<i>Quo Vadis</i> Cooperation Between China and Eastern Europe in the Era of COVID‐19?

Kavalski, Emilian

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“…In the beginning of April 2020, as the world was coming to terms with the nascent COVID-19 pandemic, India unleashed a massive relief program to counter the outreach of China's new "Health Silk Road" into its neighborhood. As one of the main producers of genetic drugs, India began donating planeloads of medical supplies to countries in its strategic environs -such as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Myanmar, and the Indo-Pacific littoral space (Maldives, Mauritius, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Comoros and Seychelles) (AsiaNews, 2020; Kavalski, 2021b). This diplomatic push came despite (and probably in spite of) the plight of close to 200 million migrant laborers who lost their jobs (and accommodation) as a result of India's stringent lockdown measures and who had to embark on foot on long and perilous journeys to their homes (Biswas, 2020).…”

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India’s Indo-Pacific Gambit: An Awkward Power Striving for Status

Kavalski

2022

Teoria Polityki

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It seems that the Indo-Pacific label has been deployed by India to validate its great power aspirations. Such operationalization of strategic region-building acknowledges that the positioning of any international actor emerges as a power in context –it is not entirely an intrinsic property of an actor, but depends on the kind of interactions it has in specific (temporal and spatial) contexts. This condition is one of the key sources of the awkwardness of India’s great power. It reflects simultaneously (i) the contested nature of India’s standing –jostling between an aspiring great power, a regional South Asian hegemon, and a begrudging middle power; and (ii) the neglect of Indian aspirations (and self-perception) of great civilizational state. The paper examines these dynamics by, firstly, deploying a discursive study on foreign policy making, whose framework then provides the analytical backstop to the assessment of Indian foreign policy making in the Indo-Pacific region. As such, the concluding section of the paper suggests that the case of India confirms the assumption that it is the complex interactions between contestation and neglect that frames the awkward status of power on the world stage.

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India’s Indo-Pacific Gambit: An Awkward Power Striving for Status

Kavalski

2022

Teoria Polityki

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“…Other scholars argue that the pandemic might have caused more harm than good to China. They claim it has lost a chance to present its development model and credibility to the world because its blame for the origination may validate the global public’s negative opinions of China and its identity and accelerate the already existing negative trend (Ameyaw-Brobbey 2021b; Kavalski 2021).…”

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A Micro-assessment of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Realities on Small-Scale Vendors in Ghana: China as a Leveraging Resource

Ameyaw-Brobbey

Amable

2022

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Since the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, international relations (IR) literature on the pandemic’s implication on global politics has generally increased, while studies on small businesses and human developmental consequences in the developing world have lagged. In this context, through a micro-level analysis, this article investigates the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic affects the economically bottom-class citizens and their businesses, focusing on small-scale vendors in Ghana. It utilises content analysis to examine 384 small-scale vendors in four cities/towns (Accra, Tema, Sunyani, Ho) in Ghana between August and October 2021. We show that the pandemic has negatively affected economic life and ordinary living conditions by increasing poverty among economically bottom-class citizens, likely to have dire long-term consequences nationally. Further, we contend that the small-scale vendors and entrepreneurs recognise leveraging the increasing Chinese global economic influence. Thus, China provides an exit point through which the people can navigate themselves out of the COVID-19 predicaments. Our study is novel for its first-level—individual—analysis of the impact of COVID-19 in the Ghanaian market space from an IR perspective. It also provides policy relevance.

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“…Our first article this time continues debates in previous issues of the journal concerning the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on world affairs (see, e.g., Baris and Pelizzo 2020; Kavalski 2021; Klimkin and Umland 2020)—this time from the perspective of soft power and public diplomacy. In “A Critical Juncture?…”

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2021

World Affairs

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Welcome to the fall 2021 issue of World Affairs (WAJ)! Our first article this time continues debates in previous issues of the journal concerning the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on world affairs (see, e.g., Baris and Pelizzo 2020; Kavalski 2021; Klimkin and Umland 2020)-this time from the perspective of soft power and public diplomacy. In "A Critical Juncture? COVID-19 and the Fate of the U.S.-China Struggle for Supremacy," Thomas Ameyaw-Brobbey queries how global public perception in Europe and Africa of both countries' COVID-19 efforts have affected their competitive advantage for global leadership. The author contends that China will almost certainly win some admiration for its COVID-19 efforts, but not enough to gain a competitive edge over the United States. This insightful piece speaks directly to former WAJ articles on leadership in the post-pandemic world order by Ross Smith and Fallon (2020) and Struye de Swielande (2021).International cooperation was a key topic spanning several pieces in the last (June 2021) issue of WAJ (see Kopiński and Wróblewski 2021; Norman 2021; Struye de Swielande 2021), though, for the last year, debates have focused most on cooperation regarding shared solutions to the pandemic. International cooperation as it relates to security issues has taken a back seat for the last few issues, but is now returning to the forefront of current affairs discussions.At the turn of the millennium, WAJ published a strong article on "Confidence-Building Measures (CBMs) between India and Pakistan" where CBMs were developed in an "attempt to replace conflict with cooperation" (Ahmar 2000, 34) in the strained relations between the two countries in the 1990s. Twenty-one years on, the second article in this fall issue updates readers on the same topic from a contemporary critical perspective. In "The Role of CBMs in the Evolution of Relations between Pakistan and India," Muhammad Waqas Haider and Tahir Mahmood Azad identify the main obstacles that have confounded bilateral conflict resolution in the past and add to the theoretical framework behind

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Quo Vadis Cooperation Between China and Eastern Europe in the Era of COVID‐19?

Cited by 12 publications

References 71 publications

India’s Indo-Pacific Gambit: An Awkward Power Striving for Status

India’s Indo-Pacific Gambit: An Awkward Power Striving for Status

A Micro-assessment of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Realities on Small-Scale Vendors in Ghana: China as a Leveraging Resource

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