Contents

Contents
Introducion .................................................................................................... 5
Eugeniusz Jendraszczak, Evaluation of the security system in Asia ...... 11
Adrian Szumowski, Power transfer system in Asia in 2015 .................. 58
Magdalena Suska, Strategic “pivot to Asia” ......................................... 102
Hassan A. Jamsheer, The Obama Doctrine and the Middle East ...... 136
Jeroen Van den Bosch, Central Asia is dead, long live Eurasia?
Evolution of the (de)construction of Central Asia’s regionness ................. 158
Karol Kościelniak, International implications of the dispute in the
South China Sea ............................................................................................ 187
Karolina Julia Helnarska, The role of the People’s Republic of China in the foreign policy of France .................................................................. 203
Michał Lubina, Between Myanmafication and Sinicization: The Kachin Case ......................................................................................................... 219
Krzysztof Kozłowski, Sunflower Movement, Grand Central sit-ins
and PRC politics in East and South East Asia ........................................... 238
Jacek Skup, Ethnos versus state. Balochistan as an example of the problem of ethnic nationalisms in contemporary Pakistan ............................. 256
Jarosław Piątek, Turkey’s policy towards the challenges of contemporary world ....................................................................................................... 277
Kamila Barbara Stanek, The question of language in the light of the
socio-political changes in the 20th century – the case of Turkey and Azerbaijan .............................................................................................................. 293
Amrahli Elmir, International relations between Azerbaijan and
Ukraine ........................................................................................................... 327
Anna Odrowąż-Coates, Social actors from liberal societies within
the strict “Wahhabi” social order. An overview of challenges for corporate
migrants to contemporary Saudi Arabia .................................................... 344
Renata Gałaj-Dempniak, The Japanese Red Cross in the struggle
against the effects of Fukushima ................................................................. 373
Contributors ............................................................................................ 395