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By Alberto Turkstra
At a time when other regions and geopolitical hotspots are dominating the political and media headlines, Central Asia has been quietly taking advantage of the extraordinary opportunities deriving from the region’s increasingly central role in the numerous connectivity initiatives and corridors that are traversing Eurasia, of which China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a primary example.
By Eamonn Butler
In July 2018, Bulgaria, fresh off the back of its EU Presidency, will host the seventh annual summit for “Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European Countries.” More commonly known 16+1 Initiative, it is a diplomatic platform coordinated by China, to support institutional coordination of relations between China and sixteen countries from the Central and East European (CEE) region.
By Eamonn Butler
This course is designed to appeal to students interested in the geopolitics and international relations of the Central European region. It will provide students with the opportunity to examine the key foreign policies, geopolitical developments and international political relations of Central Europe, with specific attention given to the Visegrád countries of Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.
Interviewed by Sherman Teichman
A world-renowned expert on what he has termed the “Global Cold War,” he is an analyst of contemporary international history.
A Special Feature on Europe-China Relations. Introduction by Nicole Shea and Eamonn Butler Research “16+1: The EU’s concerns of a Chinese ‘Trojan Horse’” by Eamonn Butler “Controversies and Contradictions About Chinese Investments in Europe” by Jan Knoerich and Simon Vitting “Roads, Belts, and Connectivities: Chinese Silk Road Projects in New Perspective” by Madeleine Herren “Belt and Road Initiative in Europe: Reaching Beyond Asia” by Xinghua Liu “A ‘Critical’ Dialogue?’ Taking Stock of Europe’s Human Rights Dialogue
By Eamonn Butler and Nicole Shea
It has been more than 40 years since the first formal, diplomatic relations between China and the European Union (EU) were established. In the subsequent years, relations between these two global economic powerhouses have significantly developed, with both the EU and China publishing and implementing a number of communiqués intended to build and strengthen partnership.
By Illia Ponomarenko
Morning comes to Kyiv again. That was indeed a dramatic night. Not only in the sense of a giant death army standing at the gate.
By Oksana Ermolaeva
This suicide note was written in Finnish from a Petrozavodsk prison in September 1937 by nineteen-year-old Atto Liesi, a native of Finland and a resident of Vyborg.
Curated by Hélène B. Ducros
Artists cross-examine Kazakh pasts and presents, positioning post-Soviet identities at the juncture of different timelines and questioning agency, resistance, and potential.
Interviewed by Hélène B. Ducros
We talked with one of the founders of historical ecology, who is also trained in an array of social and Earth sciences.
