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JOINTLY OFFERED BY

HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY

Hong Kong Baptist University has committed to academic excellence and the development of the whole person, and has gained a reputation as one of Asia’s finest institutions of higher learning.

FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

The Faculty of Social Sciences is the largest faculty in the Hong Kong Baptist University in terms of number of departments, teaching staff and students. The Faculty is committed to nurturing student personal, intellectual and professional development with a liberal arts education. We also share a passion to inspire students to be creative and fulfilled builders of a fair global society and a strong University for the region.

DAVID C. LAM INSTITUTE FOR

EAST-WEST STUDIES

LEWI was established in 1993 with the aim to foster inter-disciplinary social science and humanities research and cultivate collaborative scholarship between the East and the West. Over the years LEWI has made strenuous efforts in performing and reconciling its dual roles as an international consortium of universities and a university-wide research unit.

Programme Director

PROGRAMME DIRECTOR

DR. KRZYSZTOF SLIWINSKI

Associate Professor

Department of Government and International Studies

RENOWNED SCHOLARS

PROF. ALISTAIR COLE

DPhil (oxon), Oxford University, UK

Head & Professor,

Department of Government and International Studies

Research Funding and Focus:

Alistair Cole has a proven record in obtaining research funding, with 6 grants in last ten years (from the ESRC, AHRC, British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, PALSE-IDEX-ANR and as part of a European Commission Jean Monnet network). Funded projects in the past decade have clustered around questions of trust, transparency, convergence and transfer, each involving conceptualisation in a multi-level and/or transnational context. He will continue to work on these questions that are key to understanding comparative forms of regional integration; intra- and inter-state relationships, civil society and the changing bases of political legitimacy.