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Volume 24, issue 2, 2026

Strategy and diplomacy in a changing world: China’s high-level strategic dialogues with European counterparts (2001–2025) pp. 283-312

Xiaosong Ni

Reconciling normativity and geopolitics: analyzing von der Leyen’s de-risking discourse from a practical argumentation perspective pp. 313-330

Jinsong Fu and Min Yang

The many faces of the Chinese Communist Party’s outreach in Europe pp. 331-349

Julia Bader and Christine Hackenesch

Navigating minefields and headwinds: National security, demographic shifts, climate change and fiscal policy in Lithuania pp. 351-372

Serhan Cevik

The interplay between geopolitics and connectivity: making sense of the EU and China’s shifting approaches to the Middle Corridor pp. 373-393

Shaohua Yan, Yinghao He and Wei Shen

Infrastructural conjunctures under the Belt and Road Initiative: the role of China-Europe Railway Express and evolution of the laptop cluster in Chongqing, China pp. 395-415

Rui Hu, Chun Yang and Qingyun Li

Beyond confrontation? Comparing the determinants of Chinese and the European Union’s development finance to Africa pp. 417-445

Manling Yang

Charting Italy’s Indo-Pacific strategy: from Mare Nostrum to Mare Omnium? pp. 447-466

Gabriele Abbondanza

Allied hedging under pressure: US protectionism, China dependence, and strategic adjustment pp. 467-487

Miao Wang and Xue Li

Structural pressures and catalytic shocks: Japan’s hedging strategy for “Trump 2.0” (2023–2025) pp. 489-516

Jia Meng

Structural transformation within a neo-liberal state architecture: evidence from the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor pp. 517-539

Muhammad Tayyab Safdar

Transportation costs and financial development in the Asia–Pacific: A CS-ARDL approach to macroeconomic interdependencies pp. 541-569

Atteq Ur Rehman, Nabila Khurshid and Mudassar Rashid

The entangled energy policy reform in the Philippines: a missing link for the regional production network pp. 571-588

Yusuke Takagi

EU influences on ASEAN forest management: collective solutions or divergent narratives? pp. 589-606

Julie Gilson

A study of the carbon emission reduction effects of the digital economy: evidence from China’s prefecture-level cities pp. 607-639

Ruoxi Zhong, Qiang He, Xin Deng and Yanbin Qi

Volume 24, issue 1, 2026

Recasting order in the Indo-Pacific: Europe, Asia, and the future of the Liberal International Order pp. 1-16

Jagannath Panda and Alfred Gerstl

The road to hell is paved with good intentions—and EU spreadsheets pp. 17-25

Heribert Dieter

Evolving concept of strategic autonomy in Europe and Asia: the role of US restraint and simultaneity of conflicts pp. 27-40

Kuyoun Chung

NATO and Quad: a China threat vs. a cross-functional Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific cooperation pp. 41-55

Jagannath Panda

Cooperative or clubbish? AUKUS order-engineering and EU normative power in the Indo-Pacific pp. 57-71

Sarah Tzinieris, Zeno Leoni and Mauro Bonavita

The EU-Japan security cooperation in defence of the liberal international order: achievements and limitations pp. 73-90

Elena Atanassova-Cornelis and Eva Pejsova

Political convergence between the EU and ASEAN: are they growing more alike in the Indo-Pacific? pp. 91-106

Aleš Karmazin, Guangyu Qiao-Franco and Michal Kolmaš

Analyzing Türkiye’s strategic interests in the Indo-Pacific: opportunities and challenges in the European Union context pp. 107-123

Gürol Baba and Hatice Çelik

The challenges of Sino-Russian alignment to the liberal international order in Southeast Asia pp. 125-139

Julie Yu-Wen Chen, Monique Taylor, Alfred Gerstl and Kristina Kironska

Introduction to the special issue on what happens in Europe matters in the Indo-Pacific: the global impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war pp. 141-150

Shaohua Yan and Biao Zhang

From Indo-Pacific back to Euro-Atlantic? The Ukraine War and the EU’s strategic reorientation pp. 151-171

Xianbai Ji

From distant ally to perceived threat: the collective securitization of China in NATO pp. 173-191

Shaohua Yan and Dionysios Stivas

Major European members’ diverging strategies under NATO’s Indo-Pacific pivot pp. 193-214

Bing Wei and Feng Liu

Russia-Ukraine war and China’s diplomatic signaling to major European powers pp. 215-243

Haixia Qi, Hao Qi, Bode An and Xuetong Yan

Is China losing its soft power in the Ukraine war? Evidence from the Indo-Pacific pp. 245-264

Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska, Kikee Doma Bhutia, Daniel Riether, Anastasia Sinitsyna and Elo Süld

Toward a Eurasian security complex? The two Koreas’ entanglement in the Ukraine war and the conjoining of European and Asian security pp. 265-281

Yang Xiangfeng

Volume 23, issue 4, 2025

EU–China relations after the 2024 European elections: a European perspective pp. 457-460

Bart Dessein and Jasper Roctus

EU - China relations after the 2024 European elections pp. 461-467

Hans Dietmar Schweisgut

EU’s derisking from China: a daunting task pp. 469-478

Françoise Nicolas

The European Union’s investment screening framework and China—a complicated picture pp. 479-487

Tamás Peragovics and Agnes Szunomar

Geopolitical conflicts and economic disruptions: Germany’s China policy under pressure pp. 489-496

Margot Schüller

Back to the Cold War era in-betweenness: Italy’s China strategy in the context of the Indo-Pacific framework pp. 497-507

Beatrice Gallelli and Marco Zappa

Subnational dimensions of the EU’s de-risking strategy in relations with China pp. 509-517

Tomasz Kamiński

Populism and the China question: implications for EU foreign policymaking pp. 519-533

Anastas Vangeli

The risks of continuity—pitfalls of the EU’s policy stance on China after the European elections of 2024 pp. 535-548

Frank Gaenssmantel

The Third Plenum of the Twentieth Party Congress: ideological fervor, economic pragmatism, and the possibilities for EU-China relations pp. 549-562

Bart Dessein and Jasper Roctus

The EU, China, and the future of climate finance pp. 563-571

Niall Duggan, Kim Vender and Jörn-Carsten Gottwald

A complex challenge: how China shapes Japan’s security partnership with the EU pp. 573-581

Elena Atanassova-Cornelis

Volume 23, issue 2, 2025

Who is closerto whom? Exploring communication networks of EU delegation and its member states’ embassies in China pp. 151-170

Li Zhang, Shujun Jiang and Xi Luo

How do international students adjust to new cultural environments? A qualitative study of international students’ experience in Asian universities pp. 171-192

Candice A. Wray, Chieh Wang, Yu-Hsuan Wang and David C. McConville

Evaluating Eurasian countries’ global energy governance: a framework for analysis pp. 193-208

Yunheng Zhou, Weizhen Wang, Yiming Chen, Jiaai Tian and Kevin Tu

Assessing the economic impact of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership: a dynamic GTAP analysis Global and regional benefits of RCEP pp. 209-227

Yanmei Wang and Wenying Yan

Asia in flux: network power, new regionalism, and global development pp. 229-237

Hong Liu, Chen Li and Guanie Lim

A ‘network power shift’ or up the value chain? Japan’s changing role in Asian political economy pp. 239-261

Nikolay Murashkin and Olesya Emelyanova

From infrastructure space to network power: Chinese cross-border collaborative Special Economic Zones in Southeast Asia pp. 263-284

Hong Liu and Chao Yao

Chinese network power and patronage embeddedness in Indonesia pp. 285-302

Moch Faisal Karim

Promise and peril of relational governance for Asian regionalism: evidence from China’s BRI infrastructure development in maritime Southeast Asia pp. 303-325

Zhaohui Wang

Bangladesh amidst great power competition: when middle power meets economic statecraft pp. 327-348

Ariful Haque, Qinrou Zhou and Chengwei Xu

Reassessing China’s economic power in Southeast Asia during the 2010 s: insights from the nexus of FDI-driven manufacturing and GVC trade pp. 349-367

Yoon Ah Oh

Various visions of the industrialized future: anxiety, aspiration, and Chinese nickel investment in Indonesia pp. 369-391

Geger Riyanto, Ardhitya Eduard Yeremia, Rini Astuti, La Husen Zuada, Ahmad Hidayat and Inaya Rakhmani

The regime complex for digital trade in Asia and China’s engagement pp. 393-413

Xinchuchu Gao and Xuechen Chen

Rethinking Sino-Japanese competition: the diffusion of economic statecraft pp. 415-433

Karl Yan and Jing Su

Vietnam’s growing economic integration with the world: more or less Asian? pp. 435-456

Guanie Lim, Chengwei Xu and Dang Thai Binh

Volume 23, issue 1, 2025

The EU-Japan economic partnership agreement in Japanese print media: a “cars-for-cheese deal” or “the black ships of European cheese”? pp. 1-22

Tine Walravens and Ivar Padrón-Hernández

On the relationship between corruption and political ideology: the case of South Korea pp. 23-55

Hyun Jong Kim, Sol Lim, Tae-Hwan Kim and Yunmi Kim

East Central Europe’s exposure to China: ephemeral sources of susceptibility pp. 57-79

Kamala Valiyeva

Managing the COVID-19 pandemic in varied frameworks of trust, transparency, and governance capacity: evidence from China, the UK, Hong Kong, and Taiwan pp. 81-98

Dionysios Stivas and Alistair Cole

Chinese views of ‘Global Britain’: evidence from the government, media, and scholars pp. 99-116

Biao Zhang and Ruike Xu

The United Kingdom-Korea-Japan free trade agreement with the reduction in tariffs and non-tariff measures on trade and welfare pp. 117-150

Chae-Deug Yi