The article investigates the issue of sports diplomacy pursued in order to build political alliance. The research is a case study concerning an attempt to bring the non-aligned countries closer through Games of New Emerging ...

China is a country that has been using sport in order to reach political goals for many years. Lately such political exploitation of sport is directed at shaping the desirable international image of this country. This ...

First part of the paper considers the problem of defining food security and scientists’ current attitude towards defining and measuring the level of food security. The second part presents an overview of the current food ...

The paper is divided into six sections. After a brief introduction it provides a simple statistical comparison of selected civil aviation indicators in China and in the USA. The next three sections deal with the state of ...

Zagadnienie interesu narodowego Chin jest szeroko dyskutowane w literaturze chińskiej i światowej. W artykule autor przedstawił główne czynniki kształtujące chiński interes narodowy zaczynając na materialnych aspektach, a ...

Konflikt o wyspy Spratly i Paracele na Morzu Południowochińskim trwa z różnym natężeniem od połowy lat siedemdziesiątych XX w. Głównymi stronami w konflikcie są: Chiny i Wietnam oraz Tajwan, które pretendują do całości ...

The main goal of this chapter is to present some characteristics of the cooperation at the regional level from the European local government perspective, including the Chinese attitude to the matter in question. The chapter ...

The aim of this chapter is to analyse how the UK actors cooperate with their Chinese counterparts at the regional and local level. Due to the United Kingdom’s constitutional and administrative structure, consisting of the ...

The main objective of this chapter is to characterise the activities between French regions and Chinese provinces or cities – their intensity, scopes, advantages and obstacles. Besides, as the context for the paradiplomacy, ...

‘Strategic partnership’ with China is often perceived as vague slogan. However, there are some points in which Chinese ‘grand strategy’ is surprisingly coherent with the European strategic vision. Both sides want to develop ...