It was a great pleasure to meet with Xiong Ni, who currently heads the Sports Administration of Hunan Province. I am glad to be working together with his team to help plan the organization of a summer marathon in the city of Changsha. In the final decades of the 20th century, Hunan was known to produce […]
The World International Studies Committee (WISC) organizes one of the largest and most esteemed events in the field of International Studies. Their flagship conference is a triannual event, which attracts a broad range of scholars from all regions of the world to present and discuss state-of-the art research in their respective fields of specialism. This […]
Ivo’s latest research article is now available in International Studies. The article is entitled “A Reflexive Critique of Inter-paradigm Divisions in International Relations Theory: On Anarchy, Hierarchy and Pre-1919 Theory”. This research is the result of Ivo’s efforts to build cross-paradigm theoretical frameworks. It was inspired by the numerous the recently established links between earlier […]
Earlier this week, Ivo led a corporate training program at one of the leading Chinese branding consultancies in China, TopBrand Union (品牌联盟). The company was established in 1996 and by the mid-2000s, it had turned into a boutique consultancy with a strong specialism in branding. It has been organizing the China Brand Festival, which is […]
Despite the various challenges and setbacks it constantly faces, Latin American integration has remained resilient and continued to develop, albeit often in a fragmented manner. Most mainstream theories of regional integration are able to explain how this process developed in Europe, but not in other regions. This creates a fundamental contradiction which I am exploring […]
This year, I had the great pleasure of participating actively on three panels at the International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Conference. This is usually the largest annual event in the field of international studies and it attracts scholars from around the globe to present their state-of-the-art research. It is also the most highly regarded one, […]
Emerging challenges in the 21st century transcend traditional state borders and require inter-governmental coordination to produce collective responses, a process that is increasingly embedded in regional and sub-regional organizations. Over 20 of these organizations are located in Latin America where they are entangled in multiple complementary, overlapping and competing agreements. Much of the literature on […]
Would you like to know more about business opportunities along the Belt and Road Initiative? Are you interested in China market entry? Do you plan to engage with Chinese partners and want to learn about common mistakes and how to avoid them? Ivo Ganchev discusses these topics and more in a five-part interview on the […]
Between November 4 and 6, ISA Northeast held its 2021 conference as a virtual event with over 75 panels and 400 presentations by leading international relations scholars from around the world. A keynote speech was delivered by Siba N. Grovogui, Professor of International Relations Theory at Cornell University. I had the pleasure of presenting two […]
The Bulgaria China Chamber of Commerce and Industry held a highly productive online meeting with a number of departments from the provincial government of Guangdong. During the meeting, cooperation in three sectors was discussed logistics, software and culture/art. Through his work at the Chamber, Ivo hopes to turn Bulgaria into a key logistics facilitating trade […]
