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    On becoming a responsible great power: contextualising China’s foray into human rights and peace & security in Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2016
    The deepening of China’s engagement with Africa has also prompted the broadening of its interests on the continent. This has resulted in China’s expansion into increasingly riskier territories, which means there is a greater urgency to protect its interests from the political vagaries endemic to conflict-affected African states.
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    Making a killing: a 2011 survey of ivory markets in China

    International Fund for Animal Welfare, 2016
    An unprecedented surge in ivory seizures occurred in 2011. Media reported that 5,259 elephant tusks were seized worldwide in that year alone, representing the lives of at least 2,629 elephants. In spite of the government’s efforts to regulate the ivory trade, China continues to be the world’s main recipient of smuggled ivory.
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    IPCS Forecast 2016: cardinal transitions, red herrings, shrinking spaces

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2016
    The Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) Forecast 2016 is a collection of writings on the near-term trajectories of a wide range of geographic and thematic issues covering Asia, the United States and Nuclear power and energy, authored by analysts and scholars from the Indian strategic community and beyond.
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    The US-China cyber-agreement: implications for India

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    The aftermath of Chinese President Xi Jinping's 1 September 2015 visit to the United States was marked by an abundance of discourse on, interalia, the merits of the US-China cyber-security agreement.
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    China in Afghanistan: balancing power projection and minimal intervention

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2015
    As it was foreseen, the initial months following the start of the Northern Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s (NATO) withdrawal from Afghanistan were harsh for the Afghan government and civilians. In April 2015, the Taliban launched their annual spring offensive ‘Azm’ - their most elaborate attack since they were overturned from power in 2001.
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    Shifting security challenges in the China–Africa relationship

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    China’s involvement in African security has deepened in recent years. This policy insights paper discusses three aspects of the China–Africa security relationship to highlight some of the evolving challenges and the ways in which China responds to these.
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    The dynamics of regional cooperation in Southeast Asia

    Geneva Centre for Security Policy, 2015
    The need to establish a proper security structure in the Asia-Pacific Region is often underlined by Western political observers. But the chances for such a structure appear to be
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    The chimera of global convergence

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    It has become a staple of conventional wisdom that global economic power is shifting inexorably towards the East and the South. Many insist that we are on the brink of a world-­historic rebalancing that will result in the end of Western domination and the rise of a new hegemony.
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    The rise of emerging Asia: regional peace and global security

    Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2013
    The rapid economic rise of China, India, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) could have several effects on regional peace and global security. The power transition perspective overstates the risk of conflict that results from convergence between dominant and challenger states.
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    Pakistan in China’s eyes: pawn, pivot or a pointer to its world view?

    Institute of South Asian Studies, 2015
    China’s engagement with Pakistan serves as a pointer to the way Beijing is likely to deal with the rest of the world as it redefines its pivotal global position. This policy briefing makes a series of observations about the relationship between the two counrties.

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