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E-book Countries and Regions : Dynamic Interconnectivity
From July 5 to 7, 2021, the second “Tsinghua Area Studies Forum” with “Areas of the World and the World in Areas” as its theme, was held by the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua Univer-sity in Beijing. One hundred and forty-four scholars from 13 countries and 36 universities and research institutions around the world attended the conference. Due to the impact of COVID-19, the conference was organized combining online and offline sessions, with six panels based on different regions and one forum for public issues. This is another big event for scholars in international and regional studies, following the first Area Studies Forum in July 2019 (themed “Innovative Approaches to Common Challenges in Asia, Africa and Latin America”). I was honored to be invited to attend the conference and deliver the keynote speech on “Area Studies from a Historical Perspective”. I was much impressed by the scale, atmosphere and content of the conference. Seventy-nine papers were presented by scholars from various countries, 17 of which were from the Institute for International and Area Studies at Tsinghua. By the end of the forum, 11 papers were selected by the organizing committee as excellent papers and were compiled into this collection: Countries and Regions: Connection in Dynamics. (Is this a sub-heading?) The proceedings are divided into five chapters, which cover modules like analyzing international and regional issues from the perspec-tive of global linkages and cross-regional linkages (regions in the world) and discussing internal issues such as national governance, ethnicity, economy, and civil war, using the nation-state as the unit of analysis (the world in the region). The two papers in the first chapter, entitled Immigration and Cross-Border Ethnic Mobility Studies, attempt to break away from the established approach of using the nation-state as the unit of analysis and turn to high-light the significance and impact of immigration and cross-border ethnic mobility on the construction of the nation-state.
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