Czeslaw Tubilewicz’s research while affiliated with University of Adelaide and other places

... Formosa Plastics is a vertically integrated, Taiwanese multinational corporation with a long record of malfeasance and what commentators have called "mafia-like" behavior toward environmental activists and other critics (Democracy Now! 2020; Patton et al. 2021). In recent years, activists in Formosa plant communities in Taiwan, Vietnam and the United States have extended the ways they work together for corporate accountability (Tubilewicz 2021). Nearly 8,000 fisher people affected by a toxic-release disaster caused by a Formosa-owned steel mill in Vietnam have taken legal action in Taiwan, for example (Fan, Chiu, and Mabon 2022). ...

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Late Industrialism, Advocacy, and Law: Relays Toward Just Transition

... As a growing sub-discipline in international relations realm, there has had a consensus on neither definition nor research foci in para-diplomacy study. Paradiplomacy can be defined, some of which, as the "international activity" (Lecours, 2002), the "foreign policy capacity and participation" (Wolff, 2007), a "form of political communication" (Kuznetsov, 2015), and the "engagement in foreign relations" (Tubilewicz & Omond, 2021) of the actors other than state or national governments. Despite differences, scholars likely refer to sub-national governments as the main actors in para-diplomatic practices in order to pursue their specific interests. ...

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City in Global Conversations: A Constructivist Study of Jakarta's Para-Diplomacy and Regional Leader's International Visibility

... In the context of China-Europe relation, paradiplomatic ties have frequently served as channels for business forums and official visits, often involving business delegations (Kamiński et al. 2023: 13). One study has also highlighted how Yunnan uses paradiplomacy to attract resources from the Chinese central government by exploiting the province's status as a land bridge with Southeast Asia (Tubilewicz 2017). Even comprehensive studies that discuss various drivers of paradiplomacy, such as seizing global economic opportunities, providing citizen service, or promoting decentralization, treat subnational governments as rational actors that engage in foreign relations to gain benefits for themselves and their constituencies (Tavares 2016: 42-46). ...

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Paradiplomacy and international conflict: disengagement from China by Swedish local governments

... Tubilewicz (2007), p. 145.11 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China (FMPRC), "Joint Communique between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of Albania," December 7, 2000, https:// www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjdt_665385/2649_665393/t15781.shtml.12 ...

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The Conduct of Armenian Foreign Policy: Limits of the Precarious Balance

... This framework of localization is distinct from the pursuit of a grounded theory in communication studies (Jinghong et al., 2019). The processes of localization are akin to the dynamics of news 'domestication' (Gurevitch et al., 1991;Tubilewicz, 1999). Both localization and domestication reveal multidirectional processes that transcend mere local appropriations of the global involving multiple social actors, complex flows and interactions, and polyvalent and ambivalent outcomes (Kavalski, 2009a;Yang, 2012). ...

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The end of China’s romance with Central and Eastern Europe

... By funneling trade and aid fueled by its economic growth, the ROC maintained a strategy of "dollar diplomacy" with its Central American allies well into the twenty-first century. [10] Much of the pre-2000s scholarship corroborates observations that Taiwan's "handsome foreign aid programs" could "buy" or "rent" diplomatic ties with small and developing countries indefinitely. [12][13][14] In Central America, aside from funneling cash into anonymous bank accounts to purchase the goodwill of various political leaders, Taiwan actively groomed the elites by identifying high-potential bureaucrats and military officers and developed ties with them for long term sympathies. ...

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The Final Frontier: China, Taiwan, and the United States in Strategic Competition for Central America

... Nye's essay, in contrast, takes as its starting point Charles Kindleberger's observation that a key factor in the global economic chaos that erupted beginning in 1929 was the failure of the then-rising United States to assume Great Britain's function as the lead global stabiliser. Drawing from this insight, Nye contends that, rather than focus so heavily on the danger of a Sino-American 'Thucydides Trap', greater attention should be given to what he identifies as a potentially more imminent limited and it has restricted participation by Taiwan (Tubilewicz, 2012;Youde, 2018). This behaviour recalls Samuel Kim's early study of China's conduct in international regimes, which characterised China as operating according to a 'maxi/mini principle' or seeking to maximise its rights with the minimum level of responsibilities (see discussion in Lampton, 2001: 232). ...

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Reading Kindleberger in Beijing: Xi Jinping's China as a provider of global public goods

... China's long-standing relationships with many African and Pacific island countries are based on this diplomatic tie, limiting Taiwan's efforts to become an influential player in these regions. However, researchers revealed that trade with China and humanitarian assistance are less likely to be affected by this foreign policy issue (Johnston et al. 2015;Tubilewicz 2012). ...

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China’s Official Finance in the Global South: Whatʼs the Literature Telling Us?

... Just like with Estonia, apart from a short period when Riga had de-facto diplomatic relations with Taiwan in 1992-1994, 11 the relations between Latvia and China have been those of distant, while not disinterested parties. Latvia's strategic focus on a European and transatlantic alignment meant that the nation's limited resources were dedicated primarily to joining the EU and NATO. ...

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Classic Cleavages in a New Light: Chinese Informational Influence in the Baltics

... Comparing these approaches can shed light on the structural differences and constraints in their relationships. However, with a few exceptions (e.g., Lai, 2007, Atkinson, 2010Tubilewicz & Guilloux, 2011;D'Arcy, 2015;Dayant & Pryke, 2018;Marinaccio, 2019Marinaccio, , 2021, there has been relatively little research into Taiwan's role and perspectives in the Pacific, not to mention the study of economic relationships and diplomatic recognition (Rich & Dahmer, 2022). This chapter presents a preliminary study of the implications of diplomatic relations with either Taiwan or China on economic development in Oceania's island countries. ...

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Economic development, diplomatic relations and engagement with Taiwan and China in Oceania