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Soft Power in Trade: Quantifying the Impact of Confucius Institutes on China's Exports
International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the role of Confucius Institutes (CIs) as a form of China's cultural diplomacy and their impact on international trade, particularly exports. Using a gravity model, we analyze data from 1990 to 2019 across countries, finding that the presence of CIs significantly boosts China's exports.
Renjing Chen, Wei Jin, Tangrui Yang
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The emergence of India as new military power: Threat or opportunity to Southeast Asia? [PDF]
, 2009 South Asia is a region often tinted with crisis, conflict and war.Historically, this region is undeniably a region exposed by military activities or 'use of force'.Therefore, military development has become a main agenda in South Asian countries in hope ...
Ajis, Mohd Na'eim +2 more
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Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Field visits are common phenomena with non‐governmental organisations in Uganda. During these visits, Ugandan national staff guide visitors on series of meetings and interactions in the field. Following an actor‐oriented approach and drawing on ethnographic data on 14 field visits, this paper understands the field visit as a microcosm for the ...
Caspar Edward Swinkels
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, 2010 This is the archive of the fall 2010 APARC Communiqué, a bi-annual newsletter, which features the African Americans And U.S.
Boston University African Presidential Center
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From Science to Science Diplomacy
AbstractAfter retiring from his career in science, Herwig embarked on a new one as a diplomat. “Looking back at my professional life,” he explained, “it can be divided into three parts: first I was a physicist, then a manager of laboratories, and the third part is as a kind of diplomat.” It could be argued that Herwig’s entire career had been leading ...
Herwig Schopper, James Gillies
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From Empire to Aid: Analysing Persistence of Colonial Legacies in Foreign Aid to Africa
Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT For decades now, Western development agencies and donors have been castigated for their colonial biases in providing aid to Africa. It is well established that donors provide considerably more foreign aid to their former colonies relative to other countries.
Swetha Ramachandran
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Science Diplomacy and COVID-19: Future Perspectives for South-South Cooperation. [PDF]
Glob Policy, 2022 Sharma J +5 more
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Varieties of Democracy Aid Approaches: The Role of Donors' Domestic Ideology
Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT After the end of the Cold War, DAC donors increased their efforts of democracy promotion in developing countries. Among other instruments, DAC donors increasingly use democracy aid to improve democracy abroad. However, DAC donors differ in their allocation and delivery strategy of democracy aid.
Jean‐Baptiste Puginier
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Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, EarlyView.Inter‐Theta‐Gram spectroscopy enables super‐spectral‐resolution Raman analysis by jointly reconstructing the excitation laser line and Raman peak during an etalon angle scan, yielding internally referenced Raman shifts. Demonstrated on lab‐grown versus natural diamond, it resolves 0.1–0.2 cm−1 Raman‐shift offsets that are invisible in conventional ...
Yishai Amiel +3 more
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, 2011 Toward the end of the first decade after the decolonization of most African countries, there emerged a scholarly polemic about the weight of bureaucratic politics in the making of foreign policy in the Third World.
Bamba, Abou B.
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