CHINA - A UNIQUE IMAGE IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD by Ioana-Iulica MIHAI, Camelia CHIRILĂ

“…We may say that the main catalyst for the rise of China is considered to be globalization, a process that started two decades ago by the Western powers and the major multinational companies currently operating in the most global market in the world - the Chinese market.…”
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SEMNIFICAȚIA „SECOLULUI UMILINȚEI“ by Vohn, Cristina

“…The century of humiliation is a phrase steeped in the Chinese culture and mentality, which denotes the period when Western powers and Japan intervened in China. The Chinese believe that it began during the first Opium War in 1839, when England invaded southern China, and ended with the liberation of China from foreign troops and the victory of the Chinese Communists who proclaimed the People’s Republic of China in 1949. …”
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Atrocidades civilizadas en la guerra contra los bárbaros. Principios del siglo XIX by Juan Francisco Jiménez, Daniel Villar, Sebastián Leandro Alioto

“…Besides accounting for the case already mentioned based on the accounts by four participants—which accompany this introduction—, and on the justifications and comments that two of them were forced to outline after a critical intervention of an outsider, we will try to answer the question if military atrocities constituted a sub-product of a special type of conflict—the one taking place when “tribal” societies face state forces—; if there were only circumstantial excesses, condemned and punished by the superiority, or if, on the contrary, they formed a systematic behavior; and last, if the rules that governed the confrontation of European powers against colonial enemies in the peripheral world were or were not different from the ones ruling the wars against other Western powers.…”
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The conceptual evolution of responsible research and innovation in China: a systematic literature review by L. Wang, T. B. Long

“…ABSTRACTWithin the contemporary global economy, research and innovation are just as likely to come from non-western economic and political powers, such as China, as from western powers more traditionally associated with research and innovation production, such as in Europe and North America. …”
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Soft power geopolitics: how does the diminishing utility of military power affect the Russia – West confrontation over the “Common Neighbourhood” by Vasif HUSEYNOV

“…It explores how this fact affects the policies of the Western powers and Russia within the frame of the confrontation they are in. …”
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Book Review—Anne Applebaum’s <i>Red Famine</i> (2017) by Frank Hordijk

“…The theme setting and particular relevance of artificial or man-made famines seems to come up in intervals, when tensions re-arise between ‘Western’ powers and Russia and seems to be useful for the purposes of ‘demonizing’ ‘Putin’—the current President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin (2000–2008; 2012–)—, ‘the Kremlin’, the Russian government; or simply ‘Russia’ in the eyes of ‘the West’. …”
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Unravelling A Myth: Emergence of The Myth of Female Kurdish Fighters in Social Media by İbrahim Efe

“…The imagery of Kurdish female fighters is used by Western powers and Kurdish political groups to legitimize their political positions in the prolonged civil war in Syria.…”
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Impact of Western transmission of the Peking Gazette on Late-Qing China’s information security by Ling Chen, Lianjian Deng

“…Western transmission of the Peking Gazette to some extent promoted cultural exchanges between China and the West and also provided the Western powers, which were in a period of expansion, with a wealth of political and military intelligence. …”
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L’instrumentalisation de la religion dans l’Empire ottoman à l’époque de l’expansion européenne (1800-1914) by Paul Dumont

“…On the one hand, the symbolic leadership of the Ummah claimed by the Sultan was mobilized in remote Muslim territories in order to obtain external allies; on the other hand, the Sublime Porte instrumentalized the title of Caliph to make Western powers accept that albeit lost, territories comprising Muslim populations formerly under Ottoman rule would remain under the religious jurisdiction of the Sultan. …”
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ARCHBISHOP STEPINAC, THE INDEPENDENT STATE OF CROATIA AND WESTERN ALLIES by MILAN KOLJANIN, DRAGICA KOLJANIN

“…In order to understand the memorandum, it is necessary to consider the most important political and military circumstances at the end of World War II in Yugoslavia, especially the politics of the new Yugoslavia and the Western powers, primarily the British. The representatives of the Holy See in the ISC and the Archbishop of Zagreb, Alojzije Stepinac, played an important role in efforts to preserve the Ustasha state. …”
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The response of Muslim countries to the Bosnian crisis by W. Shawaluddin W. Hassan

“…Muslim countries with the spirit of Islamic Brotherhood responded strongly to their brothers and sisters plight and sufferings. They condemned Western powers for their failure to stop the atrocities and launched initiatives through diplomatic efforts, provided troops to the UN peace efforts, provided financial and political aids, and took in refugees. …”
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Byzantium and the West on the Way to the Council of Constance by Nikolai Gennadievich Pashkin

“…The situation was complicated by the fact that the prerequisites for solving the conflict of Western powers did not develop before the Council started. …”
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Intercultural Dialog as a Necessity in the Modern World – Conceptualization and Development Perspectives by Denys Svyrydenko, Wiktor Możgin

“…The prevailing paradigm of West-centrism is changing, which will manifest itself primarily in the emergence of new non-Western powers. Through the selfish imposition of its own patterns and values on the whole world, the West did not consider other players who were growing in strength, who today strive to emphasize their own presence in the international arena, relying on their uniqueness and cultural and religious distinctiveness. …”
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The Humanity Crisis Caused by Colonial Administrations in Rwanda by Kadir Özköse

“…Rwanda was very and peaceful until the Western powers established their colonies in the region. …”
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THE THEORY OF AUTOCHTONOUS ZIONISM IN POLITICAL DISCOURSES IN ISRAEL 1961-1967 by Michal Haramati

“…In a local context, it perceives of the Zionist project from its inception as colonial, created by European Jews, supported by western powers and based upon perceived civilizational supremacy of western modernity. …”
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Bridging Faiths and Empires: The Assumptionists and the <i>Mission d’Orient</i> (1863–1923) by Ediz Hazir

“…The study argues that the failure can be attributed to complex power dynamics between the Ottoman Empire and Western powers, resulting in a hostile environment for Christian communities. …”
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Il fumetto cinese moderno tra centro e periferia = Modern Chinese Comics, between center and periphery by Martina Caschera

“…However, due to intensifying and unavoidable exchanges with Western powers, the Middle Kingdom had to reconsider its cultural stance, having been confined the peripheries of the modern world. …”
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The issues of islands governing in early Ming Dynasty by Huang Li-sheng

“…It marks the shift from outward expansion to passive defense, whereas underground marine trades were rampant and China had to face the rising Western powers. It deserves to examine Ming’s maritime management by different perspectives including the coastal islands. …”
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The Role of Special Forces in Peace Missions: A Focus on MINUSMA within the African Context by Louis Bester

“…Bush of a Global War on Terrorism, has brought the special forces of the United States and other Western powers out of the shadows and into the limelight as the force of choice to combat the new security threat. …”
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MUNICH CRISIS: BEHIND – THE SCENE HISTORY by A. Y. Borisov

“…Much of today’s policies of the leading Western powers, primarily the United States, echo their actions during the preparation and implementation of the Munich conspiracy. …”
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