In Episode 2 of the podcast, Professor Zweig explores the complexities surrounding China's Thousand Talents Plan and its effects on academia. He presents a critical analysis of how the Thousand Talents Plan influenced university hiring, highlighting the preferential treatment for overseas returnees and the challenges this creates within the academic community. This episode offers valuable insights into the biases, cultural adaptation issues, and institutional resistance shaping the landscape of academic returnees in China.

Episode 1 of the podcast series features Professor David Zweig discussing China's intensive search for talent, particularly under the Thousand Talents Plan. He delves into the cultural and institutional challenges faced by academics in the reverse migration journey, highlighting the status conflicts and adaptation issues in academic circles. This episode sets the stage for a deeper understanding of the allures and cautions for Chinese scholars abroad contemplating a return to China.

Our individual identities play a huge factor in society whether we are aware of it or not. In Truly Asia's first episode, our TSE classmates discussed how gender and religion affect the political economy of Southeast Asia by zooming in into the countries of Indonesia and the Philippines.

This episode delves into the global banking crisis and its impact on Asian economies, with students discussing the issue based on their limited knowledge. While Asia is somewhat insulated from the Western banking collapse, areas of vulnerability exist, particularly for globally integrated lenders, as tighter liquidity conditions may affect borrowing and demand for Asian exports, posing risks to the region's economic growth outlook for 2023.

As Artificial Intelligence becomes an emerging technology in the current industrial revolution, it is necessary for people to know about the benefits, risks, and the latest developments of AI. This episode will look to provide an introduction and first glimpse into what AI really is.

The kaleidoscope of political economy.
Navigating Regionalism's Ripples in Global Waters.

This episode helps us find out specifically the question on, "Regionalism, and its effects on international affairs and world order."

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The kaleidoscope of political economy.
At the edge of the world, there lies dragons or a smoke mirror.

This episode helps us to find out  specifically the question of, "How to chart power in the world from an ideological perspective."

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 Last December 29, 2022, Visiting Professor Amitav Acharya delivered a talk on " World Order, Asian Security and International Relations Theory: Towards A Security Multiplex Approach". In this week’s episode, TSE Pods provides you a part of his lecture on the history of IR and the new approaches to IR.

The first two episodes of TSE Pods are dedicated to introducing you to some of the world’s leading scholars in the field. For this episode, we feature another visiting professor, Professor David Zweig. He shared with us how he developed an interest in studying China by talking about his very colorful and unique experience as a student of Political Science in Canada during his time. 

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The field of International Relations has been an increasingly popular field of study in the current global political climate.

Today we will talk with Dr. Amitav Acharya, a distinguished professor at American University that made a blitz in his career with his book Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia. 

Many International journal and book publications led him to be the first non-Western scholar to be elected as the President of the International Studies Association in 2014-2015. Let’s check it out!