Sumários

Research Projects presentation - Research on China

8 Abril 2025, 18:00 Cátia Miriam da Silva Costa


Presentation of research projects by young scholar

Diogo Borges, China, the Bamboo Network and the Belt and Road Initiative: the cases of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore
Yilin Huang  (Catherine), Retrospect in china - EU Relations from 1999 to 2022, cooperation, competittion or conflict
Rui Campos, China ina multipolar world: the B&RI and the Global South
Patrícia Marrafa, CHINA MEETS THE GLOBAL SOUTH: CHINESE POLITICAL DISCOURSE AND 
FOREIGN POLICY FROM DENG XIAOPING TO XI JINPING (1978-2022)
Tiago Santos, The Impact of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on South Asian regional dynamics: the role of the Sino-Pakistani axis

China as a Global Power

1 Abril 2025, 18:00 Cátia Miriam da Silva Costa


China as a Global Power:


  • Introduction
  • Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
  • FOCAC – Forum China-Africa Cooperation
  • Forum de Macau 
  • China Arab States Cooperation Forum 
  • China – CELAC Forum (Latin American and Caribbean States)
  • Growing importance of the Pacific Ocean and China’s action
  • New Projects for the Pacific Ocean (Belt & Road Intiative vs Free and Open Indo-Pacific Initiative) – increasing tensions
  • BRICS

China as a Global Power: the Belt & Road Initiative

25 Março 2025, 18:00 Cátia Miriam da Silva Costa


Introduction
The Belt & Road Impact – From a Regional to a Global Context
B&RI discourse
Reactions to the B&RI
Final Remarks
Exercise

confucius, confucianism and politics

18 Março 2025, 20:00 Cátia Miriam da Silva Costa


Confucious and Confucianism:
  • Confucious vs Confucianism
  • Life & Works
  • Religion or Philosophy?
  • Family
  • Education
  • Politics
  • Official Adoption of Confucianism

Confucianism and international relations:
  • Introduction
  • Main Rules and perspectives of Confucianism
  • Confucianism applied to IR
  • Recent Chinese Wars
  • China as a rising power 

Chinese Society and Culture: challenges and changes I and II

11 Março 2025, 18:00 Cátia Miriam da Silva Costa


Chinese society evolution

The role of middle class
The internet phenomena
Social unrest and demonstrations
Westernization Vs Chinesess
Society and confucianism
Ethnic/Rural/Urban diversity
Women's role
An Aging society