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China-India cooperation and competition in Sri Lanka under the “Belt and Road” Initiative “一带一路”倡议下的中印在斯里兰卡的合作与竞争

Asian Review of Political Economy Pub Date : 2026-06-01 DOI: 10.1007/s44216-026-00077-9

Letian Xie

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Forging Bangladesh's market state: The politics of state-led Neoliberalism under the Awami League (2009–2024) 塑造孟加拉国的市场国家：人民联盟领导下的国家主导的新自由主义政治（2009-2024）

Asian Review of Political Economy Pub Date : 2026-05-09 DOI: 10.1007/s44216-026-00078-8

Rubel Hossen

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Geopolitical awakening in Africa: leveraging South–South cooperation in a multipolar world 非洲地缘政治觉醒：在多极世界中利用南南合作

Asian Review of Political Economy Pub Date : 2026-05-04 DOI: 10.1007/s44216-026-00079-7

Salum Mussa Haruna

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Democratic decay by design: how political dynasties rewrite the rules of power in Indonesia? 民主的衰落是故意的：政治王朝如何改写印尼的权力规则？

Asian Review of Political Economy Pub Date : 2026-04-07 DOI: 10.1007/s44216-026-00076-w

Bambang Widiyahseno, Yusuf Adam Hilman, Samodra Wibawa

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Innovating the global payment system through “greater BRICS cooperation” 通过“深化金砖合作”创新全球支付体系

Asian Review of Political Economy Pub Date : 2026-04-01 DOI: 10.1007/s44216-026-00075-x

Yang Lyu

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Deconstruct discursive power of the BRICS: a comparative legal discourse analysis on the obligations of states in respect of climate change 解构金砖国家话语权：各国应对气候变化义务的法律话语比较分析

Asian Review of Political Economy Pub Date : 2026-03-10 DOI: 10.1007/s44216-026-00074-y

Xisheng Wang

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The “black box” strategy: China’s opacity signaling game in rare earths (REES) “黑匣子”战略：中国在稀土（REES）领域的不透明信号游戏

Asian Review of Political Economy Pub Date : 2026-03-09 DOI: 10.1007/s44216-026-00073-z

Dwayne Woods

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Beyond the textbooks: myth or reality of education's role in asian democratization? 教科书之外：亚洲民主化中教育角色的神话还是现实？

Asian Review of Political Economy Pub Date : 2026-02-09 DOI: 10.1007/s44216-025-00070-8

Seungwoo Han

{"title":"Beyond the textbooks: myth or reality of education's role in asian democratization?","authors":"Seungwoo Han","doi":"10.1007/s44216-025-00070-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44216-025-00070-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Mass education is commonly viewed as a foundation for democratic development, assumed to cultivate democratic values. However, the political trajectories of many Asian countries challenge this premise. This study reassesses the relationship between mass education and democratic development using panel data and applies both linear interaction models and difference-in-differences designs. While findings show a positive association between education and democratic development in Europe, the relationship is absent in much of Asia. These results suggest that education’s political effects are not inherently democratizing but depend on its institutional and historical context. In particular, where education expanded under centralized, non-democratic regimes, it often reinforced authority rather than enabled democratic engagement. The absence of sequencing between state-building and democratic reform emerges as a critical factor limiting democratic consolidation. This study highlights the need to move beyond universalist assumptions and instead examine how education interacts with regime type and institutional development across different regions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100130,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of Political Economy","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s44216-025-00070-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147337573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Mutual norm socialization through knowledge-security restrictions in Sino-German academic cooperation 中德学术合作中知识安全约束下的相互规范社会化

Asian Review of Political Economy Pub Date : 2026-02-08 DOI: 10.1007/s44216-026-00072-0

Igor Sevenard

{"title":"Mutual norm socialization through knowledge-security restrictions in Sino-German academic cooperation","authors":"Igor Sevenard","doi":"10.1007/s44216-026-00072-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44216-026-00072-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>China’s 2021 <i>Data Security Law</i> and the 2023 revision of the <i>Counter-Espionage Law</i> frame most cross-border knowledge flows as matters of national security. Germany’s approach, evolving in parallel, embeds research security within a broader “de-risking” agenda that characterizes China as a systemic rival. Often operationalized through managerial guidelines, this approach is increasingly underpinned by binding EU export control and data regulations aimed at protecting data, technology, and personnel from unwanted foreign access. Against the backdrop of a wider global trend toward securitizing academic collaboration, this study asks how security-oriented regulations reshape the discourse of Chinese and German academic actors working in their respective settings, how research-security standards filter into the written rules and public statements of partner institutions, and what mutual or asymmetric forms of socialization emerge. Combining Copenhagen-School securitization theory with Johnston’s model of socialization as well as middle-power role theory, the study traces norm diffusion across the bilateral research space through a mixed-method design. It triangulates qualitative content analysis of policy and institutional documents (2019–2025) with process-tracing of regulatory changes across three critical temporal breakpoints (2021, 2023, 2024) that represent distinct phases of legalization and securitization. Evidence suggests that Chinese and German institutions selectively borrow each other’s security lexicon and procedural templates, which produces reciprocal yet uneven norm internalization. This raises transaction costs, narrows epistemic communities, and frames collaboration as strategic competition. By showing that knowledge-security rules act as vectors of mutual socialization rather than unilateral control, the article refines securitization theory for middle-power contexts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100130,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of Political Economy","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s44216-026-00072-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147337341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The return of Trump’s threat: a new episode of the US-China trade war 特朗普威胁的回归：中美贸易战的新一幕

Asian Review of Political Economy Pub Date : 2026-01-26 DOI: 10.1007/s44216-025-00065-5

Achmad Rifa’i

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