Part One Theoretical and Methodological Issues In Search of a Shared Planetary Order Roger T. Ames Towards Global Cooperation in Area Studies Colin Mackerras Comparing Cultures��Why and How Jerusha McCormack Can Interspeciality Be the Step to Interdisciplinarity��/Kiryl Rudy Part Two Experiences from Different Countries and Regions The Development of Global Japan Studies (GJS) Programat the University of Tokyo��Reflecting Its 9 YearsShigeto Sonoda Postgraduate Student as a Client and Collaborator ofPostgraduate Studies on China at the Jagiellonian Universityin Krakow tukasz Gacek, Ewa Trojnar Teaching and Researching European Studies in Romania Eugen Strautiu The Chinese Strategy of Multilateralism in Different Decades and Its Expression in Latin America Monica Ahumada Figueroa Irish Studies in China/Wang Zhanpeng Part Three Empirical Research and Case Studies Challenges and Opportunities in China-Africa Cooperation The Case of Tanzania/ Humphrey P.B.Moshi The Buildling of a China-Cambodia Community with aShared Future/ Liu Yuhua Recent Trends in China's OFDI in Latin America andthe Caribbean��Performance and Discussions Enrique Dussel Peters The Province of Buenos Aires and China��A StrategicTie /Lucas Villasenin The Legacy of Xuanzang as Depicted in ChineseSociety, Art, Literature and Culture Arun Kumar Yaday, Rita Aggarwal Preliminary Analysis of the Results of German FederalElections/ Csaba Moldicz Money as a Metaphor in Macedonian Culture/Simon Sazdov Knowledge Sharing in Lesotho Cannabis Sector��Employee Perspcctives/ Regina M.Thetsane Housing Policy, Negative Externality and GovernmentIntervention in Indonesia /Novi Paramita Dewi, Odam Asdi Artosa, Kuskridho Ambardi