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Gregory Shupak who teaches media studies at the University of Guelph-Humber in Toronto writes for FAIR that “In another article, Bloomberg’s editorial board (8/29/23) worried that BRICS’ expansion “could weaken existing channels of cooperation at a time when collective action on global threats has never been more urgent.” For the authors, the BRICS countries are “sidelining the existing institutions” of “global governance,” thereby making “genuinely multilateral cooperation harder.” The editorial’s concern is not with developing international “cooperation” or “collective action on global threats” per se; its concern is with maintaining the current global system.” https://lnkd.in/gSSNFjfT If you want to know why the momentum is picking up around the multipolar order in the Global South, one word suffices: status quo. Everyone unhappy with that term is not going to be happy about maintaining “status quo.” https://lnkd.in/gSSNFjfT My regular contributions published by Georgetown Public Policy Review https://lnkd.in/gQgBsVT9 and here https://lnkd.in/g2Zy2csV Courting Africa: Asian Powers and the New Scramble for the Continent (Summer 2020) https://lnkd.in/gyDhnbUw Spring 2023 Special Issue: The Great Power Competition in Eurasia: https://lnkd.in/gjTmf3Ci

U.S. must improve international scientific collaboration. A federal-government interagency report said the United States has made strides in improving international scientific collaboration, but that global research ties are under threat from politics and conflict, at home and abroad. International scientific and technological cooperation “has been a pillar of U.S. foreign policy and national security since the end of World War II, and it is at risk of deteriorating at a time when it is more important than ever,” the report concludes. https://bit.ly/3Vn7IHQ #internationalization #research

Gregory Shupak who teaches media studies at the University of Guelph-Humber in Toronto writes for FAIR that “In another article, Bloomberg’s editorial board (8/29/23) worried that BRICS’ expansion “could weaken existing channels of cooperation at a time when collective action on global threats has never been more urgent.” For the authors, the BRICS countries are “sidelining the existing institutions” of “global governance,” thereby making “genuinely multilateral cooperation harder.” The editorial’s concern is not with developing international “cooperation” or “collective action on global threats” per se; its concern is with maintaining the current global system.” https://lnkd.in/gZYFZZjw If you want to know why the momentum is picking up around the multipolar order in the Global South, one word suffices: status quo. Everyone unhappy with that term is not going to be happy about maintaining “status quo.” https://lnkd.in/gZYFZZjw My regular contributions published by Georgetown Public Policy Review https://lnkd.in/gFAp-Yt5 and here https://lnkd.in/gUuuH6C9 Courting Africa: Asian Powers and the New Scramble for the Continent (Summer 2020) https://lnkd.in/eSw_K4w Spring 2023 Special Issue: The Great Power Competition in Eurasia: https://lnkd.in/gcVfXzKn

Gregory Shupak who teaches media studies at the University of Guelph-Humber in Toronto writes for FAIR that “In another article, Bloomberg’s editorial board (8/29/23) worried that BRICS’ expansion “could weaken existing channels of cooperation at a time when collective action on global threats has never been more urgent.” For the authors, the BRICS countries are “sidelining the existing institutions” of “global governance,” thereby making “genuinely multilateral cooperation harder.” The editorial’s concern is not with developing international “cooperation” or “collective action on global threats” per se; its concern is with maintaining the current global system.” https://lnkd.in/gZYFZZjw If you want to know why the momentum is picking up around the multipolar order in the Global South, one word suffices: status quo. Everyone unhappy with that term is not going to be happy about maintaining “status quo.” https://lnkd.in/gZYFZZjw My regular contributions published by Georgetown Public Policy Review https://lnkd.in/gFAp-Yt5 and here https://lnkd.in/gUuuH6C9 Courting Africa: Asian Powers and the New Scramble for the Continent (Summer 2020) https://lnkd.in/eSw_K4w Spring 2023 Special Issue: The Great Power Competition in Eurasia: https://lnkd.in/gcVfXzKn

Geopolitics has been a buzzword in the outgoing institutional cycle of the EU, starting with Ursula von der Leyen's vow to create a "geopolitical Commission". 🔎 In the new FIIA Working Paper, Leading Researcher Niklas Helwig develops the idea that the EU is engaged in accidental geopolitics. Instead of acting with intent, the EU is responding to crises as they come. The paper argues that merely using hard power tools does not necessarily make an intentional geopolitical actor. For better or worse, the EU lacks the features that would enable a more strategic and intentional global engagement of the full range of its economic and political leverage. Accidental geopolitics and the reactive deployment of the EU’s international leverage underline the impact of the Union’s top jobs on its role in international politics. 💬 The upcoming institutional cycle presents an opportunity to put the EU on a more deliberate footing in the strategic competition, writes Helwig. Read the full publication ➡ https://lnkd.in/de7JKk-V #FIIApublication #geopolitics #europeanunion #europeancommission #europeanstudies

Gregory Shupak who teaches media studies at the University of Guelph-Humber in Toronto writes for FAIR that “In another article, Bloomberg’s editorial board (8/29/23) worried that BRICS’ expansion “could weaken existing channels of cooperation at a time when collective action on global threats has never been more urgent.” For the authors, the BRICS countries are “sidelining the existing institutions” of “global governance,” thereby making “genuinely multilateral cooperation harder.” The editorial’s concern is not with developing international “cooperation” or “collective action on global threats” per se; its concern is with maintaining the current global system.” https://lnkd.in/gSSNFjfT If you want to know why the momentum is picking up around the multipolar order in the Global South, one word suffices: status quo. Everyone unhappy with that term is not going to be happy about maintaining “status quo.” https://lnkd.in/gSSNFjfT My regular contributions published by Georgetown Public Policy Review https://lnkd.in/gQgBsVT9 and here https://lnkd.in/g2Zy2csV Courting Africa: Asian Powers and the New Scramble for the Continent (Summer 2020) https://lnkd.in/gyDhnbUw Spring 2023 Special Issue: The Great Power Competition in Eurasia: https://lnkd.in/gjTmf3Ci

https://www.euia.eu/theme/ The EUIA 2025 conference calls for submissions from established academics, practitioners, early-career researchers and doctoral candidates. Scholars from non-EU countries are strongly encouraged to submit proposals. The programme is open to a wide range of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, as well as to interdisciplinary fields, in order to advance the debate on the EU's future priorities in the external dimension of its policies. Thematic areas for panels and papers include but are not limited to: the EU’s role in diplomacy, multilateral organisations, global governance, and international trade and investment and corresponding value chains; the international dimension of EU policy-making and its implementation (such as security, trade, monetary policies, energy, climate, gender, migration, digital governance and space); tools of European formal and informal foreign engagement (such as development aid, sanctions and migration arrangements) the EU’s relations with its neighbourhood as well as with other regional organisations around the world; actions and perspectives of non-European actors towards the EU

Task of dispelling doubts on Chinese economy falls on Wang Yi, but top diplomat is hardly persuasive Tan Dawn Wei China Bureau Chief MAR 09, 2024, 05:00 AM Task of dispelling doubts on Chinese economy falls on Wang Yi, but top diplomat is hardly persuasive Tan Dawn Wei China Bureau Chief MAR 09, 2024, 05:00 AM With the premier’s customary wrap-up news conference axed, Mr Wang shoulders the burden of being the most senior bureaucrat to dish out official answers to information-starved journalists with scant access to the country’s top leaders. And so the media briefing had Mr Wang addressing issues outside the realm of diplomacy, such as artificial intelligence – in which he took the opportunity to promote a strategic global governance plan aimed at shaping international standards – and, for the first time, the state of the Chinese economy. Yet, such a response coming from a diplomat rather than the prime minister, who is responsible for managing the economy, carries less persuasion and, no doubt, heft. This makes it even more baffling why the Chinese leadership decided to kill the premier’s news conference Some say it is because President Xi does not want Premier Li Qiang, who hosted his maiden meet-the-press session in 2023, to outshine him. But Mr Li was handpicked by Mr Xi for the job. Others believe it is because the economy is facing its worst crisis in decades, and Beijing would not want to put one of its top leaders, especially a Politburo Standing Committee member, in the hot seat. That rationale does not convince either, since China’s economy has been in a worse shape before. Even after the Asian financial crisis of 1997 hit China hard, Premier Zhu Rongji, who was appointed the following year and proceeded to reform state-owned enterprises that led to 40 million workers being laid off, carried on with his press conferences which were broadcast live. Either way, scrapping this annual event – the only opportunity for a top leader to directly engage with foreign and domestic media and to explain Chinese official thinking – runs counter to all that rhetoric about opening up China’s doors wider. For all his poise and experience, Mr Wang’s returning news conference may have done little to give the hungry fresh meat to chew on, or feed some much-needed confidence in the Chinese economy.  

⏰ One month left to apply for the #EUIA25 conference on the topic #Europe in a Fragmented World! 🇪🇺 🌍 ✨ Thematic areas for panels and papers include but are not limited to: - the EU’s role in diplomacy, multilateral organisations, global governance, and international trade and investment and corresponding value chains; - the international dimension of EU policy-making and its implementation (such as security, trade, monetary policies, energy, climate, gender, migration, digital governance and space); - tools of European formal and informal foreign engagement (such as development aid, sanctions and migration arrangements) - the EU’s relations with its neighbourhood as well as with other regional organisations around the world; - actions and perspectives of non-European actors towards the EU. 👉 Apply by 25 October & join us in Brussels next May. More info below!