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In a world witnessing the transformative rise of China, the intricate dynamics of its soft power diplomacy have become a focal point of global attention. As geopolitical landscapes shift, the need to understand how China crafts its foreign policy, especially through the strategic use of soft power, becomes imperative. Soft Power and Diplomatic Strategies in Asia and the Middle East is a crucial resource to unraveling these complexities. The book addresses the post-COVID-19 changes in China's soft power application, providing an in-depth, comparative analysis of its diplomatic endeavors in the Middle East and East Asia. By exploring cultural exchanges, economic collaborations, and religious e...
A fascinating and exciting reevaluation of the 17th-century novels of Eberhard Happel
Norms beyond Empire seeks to rethink the relationship between law and empire by emphasizing the role of local normative production. While European imperialism is often viewed as being able to shape colonial law and government to its image, this volume argues that early modern empires could never monolithically control how these processes unfolded. Examining the Iberian empires in Asia, it seeks to look at norms as a means of escaping the often too narrow concept of law and look beyond empire to highlight the ways in which law-making and local normativities frequently acted beyond colonial rule. The ten chapters explore normative production from this perspective by focusing on case studies from China, India, Japan, and the Philippines. Contributors are: Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Marya Svetlana T. Camacho, Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva, Rômulo da Silva Ehalt, Patricia Souza de Faria, Fupeng Li, Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço, Abisai Perez Zamarripa, Marina Torres Trimállez, and Ângela Barreto Xavier.
L'objectiu de construir un espai comú de l'educació superior està suposant un procés important de canvi en l'entorn educatiu universitari europeu. Aquesta estratègia de transformació, que impulsa el procés de Bolonya, considera que les universitats tenen un paper clau per abordar amb èxit els reptes de la societat del coneixement. El desenvolupament d'un Espai Europeu d'Educació Superior es basa en l'autonomia institucional, la llibertat acadèmica, la igualtat d'oportunitats i els principis democràtics. Considera que són precisament les institucions d'educació superior les que, per mitjà de la docència i la investigació, han de promoure el desenvolupament social i cultural de la societat.
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This volume takes a decentered look at early modern empires and rejects the center/periphery divide. With an unconventional geographical set of cases, including the Holy Roman Empire, the Habsburg, Iberian, French and British empires, as well as China, contributors seize the spatial dynamics of the scientific enterprise.
Dimensiones del conflicto: resistencia, violencia y policía en el mundo urbano ofrece una galería de expresiones del conflicto y de formas de recomposición del mismo en contextos diversos, entre el Antiguo Régimen y las sociedades liberales. La perspectiva transfronteriza y comparativa que se adopta en esta obra ofrece una panorámica contrastada sobre las concreciones del conflicto y el orden, sobre los factores, discursos, imaginarios y actores que participaron en los procesos de cambio histórico a través de la resistencia, la violencia y la policía en los espacios urbanos de este amplio periodo histórico. Con un enfoque multidisciplinar, este libro se abre, así, a una reflexión global sobre el conflicto, la disciplina y la paz pública en las ciudades; considera un amplio encuadre espacial, que conecta experiencias europeas y otras de Asia y América y, al mismo tiempo, ofrece una panorámica diacrónica, que analiza las transiciones hacia la modernidad.
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Dans le fil de la célébration de la première circumnavigation de Magellan-Elcano (1519-1522) et du renouvellement historiographique qui l’a accompagnée, cet ouvrage engage une réflexion sur les enjeux historiques et géopolitiques posés par la configuration géographique du continent américain. En effet, cette immense barrière de 30 000 km de côtes s’étendant vers les pôles a posé, dès les premiers temps de la découverte, la question lancinante de comment la traverser ou la contourner pour atteindre les Indes Orientales si convoitées. Cette quête est à l’origine de bon nombre des modalités d’établissement des Européens sur ce continent. Cet ouvrage s’attache à ...
In recent years, research on the history of early modern cartography has undergone remarkable developments. At the same time, European travel accounts and works on China and Japan are also being investigated more systematically. Finally, studies of translations between European and East Asian languages have highlighted the more general issue of how and to what extent representations of the world that prevailed at one end of Eurasia informed and influenced the representations prevailing at the other end of the continent, sometimes to the point that novel forms of representations were being generated.This volume brings together a series of essays on this theme. It is divided into five sections which address as many topics: the textual representation of the 'Other'; 16th- and 17th-century maps of China, Japan and Vietnam; the phenomenon of hybridisation in visual representations; knowledge and representations of the world in Europe and East Asia; and the circulation of representations of the heavens in astronomy between these two regions.