The Global Asia Series takes this understanding as the point of departure. Such a bifurcated view overlooks the fact that the global order has been shaped by Asian experiences as much as the global formation has shaped Asia. The rise of Asia is often viewed as a challenge to the existing world order. Yet the contribution of Asian knowledge, values, and practices in the making of the modern world has largely been overlooked until recent years. Global Asia Asia has a long history of transnational linkages with other parts of the world. IIAS Publications Officer: Paul van der Velde IIAS Assistant Publications Officer: Mary Lynn van Dijk In this way, IIAS functions as a window on Europe for non-European scholars and contributes to the cultural rapprochement between Europe and Asia. This entails activities such as providing information services, the construction and support of international networks and cooperative projects, and the organization of seminars and conferences. The Institute works as a clearinghouse of knowledge and information. IIAS acts as an international mediator, bringing together various parties in Asia and other parts of the world. Its main research interests are reflected in the three book series published with Amsterdam University Press: Global Asia, Asian Heritages and Asian Cities. It stimulates scholarship on Asia and is instrumental in forging research networks among Asia Scholars. IIAS focuses on the humanities and social sciences and on their interaction with other sciences.

Its objective is to encourage the interdisciplinary and comparative study of Asia and to promote (inter)national cooperation. Publications The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) is a research and exchange platform based in Leiden, the Netherlands.

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