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Assessing the impact of China on global governance in the age of power diffusion
Investigating the players, institutions and narratives driving political and economic dynamics across fast-emerging Asia
Emerging trends in transnational security: from the rise of non-state actors to force privatization
In the past seven years, Armenia has gone through a roller-coaster of changes, crises, challenges, and upheavals. In 2018 the mass movement of civil disobedience known as the “Velvet Revolution” succeeded in ousting the incumbent authoritarian regime and bringing Nikol Pashinyan to power as Prime Minister.
As Muse has transformed into a strategic border hub, the illegal drug economy has become deeply embedded in systems of rule, economic development and everyday life.
Even though in recent years China and Indonesia have seemed to share a destiny that is, if not a common one, at least closely intertwined, they always need to be careful and must come to terms with their troubled relationship.
The PRC is widely recognized as a destination market for many women trafficked in Asia, particularly from Vietnam. Trafficking in women in China is a sensitive and complex issue that threatens public health, security, gender equity and sustainable development.
If women are predominantly imagined as victims, they can only be taken into consideration in this capacity when the post-war order is designed.
In their attempts to build a Hindu state in India, the right-wing populists risk losing both the decades-long experiment with democracy and the protracted attempts to create a multicultural nation where free and fearless self-expression is possible.
Research Fellow
“Outside a truly limited number of countries that occupy a strategic position in Chinese diplomacy like Russia and North Korea, China is willing to provide economic and diplomatic support and sell weapons and train security forces. Yet, when push comes to shove, Beijing will stand aside, never truly committed to the survival of any regime.”
TOASEAN Business Days 2021
Torino World Affairs Institute 10 February 2022 3:32 PM
TOASEAN Culture Days 2021
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China’s ambition on climate change in a post-pandemic world | Katherine Morton
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New East Asian institutions could challenge the global economic order | T.J. Pempel
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Chinese economic statecraft. An illiberal actor in a (more) liberal global economy | Shaun Breslin
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Introduction to the Engaging Conflict Summer School
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TOASEAN Business Days 2019
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