Asia The formative Muslim-Chinese encounter April 3, 2020 0 Image credit: Chinese Mosque by Revolution_Ferg/Flickr; licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Niv Horesh. The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) soft-power parleys to the Arab…
Belt and Road Initiative China manoeuvres to protect its interests while keeping its hands clean March 26, 2020 0 Image credit: Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptors by Robert Sullivan/Flickr; licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0. Written by James M. Dorsey. The question is not if, but…
Belt and Road Initiative China’s partnership diplomacy and the successful implementation of the BRI March 25, 2020 0 Image credit: Cairo by Simona Scolari/Flickr; licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Written by Mordechai Chaziza. In recent years, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has significantly…
Belt and Road Initiative China’s partnership diplomacy in the Middle East March 24, 2020 0 Image credit: COP21_151208c-0651 by Mark Dixon/Flickr; licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Degang Sun. Two decades into the twenty-first century, we can see how the…
Belt and Road Initiative China’s involvement in the Levant: It’s the economy after all March 20, 2020 0 Image credit: Suez Canal (2007-06-345) by Vyacheslav Argenberg/Flickr; licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Yoram Evron. The Levant – a sub-region of the Middle East consisting…
China The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on relations between China and the Middle East March 17, 2020 0 Image credit: Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 by NIAID/Flickr; licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Zi Yang. Since its emergence in China in December 2019, COVID-19 has…
conflict Women’s participation in the Local Administration Councils’ of the Syrian opposition areas September 21, 2018 1 Written by Dara Foi'Elle. After seven years of violence, the Syrian conflict, a Non-International Armed Conflict (NIAC) according to the ICRC, is moving towards its…
Identity politics Toward A Critical Study of Racialization – Notes from West Asia July 16, 2018 0 Written by Adriana Ahmad Qubaia-ova. Lebanon is quickly becoming a major site for the production of knowledge on gender and sexuality in the Middle East…
China Sino-Iranian Relations: A multidimensional partnership June 14, 2018 0 Written by John Calabrese. On May 8, U.S. President Donald Trump announced his decision to “exit the Iran deal”. Three days later, a new freight train…
India US withdrawal from JCPOA: The impact on South Asia May 14, 2018 0 Written by Tridivesh Singh Maini. New Delhi reacted calmly to President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out from the Iran Nuclear agreement signed in 2015. The Ministry of…
