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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

IF 1 3区社会学

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

IF 1 3区社会学

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

IF 1 3区社会学

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？

IF 1 3区社会学

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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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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From Indo-Pacific back to Euro-Atlantic? The Ukraine War and the EU’s strategic reorientation 从印度-太平洋回到欧洲-大西洋？乌克兰战争与欧盟的战略重新定位

IF 1 3区社会学

Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-04-26 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00725-4

Xianbai Ji

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Cooperative or clubbish? AUKUS order-engineering and EU normative power in the Indo-Pacific 合作还是俱乐部？美国秩序工程与欧盟在印太地区的规范性权力

IF 1 3区社会学

Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-04-12 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00723-6

Sarah Tzinieris, Zeno Leoni, Mauro Bonavita

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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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