global trends are shaped by the national culture and institutions of each country, and the existing national and international cooperation policies and instruments on all sides. In Building Higher Education Cooperation with the EU: Challenges and Opportunities from Four Continents, the authors look at how these interactions occur from the perspectives of the European Union and the countries involved and make recommendations on policies that could make international cooperation more fluid and beneficial to all parties involved.
Описание: The Making of Eurasia investigates the multi-layered spectrum of China and Russia’s Eurasian policies towards each other, ranging from competition to cooperation, as well as the role of regional actors in between. The book examines the impact of and responses to the dynamic Sino-Russian interaction in the wake of China’s Belt and Road initiative, focusing on the selected case studies of Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Uzbekistan, but also on inter-regional implications across the Eurasian space. With China’s imprint on inter-regional politics and ambition to make a distinctive Chinese contribution to ‘globalization’ and Russia’s vision of a ‘Greater Eurasia’ in which Moscow stakes out a place for itself as an indispensable power, other regional actors adopt policies that respond to and co-shape the resulting centrifugal forces.
Meanwhile, power shifts are underway on a global plane, as the normative divide between Russia and the West has widened, and as the Sino-American rivalry is intensifying. The book therefore also sheds light on the effects of Eurasian power shifts on global governance in a context where global ‘leadership’ is contested, and in which the US and Europe are re-defining their relationship not only towards a self-confident China but also towards each other. As such, this study will provide valuable insight for students and scholars of Eurasian Asia Studies, Foreign Policy Analysis, and International Relations at large.
Описание: Focuses on how global warming has caused an environmental disaster in the Arctic, namely its melting. This book offers insights on the issues that have grave implications for energy security and geopolitics in the arctic.
