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Various visions of the industrialized future: anxiety, aspiration, and Chinese nickel investment in Indonesia 工业化未来的各种愿景：焦虑、渴望和中国在印尼的镍投资

IF 1 3区社会学

Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-04-28 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00727-2

Geger Riyanto, Ardhitya Eduard Yeremia, Rini Astuti, La Husen Zuada, Ahmad Hidayat, Inaya Rakhmani

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Rethinking Sino-Japanese competition: the diffusion of economic statecraft 重新思考中日竞争：经济治国方略的扩散

IF 1 3区社会学

Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00724-5

Karl Yan, Jing Su

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The United Kingdom-Korea-Japan free trade agreement with the reduction in tariffs and non-tariff measures on trade and welfare 英国-韩日自由贸易协定，在贸易和福利方面降低关税和非关税措施

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00722-7

Chae-Deug Yi

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Chinese views of ‘Global Britain’: evidence from the government, media, and scholars 中国人眼中的 "全球英国"：来自政府、媒体和学者的证据

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-03-03 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00721-8

Biao Zhang, Ruike Xu

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Managing the COVID-19 pandemic in varied frameworks of trust, transparency, and governance capacity: evidence from China, the UK, Hong Kong, and Taiwan 在不同的信任、透明度和治理能力框架下管理COVID-19大流行：来自中国、英国、香港和台湾的证据

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00719-2

Dionysios Stivas, Alistair Cole

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East Central Europe’s exposure to China: ephemeral sources of susceptibility 东中欧与中国的接触：短暂的易感性来源

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-02-25 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00718-3

Kamala Valiyeva

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On the relationship between corruption and political ideology: the case of South Korea 腐败与政治意识形态之间的关系：韩国案例

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00720-9

Hyun Jong Kim, Sol Lim, Tae-Hwan Kim, Yunmi Kim

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The EU-Japan economic partnership agreement in Japanese print media: a “cars-for-cheese deal” or “the black ships of European cheese”? 日本纸媒报道的欧日经济伙伴关系协议：“汽车换奶酪协议”还是“欧洲奶酪的黑船”？

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-02-07 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00715-6

Tine Walravens, Ivar Padrón-Hernández

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Promise and peril of relational governance for Asian regionalism: evidence from China’s BRI infrastructure development in maritime Southeast Asia 亚洲区域主义关系治理的希望与危险：来自中国在东南亚沿海一带一路基础设施发展的证据

IF 1 3区社会学

Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-02-05 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00714-7

Zhaohui Wang

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Chinese network power and patronage embeddedness in Indonesia 中国在印尼的网络力量和赞助嵌入性

IF 1 3区社会学

Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-02-03 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00717-4

Moch Faisal Karim

{"title":"Chinese network power and patronage embeddedness in Indonesia","authors":"Moch Faisal Karim","doi":"10.1007/s10308-025-00717-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10308-025-00717-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although primarily economic in nature, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is often perceived as an economic instrument aimed at enhancing China’s geopolitical objectives. Despite the evident deployment of China’s geoeconomic strategy through the BRI, why does Indonesia continue to engage with the BRI? This paper aims to advance the discussion by shifting focus toward the implications of the BRI on the domestic political dynamics of Southeast Asian countries. It argues that Indonesia’s inability to perceive the BRI as a Chinese geoeconomic strategy stems from the initiative’s capacity to forge a new kind of regionalism. This new regionalism is characterized by the creation of network power, which strategically aligns local oligarchies and conglomerates with Chinese geopolitical interests. In a country like Indonesia, with deeply embedded patronage relations, such co-optation is an effective way to influence the decision-making process. In light of this, this paper conceptualizes the notion of patronage embeddedness to elucidate how Chinese foreign capital embeds itself within local political and economic networks to secure its interests through existing patronage relationships. Through this notion, our conceptualization not only shifts the narrative from a one-sided portrayal of Chinese agency but also highlights a dual agency scenario where Chinese capital and local oligarchs engage in a mutually beneficial relationship. Although this relationship offers advantages to both parties, it does not necessarily align with the broader interests of the Indonesian populace.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45680,"journal":{"name":"Asia Europe Journal","volume":"23 2-3","pages":"285 - 302"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145196207","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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