Outputs (17)

"Global Germany” in a Fragmented and Interconnected World (2025)
Report
Kobayashi, Y. (2025). "Global Germany” in a Fragmented and Interconnected World. German Council for Foreign Relations

We live in a challenging geoeconomic environment. Economic resilience and economic security have replaced globalization, yet Covid-19 and Deepseek have shown that the world is borderless. Geopolitically, tensions between the like-minded states of the... Read More about "Global Germany” in a Fragmented and Interconnected World.

UK-Japan Security and Economic Partnership (2024)
Journal Article
Kobayashi, Y., & Uchiyama, Y. (2024). UK-Japan Security and Economic Partnership. Kokusai shakai kagaku = 国際社会科学 = Advanced social and international studies, 72,

Opportunities in Data Governance: Creating a G20 Data Space (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Kobayashi, Y., & Sanchez-Cacicedo, A. Opportunities in Data Governance: Creating a G20 Data Space

Amid today’s digital order, polarised by technological competition and geopolitics, this policy brief[a] identifies three challenges in data governance—rent captors/producers vs. users/consumers of the digital economy, public vs. private sector compe... Read More about Opportunities in Data Governance: Creating a G20 Data Space.

China's Role in the World (2022)
Digital Artefact
Kobayashi, Y. China's Role in the World. [International Bar Association Podcast]

Myanmar's strategy in the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor: a failure in hedging? (2022)
Journal Article
Kobayashi, Y., & King, J. (2022). Myanmar's strategy in the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor: a failure in hedging?. International Affairs, 98(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiac049

This article examines Myanmar's hedging strategies in China's Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC), a key component of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Myanmar has avoided being overly reliant on China by strategically hedging and diversifying its... Read More about Myanmar's strategy in the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor: a failure in hedging?.

Climate change governance: Responding to an existential crisis (2021)
Book Chapter
Schroeder, H., & Kobayashi, Y. (2021). Climate change governance: Responding to an existential crisis. In T. Letcher (Ed.), The Impacts of Climate Change A Comprehensive Study of Physical, Biophysical, Social, and Political Issues (479-489). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822373-4.00006-9

Three decades of effort to govern climate change has led to a significant evolution of actor networks, rule-making systems, and rules from international to local levels of governance to address this unprecedented global challenge. Yet, global emissio... Read More about Climate change governance: Responding to an existential crisis.

US-China trade: China is building bridges with the world while the US puts up walls (2018)
Other
Kobayashi, Y. US-China trade: China is building bridges with the world while the US puts up walls

China’s silk road economic belt initiative in Central Asia: economic and security implications (2018)
Journal Article
Dave, B., & Kobayashi, Y. (2018). China’s silk road economic belt initiative in Central Asia: economic and security implications. Asia Europe Journal: Studies on Common Policy Challenges, 16(3), 267-281. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10308-018-0513-x

The Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) initiative, launched by Xi Jinping in 2013 as the Central Asian component of the Eurasian Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is presented as a trade and infrastructural developmental initiative that benefits all to del... Read More about China’s silk road economic belt initiative in Central Asia: economic and security implications.

Minilateralism à la Chine: Strategic Responsibility in Climate Change and Global Finance (2017)
Preprint / Working Paper
Kobayashi, Y., & Sanchez, A. Minilateralism à la Chine: Strategic Responsibility in Climate Change and Global Finance. Kings College London

'Renquan' - Chinese Human Rights: An' Import' from the West or a Chinese 'Export'? (2016)
Book Chapter
Kobayashi, Y. (2016). 'Renquan' - Chinese Human Rights: An' Import' from the West or a Chinese 'Export'?. In L. König, & B. Chaudhuri (Eds.), The Politics of the Other in India and China: Western Concepts in Non-Western Contexts (179-192). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315724300-24

Introduction Human rights, renquan, is not an indigenous Chinese term.1 In fact, renquan is a borrowed term from Japan that entered into China with Nationalist leaders bringing back new ideals after their return to China from exile in Japan (Angle, 2... Read More about 'Renquan' - Chinese Human Rights: An' Import' from the West or a Chinese 'Export'?.