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The study covers Chinese cities and areas twinned with Bulgarian cities and areas located in the Northeast (the territory of Varna Region, Dobrich Region, Targovishte Region and Shumen Region) NUTS-2 statistical region. In addition to the brief geographical, historical, cultural, educational and commercial-economic information about the Chinese settlements, the article also presents the specific normative acts which set the beginning of the "twinning" between them. The article also follows the development of their cooperation in various spheres, the achieved results, as well as the unrealized projects laid down in the preliminary plans. The final part analyzes the opportunities, obstacles, challenges and prospects for a further partnership with the local authorities and citizens of the Bulgarian and Chinese sities, settlements and regions under discussion.

ABSTRACTA recently published dataset of Middle East and North Africa (MENA)–focused scholarship in journals selected to represent the disciplinary "core" of political science sheds empirical light on key publishing trends, from the balance between quantitative and qualitative studies to the growth in experimental and "large-N" statistical methods. Cammett and Kendall's (2021) analysis shows that between 2001 and 2019, MENA-focused studies declined as a share of publications but that slightly less than half of that work is qualitative. However, the definition of qualitative research that the study uses significantly overstates the number of such articles in the Cammett and Kendall dataset. Our analysis rectifies this, distinguishing among research studies that use qualitative evidence, qualitative methods, theoretical traditions, and paradigms (i.e., positivist/post-positivist). This yields a more accurate and significantly starker picture of the marginality of MENA qualitative research in core politics journals. These results raise the question of why methodologically sophisticated scholarship outside of the "top journals" has not been published there.