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Sino-Turkish Relations In A Globalising Asia-Pacific, Rosita Dellios, Nadir Kemal Yilmaz
Sino-Turkish Relations In A Globalising Asia-Pacific, Rosita Dellios, Nadir Kemal Yilmaz
Rosita Dellios
Relations between China and Turkey are quiescent. In a globalizing Asia-Pacific, however, they are unlikely to remain so. High economic interdependence in the presence of the rise of Asian and Eurasian powers suggest that China and Turkey as multiregional states have a common interest in regional cooperation. It is within this context that bilateral relations are likely to develop. China’s rapid rise means that its impact will not be confined to Pacific Asia. Increasingly, with the quest for energy security, China is setting its diplomatic compass westward to Eurasia and the Middle East. With Russia - another multiregional state - …
Institutions And Gender Empowerment In Greece, Rosita Dellios
Institutions And Gender Empowerment In Greece, Rosita Dellios
Rosita Dellios
Since women account for almost 50 percent of the world's population, the sustainability of development of the global economy can be greatly impaired if the state authorities in individual countries pay less attention to the improvement in the socio-economic status of women relative to men. Improvement in socio-economic status which facilitates empowerment of individuals is greatly dependent on conducive informal institutions and state institutions. This book is the first of its kind to critically examine the role of these institutions in women's empowerment in five continents in the world. The analysis of the role of institutions in individual countries is …
Mandalas Of Security, Rosita Dellios
Mandalas Of Security, Rosita Dellios
Rosita Dellios
In employing the constructional metaphor of 'architectures' for the constructive purpose of security enhancement in the eastern Asian region, it is but a small step to 'indigenise' the process by slipping into the mentality of mandala-building. In doing so, it is to be hoped that Asian security 'architectures' will prove more acceptable and accessible to participants - and thus efficacious in their purpose. The mandala adds nothing new to the experience of Asian communities but redirects effort towards existing cultural orientations. In effect, it is a conceptual device for refining Western technostructures in ways more meaningful to the needs and …
Burmese And Thai Esoterica: From The Golden Pagoda Of Shwedagon To The Sacred Sites Of Nakhon Si Thammarat, Rosita Dellios
Burmese And Thai Esoterica: From The Golden Pagoda Of Shwedagon To The Sacred Sites Of Nakhon Si Thammarat, Rosita Dellios
Rosita Dellios
Extract: There are few cities in the world whose skyline is still dominated by religious architecture rather than brash skyscrapers. Yangon, formerly known as Rangoon, Myanmar's capital, is one such city. The Shwedagon Pagoda rises high above Yangon with a splendour that Rudyard Kipling described as "a beautiful winking wonder that blazed in the sun" and W. Somerset Maugham compared to "a sudden hope in the dark night of the soul".
China's Space Program: A Strategic And Political Analysis, Rosita Dellios
China's Space Program: A Strategic And Political Analysis, Rosita Dellios
Rosita Dellios
Extract: China has taken its place at the forefront of spacefaring nations: it joins only the United States and Russia in operating an independent manned space program. As a developing country this is a major feat. Moreover, its space program is a full-spectrum, comprehensive concept. From microsatellites to manned space missions, from satellite and rocket design to launch capabilities, it spans both civilian and military requirements.
China-United States Relations: The New Superpower Politics, Rosita Dellios
China-United States Relations: The New Superpower Politics, Rosita Dellios
Rosita Dellios
Extract: Two events in 1999 dramatise a clear potential for the People's Republic of China and the United States of America to enter a relationship of superpower contention. The first event of note was the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade on 7 May. The second, also in May, concerns allegations of nuclear espionage levelled against China by a US congressional report. These two episodes, remarkable as they are on their own terms, are even more meaningful when viewed within a wider context of Sino-US relations on the eve of the 21st century.
Chinese Strategic Culture: Part 2 – Virtue And Power, Rosita Dellios
Chinese Strategic Culture: Part 2 – Virtue And Power, Rosita Dellios
Rosita Dellios
When the world's most populous nation, commanding ample resources and a booming economy, begins to strengthen militarily, it cannot help but draw attention to itself. China has indeed done so through naval expansion in recent years and the upgrading of all aspects of its forces. While it has reassured the world of its peaceful intentions, speculation as to its motives is understandable. Intentions may, of course, be inferred from capability; but most strategic analysts recognise that capability alone is not enough. Rather than focusing on capability, this paper subscribes to the view that intentions are better understood if examined within …
Barcelona's Casa Asia, Rosita Dellios
Barcelona's Casa Asia, Rosita Dellios
Rosita Dellios
Extract: Casa Asia - or Asia House - is a remarkable institution of East-West relations. Billed as the gateway to Asia and the Pacific in Spain, it also opens a vista of Catalonian splendour in its premises located on the famous Avinguda Diagonal in Barcelona. The Palau Baró de Quadras, a Modernist building designed by Puig i Cadafalch and classified as an Artistic and Historical Monument of National Interest, is the 'house' that acts as Casa Asia's headquarters.
The State As A Work Of Art, Rosita Dellios
The State As A Work Of Art, Rosita Dellios
Rosita Dellios
Extract: Unlike Renaissance Europe, when human character, state forms, and international institutions were recognized as artistic constructions, we appear to be entering an artistically and philosophically frills-free era. History, literature and fine arts, for example, are becoming redundant items on the educational menu for growing minds.
India Looks East And China Looks Everywhere, Rosita Dellios
India Looks East And China Looks Everywhere, Rosita Dellios
Rosita Dellios
Extract: Asia's two great civilisations, India and China, have been the subject of contemporary scrutiny in the Australian conference scene. Together, India and China account for more than one-third of the world's population. Peace and cooperation between these two neighbours makes eminent sense if the Pacific Century is to live up to its name.
"How May The World Be At Peace?": Idealism As Realism In Chinese Strategic Culture, Rosita Dellios
"How May The World Be At Peace?": Idealism As Realism In Chinese Strategic Culture, Rosita Dellios
Rosita Dellios
There is a famous orientalism which declares: "Let the Chinese dragon sleep for when she awakes she will astonish the world." In this decade of China's self-strengthening, Western Realists seem to be seeing dragons again. Not so their geoeconomic counterparts. They see only markets. Neither the threat nor opportunity analysts, however, quite see China in the "round"; a mandala of security in which certain principles have long held sway over matters of survival and, indeed, benefit. An appreciation of China's cultural-philosophical tradition provides a corrective to these blinkered visions. More than that, it suggests a way forward in a world …
Foreign Policy Directions In The Post-Deng Era, Rosita Dellios
Foreign Policy Directions In The Post-Deng Era, Rosita Dellios
Rosita Dellios
Extract: Explaining international relations today from a Chinese philosophical perspective, one might use such characterisations as the contest between Wen and Wu policies, the rise of Asian values and Western criticism, porous borders and economic growth circles, internationalisation and localism, joint-ventures and money worship, East Asia and Pacific rim. Both the connections and the distinctions are obvious, giving rise to a certain 'fuzzy logic' in the Daoist rendition of international relations.
One Culture Two Systems: A Cultural Approach To Inter-Chinese Politics, Martin Lu, Rosita Dellios
One Culture Two Systems: A Cultural Approach To Inter-Chinese Politics, Martin Lu, Rosita Dellios
Rosita Dellios
Extract: In this article we seek to step beyond the problematic notion of "One China", politically speaking, by emphasizing "One Culture" constituted by different systems or a diversity of subcultures. In so doing, what is essentially an either/or choice transforms to a one-many realization.
Mandala: From Sacred Origins To Sovereign Affairs In Traditional Southeast Asia, Rosita Dellios
Mandala: From Sacred Origins To Sovereign Affairs In Traditional Southeast Asia, Rosita Dellios
Rosita Dellios
This paper examines 'mandala' as a tradition of knowledge in Southeast Asia. It marries two concepts of mandala: (1) a Hindu-Buddhist religious diagram; with (2) a doctrine of traditional Southeast Asian 'international relations', derived from ancient Indian political discourse. It also highlights the value of Chinese thought as the 'yin' to ancient India's 'yang', in the construction of a Southeast Asian mandalic political culture. In its investigations, this paper draws on to the writings of key historians of this period, particularly O. W. Wolters, as well as the influential Indian text on governance, Kautilya's Arthasastra.