This paper describes the status quo of China-Middle East and North Africa(MENA)relations in the early 2000s,identifies the Arab Spring as a pivot point in Chinese engagement in the region,and notes increasingly proact...This paper describes the status quo of China-Middle East and North Africa(MENA)relations in the early 2000s,identifies the Arab Spring as a pivot point in Chinese engagement in the region,and notes increasingly proactive Chinese diplomacy in the region in the past few years.Even if Beijing harbors no hegemonic ambitions along the lines of a post-Cold War United States,its far-flung economic interests mean that conflicts in the MENA have direct implications for Chinese affairs.Thus,China’s role in the MENA is evolving from status-quo observing to proactive engagement in order to address the mounting challenges in the region multilaterally.We conclude by suggesting that sustaining this kind of proactive engagement requires the foreign-policy infrastructure and international goodwill to do so.If China seeks to further expand its economic footprint in the region,it will need to invest more in knowledge production and academic study regarding the MENA,increase targeted development assistance to the region,and re-evaluate how it responds to major regional conflicts,both in terms of protecting its own interests and citizens and in terms of promoting peacebuilding and conflict resolution in the region.展开更多
In today’s fast-changing international humanitarian landscape,non-traditional/new donors are prominent amongst the more diversified group of humanitarian donors operating in the same settings as Development Assistanc...In today’s fast-changing international humanitarian landscape,non-traditional/new donors are prominent amongst the more diversified group of humanitarian donors operating in the same settings as Development Assistance Committee donors.Kuwait was the first‘new donor’in the Gulf region and was recently given the status of an‘International Humanitarian Centre’by the former UN Secretary-General for the role it played in responding to the humanitarian needs of Syria.Yet Kuwaiti humanitarianism remains under-analysed in academic research.This paper aims to provide a more comprehensive understanding of Kuwait’s humanitarian landscape by identifying its humanitarian actors,governing principles,preferred modalities of aid disbursement and by examining Kuwait’s humanitarian strengths,weaknesses and potential.展开更多
文摘This paper describes the status quo of China-Middle East and North Africa(MENA)relations in the early 2000s,identifies the Arab Spring as a pivot point in Chinese engagement in the region,and notes increasingly proactive Chinese diplomacy in the region in the past few years.Even if Beijing harbors no hegemonic ambitions along the lines of a post-Cold War United States,its far-flung economic interests mean that conflicts in the MENA have direct implications for Chinese affairs.Thus,China’s role in the MENA is evolving from status-quo observing to proactive engagement in order to address the mounting challenges in the region multilaterally.We conclude by suggesting that sustaining this kind of proactive engagement requires the foreign-policy infrastructure and international goodwill to do so.If China seeks to further expand its economic footprint in the region,it will need to invest more in knowledge production and academic study regarding the MENA,increase targeted development assistance to the region,and re-evaluate how it responds to major regional conflicts,both in terms of protecting its own interests and citizens and in terms of promoting peacebuilding and conflict resolution in the region.
文摘In today’s fast-changing international humanitarian landscape,non-traditional/new donors are prominent amongst the more diversified group of humanitarian donors operating in the same settings as Development Assistance Committee donors.Kuwait was the first‘new donor’in the Gulf region and was recently given the status of an‘International Humanitarian Centre’by the former UN Secretary-General for the role it played in responding to the humanitarian needs of Syria.Yet Kuwaiti humanitarianism remains under-analysed in academic research.This paper aims to provide a more comprehensive understanding of Kuwait’s humanitarian landscape by identifying its humanitarian actors,governing principles,preferred modalities of aid disbursement and by examining Kuwait’s humanitarian strengths,weaknesses and potential.
