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Il nazionalismo iconoclasta e la critica all'etnocentrismo cinese negli scritti di Gu Jiegang (1926–1939)
No full textL'articolo analizza la produzione letteraria dello storico cinese Gu Jiegang, soffermandosi sulla sua concezione di nazionalismo
Il boom di Internet in Myanmar e i suoi riflessi nell’arena politica: un frutto avvelenato?
No full textL'articolo analizza l'impatto della diffusione di internet e social media in Myanmar per quanto attiene alla propagazione di un'ideologia di Stato fortemente etno-nazionalista, attraverso il caso-studio della crisi dei Rohingya
Il Myanmar nello scenario internazionale. Dall'isolamento a un'inedita centralità (1948-2019)
No full textIl libro ripercorre la storia internazionale del Myanmar dall'ottenimento dell'indipendenza sino ai giorni nostri, ponendo l'accento sulla politica estera neutralista e non allineata dispiegata dal Paese asiatic
New Media, Old Narratives? Myanmar's Internet Boom and the Spread of Anti-Rohingya Propaganda on Social Media
No full textThe article untangles the impact of Myanmar’s ongoing internet boom in terms of the perpetuation of a State-sponsored ideology rooted in an ethno-nationalist paradigm of citizenship, which is ultimately aimed at creating a clear demarcation between the country’s Bamar-Buddhist majority and a wide array of minority groups. In such perspective, the repercussions unleashed by the rapid spread of social media amongst the Burmese population seem nowhere more visible than in the recent evolution of the Rohingya conundrum, that is paving the way for the emergence of a plethora of trolls and “keyboard armies” backed by governmental authorities with the precise intent of advancing a dehumanising narrative against minorities. Accordingly, after having examined the crucial milestones ingrained in the country’s political transition and the enduring relevance displayed by ethno-nationalism, the analysis shifts on the key drivers and demographics involved in the astonishing surge of digital devices among Burmese citizens, while also considering the main loopholes in the normative framework erected in recent years in the field of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Finally, the last paragraph looks at the role of the digital realm in the midst of the current revamp of the Rohingya crisis, arguing that Myanmar is progressively tilting from the previous system based on the active suppression of any dissenting voice, to a new environment characterized by the harassment, scapegoating, and self-censorship of those who do not conform with the concept of Burmese identity as portrayed by the State. With regards to the key drivers involved in the flourishing of ethno-nationalist sentiments amongst Myanmar’s netizens, the investigation thus contends that the country’s long-standing reliance on xenophobic and assimilationist policies, together with the rapid dissemination of ICTs in a framework characterized by low levels of digital literacy and normative weaknesses, loomed very large in producing such a worrisome trend
Aung San Suu Kyi: il crollo di un mito?
No full textLa transizione politica birmana si è caratterizzata finora come un percorso a luci ed ombre, che si è riflesso anche nell'ascesa e successiva caduta dell'icona Aung San Sul Kyi, un tempo molto popolare fra le cancellerie occidentali ed oggi soggetta a pesanti critiche
Towards the “Great Rejuvenation”: State Nationalism, Shifting Identities, and Foreign Policy Choices in Contemporary China
No full textThe chapter explores the intimate relationship between the changing domestic strategies employed by the Chinese government to safeguard political consensus and national cohesion, the evolving official narrative related to China’s perceptions and self-perceptions in the global arena, and its shifting attitude in the diplomatic realm. Accordingly, the analysis is firstly devoted to acquainting the reader with the notion of nationalism from a theoretical standpoint, by recalling the scholarly debate on its roots, variants, and outcomes from an IR perspective, as well as the unique features pertaining to China’s own representation of such a concept. The subsequent section looks at the pivotal turning points in the historical process of inception, diffusion, and metamorphosis of the Chinese political discourse on nationalism, with the aim of scrutinizing the key features entailed in its three fundamental waves: the nascent stage culminated in two revolutions between 1911 and 1949, the post-Cold War era characterized by the ascendance of state-led patriotism as an antidote to the dismissal of the official ideology, and the ongoing phase marked by an unprecedented confluence of “top-down” and “bottom-up” nationalist appeals. Finally, the concluding paragraph investigates the consequences stemming from the aforementioned phenomena in the field of China’s foreign policy, with a focus on the case-study provided by the recent deterioration in Sino-Japanese ties
Origini ed evoluzione del nazionalismo cinese: dal "secolo delle umiliazioni" alla "grande rinascita" di Xi Jinping
No full textIl capitolo analizza la genesi, articolazione e successiva evoluzione storica del nazionalismo cinese, soffermandosi sulle ricadute di tale fenomeno nel quadro della gestione della politica estera di Pechino. La trattazione, in particolare, si focalizza su tre periodi di grande splendore nel quadro dell’accidentato incedere degli ideali nazionalisti locali, rappresentati dalla fase embrionale (1839-1919) che sfocia nel collasso di un impero millenario; dalla stagione del post-Tienanmen (1989-2002) che conduce alla sistematica revisione delle basi di legittimazione della RPC e all’affermazione di un nazionalismo di Stato generalmente pragmatico e reattivo; ed, infine, dalla congiuntura attuale segnata dalla presidenza di Xi Jinping e dal lancio del manifesto patriottico ed eccezionalista centrato attorno all’idea del “sogno cinese”
Learning to Coexist: Russia-ASEAN Ties from Enmity to Enmeshment
No full textOver the course of their mutual history, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) and Russia have progressively moved from a background of enmity and
distrust to a framework of burgeoning cooperation. To a large extent, this gradual
shift has embodied a direct by-product of the Association’s deliberate efforts to
envelop Moscow in a growing net of interactions, so as to socialize the Kremlin in
the highly distinctive normative architecture centred on the ‘ASEAN Way’ and turn it
into a responsible regional stakeholder. Accordingly, by drawing upon Evelyn Goh’s
conceptualization of ‘enmeshment strategy’ the present article sheds light on the
tools and initiatives put in place by the Association not only to engage Russia and
maximize the positive returns of a cordial relation with Moscow, but also to
influence its conducts, perceptions and regional agenda in a way that is consistent
with the ideas of ‘inclusive regionalism’ and ‘ASEAN centrality’ professed in
Southeast Asia. In doing so, the analysis will be structured around a three-staged
periodization, covering the long era of animosity under Soviet rule (1967-1989), the
embryonic and tentative exchanges established after the end of the Cold War (1989-
2004), and the blossoming of the Russia-ASEAN partnership that materialized
during the second, third, and fourth terms of the Putin presidency (2004-2019),
which also coincided with the unravelling of his ambitious ‘Asian pivot’ aimed at
countering Moscow’s increasingly strained relations with the West. As a result, the
article argues that the remarkable trajectory experienced over the course of the last
two decades by the ASEAN-Russia dyad provides a further evidence of the
successful legacy achieved by the Association’s enmeshment blueprint in turning a
former ‘outsider’ of Southeast Asian politics into a staunch supporter of regional
stability
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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