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2. Liberalism's Last Man: Hayek in the Age of Political Capitalism
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Yadav, Vikash, author and Yadav, Vikash
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- 2023
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3. Asia and its various growing dimensions of globalisation for economic integration.
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Biswas, Mitrajit
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GLOBALIZATION ,INTERNATIONAL economic integration ,CHINA-India relations ,GEOPOLITICS - Abstract
The paper would try to look at the India-China relations of cooperation within BRICS framework. A comparison of this stance with India and China in power struggle Asia would form another part of the paper. India has opened up new platforms on either side of the subcontinent such as Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi Sectoral Technical Cooperation, Chabahar port project as well as joined Shanghai Cooperation Organization as its means of outreach. This has all been a part of India’s changing role in Asia. However, it must be also kept in mind that there is a China-Pakistan angle to it. A battle for power and influence has been there in the region of South Asia even before the pandemic. Now post covid19 scenario as the western world shrinks and the power fulcrum shifting towards Asia with USA pivot to Asia program as well as the geo-political tensions between USA and China coming up there is a new role for South Asia right now. The paper would like to understand these scenarios with an eye on India-China relations in a cooperative competition relationship scenario. On one side of the paper the joint role of India-China in BRICS framework would be looked at against the Indo- Pacific Asian power struggle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
4. India-China Rivalry: The Contest That Is Shaping the "Asian Century".
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Jash, Amrita
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The 21st century is expected to be the dawn of the "Asian Century", with Asia becoming the centre of gravity of great power politics. What contributes to the shaping of this century is the rise of two Asian powers, India and China, which share common aspirations but act differently. The context of the "Asian century" is discussed based on the geopolitical dynamics between India and China, as differing perceptions combined with a clash of interests have led to geopolitical conflict and competition between the two countries. From this perspective, the "Asian Century" is being shaped by the 'confrontational coexistence' between India and China, which implies a departure from the long-held axiom of 'peaceful coexistence'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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5. Vietnam and Thailand: Southeast Asian Prospects for Corporate Cultures and Ecosystems in an Asian Century
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Leypoldt, Gerhard, Block, Joern H., Editor-in-Chief, Kuckertz, Andreas, Editor-in-Chief, Grichnik, Dietmar, Editorial Board Member, Welter, Friederike, Editorial Board Member, Witt, Peter, Editorial Board Member, Pechlaner, Harald, editor, Thees, Hannes, editor, and Manske-Wang, Wei, editor
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- 2022
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6. Role of Big and Emerging Powers in the Post-Covid World Order
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Debata, Mahesh Ranjan, Roy, Sajal, editor, and Nandy, Debasish, editor
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- 2022
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7. International education within ASEAN and the rise of Asian century.
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Yodpet, Worapot, Salvador Quetzal, Amelio, Siek, Nguon, Vebrina Sihite, Fenny, Alegado, Paul John Edrada, Balakrishnan, Vishalache, Green, Benjamin, and Hollings, Stephanie
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GLOBAL studies , *ECONOMIC activity , *HIGHER education - Abstract
This collective writing paper brings together writers from Southeast Asia and the Western world to highlight challenges and opportunities for ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and its education in the rising of the Asian Century. The inspiration for this project was started by Michael A. Peters' conception of collective writing and the Asian Century. ASEAN is diverse in terms of economy and society; a look from different angles will help to improve policy and practice of ASEAN. Multiple scholars have contributed to creating a series of arguments and explications towards a philosophical stance, and collaboration in higher education to build novel solutions regarding contemporary knowledge and ASEAN practices. Overall, this article illustrates ASEAN International Education (IE) circumstances and possibilities considering statistical data and past experience from transregional perspectives and diverse academic institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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8. DISCOVERING INDIAN WOMEN - A CULTURAL JOURNEY.
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NICOLAE, Mariana
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INDIAN women (Asians) ,INDIANS (Asians) ,WOMEN authors ,ENGLISH literature ,STEREOTYPES - Abstract
This is a small exploratory attempt at discovering perceptions of Indian women through Romanian eyes. This will be done through the medium of Indian literature written in English and through the personal experience of the author. We all have our collections of cultural stereotypes through which we look at the world: our own as well as others'. One of the starting points in this cultural journey is the sheer difference in size between the two spaces and the incredible variety of people who inhabit India. Our classical lenses or, at the other end, our Bollywood goggles, distort our perceptions of the realities of present-day Indian women. The author will compare her constructed images of modern Indian women as they appear mainly in Anuradha Roy's The Folded Earth, with her own experience of real women that she had actually met either in Romania or in India. In today's complex world, in what is called more often and with more valid arguments the Asian century, it is relevant and worthwhile to have such an exercise of cultural and gender exploration in order to better understand ourselves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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9. Public Servants for All Places: Competencies, Skills, and Experiences in a Globalized Policy Environment
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Bice, Sara, Coates, Hamish, van der Wal, Zeger, Section editor, Sullivan, Helen, editor, Dickinson, Helen, editor, and Henderson, Hayley, editor
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- 2021
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10. América Latina y el Caribe en el Siglo Asiático: un análisis comparativo de las relaciones de Japón y China con sus socios latinoamericanos desde la perspectiva del Derecho Internacional Económico
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Gabriel García
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asian century ,asia-latin america ,china ,japan ,international economic law ,belt and road initiative ,china-celac forum ,Social Sciences - Abstract
The Asian Century will commence in 2020 when Asia will produce more than half of the global wealth. Latin America and the Caribbean do not seem adequately prepared to navigate in this new global reality. This article aims to contribute with a better understanding of the role played by Asia as promoter of economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean by conducting a comparative analysis of the approaches used by Japan and China to engage with the region. The study is conducted using an analytical framework borrowed from International Economic Law. The main argument develops in this paper is that Japan has used formal or hard law instruments to engage with the region. In contrast, China has employed an eclectic platform that combines hard law instruments as well as soft law mechanisms, that allow the Asian giant to interact with its Latin American and Caribbean partners in more direct ways and without the interference of other global powers.
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- 2021
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11. Social Democracy and Economic Equality in the Asian Century
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Johnson, Carol and Johnson, Carol
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- 2019
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12. Higher Education and Nationalism in the Asia-Pacific
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Hammond, Christopher D., Kapur, Devesh, book editor, Malone, David M., book editor, and Kong, Lily, book editor
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- 2023
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13. Tools of Engagement: Using Outbound Mobility to Grow Australia’s Asia Literacy
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Jones, Benjamin T., Hall, Timothy, editor, Gray, Tonia, editor, Downey, Greg, editor, and Singh, Michael, editor
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- 2018
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14. Tourism geographies in the 'Asian Century'.
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Sin, Harng Luh, Mostafanezhad, Mary, and Cheer, Joseph M.
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COVID-19 pandemic , *TOURISM , *TWENTIETH century , *GEOGRAPHY , *GENDER inequality - Abstract
From the British Century of the 1800s to the American Century of the 1900s to the contemporary Asian Century, tourism geographies are deeply entangled in broader shifts in geopolitical power (Luce, 1999; Scott, 2008; Shenkar, 2006). This paper considers what the transition into the Asian Century means for some of the most urgent issues of our time such as sustainable development, human rights, gender equality, and environmental change. We critique Anglo-Western centrism in tourism theory and call on tourism scholars to make radical shifts toward more inclusive epistemology and praxis. In the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, the significance of the themes addressed are more urgent than ever. The pandemic has hastened claims that the Asian century has further accelerated given the contrasting successes of many Asia-Pacific countries, especially as compared to their Euro-American counterparts (Park, 2020). As critical tourism scholars, we are faced with an unprecedented situation, even as the pandemic looks set to become globally endemic and the true extent of its fullest impacts are only beginning to emerge, with more to surface in the years ahead. That the world faces increasing turmoil is abundantly clear. Yet, amidst the disruption to the everyday, it is hope and compassion, but also political-economic restructuring that is needed to reset the tourism industry in more sustainable, equitable, and ethical directions (Cheer, 2020; Lew, Cheer, Haywood, Brouder, Salazar, 2020; Mostafanezhad, 2020). While in no uncertain terms, the pandemic has forever changed the tourism industry as we once knew it, it is our hope that we can collectively build on the momentum of the inclusive scholarship that Critical Tourism Studies-Asia Pacific is renowned for (Edelheim, 2020; Pernecky, 2020) as we pause to reflect on the possibilities and challenges of tourism in a post-pandemic Asian Century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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15. Afterword: a critical reckoning with the 'Asian Century' in the shadow of the anthropocene.
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Oakes, Tim
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COVID-19 pandemic , *SCHOLARLY method ,CHINA-United States relations - Abstract
What does the advent of an 'Asian Century' portend for critical tourism geographies? This commentary argues that two recent developments have made a critical reckoning with the Asian Century more pressing than ever. First, the Asian Century is in danger of being eclipsed by the deteriorating relationship between China and the United States. And second, the COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented challenges for tourism throughout the world and threatens to fundamentally upend travel as we've known it for the foreseeable future. These two developments suggest a pressing need not just for a decentering of Eurocentric approaches in tourism scholarship - as has long been argued by critical tourism scholars - but for a more thorough unraveling of the politics of knowledge in tourism scholarship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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16. América Latina y el Caribe en el Siglo Asiático: un análisis comparativo de las relaciones de Japón y China con sus socios latinoamericanos desde la perspectiva del Derecho Internacional Económico.
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GARCÍA, Gabriel
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SOFT law ,INTERNATIONAL law ,BELT & Road Initiative ,ECONOMIC development ,COMPARATIVE studies ,ARGUMENT - Abstract
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- 2021
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17. Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia
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Lee, S. Heijin, editor, Moon, Christina H., editor, and Tu, Thuy Linh Nguyen, editor
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- 2019
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18. Problems of the Global Civilization: Economic and Environmental Changes
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A. A. Tkachenko
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civilization ,global economy ,developed countries ,fastest growing economies ,demographic ageing ,climate-resilient economy ,asian century ,Competition ,HD41 ,Finance ,HG1-9999 - Abstract
The article deals with problems of the world civilization, which, in the author’s opinion, are key in the era of transition to a new economy. Special attention is paid to the agriculture of the least developed countries relating to the assessment of environmental progress; in these countries, the increase in labor productivity is impossible without the growth of professional education of rural residents, and the transfer of new agricultural technologies to the uneducated population is ineffective. The contribution of the Asian countries to the world development is considered. They need a radical reduction in the intensity of energy and natural resources use to improve the quality of life of the population. The fate of the 21st century economy of the relates to the ageing and the solution of the problem of qualitative improvement of the social services system for the elderly population. The important problems of the global economy include the issues of labor for care. The possibilities of accounting for unpaid care work in the System of National Accounts and national estimates of the contribution of such labor to the GDP of a few countries are examined. It is concluded that the introduction of automatic indexation of retirement age is unfruitfulness in accordance with the increase in life expectancy and the conclusion about pension savings as the most important source of long-term capital.
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- 2018
19. Asia and Anglosphere: Public Symbolism and Language Policy in Australia
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Lo Bianco, Joseph, Kirkpatrick, Andy, Series editor, Adamson, Bob, Series editor, Murray, Neil, editor, and Scarino, Angela, editor
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- 2014
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20. Introduction: Africa, Latin America and the 'Asian century'
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Karim El Aynaoui and Eckart Woertz
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Africa ,Asian century ,Political science - Abstract
Since the eighties, the centre of the international system’s economic, political and cultural power has shifted from the West towards Asia-Pacific. Countries such as China and India are consolidating themselves as economic powers seeking new routes for investment flows and development cooperation. The positions of Africa and Latin America in this process have been little studied. This is the objective of this issue: to investigate – in the context of Asian expansion and investment (above all that of China) – the extent to which the two regions maintain bilateral relations (cooperative and/or competitive) and may be able to formulate their own development and foreign policy initiatives. The articles in this issue pay particular attention to South-South cooperation between Latin America and Africa and include underexplored aspects such as migration patterns and the competition between China and regional powers such as Brazil and South Africa.
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- 2016
21. From the ‘Yellow Peril’ to the ‘Asian Century’
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Michael A. Peters
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Yellow Peril ,History ,History and Philosophy of Science ,Hegelianism ,Ancient history ,Asian Century ,Education ,End of history - Abstract
The History of the World travels from East to West for Europe is absolutely the end of History, Asia the Beginning (Hegel, 1956, p. 103).In 1721 Christian Wolff gave a lecture on Confucius at Halle...
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- 2021
22. Asian-Australian Nexus: An Educational Challenge
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Robertson, Robbie, Lundberg, Anita, and Mandal, Purnendu, editor
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- 2013
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23. India’s Role in a Liberal Post-Western World.
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Saran, Samir
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INTERNATIONAL relations ,GLOBALIZATION ,CULTURE & globalization - Abstract
After a period of significant gains, achieved largely through the establishment of institutions that promoted international liberalism, the global order today finds itself at a crucial juncture. Rising inequality, the proliferation of nationalist politics, technology-induced disruptions and the resurgence of zero-sum geopolitics, are all beginning to shake the foundations of the global governance architecture built assiduously over the past 70 years. It is clear that the liberal order, as it is frequently referred to, will not be able to sustain its influence in the 21
st century unless it finds new torchbearers in Asia, where politics and economics are scripting a story very different from that of post-war Europe. To some, it is evident that India, which has successfully combined economic growth with its own liberal traditions, will indeed be the heir to and guarantor of this system as an emerging and leading power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2018
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24. Tourism geographies in the ‘Asian Century’
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M Joseph, Mostafanezhad, Cheer, Harng Luh, Mary, and Sin
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Power (social and political) ,2019-20 coronavirus outbreak ,History ,Asia pacific ,American Century ,Economy ,Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management ,Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Geopolitics ,Asian Century ,Tourism - Abstract
From the British Century of the 1800s to the American Century of the 1900s to the contemporary Asian Century, tourism geographies are deeply entangled in broader shifts in geopolitical power (Luce,...
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- 2021
25. Sinophobia in the Asian century: race, nation and Othering in Australia and Singapore
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Val Colic-Peisker and Sylvia Ang
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Cultural Studies ,Race (biology) ,Sociology and Political Science ,Anthropology ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Political science ,Immigration ,Gender studies ,China ,Racism ,Asian Century ,media_common - Abstract
This paper explores public discourses of race and nation in Australia and Singapore, focusing on their historical and contemporary relationship with China and the Chinese. Both countries are govern...
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- 2021
26. The Impact of Climate change on the Asian Century and Vice Versa
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Leki Tshering
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History ,Economy ,Climate change ,Asian Century ,Versa - Abstract
There are various threats to Asia in realizing its potential to achieve the Asian century, among which climate change is the most prominent. Climate change, which was once considered to be a human constructed myth, is no longer a myth. Rather it is a hard reality for everyone. The devastating impact of climate change is being and will have to be borne by every state irrespective of the degree of intensity and the frequency of contribution made by them. With the advancement in the economic status of the Asian countries, there will be a lot of pressure on the natural resources and if the current trend of using nonrenewable resources continues then the impacts of climate change will be more apparent not so far from now. We are already facing the effects of climate change which were mainly caused by the development of other continents. This article seeks to demonstrate how climate change is going to affect Asia with the change in time and simultaneously also tries to provide feasible measures to tackle it. This paper also attempts to identify the various sectors which require immediate attention so as to tackle climate change by reforming them. This paper will also illustrate an overview of what we can learn from the 19th and the 20th century which were considered as the European century and the American century respectively. It will also shed light on how Asian century can be different from the previous two centuries. This paper, in conclusion, will discuss how sustainable development can play a role in tackling climate change and how we can bring in multilateral cooperation among the Asian states to tackle climate change and ultimately place everyone in a better position.
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- 2021
27. From the Tyranny of Distance to the Power of Proximity–Australia and the Asian Century
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Tim Harcourt
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Power (social and political) ,History ,Economic history ,Asian Century - Published
- 2021
28. Imagined Futures and Forgotten Pasts: Tasmania’s Asian Connections.
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Ross, Kaz
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TEA trade , *NINETEENTH century , *COMMERCE , *ECONOMIC history ,TASMANIAN history ,COLONIAL commerce - Abstract
A largely forgotten history exists of extensive connections between Asia and Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) in the first half of the nineteenth century. Although it was a harsh and deadly place for Indigenous people and incarcerated convicts, Van Diemen’s Land offered opportunity for a growing society of merchants, farmers, bureaucrats, governors, judges, retired military men and their families. Asia was a lived presence in everyday life through the purchase and consumption of foodstuffs, clothing and furnishings from India and China. Cashed-up Vandemonians in the 1820s and 1830s could buy rice, silk, bamboo furniture and at least five different types of tea. Many colonial administrators had experience in Asia and brought Indian servants with them. Due to its climate, the island was touted as the perfect retirement destination for British military families retiring from India and other Asian postings. Asian ship crews were an everyday sight in port. Today, however, these past connections have been forgotten. Tasmania’s current turn to Asia as a key strategy for the state’s future economic prosperity appears to be something new. This article argues that revealing the heterogeneous past challenges contemporary views of historical Tasmania as isolated and monocultural and is essential in reshaping Tasmania’s imagined Asian future. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2017
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29. Foreign policy in changing global politics: Indonesia's foreign policy and the quest for major power status in the Asian Century.
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Rosyidin, Mohamad
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INTERNATIONAL relations - Abstract
Since President Jokowi came to power in October 2014, Indonesia's foreign policy has undergone fundamental change, most obviously in the state's emphasis on domestic priorities rather than global engagement. Although Jokowi's foreign policy has pursued an 'active' principle by participating in many international forums, it seems to have overlooked the changing contexts of the geopolitical turn. Asia has been rising and is becoming the geopolitical center of gravity in the 21st century. Yet, instead of adapting to this shift, Indonesia's foreign policy continues to neglect the 'Asian Century' turn that has been taking place for years. Indonesia should have increased its international profile to enhance its status as a 'Third Asian Giant' beside China and India, but Jokowi's administration has not taken such an opportunity. This article argues that Indonesia is not interested in gaining international status because of the domestically focused nature of its foreign policy. Indonesia is seen as needing to consolidate its own national resilience before asserting itself in a wider international arena. For Jokowi, national interest is defined as material--primarily economic--interest. In addition, Indonesia's traditional status as a regional, middle level international power prevents the country from seeking any greater global status. This article argues, with optimism, that Indonesia should seek to change this traditional paradigm of middle power status. It suggests that the assertion of global status matters in Indonesia's foreign policy because the better the country's position in the international hierarchy of states, the easier it will be for the nation to achieve its own domestic interests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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30. Afterword: a critical reckoning with the ‘Asian Century’ in the shadow of the anthropocene
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Tim Oakes
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2019-20 coronavirus outbreak ,History ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Anthropocene ,Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management ,Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Ancient history ,Geopolitics ,Asian Century ,Tourism ,Shadow (psychology) - Abstract
What does the advent of an ‘Asian Century’ portend for critical tourism geographies? This commentary argues that two recent developments have made a critical reckoning with the Asian Century more p...
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- 2020
31. Greening Asia's Economic Development
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Paul J. Burke and Thang Nam Do
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Natural resource economics ,business.industry ,020209 energy ,05 social sciences ,Global warming ,02 engineering and technology ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,Green certificate ,Renewable energy ,Reverse auction ,Greenhouse gas ,0502 economics and business ,Political Science and International Relations ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Economics ,Portfolio ,050207 economics ,Energy source ,business ,General Economics, Econometrics and Finance ,Asian Century - Abstract
Asia is facing serious environmental challenges including urban air pollution and the effects of global climate change. As a major source of greenhouse gases, what happens in Asia will play a crucial role in determining the extent to which the world warms over coming decades. This paper reviews key environmental challenges faced by the region and the growing opportunities for a transition to a cleaner economy powered by zero-emission energy sources. Economic mechanisms – including emissions pricing, reverse auctions, and renewable portfolio standards with green certificate schemes – have the potential to underpin a much greener development model for the Asian Century.
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- 2020
32. Outbound Chinese tourism: looking back and looking forward
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Honggang Xu, Patricia Johnson, and Wolfgang G. Arlt
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Economy ,Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management ,Political science ,0502 economics and business ,05 social sciences ,Geography, Planning and Development ,050211 marketing ,Destinations ,Asian Century ,050212 sport, leisure & tourism ,Tourism - Abstract
Tourism academics, practitioners, governments and agencies around the world are in general agreement about the future of tourism in the ‘Asian Century’ of a Post-Western World. As late as 2001, Mee...
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- 2020
33. Reconstructing the International Peace Architecture in the Asian Century
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Oliver P. Richmond and Yuji Uesugi
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Global and Planetary Change ,Economy ,Scope (project management) ,Political science ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Architecture ,Asian Century ,International peace - Abstract
This introductory paper for the special issue on Reconstructing the International Peace Architecture (IPA) in the Asian Century outlines the background to, the objective and the scope of, and the key contributions of the special issue. A fundamental problem that each contributor has underlined is the inability of the existing IPA to effectively cope with emerging counter-peace challenges in the face of the rise of Asian powers and the global geopolitical rivalry. This special issue seeks to address the following questions: (1) how would the rise of Asian powers affect global power's framing of peace, and its international and local hybridity within the IPA; (2) how might the interests of the Global North, Emerging Powers, and the Global South be addressed simultaneously or be integrated with the IPA; and (3) how global institutions such as the United Nations might incorporate non-Western values, customs, norms and standards into their doctrines and practices of peacebuilding? This paper offers some speculations about peacebuilding, statebuilding and development assistance in the new international relations in which China plays a major role.
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- 2021
34. Defining Asia Capabilities for Australia's Public Service.
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Bice, Sara and Merriam, Angela
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PUBLIC administration ,ASIAN politics & government ,CIVIL service ,POLICY sciences ,CULTURAL intelligence ,PUBLIC officers ,JOB skills ,AUSTRALIAN foreign relations, 1945- - Abstract
Twenty-three years ago, questions posed in this journal asked whether and how the Australian public service was prepared to engage effectively in Asia. More recent meta-analyses of public policy scholarship suggest that Western policy scholars and administrators continue to pay limited attention to Asian policymaking, despite the rise of Asia in the 21st century. This article contributes a research-derived Asia capabilities framework for Australia's public service, distilled from a qualitative study with public administration leaders at Commonwealth, state, and local government levels. It taps scholarly literature in 'cultural intelligence', global leadership competencies, and training to provide a robust conceptual underpinning for the framework. The framework defines the knowledge, skills, capabilities, and experiences vital for Australia's public service to engage effectively with the region in a rapidly changing policy environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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35. The Asianization of national fantasies in Hungary: A critical analysis of political discourse.
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Moreh, Chris
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DISCURSIVE practices , *DELIBERATION , *RECESSIONS - Abstract
This article presents a critical analysis of the Hungarian government’s ‘Asian’ political discourse. It argues that in the wake of the economic recession, Hungary became more radical in its turn towards Asia, promoting a discourse that goes beyond economic relations and touches on sentiments of national identity and belonging. Via a discourse-historical analysis of three interrelated discursive events, the article shows how economic, cultural and racial discourses are reinforcing one another in building on the myth of cultural and racial affinity with Inner Asia and the Far East. This process is similar to the Eurasianist discourse in Russia and other ex-Soviet republics, and may have serious social and geopolitical repercussions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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36. Introduction: At home in Asia? Place-making, belonging and citizenship in the Asian Century.
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Chow, Yiu Fai, van Wichelen, Sonja, and de Kloet, Jeroen
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HOME (The concept) , *CITIZENSHIP , *COMMUNITY attitudes , *POLITICAL rights - Abstract
For the authors of this introduction, home is not always or only sweet home. For us, it is constructed with contradictions, ruptures and anxieties. Indeed, the world never fails to present us with ‘real’ people with ‘real’ issues of home. After ‘rescuing’ the idea of home from its two assumed arch-enemies ‘mobility’ and ‘urbanization’, we will proceed to formulate our appeal to reconceptualize ‘home’ and explicate why and how to do so. We have cited instances from Hong Kong, Beijing and Asia at large, not only because the empirical core of this special issue is on Asia, but, more fundamentally, also because we want to take issue with the Eurocentric bias in the debates on home hitherto. We conclude by making a modest plea – or more accurately, to configure various trajectories of thinking on ‘home’ into a plea – to bracket home as (making) place, (not) belonging and (flexible) citizenship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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37. Demographic Change in the Asian Century: Implications for Australia and the Region.
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McDonald, Peter
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DEMOGRAPHIC change , *IMPLICATION (Logic) , *LABOR productivity , *TWENTY-first century , *HISTORY - Abstract
Declining fertility and mortality rates in the second half of the twentieth century have led to the twenty-first century being characterised as the century of the aging population. Concurrently, the decline in the numbers of young people entering the labour force is exacerbating the problems arising from the aging population. Implications of these trends are analysed for a variety of Asian countries. Labour force growth in India and Pakistan will be sufficient to compensate for the shrinking labour forces in Europe and Asia excluding the massive fall in China; outsourcing labour to South Asia will be an increasing trend in the twenty-first century. The Asian countries with less problematic demographic structures are instead facing economic challenges and require education and training to improve labour productivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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38. East Asian audio-visual collaboration and the global expansion of Chinese media.
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Yecies, Brian, Keane, Michael, and Flew, Terry
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AUDIOVISUAL materials -- Production & direction ,MASS media ,MOTION pictures - Abstract
This article investigates the significant re-orientation of audio-visual production in East Asia over the last few years brought about by the rise of China, beginning with the proposition that unprecedented change is occurring in East Asian media production. While the 'Sinophone world' has been the locus of critical analysis in the past, all eyes are now focused on China. Flows of knowledge, expertise and content are becoming significant in this mediascape, yet this dimension has been overlooked by most scholarship in the field. Conceptual and theoretical frameworks based on cross-border consumption of East Asian content require urgent revision. This article shows how media collaborations are changing global media practice and East Asian media flows through a variety of contemporary international collaborations, as well as relevant policy frameworks that impact, positively or negatively, productions by international partners working in film, television and online and mobile video content. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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39. The Fragile Foundations of the 'Asian Century'.
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Lee, John S.
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The relative period of peace in East Asia since the Second World War has largely been underwritten by not just growing prosperity, but the prospect that peace and stability will automatically generate opportunities for countries to grow rich and contented -- as has occurred in South Korea, Japan and Taiwan. In reality, the arrival of this so-called 'Asian Century' is no sure thing. There are significant headwinds or obstacles which may prove difficult for many regional developing countries to overcome. These range from the declining effectiveness of an export-dependent growth model, developments in manufacturing technologies that will dilute the region's existing advantages, and the problems and cost of aging demographics which will be challenging for many countries to manage. This means that in an environment where the lack of economic gains fails to temper deepening strategic competition and rivalry, the first few decades of this century may well be more traumatic and troubling than the last few decades of the previous century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
40. Deploying the post-colonial predicaments of researching on/with ‘Asia’ in education: a standpoint from a rich peripheral country.
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Takayama, Keita
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EDUCATIONAL quality , *EDUCATION & politics , *SCHOLARSHIPS , *EDUCATION in popular culture , *EDUCATION , *EDUCATION & society ,SOCIAL aspects - Abstract
Against the current infatuation with Asia in Australian education, this article rearticulates the notion of ‘Asia literacy’ to explore new ways of researching on/with/through Asia. Drawing on the post-colonial critique of Western social science knowledge, I first demonstrate the problematic nature of Australian knowledge production on and with Asia in social science and education. And yet, I also highlight the contribution that Australian scholars have made to decolonizing knowledge work, with particular attention to their critique of internationalization of cultural studies in the 1990s. In so doing, I identify the particular epistemic standpoint of Australian scholarship, which has emerged out of its ambivalent location in the global politics of academic knowledge production. Then, I identify three types of engagement by Asian researchers with Western knowledge. Situating Australian education scholarship among them, I explore what ‘Asia literate’ education research might look like from the vantage point of Australia. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2016
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41. Foreign language policies in Asia and Australia in the Asian century.
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Hamid, M. Obaidul and Kirkpatrick, Andy
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LANGUAGE policy ,AUSTRALIAN languages ,MOTIVATION (Psychology) ,ENGLISH language - Abstract
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- 2016
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42. A reconceptualisation of ‘knowing Asia’ in Australian education.
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Salter, Peta
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EDUCATION , *EDUCATIONAL sociology , *CURRICULUM change , *CURRICULUM planning ,AUSTRALIAN politics & government, 1945- - Abstract
Since 1969, over 60 Australian government and non-government policies, documents, committees, working parties and organisations have explored the need to ‘know Asia’. In schools, this engagement is conceptualised as ‘Asia literacy’ and disseminated in the emerging Australian Curriculum through the cross-curriculum priority ‘Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia’. However, ‘Asia literacy’ often struggles for purchase in Australian education. I argue that finding traction requires disruption of the dominant discourse of ‘Asia’ as a unitary construct and questioning what constitutes ‘Asia’. This article explores how discourse can be reconceptualised to open up space for schools to engage with ‘knowing Asia’. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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43. Social justice intents in policy: an analysis of capability for and through education.
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Gale, Trevor and Molla, Tebeje
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EDUCATION policy , *SOCIAL justice , *EDUCATION , *POLICY analysis - Abstract
Primarily developed as an alternative to narrow measures of well-being such as utility and resources, Amartya Sen’s capability approach places strong emphasis on people’s substantive opportunities. As a broad normative framework, the capability approach has become a valuable tool for understanding and evaluating social arrangements (e.g. education policies and development programmes) in terms of individuals’ effective freedoms to achieve valuable beings and doings. This paper explores the recent emergence of ‘capability’ in Australian education policy, specifically in theAustralia in the Asian CenturyWhite Paper. We explore capability as a framing device and reveal how its various meanings are at odds with the scholarly literature, specifically Sen’s conception of capability and its implications for social justice in and through education. The analysis shows that the social justice intent of a capability approach appears to be overtaken in the White Paper by an emphasis on outcomes, performance and functionings that seek to serve the nation’s economic interests more than the interests of students, especially the disadvantaged. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2015
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44. Rethinking middle powers in the Asian Century: new theories, new cases/widening the World of International relations–home grown theorizing
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Raajorshi Narayan Chowdhury
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International relations ,Coping (psychology) ,Political science ,Political Science and International Relations ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Gender studies ,Asian Century ,Eurocentrism - Abstract
The present poses challenges, coping with which requires a revision of our thought process-an un-worlding, if one may. On the other hand, critiquing Eurocentrism alone does not guarantee a more jus...
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- 2019
45. Greater Eurasia, Indo-Pacific Region and Russia-ASEAN Relations
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E. A. Kanaev and A. S. Korolev
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russia ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Survivability ,cooperation ,02 engineering and technology ,International trade ,asean ,Global politics ,Political science ,0502 economics and business ,Narrative ,greater eurasia ,International relations ,021110 strategic, defence & security studies ,business.industry ,international relations ,05 social sciences ,General Medicine ,JZ2-6530 ,foreign policy ,Foreign policy ,General partnership ,Terrorism ,indo-pacific region ,business ,Asian Century ,050203 business & management - Abstract
The article aims to specify the influence of the projects the Greater Eurasia and the Indo-Pacific Region on the prospective relations between Russia and ASEAN. The key component of its novelty is the authors’ original criteria of comparing the two projects: the degree of consolidating agenda of cooperation between their current and prospective participants, the congruence with the East Asia’s – assuming that it will be the economic driver of the forthcoming Greater Eurasia and Indo-Pacific Region – modality of multilateral dialogue and the preconditions for the survivability of both projects in the long-term perspective. Making this comparison, the authors substantiate the view that the Greater Euraya sian Partnership is far more competitive that the Indo-Pacific Region. Exploring cooperation between Russia and ASEAN through the prism of their forthcoming strategic partnership, the authors offer an original interpretation of the reasons behind the presently insufficient cooperation and its most likely future directions proceeding from the mutual influence of Russia’s and ASEAN’s prospective planning and the emerging global context. In the near future, combating international terrorism and strengthening connectivity will come to the forefront of Russia’s and ASEAN’s priorities, with the focus shifting from Southeast Asia to the Eurasian area. In the authors’ view, if the present trends continue the aftereffects of the Indo-Pacific Region can stimulate downward trends in the Russia-ASEAN relationship. This will be premised upon the decrease in effectiveness of the Asia-Pacific multilateral dialogue platforms, likely Russian-Chinese joint maneuvers in the South China Sea and the necessity to specify, along with lack of impressive results, the essence of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between Russia and Vietnam as the foundation for the Russia-ASEAN strategic partnership. In its turn, the Greater Eurasia offers Russia and the association new promising possibilities, among which of particular importance are the development of connectivity narrative in Eurasia and combating international terrorism by means of adopting the ASEAN-led dialogue platforms ARF, ADMM+8 and EAS to the future system of security, cooperation and co-development from Lisbon to Jakarta. The realization of the forthcoming shift from the Asian century to the Eurasian century and the emergence of the Greater Eurasia as the second center in the global politics will allow Russia and the association to expand and diversify their cooperation and, in perspective, to develop it on the self-supporting and self-reproducing basis.
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- 2019
46. Osamah F. Khalil (ed.), United States Relations with China and Iran: Toward the Asian Century (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, $115.00). Pp. 240. <scp>isbn</scp> 978 1 3500 8773 6
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Gregory Brew
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History ,General Arts and Humanities ,General Social Sciences ,Ancient history ,China ,Asian Century - Published
- 2021
47. CONNECT CENTRAL ASIA POLICY AND INDIAN OUTFOXING.
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Bawasingh
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INTERNATIONAL relations ,GEOPOLITICS ,SECURITY management - Abstract
With the breakup of Soviet Union in December 1991, the landscape of the Eurasian heartland has been changed and Central Asia rediscovered itself in the comity of nations with the dawn of the twenty first century. But after the breakup, Central Asia did not remain in the priority of the Russian foreign policy as Central Asia being considered as its natural backyard. This vacuum gave birth to the 'New Great Game', thus, the major powers-US, China, Russia and European Union (EU) involved in Central Asian geopolitics was further substantiated by Zbigniew Brzezinski. Following the geopolitical thinkers-Huntington and Mackinder, Zbigniew Brzezinski in his book entitled "The Grand Chessboard: American Primary and its Geostrategic Imperatives" (1997), renamed the Eurasian Heartland as a Chessboard. According to him, five countries-France, Germany, Russia, China, and India are as "pivots" to control the Eurasian landmass. For the given rich mineral resources and its geostrategic location, the 'pivots' have been making efforts to control Central Asia for their vested interests. Though, India and Central Asia had been sharing historical and civilizational relations, even after its independence, the fact is that Central Asia did not find pivotal place in Indian foreign policy. Some perceptible scholars are of the opinion that during the last decade, India has been outfoxed from Central Asia because of the geopolitics of the region. In the very beginning of the 21st century, India realized this diplomatic mistake and redesigned its foreign policy under various frameworks vis-à-vis Central Asia. Connect Central Asia Policy is one of them. Against this background, the main focus of this paper is to find out how geopolitical and geostrategic interests of India are being effected in Central Asia; how India is being outfoxed from Central Asia; how and to what extent Connect Central Asia Policy be helpful in engaging India more positively and constructively with Central Asia to check its outfoxing? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
48. Tourism and Nation Building at the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
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Gillen, Jamie
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TOURISM , *NATIONALISM , *VIETNAM War, 1961-1975 , *HISTORICAL museums , *NATIONAL museums , *UNITED States-Vietnam relations , *HISTORIOGRAPHY ,VIETNAMESE politics & government, 1975- - Abstract
Using evidence from what is probably Vietnam's most visited tourism site, the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, this article explores the presentation of the “American War” in the construction of nationhood. The article has three objectives. First, I illustrate how nation-building in a postcolonial and postimperial context is generated through tourism, specifying how the Communist Party communicates Vietnam to lay international tourist audiences. Tourism's political instrumentality for the party is highlighted here. Second, I show how the United States is imaginatively constructed to shape Vietnam's identity. Finally, I use the conclusion to reflect on the implications for the “Asian Century” when considering Vietnam's multifaceted connections to the United States and the West. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2014
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49. Sitting on the Fence? Australia’s Balancing of the Belt and Road Initiative and Indo-Pacific Strategy in the New Multipolar World System
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Paul Antonopoulos, Arturo Gallegos Garcia, and Drew Cottle
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World-system ,Alliance ,Human rights ,Economy ,Foreign policy ,Political science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Military security ,Context (language use) ,China ,Asian Century ,media_common - Abstract
Twenty-first century world politics is increasingly multipolar with the rise of China, Russia and other regional powers. In this new global and regional context, Australia’s relations with the United States (US) and China are increasingly important. Since its signing of the ANZUS security alliance in 1951, Australia has followed US foreign policy. Australia must now attempt to continue to follow its principal military ally while being increasingly economically reliant on China, its major export market. Although Australia is an island continent separate from Southeast Asia, its trade and wealth are dependent on Asian markets, especially China. Australia continues to serve a policing role in the Asia–Pacific region on behalf of the US. It is for this reason that Australia plays a crucial security role in Washington’s Indo-Pacific Strategy. Nevertheless, as China’s Belt and Road Initiative continues to develop globally and involves Australian infrastructure, Australia’s US dependency and foreign policy must be re-evaluated to focus on Australia’s positioning in the Asia–Pacific region. This chapter explores Australia’s precarious position poised between US geo-strategy and China’s global economic development. Although China is Australia’s primary economic partner, Australia is critical of China’s human rights record and its military expansion in the South China Sea and continues to serve the military security strategy of the US in the Indo-Pacific region. The twenty-first century heralded the arrival of the “Asian Century”, and Australia is both a key country in the Asia–Pacific region and in the struggle between China’s Belt and Road Initiative the US Indo-Pacific Strategy for dominance.
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- 2021
50. Introduction: New Asian Regionalism as a Global Paradigm Shift
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Pasha L. Hsieh
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History ,Polymers and Plastics ,Developing country ,Investment (macroeconomics) ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,Order (exchange) ,Paradigm shift ,Political science ,Political economy ,Regionalism (international relations) ,Business and International Management ,Third wave ,Asian Century ,International economic law - Abstract
This book offers a panoramic account of new Asian regionalism in international economic law. It explores interrelated theoretical and substantive claims on proliferating trade and investment agreements in the Asia-Pacific. More specifically, it argues that new Asian regionalism has emerged amid the third wave of global regionalism and contributed to the New Regional Economic Order (NREO), which reinvigorates the role of developing countries in shaping international trade norms. The research therefore serves as a timely response to the rival of the Asian century.
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- 2021
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