“Unpacking Chinese Health Diplomacy During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Sharing Heritages, Narratives and Visuality Along the Health Silk Road” is a one-day workshop, which brings together scholars on International Relations (IR), with a focus on Chinese foreign policy. It explores the impact of China’s soft diplomacy during the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic on countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative. Specifically, it focuses on the so-called Health Silk Road, i.e., a series of diplomatic initiatives within the BRI framework explicitly targeting cooperation in the health sector, which intensified following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim is to advance debates on China’s position in the international system, devoting special attention to the country’s relationship with developing countries and the fluidity of its soft diplomacy within the BRI framework, which has been at the center of China’s health diplomatic tools. The workshop adopts a mixture of constructivist theory and visual IR.
The format is that of the roundtable, to encourage the development of a dialogue in a supportive environment between peers, although it includes researchers at different levels of their careers. The workshop, which currently involves eight main speakers (two senior scholars and six early career researchers), is open to additional participants who have an interest in the topic. To learn out more click here.
“Unpacking Chinese Health Diplomacy During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Sharing Heritages, Narratives and Visuality Along the Health Silk Road” is a one-day workshop, which brings together scholars on International Relations (IR), with a focus on Chinese foreign policy. It explores the impact of China’s soft diplomacy during the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic on countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative. Specifically, it focuses on the so-called Health Silk Road, i.e., a series of diplomatic initiatives within the BRI framework explicitly targeting cooperation in the health sector, which intensified following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim is to advance debates on China’s position in the international system, devoting special attention to the country’s relationship with developing countries and the fluidity of its soft diplomacy within the BRI framework, which has been at the center of China’s health diplomatic tools. The workshop adopts a mixture of constructivist theory and visual IR.
The format is that of the roundtable, to encourage the development of a dialogue in a supportive environment between peers, although it includes researchers at different levels of their careers. The workshop, which currently involves eight main speakers (two senior scholars and six early career researchers), is open to additional participants who have an interest in the topic. To learn out more click here.