The grand event on One Belt One Road (officially termed as the Belt and Road Forum) kicked off in Beijing this may, amidst a global fanfare witnessing participants from around 130 nations, along with 29 heads of states, notably from Russia and Turkey. Despite official representation from the US and other powers registering their presence, India's conspicuous absence from the event did not go unseen by the hosts.
The Chinese One Belt, One Road (OBOR) strategy will have profound implications for the emerging EuroAsia Great Game. This article suggests that the geopolitical risks are such that it may be better for the fast-growing South and East Asia to work more closely together to achieve development in an environment of cooperative peace.
South-South Cooperation (SSC) has been a recurring theme in the global discourse but it neither resulted in self-reliance of the South nor it could yield in the political and economic liberation of the South. The major obstacles in its ways have been the North's overarching control over the international system and the South's incapacities to address its own shortcomings. The renewed economic cooperation among developing countries seems to be undoing the strictures imposed on them before, be it by default or by design. In this milieu, China's ascendency to the global economy and its massive investment in Asia and Africa has set the stage to analyse Beijing's policies and projects of SSC promotion. President Xi Jinping's One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative is a huge opportunity for the South to reinvigorate their socio-political and economic ties. While implementing OBOR's flagship project, China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Beijing adhered to the five principles of peace and shunned the traditional intrusiveness of the North. It generated hope and avenues for altering the economic landscape in Pakistan, which illuminated the path of cooperation among developing countries and brightened the prospects of OBOR even more.
Wir befinden uns in einem ökonomisch multipolaren Zeitalter, in dem einzelne Märkte eng in der Weltwirtschaft integriert sind. Hierbei zählt der Aufstieg des Reichs der Mitte zur treibenden Wirtschaftsmacht zu eine der historisch größten Ereignisse der globalen Machtverschiebung. Im Jahr 2013 überholte China die USA und ist zum ersten Mal globaler Exportmeister geworden. Zudem bedeutet dies, dass einzelne Staaten durch die Dominanz von Wirtschaftsmächten wie China und die USA stark abhängig sind. Als der chinesische Staatspräsident Xi Jinping im Jahr 2013 den Aufbau der sogenannten
The "South Caucasus" has a strategic locational advantage by connecting Europe with Asia and the Middle East. After the collapse of the Soviet Union three internationally recognized independent states — Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia — emerged in the region and all three pursues distinctively different foreign policy goals since their inception.
During the 2014 presidential election in Indonesia two diametrically opposed candidates appeared to abide by an informal set of rules whereby neither challenged the other's integrity in public. Privately, however, campaign advisors devised ways to attack their opponents, primarily by using media contacts to spread rumors and allegations. As a result, the 2014 presidential race in the world's third largest democracy was the most negative and polarizing since the fall of Suharto's authoritarian regime in 1998. The Obor Rakyat media scandal, a major political event in 2014 that remains understudied, represented a new manifestation of rumor politics and smear campaigning aimed at President Jokowi, widely hailed as a novel reformist politician because of his relatively clean record and lack of direct association with the Indonesian political establishment. In particular, the Obor Rakyat reports made three serious allegations against Jokowi: that he is a bad Muslim, that he is a puppet president, and that he is in the pocket of Chinese financiers known as cukong. (Crit Asian Stud/GIGA)
Dalam perkembangan dinamika politik internasional, Tiongkok merupakan salah satu negara yang mulai muncul danberperan sebagai emerging power serta memiliki kekuatan ekonomi yang banyak memberikan pengaruh bagi sistemekonomi dunia. Geopolitik merupakan bentuk dari implementasi politik suatu negara dengan pengaruh keadaangeografisnya. Keadaan geografis dapat mempengaruhi kebijakan suatu negara atas upaya mencapai kepentingannya.Untuk mewujudkan kepentingannya maka Tiongkok menggunakan geostrategi. Perkembangan geostrategi politikTiongkok sendiri dapat dilihat dari masa sejarah Tiongkok dimana sudah mulai adanya pertimbangan kebijakan yangmenyesuaikan kondisi geografis. Dalam hal ini dapat dilihat dari bagaimana Tiongkok mampu memetakan jalurperdagangannya yang diperkenalkan dengan sebutan jalur sutra atau silk road. Di era Tiongkok modern ataukotemporer, Tiongkok semakin berkembang menjadi negara yang memiliki kemampuan bargaining power yangcukup kuat. Karena hal tersebut Tiongkok memetakan strateginya bukan hanya melihat dari aspek geografis namunjuga melihat dari kondisi politik internasional.
Autor statě zasvěcenou i zábavnou formou vypráví o svém studiu na pražské právnické fakultě a zjišťuje, co mu toto studium přineslo pro jeho pozdější činnost v podnikové praxi a dlouholeté působení jako pedagoga na právnické fakultě v Brně. Přináší tak i obecnější podnětná zjištění o počínání a mentalitě vysokoškolských učitelů a jejich studentů.
This article deals with the Czech discipline of International Relations addressing its recent historical evolution as well as its current state. It relies on the concepts of field, capital, doxa & habitus developed by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. It argues that the discipline was founded in the late 1950s as a part of the political field, entering the field of science as late as the 1990s. Therefore, the main dichotomies of the field were defined politically for most of the time, e.g. reformist communists vs. orthodox communists or anti-communists vs. communists. Nowadays, the dichotomy refers to the role of theory, which splits empirical & descriptive research from theoretically oriented research. This analysis also takes into account the professional trajectory of the author & his embedded position within the discipline. References. Adapted from the source document.
The OBOR initiative of China often termed as 'Modern-day Silk Road' is based on President Xi Jinping's epic vision to make 'China Great Again' by reviving the Silk Route of ancient times. This initiative aims to engage Eurasia economically by creating a network of infrastructure. In this regard, the article attempts to understand the geo-politics behind India's refusal to join OBOR and strategic response to counter the most appealing economic engagement of the present era but considered to be a debt-trap by India.
