From Tim.Ruehlig at iss.europa.eu Mon Jun 15 12:31:19 2026 From: Tim.Ruehlig at iss.europa.eu (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Tim_R=FChlig?=) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:31:19 +0000 Subject: [Chern.fsw] Invitation: CHERN Policy Talk: How to Do and Create Attention for Policy-Relevant Research on China References: <0b8ac6ad-e70f-49d1-b9a2-8e2599beced9.94aa9802-1493-4e81-a580-d419298b867a.4f1529c4-c926-4ecc-b9ba-28ec94aabb75@emailsignatures365.codetwo.com> Message-ID: Dear colleagues, CHERN warmly invites you to our second Policy Talk: How to Do and Create Attention for Policy-Relevant Research on China CHERN Policy Talk with Abigail Vasselier Thursday, 16 July | 2:00-3:00 pm Brussels time Register here. Abigael Vasselier is uniquely positioned to discuss how research can be made policy-relevant for the EU - and how to get it in front of EU policymakers. She currently serves as Strategic Coordinator for the Asia-Pacific at the European External Action Service (EEAS). Her career has moved fluidly between think tank research and policymaking: she previously headed the Policy and European Affairs programme at Merics, served as Deputy Head of Unit at the EEAS's China Division, and was a researcher at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). We look forward to seeing you there! Sincerely, Tim R?hlig ... Tim R?hlig Senior Analyst [cid:euiss-rgb_logo-short_signature_d3dd8d76-0d78-4a6e-946e-8bbac6526348.png] European Union Institute for Security Studies +33 1 56 89 19 54 (office) 100, avenue de Suffren | 75015 Paris | France Tim.Ruehlig at iss.europa.eu www.iss.europa.eu Bluesky | Facebook | LinkedIn | X -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Evaluating Employment Outcomes of Repatriated Chinese Migrants From Overseas Civil Engineering Projects, Human Resource Management Journal, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1748-8583.70007 Zheng and Smith (2024) Mobility power and society: Managing migrant workers among Chinese multinational companies in Europe, European Journal of Industrial Relations https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09596801241304089 Thompson and Smith (2024) Labour process theory: in and beyond the core: continuities, challenges, and choices, Work in the Global Economy, https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/wge/aop/article-10.1332-27324176Y2024D000000027/article-10.1332-27324176Y2024D000000027.xml Smith and Thompson (2024) Braverman and Labor and Monopoly Capital: A Retrospective, Contributions to Political Economy, https://doi.org/10.1093/cpe/bzae007 Clarke and Smith (2024) ?Reproducing a White Elite: The Chief Officers? ?Club? in the London Metropolitan Police Service? in Work, Employment and Society is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170231199415 New Book - with Bristol University Press, 2023 Bristol University Press | Where's the ?Human? in Human Resource Management? - Managing Work in the 21st Century, By Michael Gold and Chris Smith [cid:image001.png at 01DCFCC3.9DB8F9C0] From: Chern.fsw On Behalf Of Chen, Julie Yu-Wen Sent: 23 April 2026 05:18 To: chern.fsw at listserver.vu.nl Subject: [EXT][Chern.fsw] New Book: Global Knowledge Production about China (Leiden University Press) This email originated from outside Royal Holloway. Be cautious using links, attachments and QR codes. Dear all I hope this message finds you well. This is Julie Yu-Wen Chen, Professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland! I?m delighted to share that my new book, Global Knowledge Production about China (Leiden University Press), is now available as a free open?access publication via JSTOR. You can access it here: https://www.jstor.org/content/oa_book_monograph/jj.36512724 The abstract is also available directly on the Leiden University Press website: https://lup.nl/publications/academic-research/global-knowledge-production-about-china/ If you know any students or colleagues who might be interested, I would be grateful if you could share the links. Thank you very much! Sincerely, Julie Julie Yu-Wen Chen Professor of Chinese Studies & Asian Studies Coordinator Department of Cultures University of Helsinki Finland This email, its contents and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. 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Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 157376 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From Tim.Ruehlig at iss.europa.eu Sat Jun 20 19:29:02 2026 From: Tim.Ruehlig at iss.europa.eu (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Tim_R=FChlig?=) Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:29:02 +0000 Subject: [Chern.fsw] CHERN China-Russia Talks #2: Russia-China Dynamics in the Middle East References: <0b8ac6ad-e70f-49d1-b9a2-8e2599beced9.94aa9802-1493-4e81-a580-d419298b867a.f3acb37f-bbac-49bb-8f90-1b89f2e0bb91@emailsignatures365.codetwo.com> Message-ID: Dear colleagues, The China in Europe Research Network (CHERN) is pleased to invite you to the second instalment of our CHERN China-Russia Talks series, a set of public roundtables exploring how the Russia-China partnership is evolving across different regions of the world. Following our first session on Russia-China cooperation in the Arctic, this roundtable turns to the Middle East, a region where the contours of that partnership are being tested in real time: CHERN China-Russia Talks #2: Russia-China Dynamics in the Middle East Wednesday, 22 July 2026 | 14:30-15:45 (Brussels time) Virtual roundtable via Microsoft Teams. Please register here. Since October 2023, the Middle East has been convulsed by successive crises: the war in Gaza, the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria, and the unprecedented direct military confrontation between Israel and Iran in 2025. Russia, long a security guarantor for Damascus and a strategic partner of Tehran, has seen its regional standing shift dramatically even as its war in Ukraine continues to absorb its attention and resources. China, meanwhile, has pursued a careful balancing act: deepening economic ties with Gulf states and Israel alike while positioning itself rhetorically as a champion of the Palestinian cause and an alternative to a US-led regional order. This roundtable will ask what these developments mean for the Moscow-Beijing relationship itself: Are Russia and China coordinating their approaches to the region, or largely pursuing independent - and at times divergent - interests? How do energy ties, arms transfers, and diplomatic posturing at the UN and elsewhere reflect the broader asymmetries in their partnership? And how are regional actors, from Gulf monarchies to Israel and Iran, adjusting their own strategies as they navigate between Washington, Moscow, and Beijing? And finally, what should Europe learn from this and adjust its policy? We have an outstanding panel joining us to unpack these questions: Speakers: * Alexander Gabuev, Director, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center * Andrea Ghiselli, Lecturer in International Politics, University of Exeter; Head of Research, ChinaMed Project * Galia Lavi, Israel-China Policy Center, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Tel Aviv University Moderator: Tim R?hlig, Senior Analyst for Asia/Global China, EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS); Chair, CHERN Working Group on High Technology and Innovation Alexander Gabuev is one of the foremost analysts of Russian foreign policy and the Sino-Russian relationship, whose work has been instrumental in shaping how policymakers and researchers understand the asymmetric "partnership without limits" between Moscow and Beijing. Andrea Ghiselli is author of the pathbreaking study Protecting China's Interests Overseas and a leading voice on how China's security thinking towards the Middle East has evolved, including how Chinese policy circles themselves view Russia's role in the region. Galia Lavi is a sharp and widely-read analyst of China's Middle East policy from a vantage point at the very centre of the region's recent upheavals, known for her incisive work on the contradictions in Beijing's posture towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the wider region. The event is free and open to the public, and will be recorded. We look forward to welcoming you! All best, Nana de Graaff, Jeffrey Henderson and Tim R?hlig ... 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