Dr.  SELÇUK ÇOLAKOĞLU (Globalisation and Development Programme, GAD) wrote a chapter titled “Turkey and China in the Eurasian Landmass: From Bilateral Relations to the Silk Road Cooperation” for a soon-to-be-published “The Routledge Handbook of Chinese and Eurasian International Relations”. The book explores diverse topics of international relations in Eurasia, including major powers in a ...

Dr. Wu Shuang, Assistant Professor at the Globalisation and Development (GAD) Programme, was awarded 2023 National Natural Science Foundation Youth Project Fund for her research about lives, labor processes and spatiotemporal mechanisms of women involved in social reproduction through their participation in platform economyIn recent years, more and more people in China participate in platform e...

On December 6th, 2021, the Globalisation and Development (GAD) Programme invited Mr. Chandran Nair, head of the Global Institute For Tomorrow (GIFT) and member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Governance for Sustainability and Experts Forum, to deliver a lecture to students on “Leadership in a Post-Western World”. Mr. Chandran NairDuring the lecture, held online due ...

Between September and October 2021, a series of GAD students received grants from the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences (DHSS) to conduct independent research or to collaborate with a professor’s existing project over the course of one or two consecutive semesters.The granted projects are shown below:Project NameGranteesSupervisorGrant CategorySmall Nations and Sustainable Development...

On November 24, 2021, the Globalisation and Development (GAD) Programme invited Dr. Coraline Goron, an assistant professor of environmental policy at Duke Kunshan University, to share with students and staff her insights and research on China’s recent practice of multilateral environmental governance in the fields of climate change and biodiversity.Dr. Goron provided useful context by briefly ...

Dr. Edoardo Monaco, Director and Associate Professor of GAD, recently took part in the Standards Working Committee of China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) that formulated national "ESG Assessment Guidelines", alongside institutions  like Securities Association of China, China Development Research Institute, China Institute for Sustainable Development, and mo...

Recently, CCTV-13 news channel reported that Turkey declares the ambassadors of ten western countries as “persona non grata”. In an interview with CCTV, Dr. Selçuk Çolakoğlu - GAD Professor and director of Turkey's Asia Pacific Research Center - said that this move may exacerbate tensions among Turkey and western countries, and Turkey may come to the threshold of the biggest diplomatic crisi...

GAD faculty members Prof. Zhao Xiaobin and Dr. Edoardo Monaco are now available to supervise/co-supervise relevant research projects of prospective MPhil and PhD students in Economics. Interested applicants may visit the Graduate School website at https://gs.uic.edu.cn/graduate1/Research_Postgraduate_Programme/economics.htmand directly contact their supervisors at https://dhss.uic.edu.cn/en/Pro...