TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jagtiani, Sharinee L.
A1  - Wellek, Sophia
T1  - In the Shadow of Ukraine
BT  - India's choices and challenges
JF  - Survival
N2  - In 2022, India captured global attention over its response to the war in Ukraine. While calling for both parties' return to diplomacy, India abstained from several United Nations resolutions condemning Russian aggression. For a country that ostensibly subscribes to the values of democracy and territorial integrity, its response appeared frustrating and contradictory, but it is broadly consistent with its long-standing policy of non-alignment. Although India's relationship with China is increasingly contentious, New Delhi is not yet fully convinced that it is in India's interest to swing westwards. The country's relations with Russia and China are deep, complex and substantive. In addition to the military and economic benefits it derives from its connection with Russia, New Delhi and Moscow share an avowed preference for a more equal, multipolar world. India will eventually have to reflect on the extent to which it can sustain its balancing act.
KW  - China
KW  - Galwan Valley
KW  - democracy
KW  - India
KW  - Jawaharlal Nehru
KW  - non-alignment;
KW  - Pakistan
KW  - Quadrilateral Security Dialogue
KW  - Quad
KW  - Indo-Pacific
KW  - Russia
KW  - Ukraine war
KW  - United Nations
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/00396338.2022.2078045
SN  - 126962024X
SN  - 1468-2699
VL  - 64
IS  - 3
SP  - 29
EP  - 48
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo
A1  - Freitag, Florian
T1  - Theme Park Imitations
BT  - the Case of Happy World (Happy Valley Beijing)
JF  - Cultural History
N2  - Theme parks frequently draw not only on historical themes, from antiquity to the roaring twenties, but also on their own history – that is, the history of the medium of the theme park itself. This article uses the example of the Happy World ride at Happy Valley Beijing (China) to discuss theme park imitations, that is, the fact that theme parks frequently borrow individual elements (themes, technologies, visuals, layouts, names) and/or entire units (rides, restaurants, themed areas) from each other. Opened in 2014 in the Greek-themed Aegean Harbour section of Happy Valley Beijing, Happy World may upon first sight look like an almost exact copy of Disney’s ‘it’s a small world’ (opened at Disneyland in California in 1966) but turns out to be, upon closer examination, a complex refunctionalization of central elements of ‘it’s a small world’ that establishes meaningful connections between (ancient) Greece and the city of Beijing via the theme of the Olympic Games: drawing on the origins of ‘it’s a small world’ in the 1964–5 New York World’s Fair and the latter’s motto of ‘Peace through Understanding’, Happy World takes visitors on a journey from the ancient Olympiad to contemporary Beijing (the site of the 2008 Summer and the 2022 Winter Olympic Games) to offer a theme park rendition of the 2008 Olympic torch relay as an homage to ‘the spirit [of peace, respect, and friendship] in the people’s [sic] of the world’.
KW  - China
KW  - Disney
KW  - Happy Valley
KW  - ‘it’s a small world’
KW  - imitation
KW  - Olympic Games
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3366/cult.2022.0267
SN  - 2045-290X
SN  - 2045-2918
VL  - 11
IS  - 2
SP  - 181
EP  - 198
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
CY  - Edinburgh
ER  -