Power Transition and Pragmatic Adaptation: Iran's Strategic Approach to China, Russia and the GCC
ABSTRACT This study examines how Iranian strategic thinkers conceptualise the country's ‘Look East’ policy (i.e., relations with China and Russia) and the GCC states. Using thematic qualitative content analysis of approximately 70 documents from Iranian state official, advisory and academic institutions (2015–2025), it reveals that Iran's eastward ...
Sara Bazoobandi
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The WHO Pandemic Agreement Negotiation: Introducing a New Database (The Pandemic Agreement Database)
ABSTRACT In May 2025, the Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted a historic pandemic agreement following 3 years of intensive and complex multilateral negotiations. By providing primary data on the negotiation process, the Pandemic Agreement Database supports empirical and scholarly research across multiple dimensions of global ...
Kevin Parthenay, Petra Godoy
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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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Western Balkans as the Frontline of Russian Hybrid Warfare
ABSTRACT Hybrid warfare (HW) scholarship acknowledges the phenomenon's contextual and temporal specificity, yet its dominant conceptual framing has generated a literature largely centred on identifying and categorising hybrid activities. This focus has left the contextual vulnerabilities that enable hybrid threats (HTs) and shape an adversary's ...
Vesna Bojicic‐Dzelilovic
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ABSTRACT This article offers a macro‐overview of the reception and effectiveness of the European Union's (EU) Indo‐Pacific Strategy (IPS) released in April 2021. Drawing on research conducted across eight Indo‐Pacific locations—Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand—the study involved 111 semi‐structured ...
Nicholas Ross Smith, Martin Holland
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Thai Expectations of the EU's Evolving Security Role: Opportunities and Limitations
ABSTRACT This article analyses Thailand's perceptions of the European Union (EU) as an actor in the Indo‐Pacific, based on interviews with 13 government officials and foreign policy influencers conducted under the EU in the Indo‐Pacific (EUIP) Jean Monnet Network. It examines how Thai elites interpret the EU's priorities, geopolitical relevance and the
Natthanan Kunnamas, Heidi Maurer
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Health policy, collaboration and investment in the post-COVID era: a review from UHC and health security integration perspective. [PDF]
Saikat S +7 more
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Mapping Slovenia's global health engagement: alignment with European Union and national global health strategies. [PDF]
Kelhar SS +5 more
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Establishing the China-SCO Cooperation Center for Metabolic Diseases to Build a Prevention and Control System for Metabolic Disorders, Advancing the Global Community of Shared Future. [PDF]
Ning G.
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Enhancing the role of innovative financing in global health. [PDF]
Wang Z +8 more
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