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The authors are very thankful to Yong (George) Yu for his helpful assistantship during the “Asian Powers in the Eastern Mediterranean” Conference, which led to the creation of this special issue.
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Defne Gönenç
Defne Gönenç is a reader and researcher at the Centre for Mediterranean Studies, Yasar University in Izmir, Turkey. She obtained her Ph.D. in International Relations and Political Science from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva, Switzerland, and her MPhil from the University of Cambridge. Her recent articles appeared in several peer-reviewed academic journals including Environmental Politics, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Mediterranean Politics, and Cambridge Review of International Affairs.
Emre İşeri
Prof. Emre İşeri is a full-member of Department of International Relations at Yaşar University ,İzmir. His areas of research include International Political Economy, Energy Security, Euro-Asian Politics and Turkish Foreign Policy. İşeri has published academic articles in numerous books and journals both in Turkey and abroad, including Geopolitics , Journal of Balkan and Near East Studies , Energy Policy ,Turkish Studies, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space , South European Society and Politics, and European Journal of Communication.
Qingan Huang
Dr Qingan Huang is a Professor at the International Business School, Guangdong University of Finance & Economics, China. He is the founding dean of this school. He also serves as a Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management at Royal Docks School of Business & Law, University of East London. He holds the Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). His research interests include internationalization of SMEs, marketing, strategic leadership, entrepreneurship and China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). He regularly presented his projects at the AoM and SMS annual meetings. He published papers in International Marketing Review, Journal of Business Ethics, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research and edited book chapters.