Richard J Cook
Biographic Data
| ID | 520377 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard J Cook |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard J |
| FAMILY NAME | Cook |
| SIGNATURE | COOK R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nankai University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9515-259X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
China’s global health governance in Africa before Covid-19: Status signalling through conspicuous giving
Geopolitical Kingmakers: South Korea and the Philippines as Linchpins amid the China–US Competition
South Korea and the Philippines hold pivotal geopolitical positions amidst escalating tensions between the USA and China. Both Seoul and Manila find themselves ensnared in the expanding rivalry between these great powers, subjecting them to numerous strategic challenges amid the prevailing regional status quo of instability. Despite their efforts to maintain a delicate balance, often characterized as hedging behavior, the space available for such…
A retrospective and prospective study of biostatistics in Canada
Hedging Comes to Latin America: Gauging Brazil's Coping Strategies vis-à-vis the Sino-US Peer Competition
The proliferating Sino-US peer competition is increasingly impacting Latin American states and triggering uncertainty. As China's expanding influence in the region challenges longstanding US supremacy in the western hemisphere and reshapes the strategic calculus for regional states, hedging behaviour becomes increasingly opportune. This most notably includes Brazil, the largest state in Latin America both politically and economically, whose hedgi…
A Friend in Need May Not Be a Friend Indeed: Anti-Coronavirus Aid and China’s Soft Power in Europe
Is foreign aid an effective soft power tool to bolster the international image of donor states? This article explores this question in the context of China’s humanitarian assistance to Europe amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Anti-coronavirus aid generated affinity for Beijing in some receiver countries while backfired in others. Borrowing insights from social psychology, this study presents an explanation for this heterogeneous effect. It argues that …
Brazil's pragmatic equidistance: Hedging and the Second World War
Can hedging be applied to non-Asia-Pacific regions and historical contexts? And, to what extent did Brazil operationalize hedging behavior during the Second World War? Taking these questions, the purpose of this paper is to expand the discourse on hedging twofold: First, to employ it within a South American context; second, to verify hedging historically as a widespread strategic unit-level behavior of small and middle powers amid systemic-level …
The Illusion of the China-US-Europe Strategic Triangle: Reactions from Germany and the UK
Russia’s Architecture of Hegemony: Christian Orthodox Subordination Strategies in Russia’s Peripheral Zone
Russia has enlisted the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and instrumentalised it as part of what can be described as a dynamic ‘soft-power offensive’. Its aim is to consolidate hierarchical power as a means to insulate an emerging Kremlin-centric political order and, subsequently, reassert its hegemonic influence over its periphery. This article argues that a strategy of using the Orthodox Church as a means of soft power is being deployed to bolster…
The impact of an alcohol policy change on developmental trajectories of youth alcohol use: Examination of a natural experiment in Canada
China’s engagement with Kazakhstan and Russia’s Zugzwang: Why is Nur-Sultan incurring regional power hedging
Grappling with the contemporary topos of a Sino-Russian Entente, Kazakhstan is caught between a delicate long-term peer-competition and potentially a structural rivalry involving the two Eurasian Leviathans, China and Russia. Acknowledging this perspective, Nur-Sultan is inducing hedging dynamics, fishing for a better range of net benefits, while playing a significant fulcrum role central to the regional geopolitical and geo-economic matrix. Alth…
Bargaining interactions reconsidered: The Korean Peninsula nuclear crisis viewed through the lens of hierarchy
Actors partially relinquish sovereignty in return for physical protection by a more powerful actor, generating a hierarchical relationship of a dominant, which supplies a political order, and subordinate(s), seeking the benefits that the political order can offer. This is the outcome of rationally assessing the respective situation, ultimately forgoing the presupposed paradigm that all actors are acknowledged as equal units in IR. The product of …
The Thucydides Trap and the Korean Peninsula: So why Won’t the USA and China Get Caught
Event History Analysis
Embracing diversity at Allegheny College: Signs of success at a residential college of the liberal arts and sciences
New Zealand Families
Family life in New Zealand benefits from a bountiful natural environment and a bicultural heritage. As the first people of the land, Maori contribute rich relational attributes that affect people of all cultures who have settled here. Health, education, welfare and economic realities create particular challenges for New Zealand families, especially those at the lower end of the socio-economic spectrum. Labor shortages and the leeching of highly s…
Methods for assessing responsiveness
Allegheny Responds to Charges
China’s engagement with Kazakhstan and Russia’s Zugzwang: Why is Nur-Sultan incurring regional power hedging
Grappling with the contemporary topos of a Sino-Russian Entente, Kazakhstan is caught between a delicate long-term peer-competition and potentially a structural rivalry involving the two Eurasian Leviathans, China and Russia. Acknowledging this perspective, Nur-Sultan is inducing hedging dynamics, fishing for a better range of net benefits, while playing a significant fulcrum role central to the regional geopolitical and geo-economic matrix. Alth…
The Illusion of the China-US-Europe Strategic Triangle: Reactions from Germany and the UK
Russia’s Architecture of Hegemony: Christian Orthodox Subordination Strategies in Russia’s Peripheral Zone
Russia has enlisted the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and instrumentalised it as part of what can be described as a dynamic ‘soft-power offensive’. Its aim is to consolidate hierarchical power as a means to insulate an emerging Kremlin-centric political order and, subsequently, reassert its hegemonic influence over its periphery. This article argues that a strategy of using the Orthodox Church as a means of soft power is being deployed to bolster…
A retrospective and prospective study of biostatistics in Canada
Hedging Comes to Latin America: Gauging Brazil's Coping Strategies vis-à-vis the Sino-US Peer Competition
The proliferating Sino-US peer competition is increasingly impacting Latin American states and triggering uncertainty. As China's expanding influence in the region challenges longstanding US supremacy in the western hemisphere and reshapes the strategic calculus for regional states, hedging behaviour becomes increasingly opportune. This most notably includes Brazil, the largest state in Latin America both politically and economically, whose hedgi…
A Friend in Need May Not Be a Friend Indeed: Anti-Coronavirus Aid and China’s Soft Power in Europe
Is foreign aid an effective soft power tool to bolster the international image of donor states? This article explores this question in the context of China’s humanitarian assistance to Europe amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Anti-coronavirus aid generated affinity for Beijing in some receiver countries while backfired in others. Borrowing insights from social psychology, this study presents an explanation for this heterogeneous effect. It argues that …
Bargaining interactions reconsidered: The Korean Peninsula nuclear crisis viewed through the lens of hierarchy
Actors partially relinquish sovereignty in return for physical protection by a more powerful actor, generating a hierarchical relationship of a dominant, which supplies a political order, and subordinate(s), seeking the benefits that the political order can offer. This is the outcome of rationally assessing the respective situation, ultimately forgoing the presupposed paradigm that all actors are acknowledged as equal units in IR. The product of …
Embracing diversity at Allegheny College: Signs of success at a residential college of the liberal arts and sciences
New Zealand Families
Family life in New Zealand benefits from a bountiful natural environment and a bicultural heritage. As the first people of the land, Maori contribute rich relational attributes that affect people of all cultures who have settled here. Health, education, welfare and economic realities create particular challenges for New Zealand families, especially those at the lower end of the socio-economic spectrum. Labor shortages and the leeching of highly s…
Allegheny Responds to Charges
Methods for assessing responsiveness
New Zealand Families
Family life in New Zealand benefits from a bountiful natural environment and a bicultural heritage. As the first people of the land, Maori contribute rich relational attributes that affect people of all cultures who have settled here. Health, education, welfare and economic realities create particular challenges for New Zealand families, especially those at the lower end of the socio-economic spectrum. Labor shortages and the leeching of highly s…
Embracing diversity at Allegheny College: Signs of success at a residential college of the liberal arts and sciences
Event History Analysis
Bargaining interactions reconsidered: The Korean Peninsula nuclear crisis viewed through the lens of hierarchy
Actors partially relinquish sovereignty in return for physical protection by a more powerful actor, generating a hierarchical relationship of a dominant, which supplies a political order, and subordinate(s), seeking the benefits that the political order can offer. This is the outcome of rationally assessing the respective situation, ultimately forgoing the presupposed paradigm that all actors are acknowledged as equal units in IR. The product of …
The Thucydides Trap and the Korean Peninsula: So why Won’t the USA and China Get Caught
The impact of an alcohol policy change on developmental trajectories of youth alcohol use: Examination of a natural experiment in Canada
China’s engagement with Kazakhstan and Russia’s Zugzwang: Why is Nur-Sultan incurring regional power hedging
Grappling with the contemporary topos of a Sino-Russian Entente, Kazakhstan is caught between a delicate long-term peer-competition and potentially a structural rivalry involving the two Eurasian Leviathans, China and Russia. Acknowledging this perspective, Nur-Sultan is inducing hedging dynamics, fishing for a better range of net benefits, while playing a significant fulcrum role central to the regional geopolitical and geo-economic matrix. Alth…
Russia’s Architecture of Hegemony: Christian Orthodox Subordination Strategies in Russia’s Peripheral Zone
Russia has enlisted the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and instrumentalised it as part of what can be described as a dynamic ‘soft-power offensive’. Its aim is to consolidate hierarchical power as a means to insulate an emerging Kremlin-centric political order and, subsequently, reassert its hegemonic influence over its periphery. This article argues that a strategy of using the Orthodox Church as a means of soft power is being deployed to bolster…
The Illusion of the China-US-Europe Strategic Triangle: Reactions from Germany and the UK
A Friend in Need May Not Be a Friend Indeed: Anti-Coronavirus Aid and China’s Soft Power in Europe
Is foreign aid an effective soft power tool to bolster the international image of donor states? This article explores this question in the context of China’s humanitarian assistance to Europe amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Anti-coronavirus aid generated affinity for Beijing in some receiver countries while backfired in others. Borrowing insights from social psychology, this study presents an explanation for this heterogeneous effect. It argues that …
Brazil's pragmatic equidistance: Hedging and the Second World War
Can hedging be applied to non-Asia-Pacific regions and historical contexts? And, to what extent did Brazil operationalize hedging behavior during the Second World War? Taking these questions, the purpose of this paper is to expand the discourse on hedging twofold: First, to employ it within a South American context; second, to verify hedging historically as a widespread strategic unit-level behavior of small and middle powers amid systemic-level …
Geopolitical Kingmakers: South Korea and the Philippines as Linchpins amid the China–US Competition
South Korea and the Philippines hold pivotal geopolitical positions amidst escalating tensions between the USA and China. Both Seoul and Manila find themselves ensnared in the expanding rivalry between these great powers, subjecting them to numerous strategic challenges amid the prevailing regional status quo of instability. Despite their efforts to maintain a delicate balance, often characterized as hedging behavior, the space available for such…
A retrospective and prospective study of biostatistics in Canada
Hedging Comes to Latin America: Gauging Brazil's Coping Strategies vis-à-vis the Sino-US Peer Competition
The proliferating Sino-US peer competition is increasingly impacting Latin American states and triggering uncertainty. As China's expanding influence in the region challenges longstanding US supremacy in the western hemisphere and reshapes the strategic calculus for regional states, hedging behaviour becomes increasingly opportune. This most notably includes Brazil, the largest state in Latin America both politically and economically, whose hedgi…
China’s global health governance in Africa before Covid-19: Status signalling through conspicuous giving
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