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Sovereignty scripts and regional governance: ASEAN’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic 主权脚本与区域治理:东盟应对新冠肺炎疫情

IF 2.1 2区社会学

Pacific Review Pub Date : 2023-05-02 DOI: 10.1080/09512748.2023.2205164

Kilian Spandler, Julia Hartelius, Alva Monti, F. Söderbaum

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Constrained, competing and eking – the limits of economic statecraft in East Asia after national development 约束、竞争与挣扎——国家发展后东亚经济方略的局限

IF 2.1 2区社会学

Pacific Review Pub Date : 2023-04-26 DOI: 10.1080/09512748.2023.2200023

T. Carroll

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Finding the trade-security nexus: Taiwan’s economic statecraft from 2009 to 2021 寻找贸易安全关系:2009年至2021年台湾的经济治国方略

IF 2.1 2区社会学

Pacific Review Pub Date : 2023-04-26 DOI: 10.1080/09512748.2023.2200024

Christina Lai

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Reshoring from China: comparing the economic statecraft of Japan and South Korea 从中国回流:比较日本和韩国的经济策略

IF 2.1 2区社会学

Pacific Review Pub Date : 2023-04-24 DOI: 10.1080/09512748.2023.2200025

S. Katada, Ji Hye Lim, M. Wan

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Five modes of China’s economic influence: rethinking Chinese economic statecraft 中国经济影响的五种模式:对中国经济治国方略的再思考

IF 2.1 2区社会学

Pacific Review Pub Date : 2023-04-24 DOI: 10.1080/09512748.2023.2200029

Matt Ferchen, Mikael Mattlin

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Not our war. What ASEAN governments’ responses to the Ukraine war tell us about Southeast Asia 不是我们的战争。东盟各国政府对乌克兰战争的反应告诉了我们东南亚的什么

IF 2.1 2区社会学

Pacific Review Pub Date : 2023-04-21 DOI: 10.1080/09512748.2023.2202925

Frederick Kliem

引用次数: 2

Economic statecraft, geoeconomics and regional political economies 经济治国方略、地缘经济和区域政治经济

IF 2.1 2区社会学

Pacific Review Pub Date : 2023-04-21 DOI: 10.1080/09512748.2023.2200030

S. Breslin, Helen E. S. Nesadurai

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State capacity, economic statecraft, and markets: Northeast Asian states’ rise (and fall) as global coal capital powers 国家能力、经济治国方略和市场:东北亚国家作为全球煤炭资本大国的兴衰

IF 2.1 2区社会学

Pacific Review Pub Date : 2023-04-19 DOI: 10.1080/09512748.2023.2200027

Jessica C. Liao, S. Waters

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Managing economic statecraft via multilateral agreements: the roles of ASEAN member states in shaping Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership 通过多边协议管理经济治国之道:东盟成员国在形成区域全面经济伙伴关系中的作用

IF 2.1 2区社会学

Pacific Review Pub Date : 2023-04-10 DOI: 10.1080/09512748.2023.2200022

Kaewkamol Pitakdumrongkit

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Taiwan–US nonproliferation cooperation: the case of North Korea and the influence of affected industries 台湾-美国防扩散合作：以朝鲜为例及受影响产业的影响

IF 2.1 2区社会学

Pacific Review Pub Date : 2023-03-15 DOI: 10.1080/09512748.2023.2189744

Yi-hao Su

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