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FDI, liquidity, and political uncertainty: A global analysis

political uncertainty than less liquid ones. Drawing from the real options theory, we develop hypotheses on the sensitivity of different types of FDI. We utilize descriptive statistics and a simple estimation ... investors to wait-and-see and to hold back their investments. This paper investigates whether more liquid types of foreign direct investment (FDI) are affected more by political uncertainty than less liquid

Spontaneous Change: Applying Zhuangzi’s Concept of Hua (化) to Global Citizenship

Zhuangzi’s philosophy of hua—change or transformation—to develop an account of global identity that is both familiar and innovative. It begins with an overview of global ‘citizenship’ understood as a ... citizenship Introduction The idea of global citizenship is not a new invention but can be traced back to ancient Greek and Chinese philosophy. When the Cynic Diogenes of Sinope was asked where he was from, he

Resilience: Myanmar students’ experiences of overcoming eLearning challenges during COVID 19 and political instability

also significant political instability. The group has a mix of 1st year and 2nd year students in a pre-university program. The 2nd-year students in particular are noteworthy as despite the adversity ... to adapt, others thrived with eLearning. This paper explores the experiences of one group of students who succeeded in overcoming not only the restrictions of COVID-19, but also significant political

Examining non-Indigenous teacher perceptions of Indigenous students in Taiwan through a Strategic Relational Approach

this tension by positioning teachers centrally within Taiwan’s cultural political economy, before considering implications for teacher education. ... dialectic. Necessarily, this views the teacher as a central figure within the cultural political economy of their practice. Taiwan’s recent history has seen considerable cultural and political developments

Social participation of social organizations in education governance in China

the educational system if they could gain the government’s political trust and support. These study’s findings suggest that the mode of Chinese education governance is a mixture of government ... , it can be conceptualized as a network government, reflecting China's political and ideological systems by emphasizing the institutional monitoring and supervision of social organizations through policy

Revisiting ‘Asia as method’ in education research: problems and prospects

against Western dominance and against the adoption and adaptation of Western (as well as domestic exclusionary) concepts as mechanisms of control by scholars and the political elite (Kim, 2016; Stein ... . , & Rudolph , S. ( 2022 ). Education and Racial Capitalism . Race, Ethnicity and Education, 25 , 425 - 442 . Grande , S. ( 2004 ). Red pedagogy: Native American social and political thought . Rowman

The distribution of power within the EU: perspectives on a Ukrainian accession and a Turkish accession

and the 65% majority requirement under the EU’s Qualified Majority Voting rules would give Ukraine some significant power in a future EU28. Herein, it is shown how relative political power indices—as ... of an EU enlargement to allow accession by Ukraine: The large economies would lose power and, surprisingly, many small countries would gain political power. Such perspectives might lead one to

Portraying the ‘Chinese international students’: a review of English-language and Chinese-language literature on Chinese international students (2015–2020)

identifies four subject positions portrayed of the Chinese international students: the (1) neoliberal, (2) political, (3) pedagogic and (4) racialised subjects. This paper celebrates heartening developments in ... political, cultural and pedagogic agencies. It also highlights how aspects of these subject positions have exercised epistemic injustice on the Chinese international students. Meanwhile, it pinpoints the

Nostalgia de la muerte by Xavier Villaurrutia within German language philosophical tradition: Heidegger, Rilke, Hegel, Schiller

novel by Rainer Maria Rilke, which is conceptually connected with Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s dialectical philosophy and Friedrich Schiller’s humanism. The present work is an interpretation of ... ). Keywords: mexican literature; german philosophy; comparative literature; constitution of the subject; nihilism; humanism Dios es el mundo. La verdad es siempre un contacto interior e inexplicable

“Asia as method” as a quest of the spirit and finding we-togetherness: a collaborative autoethnography

holistic ways of being, including research, teaching and activism, but scholars need to go beyond Asia as a geographical-political-intellectual concept to pursue a spiritual, felt understanding of who we are ... community for guidance. Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk known for applying ancient Buddhist philosophy and practices to the real-world suffering caused by war, social injustice, and

Through rough seas: the political mediation of the Pastoral Council of Fishermen (1968-2018)

This paper focuses on the work of the Pastoral Council of Fishermen (PCF), an important mediator of artisanal fishing in Brazil. The objectives are: (a) understand the political scenery of fishing ... scenery of fishing before the rise of this Pastoral and (b) analyse strategies and forms of action developed by this political mediator with the artisanal fishermen. The methodological procedures were based

Romanticizing decolonization and Asian epistemology: reflections on identity and space

Taiwanese scholar Kuan-Hsing Chen. In the 1970s, Alatas argued for a more nuanced view of decolonization that extend beyond normative political and economic analyses to intellectual imperialism. Alatas’s ... whole phenomenon of uncritical transmission of thought can be regarded as unconscious continuation of colonialism not in the political but in the cultural sense. (Alatas, 1956) This emphasis on cultural

Conscientious internationalisation in higher education: contextual complexities and comparative tensions

policy lens is employed to further analyse, probe and pose critical questions related to people, philosophy, place, processes, and power (5Ps). Authors argue that the intent (philosophy) of institutions ... of professional practice (Dolby and Rahman 2008) to a purveyor of peace, passage of politics, and provider of policy. Meiras (2004) referred to the evolution in terms of socio-political, economic

The political economy of the Brazil-China Soy-Meat Complex

large North Atlantic transnational corporations. Based on the contemporary literature in agrarian political economy and in a combination of quantitative and qualitative data, we identify the origins ... of Chinese investments in the Brazilian agribusiness. In the conclusions, beyond strict economic aspects, political aspects of the Brazil-China soy-meat complex are discussed. Key-words:  Brazil

Learning from Asia: an APER collective response to the special issue on “Asia as Method”

this response paper in the spirit of the Collective Writing Projects of the EPAT (Educational Philosophy and Vol.:(011233456789) Asia; Asia as Method; Decolonization; Higher Education; Epistemology ... higher education hubs in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Malaysia in ways that contributed new insights to the emerging field of international academic relations, with its integration of political, economic and

Globalization, Freedoms and Economic convergence: an empirical exploration of a trivariate relationship using a large panel

Using a large panel for 95 countries and the 1972–2014 period, this paper analyses the interactions among globalization, political & civil rights and economic convergence, through a simultaneous ... technique. We use a multi-dimensional, de facto, and continuous measures of Freedoms and Globalization. We find a two-way positive relationship between civil liberties & political rights and economic

Literature and Secularization in Latin American Modernismo: Celebrations, Homiletics and Porfirism in Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera

the richness and complexity of Nájera’s spiritual and religious life as well as his uncompromised alignment with the political agenda of Porfirio Díaz’ regime. For that purpose, a small number of ... biblical exegesis or journalistic debates of political-religious content. Palbrs evcla : Literatura y secularización; Modernismo; Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera; cuaresmas; porfiriato. KorDeyws : Literature and

Por un cigarro… News of a Collective Novel in the Magazine Cómico (1898)

circumstance that took advantage of anonymity to portray the political and cultural tensions between writers and reporters at the end of the 19th century in Mexico.Keywords : Short novel; literary press

Reflection on China’s higher vocational education entrance examination: lessons from the imperial examination in modern China

) . The collapse of the Qing political system was the main impulse for making the 1913 school system (Chen, 1988, p. 163) . Under the leadership of Cai Yuanpei, a new school system was enacted in 1913. In ... introducing the imperial examination, it is important to introduce Confucianism. Confucianism as a dominant philosophy is a significant religion logic influencing Chinese education and society for two thousand