African and Asian Studies

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The Cycle of Authoritarian Regime and Conflict in Chad: When a Peace Agreement is also the Problem
Tochukwu Omenma, Hans-Liudger Dienel
This paper establishes that states with absolute sovereignty generate sovereignty-based conflicts. There has been limited scholarly effort to analyze the Chadian conflicts through a sovereign-based conflicts, especially by drawing attention how recurring cycles of authoritarian regimes generate and sustain these conflicts. Chad has long been confronted with sovereignty-based conflicts and entrenched authoritarian governance, with the two operating in a mutually reinforcing cycle. Specifically, it argues that authoritarian regimes systematically restrict meaningful participation in democratic processes, promote divided societies, and are not accountable to the electorate. The long-term risks are the ‘conflict trap’ and the ‘authoritarian trap’ in which conflict as well as authoritarian culture increases considerably after the first occurrence of conflict or an authoritarian regime. The paper also considers a third factor, the ‘peace agreement trap’, in which peace agreements merely scratch the surface without dealing with the core issues: ethnic rights and democratic accountability. Peace thus also becomes a source of conflict.

The Transition of Scientific Theories into Social Discourse
Bogo Lee

Understanding the Dynamics of the South Africa – Russia Relations through the Constructivist Concept of ‘State’s Identity’
Tatiana Belousova

“National Sovereignty”: Problems of Defining the Concept and Content of Artistic Consciousness in the Republic of Kazakhstan
Rysgul Ospanova, Zhanatbek Ishpekbayev, Bayandy Ospanova, Gulzhanar Shulanbekova, and Gulzhihan Shakharman

The Impact of School Support on College Students’ Willingness to Start Their Own Businesses: a Regulated Mediating Effect in Shaanxi
Zhaoyang Yuan, Wei Chen, and Xiaofei Yuan

Research on the Importance of Globalization Development in Cultural Psychology
Xiao Xiao

Research on the Evaluation of the Efficiency of High-quality Talent Training in “Double First-Class” Universities in Western China
Ruixu Yang, Xinyuan Liu, and Haimin Liu

Post-Materialist Development in Rural China: “Beautiful Countryside” Construction and the Case of Zhejiang
Gan Li, Wen-Hsuan Tsai, and Weiqing Song

Industrial Restructuring as a Driving Force in China’s Africa Policy: a Case Study of China’s Ethiopia Policy
 Xiaochang Ge