Global East

{{Short description|Eastern region of world}}

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The Global East is a region of the world which has varying definitions. It can be narrowly construed as incorporating the Far Eastern{{efn|Comprising East and Southeast Asia,{{cite web|url=http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/fareast?view=uk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929095944/http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/fareast?view=uk|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 September 2007|title=Oxford Dictionaries – Dictionary, Thesaurus, & Grammar|work=askoxford.com}}{{cite web |title=What is the Far East? |url=https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/which-are-the-countries-of-the-far-east.html |website=WorldAtlas |access-date=9 June 2022 |date=1 August 2017}} although sometimes South Asia is included as well.{{Cite web |url=https://grammarist.com/usage/far-east-middle-east-near-east/ |title=Far East, Middle East, Near East |date=13 July 2011 |access-date=15 July 2023 |archive-date=15 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230715130650/https://grammarist.com/usage/far-east-middle-east-near-east/}}{{cite web|url=https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/far-east|access-date=15 July 2023|title=Far East Definition |website=Law Insider |archive-date=15 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230715131122/https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/far-east}}}} parts of Asia, or more broadly, it can incorporate much of Eurasia,{{Cite journal |last=Chan |first=Kam Wing |last2=Gentile |first2=Michael |last3=Kinossian |first3=Nadir |last4=Oakes |first4=Tim |last5=Young |first5=Craig |date=2018-01-02 |title=Editorial – theory generation, comparative analysis and bringing the "Global East" into play |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15387216.2018.1537129 |journal=Eurasian Geography and Economics |language=en |volume=59 |issue=1 |pages=1–6 |doi=10.1080/15387216.2018.1537129 |issn=1538-7216 |hdl=10852/69132 |hdl-access=free |access-date=2024-01-06 |archive-date=2024-01-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240106171359/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15387216.2018.1537129 |url-status=live }} including regions such as Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East.{{Cite journal |last=Trubina |first=Elena |last2=Gogishvili |first2=David |last3=Imhof |first3=Nadja |last4=Müller |first4=Martin |date=2020-11-01 |title=A part of the world or apart from the world? The postsocialist Global East in the geopolitics of knowledge |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15387216.2020.1785908 |journal=Eurasian Geography and Economics |language=en |volume=61 |issue=6 |pages=636–662 |doi=10.1080/15387216.2020.1785908 |issn=1538-7216 |access-date=2024-01-06 |archive-date=2024-01-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240106171401/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15387216.2020.1785908 |url-status=live }}{{Cite journal |last=Trubina |first=E. |date=2020 |title=The Global East and the Globe |url=https://elar.urfu.ru/handle/10995/111164 |journal=Russ. Sociol. Rev. |language=en |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=102–129 |issn=1728-192X |access-date=2024-01-06 |archive-date=2024-01-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240106171356/https://elar.urfu.ru/handle/10995/111164 |url-status=live }} Because of the ambiguity in defining the term, sometimes this region is also referred to as the Global Easts.{{Cite journal |last=Müller |first=Martin |last2=Trubina |first2=Elena |date=2020-11-01 |title=The Global Easts in global urbanism: views from beyond North and South |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15387216.2020.1777443 |journal=Eurasian Geography and Economics |language=en |volume=61 |issue=6 |pages=627–635 |doi=10.1080/15387216.2020.1777443 |issn=1538-7216 |access-date=2024-01-06 |archive-date=2024-01-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240106171540/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15387216.2020.1777443 |url-status=live }}{{Cite book |last=Lim |first=Jie-Hyun |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/lim-20676 |title=Global Easts: Remembering, Imagining, Mobilizing |date=2022 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-20676-1 |doi=10.7312/lim-20676 |access-date=2024-01-06 |archive-date=2024-01-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240106171540/https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/lim-20676 |url-status=live }} The term can also refer to the impact of eastern regions of the world on the broader world through diasporic and other relationships.{{Citation |last=Kontala |first=Janne |title=The Global Variation of Non-religious Worldviews |date=2022 |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94691-3_8 |work=The Diversity Of Worldviews Among Young Adults: Contemporary (Non)Religiosity And Spirituality Through The Lens Of An International Mixed Method Study |pages=153–174 |editor-last=Nynäs |editor-first=Peter |access-date=2024-01-06 |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-94691-3_8 |isbn=978-3-030-94691-3 |last2=Lassander |first2=Mika |last3=Klingenberg |first3=Maria |last4=Keysar |first4=Ariela |last5=Lagerström |first5=Martin |editor2-last=Keysar |editor2-first=Ariela |editor3-last=Kontala |editor3-first=Janne |editor4-last=Kwaku Golo |editor4-first=Ben-Willie|doi-access=free |url-access=subscription }}

The Global East is considered to have features of both the Global North and Global South, being sometimes referred to as a liminal space between the two.{{Cite journal |last=Müller |first=Martin |date=2020-05-26 |title=In Search of the Global East: Thinking between North and South |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14650045.2018.1477757 |journal=Geopolitics |language=en |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=734–755 |doi=10.1080/14650045.2018.1477757 |issn=1465-0045 |pmc=10578615 |pmid=38013965 |access-date=2024-01-06 |archive-date=2024-01-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240106183218/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14650045.2018.1477757 |url-status=live }} A major theme in parts of the Global East is postsocialism.{{Cite journal |last=Chelcea |first=Liviu |date=2023-07-16 |title=Goodbye, post-socialism? Stranger things beyond the Global East |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15387216.2023.2236126 |journal=Eurasian Geography and Economics |language=en |pages=1–27 |doi=10.1080/15387216.2023.2236126 |issn=1538-7216 |access-date=2024-01-06 |archive-date=2024-01-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240106172139/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15387216.2023.2236126 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}