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Asia in flux: network power, new regionalism, and global development 变化中的亚洲：网络力量、新区域主义和全球发展

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Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-09-23 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00759-8

Hong Liu, Chen Li, Guanie Lim

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From infrastructure space to network power: Chinese cross-border collaborative Special Economic Zones in Southeast Asia 从基础设施空间到网络力量：中国在东南亚的跨境合作经济特区

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Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-08-15 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00738-z

Hong Liu, Chao Yao

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Evaluating Eurasian countries’ global energy governance: a framework for analysis 欧亚国家全球能源治理评估：一个分析框架

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Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-08-14 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00743-2

Yunheng Zhou, Weizhen Wang, Yiming Chen, Jiaai Tian, Kevin Tu

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Reassessing China’s economic power in Southeast Asia during the 2010 s: insights from the nexus of FDI-driven manufacturing and GVC trade 重新评估2010年代中国在东南亚的经济实力：来自外商直接投资驱动的制造业和全球价值链贸易关系的见解

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Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-06-21 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00735-2

Yoon Ah Oh

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A ‘network power shift’ or up the value chain? Japan’s changing role in Asian political economy 是“网络权力转移”还是向价值链上游转移？日本在亚洲政治经济中的角色变化

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Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-06-19 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00733-4

Nikolay Murashkin, Olesya Emelyanova

{"title":"A ‘network power shift’ or up the value chain? Japan’s changing role in Asian political economy","authors":"Nikolay Murashkin, Olesya Emelyanova","doi":"10.1007/s10308-025-00733-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10308-025-00733-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The goal of this article is to trace the evolution of Japan’s role in Southeast and South Asian political economy in the 2000s–2010s to understand how Japan’s previously established network power in Asian supply chains has changed amid much-discussed power shifts in the region. The increasing number of emerging and rising regional powers induces Japan to search for new approaches to support strong economic ties with the partners. Some of Japan’s approaches may seek to reflect the needs of the country’s partners, to maintain an image of a responsible stakeholder, while others include trade-offs regarding participation in emerging blocs and continuation of foreign economic policy based on national interests, as formulated by different domestic policy constituencies. The importance of network connections with Southeast Asia (SEA) and adjacent countries such as Bangladesh is determined by the region’s sustained growth potential, Japan’s continuing export-oriented economy and its attempts to stay relevant, while remaining a core node of regional value chains. Domestically, Japan’s reliance on export-led development has implications for debates on neoliberal policies and state capitalism inside Japan proper. Internationally, we seek to elucidate how Japan keeps pursuing its national interests in regional economic policy, while maintaining its existing geopolitical alignments amid increasingly networked regional security. We examine Japan’s policy initiatives and contextualise them within our analysis of trade and investment flows to clarify cooperation priorities and to identify shifts in Japan’s network power in the region.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45680,"journal":{"name":"Asia Europe Journal","volume":"23 2-3","pages":"239 - 261"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145196238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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How do international students adjust to new cultural environments? A qualitative study of international students’ experience in Asian universities 国际学生如何适应新的文化环境？亚洲大学国际学生经历的质性研究

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Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-06-14 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00734-3

Candice A. Wray, Chieh Wang, Yu-Hsuan Wang, David C. McConville

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Who is closerto whom? Exploring communication networks of EU delegation and its member states’ embassies in China 谁和谁更亲近？探索欧盟代表团及其成员国驻华使馆的沟通网络

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Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-06-10 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00730-7

Li Zhang, Shujun Jiang, Xi Luo

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Bangladesh amidst great power competition: when middle power meets economic statecraft 大国竞争中的孟加拉国：当中等大国遇到经济治国方略

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Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-05-08 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00729-0

Ariful Haque, Qinrou Zhou, Chengwei Xu

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Assessing the economic impact of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership: a dynamic GTAP analysis Global and regional benefits of RCEP 评估区域全面经济伙伴关系的经济影响：动态GTAP分析RCEP的全球和区域利益

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Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-05-08 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00728-1

Yanmei Wang, Wenying Yan

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Vietnam’s growing economic integration with the world: more or less Asian? 越南与世界的经济融合：更多还是更少亚洲化？

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Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-05-02 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00726-3

Guanie Lim, Chengwei Xu, Dang Thai Binh

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