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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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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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