Dear Nancy Wright,
Hope you will be in good health.
I am doing PhD from the university of Gadjah Mada. I am interested to present a paper entitled "Indonesia's Collaboration with African Countries to Implementing Global South Solidarity and Sustainable Development".
My research explains Indonesia's foreign policy through aid to African countries. However, in reality, this policy is distorted because there are many challenges and implementation is not completely linear with the initial objectives.
If it suits to your panel, please let me know by replying this. Thank you.
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Muhammad Iswardhana
muhammad@staff.uty.ac.id------------------------------
Original Message:
Sent: 10-30-2023 10:44 PM
From: Nancy Wright
Subject: Paper proposal seeking a panel---subject is the "creation" of small Asian countries with resulting distortion of understanding their foreign policy goals
Hello,
I shall submit a longer description in a few days. My paper subject is what I reference as the "creation" in Western scholarship of small Asian countries, with the resulting distortion of understanding their foreign policy goals. Much Western scholarship, as well as some Asian scholarship from larger Asian countries, portrays small countries from their outside perspective, such that the smaller countries' foreign policies are often viewed as primarily a juggling act among large powers, with no acknoweldgement of agency within the smaller countries themselves. The examples on which I focus are Bhutan, Laos, and the Maldives.
I would be very grateful and honored to join a panel.
Thank you!
Nancy Wright
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Nancy Wright
Professor
Long Island University-Brooklyn
wrightnancy272@gmail.com
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