ABSTRACT Against the backdrop of China's growing engagement in Eastern Europe, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) appears to challenge the European Union (EU) approach to promoting development in the region. We take issue with this claim by making three interrelated arguments.
Tanja A. Börzel +3 more
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Neutrality or complacency? Rethinking Singapore's place in a decolonising global health landscape. [PDF]
Djuhadi CG, Yee K, Tan HK.
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ABSTRACT This paper explores why a group of Global South middle powers has adopted stances on the Ukrainian war that diverged from the positions of the United States under President Joe Biden, the European Union and the broader NATO/Western alliance. I claim that these disparities are partially explained by the affiliation these states have with the ...
Marco Vieira
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Transnational HIV-AIDS Action and Citizen Diplomacy in the Late Soviet Union, 1988-1991. [PDF]
Hearne S.
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Layered Incoherence in Middle Power Foreign Policy: Indonesia and the U.S.‐China Rivalry
ABSTRACT Amid the intensifying U.S.‐China rivalry, middle powers, especially those from the global south, are often portrayed in IR literature as strategic hedgers, expected to balance between major powers to preserve regional autonomy and stability. Yet many, like Indonesia, display contradictory foreign policy behaviour by rhetorically championing ...
Moch Faisal Karim
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The new administration in the USA: impact of policy changes in development assistance on low- and middle-income countries, with the example of Nepal. [PDF]
Paudel D, Froeschl G.
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Brokering Peace: Emerging Middle Powers, Agency and Mediation
ABSTRACT This article examines the role of mediation in emerging middle power conduct in an increasingly fragmented world. It asks why and how emerging middle powers seek mediator roles in international conflicts, focusing on Turkey and Indonesia's responses to the Russia–Ukraine war.
Buğra Süsler, Chris Alden
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Unraveling image construction by modality: Corpus-based diachronic insights into the reports to the Party Congress of China. [PDF]
Song J, Li D.
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ABSTRACT Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) have the potential to dramatically alter modern warfare and reshape global power differentials. Despite the strong rationale for negotiating global rules, consensus on whether and how to regulate LAWS has yet to be reached.
Johannes Geith
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Withdrawal of the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO): A Microaggression Against the Developing World and a Self-Inflicted Global Setback. [PDF]
Shah MH.
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