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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Handbuch Nachhaltige Entwicklung: Wie ist
Book SynopsisDie Ziele einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung sind nicht mehr ernsthaft umstritten. Von einer praktischen Umsetzung ist man aber noch weit entfernt. ExpertInnen aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen und Praxisfeldern diskutieren, wie nachhaltiges Wirtschaften und Arbeiten realisiert werden kann.Trade Review"Die Fülle an Daten und Fakten, an Anregungen und Beispielen macht das Handbuch zu einer empfehlenswerten (Nachschlage-) Lektüre." BUNDmagazin, 01/2004 "Zweifellos wenden sich die Autoren in erster Linie an ein Fachpublikum. Viele Beiträge liest aber auch der Laie mit Gewinn. Selbst wenn er nur lernt, seinen Konsum am Prinzip der Nachhaltigkeit auszurichten." Publik-Forum, 07/2004 "ExpertInnen aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen und Praxisfeldern diskutieren, wie nachhaltiges Wirtschaften und Arbeiten praktisch umgesetzt werden kann." www.kommunalweb.de, 19.03.2004 "Die Neuerscheinung stellt anschaulich dar, mit welchen Strategien und Instrumenten Unternehmen nachhaltiges Wirtschaften realisieren können." Handelsblatt Beilage "Nachhaltig Wirtschaften", 10./11.10.2003 "Die Autorinnen und Autoren tragen ihre Perspektiven, Erkenntnisse, Argumente und Handlungsprioritäten in der Form eines Handbuches mit dem Ziel zusammen, sie für Politik, Wirtschaft, Nicht-Regierungs-Organisationen und Wissenschaft nutzbar zu machen." VDI - News & Aktuelles Online, 01.09.2003 Table of ContentsPolitik für nachhaltiges Wirtschaften. Zielvorstellungen, Steuerungsansätze und Rahmenbedingungen für politisches Handeln - Governance-Strukturen für nachhaltiges Wirtschaften. Kooperation, Koordination und Steuerung - Nachhaltig wirtschaftende Unternehmen. Konzeptionelle Grundlagen, strategische Optionen und Instrumente des Nachhaltigkeitsmanagements in Unternehmen - Arbeit und Nachhaltigkeit. Arbeitsgestaltung und Arbeitspolitik für nachhaltiges Wirtschaften - Beratung für nachhaltiges Wirtschaften. Praxisanforderungen, konzeptionelle Probleme und Perspektiven - Forschung für Nachhaltigkeit. Braucht nachhaltiges Wirtschaften eine Forschung neuen Typs?
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Klaus Schwarz Zerfall Der Staatsmacht Persiens Unter Nasir
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Klaus Schwarz Italienische Nahostpolitik: Genese Einer
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Klaus Schwarz Abd Or-Rahim Han-E Hanan (964-1036 / 1556-1627):
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Klaus Schwarz Globalisierung Und Regionalisierung Im Arabischen
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De Gruyter An Elusive Hope: State Reform in Syria 2000—2007
Book SynopsisThe series Studies on Modern Orient provides an overview of religious, political and social phenomena in modern and contemporary Muslim societies. The volumes do not only take into account Near and Middle Eastern countries, but also explore Islam and Muslim culture in other regions of the world, for example, in Europe and the US. The series Studies on Modern Orient was founded in 2010 by Klaus Schwarz Verlag.
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Klaus Schwarz Educating the Middlemen: A Political and Economic
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Klaus Schwarz Afrika: Geschichte Und Politik: Ausgewählte
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Klaus Schwarz Die Erneuerung Der Tiganiya in Mauretanien:
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Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for
Book SynopsisBurma's pro-democracy movement emerged in 1988 when massive demonstrations swept across the country. This book gives an account of the movement, its emergence and growth, and Aung San Suu Kyi's prominent leadership role since its inception. Woven into this history is an outline of how Aung San Suu Kyi herself has become a highly respected pro-democracy icon internationally while being revered nationally as the "female Bodhisattva" who will deliver the Burmese people from the evil of the military regime. Lintner considers her strengths as well as her weaknesses, and traces her life not only in Burma, but also in India, the United Kingdom, the United States, Bhutan, and Japan. She was greatly inspired by her father, Aung San, Burma's independence hero who was assassinated when she was an infant, and also by Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Lintner analyzes the staying power of Burma's military regime and points out the obstacles to achieving what Aung San Suu Kyi is striving for: a free and democratic Burma.Trade Review"Bertil Lintner is an established authority on Burma . . . His succinct and insightful analysis focuses on post-1988 developments within the pro-democracy movement and the role of Aung San Suu Kyi, the NLD, and the '88 generation of student activists." -- Jeff Kingston * The Japan Times *"Lintner is a vetran reporter who has written several books on Burma. His expertise is widely acknowledged . . . While Suu Kyi still emerges as a remarkable, if somewhat test, saint . . . Litner's conclusion is pessimistic." -- Sholto Byrnes * The Independent *
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Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP Red Journeys: Inside the Thai Red-Shirt Movement
Book SynopsisRed Journeys is a firsthand account of the emergence and expansion of the red-shirt protests in Bangkok that took place in 2010. It traces the origins of the protest, focusing on the unique voices, stories, and motives of those who participated in the movement. Based upon hundreds of interviews and weeks spent alongside the red shirts in the middle of the protest, Sopranzetti vividly depicts daily life in the heart of the movement: its personalities, routines, rumors, and organization. As the peaceful occupation descended into violence and neared its tragic end, he describes the final moments of the protest when red shirts faced off with the Thai military. Styled engagingly between ethnography and daily blog, Red Journeys offers an unprecedented analysis of the biggest social movement in Thailand to date and highlights the discrepancies between the "official" media portrayal of the protest and the reality on the ground.Trade Review"He captures a sense of very ordinary people swept up into very extraordinary events for reasons that they can barely articulate beyond resentment at the society's deep unfairness . . . This is a brilliant little book - moving, eye-opening, unsettling." -- Chris Baker * Bangkok Post *
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Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP Armies and Societies in Southeast Asia
Book SynopsisWritten by a multinational team of experts who deploy their disciplinary strengths in history, sociology, social anthropology, political science, and philology to analyze a wide range of sources, including royal chronicles, missionary dictionaries, colonial archival documents, audio- and videotapes, and face-to-face interviews, Armies and Societies in Southeast Asia adds to the small but growing body of publications on warfare in Southeast Asia and colonial armies. Military-society relations are examined in a wide range of ways: traditional strategies of augmenting populations, mutinies, and mutiny attempts, imperial anxieties, Japanese military legacies, the transoceanic experiences of Southeast Asian and European soldiers, postwar demobilizations and postconflict biographies, and the transformation of communist guerrillas into guardians of the state and their development of capitalist enterprises. This volume will be of interest to Southeast Asianists and military historians alike as it not only covers traditional territorial grounds, thematic terrains, and temporal landscapes but also extends to individuals and further includes the national, regional, and transnational lives of military institutions.
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Public Policy: A Comprehensive Introduction
Book SynopsisThis book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, synoptic, and easy-to-grasp account of the state of public policy as a field. Both a scholar and a Czech policy maker, Martin Potůček draws on his vast and diverse experience to offer descriptions of public policy’s normative and conceptual foundations, stages, actors, and institutions, as well as fifteen of the most frequently used public policy theories. Featuring illustrative empirical case studies, this innovative guide shows how these theories can be applied to making public policy. With particular insight into the importance of cultural context and historical legacies for policy making in post-Communist Europe, Public Policy provides nuanced, expert insight into the difficulties of public policy discourse and reform.
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors RSSs Tryst With Politics
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Reporting the Partition of Punjab 1947: Press,
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Politics of the Possible – Essays on Gender,
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays covers a broad range of disciplines to produce a work that rethinks relationships and divisions in gender, geography, class relations, culture, and much more to create a true 'politics of the possible.'
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Tulika Print Communication Services Zakir Husain Memorial Lectures
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Tulika Books Gujarat, Cradle and Harbinger of Identity Politi
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Tulika Books Political Choices
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo The United States and the World – From Imitation
Book SynopsisThe effect of the conference is reflected in the contributions that follow in this volume and in the rich, interdisciplinary debate over the American impact on the world, integration in Pax Americana and patterns of integration in other parts of the world, different and/or similar approaches to challenges to international order, and last but not least the issue of continuity and change in politics. Here one also needs to mention the ever-present debate on the American "export" of values: separation of church and state, human rights, the idea of sovereignty, the rule of separation of powers, modern federalism, democratization approaches, Americanism, American Studies dilemmas, American exceptionalism, uniqueness in contemporary American society, and patterns in foreign policy.
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Democracy, State, and Society – European
Book SynopsisIn the years after the breakthrough events of 1989, the concept of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) came to be widely used as a synonym for the group of ten countries from the former Eastern Bloc aspiring to EU membership. This book is an attempt to demonstrate and assess the changes resulting from the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007 and European integration processes, identifying both the similarities and the differences in the countries of the region.This volume is addressed to those interested in Central and Eastern Europe. It has two main aims: first, to present the recent alterations in the region resulting from the processes of European integration; second, to offer an account of the process of Europeanisation in the countries occurring after accession to the EU that goes beyond just conditionality mechanisms. The collection also attempts to reflect on and contribute to the discussion on how the changes taking place in CEE influence theorisation on Europeanisation -- a concept initially constructed in order to tackle the changes taking place in response to the processes of European integration in the old member states.The book is divided into four parts, each concentrating on an area where the changes seem to be most profound and most interesting from the point of view of theorising on the impact of the European integration processes: democratic consolidation in the region, collective identity construction, functioning of civil society and studies on foreign policy and international relations.Trade ReviewAll of the eighteen texts, contained in, and creating the complete work, can be found as an interesting view on many aspects of political and social life of the newest members of the UE and also on their interactions with the international area. -- Dariusz Milczarek, Professor, the University of Warsaw
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo China – Central and Eastern Europe Cross–Cultura
Book Synopsis?The spiral of global dependency created by China calls for a comparative approach that draws upon local perspectives in every region of the world. The contributors to this volume analyze the similarities and relations between China and Central and Eastern European countries. These articles demonstrate the similarities in processes of transformation in both regions, and they address the challenges of socio-cultural and economic developments that have occurred in China and the Central and Eastern Europe countries.Trade Review?The relationships between China and Central and Eastern European countries have never been so comprehensive and close before as they? ?are now. This book proves that academics from both sides, with great enthusiasm? ?and true professionalism, took the challenge and presented valuable scientific? ?results, which may encourage the development of these relations to? ?grow. -- Zhao Gang, Beijing Foreign Studies University
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Oceania – An Important Part of the Pacific
Book SynopsisOceania comprises the islands located in the Pacific Ocean that are a part of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. The region located between Asia, Australia, and both Americas is worth special attention not only for cultural but also political and economic reasons. During the first decades of the current century the importance of the Pacific in international relations increased. The politics, economics, history, and culture of the states of Melanesia and Micronesia as well as Polynesia are a subject that cannot be omitted in the global puzzle of the twenty-first century.
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Taiwan’s Exceptionalism
Book SynopsisTake a look at the political map of the world and you will see that almost every piece of land belongs to a state. This division – in contrast, for example, to the split created by a valley between two mountains – is man-made, imaginary, and arbitrary, and therefore can be easily questioned. Indeed, in addition to the multiple disputed borders that permeate the world map, some countries are not recognized or partially recognized. Other states decide whether a certain political unit can be recognized as sovereign. Again, even though their decision concerns imaginary divisions created by borders, accepting or rejecting them has far-reaching consequences in real life. The unrecognized country stays outside of a club of sovereign states, which makes cooperation with its members very difficult or even impossible. It has no choice but to invent novel ways to conduct external relations. Moreover, this specific international situation has a major impact on its politics, people’s lifestyles, culture, etc.This book is about just such an exceptional entity in the international community of states – Taiwan. It explains how the island’s specific international situation influences the developments in its external and internal affairs.Taiwan’s Exceptionalism shines the spotlight on two areas that are heavily influenced by Taipei’s unique status – its external and internal affairs. Additionally, each chapter of the book addresses the active role of Taiwanese society in shaping their international fate. First, it introduces the reader to Taiwan’s international legal status; next, it turns to the consequences of the island’s specific situation for international relations in the South China Sea, as well as in the US-China-Taiwan triangle. Having set the historical and political background for the following chapters, the volume draws attention to important phenomena in Taiwan’s internal affairs that are closely related to the status of the island. They examine Taiwan’s democratic development and challenges, civil society activism, indigenous tourism clusters, eco-tourism and the image of the island in Polish dailies. The authors believe that all of these facets are exceptional in the sense that they all bear the imprint of the island’s distinct international situation.Table of Contents1. Unpacking Taiwan’s Exceptionalism: Themes and StudiesANNA RUDAKOWSKA • EWA TROJNAR • AGATA W. ZIĘTEK2. The Legal Status of Taiwan under International LawLECH ANTONOWICZ3. Taiwan’s Unique Position Toward the South China SeaAGATA W. ZIĘTEK4. Taiwan-China-United States Relations: Taiwan’s Unique Safe House for Better or WorseEWA TROJNAR 5. Exceptionalism under a Glass Ceiling? Taiwan’s Democratic Development and ChallengesWU DER-YUAN6. The Sunflower Movement: An Example of the Dynamics of Civic Activity in TaiwanKRZYSZTOF KOZŁOWSKI7. The Development of Indigenous Tourism Clusters in Taiwan: Economic and Cultural Foundations of SustainabilityMAGDALENA KACHNIEWSKA8. A Shark Paradise in Taiwan (Dis)appears: From Shark Soup to Shark DivingKATARZYNA NEGACZ9. Taipei’s Soft Power at Work: The Image of Taiwan in Polish Dailies “Gazeta Wyborcza” and “Rzeczpospolita”ANNA RUDAKOWSKA Contributors List of Figures Index
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Censorship of Literature in Post-War Poland: In
Book SynopsisCensorship of Literature in Post-War Poland in the Light of Confidential Bulletins for Censors from 1945 to 1956, reconstructs and presents ways to censor literature (and, contextually, other fields of art) submitted for evaluation to the main censorship office in Poland during the first 11 years after WWII. The source material consists of confidential Bulletins – periodicals addressed to the officials of the censorship office.The book is divided into three main parts, each preceded by an introduction and concluded with an extensive bibliography.Part One: In Search of a Definition: What Were the Confidential Bulletins for Censors? Characteristics of the Source Material presents basic information about the Bulletins – their goals, structure, and material presented in them. The analysis concludes with the definition of confidential Bulletins of the censorship office.Part Two: Literature and Current Literary Phenomena Preconstructs the image of literary life presented in the Bulletins from 1945 to 1956. On numerous occasions, the Bulletins provided helpful guidelines in censorship practice. They discussed the job of dealing with literary texts and often gave examples of works published just a few months earlier or those that had not passed the scrutiny. The Bulletins published materials discussing literary phenomena and other issues. The ones previously unaccounted for (including film, radio and theatre), as well as the institutional background of control, I discuss briefly in the last part – Camera Censorica. What Else was Discussed in the Bulletins?.The materials presented in these confidential periodicals came from the Bulletins headquarters, field offices, and the work of censors. At the end of my study, Author let the censors speak. In the chapter Before the Proper Summary, or the Censor as an Artist: The Literary Work of the Functionaries of Mysia Street and Its Environs, Author cite evidence of the literary ambitions of political functionaries – as censors had been called in the 1950s.
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Aarhus University Press The Common Good: N.F.S. Grundtvig as Politician
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NIAS Press Red Hills: Migrants and the State in the
Book SynopsisSeveral million rural inhabitants of Vietnam's northern deltas made the decision to move home during the 20th century, seeking to make new homes in the country's highlands. Their decisions and the settlements they created had wide-ranging effects on their home communities and on the people and environment of their destinations. Many migrations were made in response to policy decisions made in Hanoi. The book offers a historical analysis of the political economy of migration, stimulated by the French colonial and independent socialist states. It shows how socialist policies especially changed the face of the highlands, as settlers from the plains turned the hills 'red'. Placing people's experiences in the context of government policy and national history, this book explores their anticipations, difficulties, achievements and disappointments, highlighting the geopolitical importance of the highlands. It can be read as a contribution to migration studies in Southeast Asia, but also as a grassroots history of 20th-century Vietnam. Written in a lively reading style and illustrated by numerous maps and photographs, this study promises to become a classic in Vietnamese historical studies.
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Leiden University Press Reclaiming The Faravahar: Zoroastrian Survival in
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Leiden University Press Regulating Political Parties: European
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Leiden University Press Islam, Politics and Change: The Indonesian
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Leiden University Press A Fire of Lilies: Perspectives on Literature and
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Leiden University Press Colonialism and Slavery: An Alternative History
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AUP - Leiden University Press Singapores StateLed Capitalism in a RulesBased
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AUP - Leiden University Press Introduction to International Studies
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Amsterdam University Press The Art of Scaling Organising Swift Adaptation
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United Nations Guide des Nations Unies pour Modèle ONU
Book SynopsisLes simulations de modèle Nations Unies (MONU) sont des exercices de grande popularité pour ceux qui souhaitent en savoir plus sur les Nations Unies. Des centaines de milliers d'étudiants dans le monde participent chaque année à des simulations, à tous les niveaux, de l'école à l'université. De nombreux dirigeants actuels dans les domaines du droit, du service public, des affaires, des sciences humaines et des arts ont participé à de telles simulations en tant qu'étudiants. Certains Modèles ONU cependant ne suivent pas toujours le règlement intérieur et les pratiques de l'ONU. Ce livre est conçu pour aider les futurs étudiants et enseignants lors de simulations MONU concernant les aspects pratiques de l'organisation et de la participation à des MONU qui soient proches et conformes au fonctionnement réel de l'ONU.
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Tulika Books Interpreting the World to Change It – Essays for
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Perspectives on Power: India and China
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The Chinese University Press Traditional Government in Imperial China: A
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The Chinese University Press Art and Politics in China, 1949-1984
Book SynopsisThis book examines the complex relationship between art and politics in the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 1984. It focuses in particular on three important aspects of this relationship - the organizational structure of China's art establishment, the ideological scheme that set the guidelines for all art work, and the use of political movements or campaigns to ensure that artists complied with the official policy.
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The Chinese University Press Hong Kong's Journey to Reunification: Memoirs of
Book SynopsisSze-yuen Chung is a veteran Hong Kong politician and an important figure in the development of Hong Kong over the past forty years. He has played a significant role in Hong Kong's political, economic, educational, and social development from its time as a British colony to its designation as a Special Administrative Region of China. Indeed, he is probably the only native son of Hong Kong who was closely and actively involved in the entire process of transferring Hong Kong's sovereignty back to China.These memoirs record Chung's personal experiences in Hong Kong's political scene in the two decades between 1979 and 1999 and his role in the Sino-British negotiations that led to the transition from British colonial rule to a position of autonomy under Chinese sovereignty.Chung's reflections — much of which are published here for the first time — are a valuable source of information on this important period in the history of Hong Kong. It will be of interest to all those who wish to know what actually happened during those pivotal years when the future course of Hong Kong was determined.
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The Chinese University Press Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
Book SynopsisThe period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907 to 960 BCE) has long been treated as an anomaly in the history of China, an age of great disunity between the empires of the Tang and Song dynasties. Breaking with previous scholarship on China's middle period, this book presents individual studies that focus on the art, culture, and politics of the interregnum, challenging not only the underlying assumptions about the unitary nature of dynastic culture, but also its value as a category of historical analysis. Understanding these decades as a time of important transition, in which the incipient cultural shifts of the mature Tang dynasty turned into the foundations of Song society, this volume also highlights the complex narrative processes that gave birth to Song culture.
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The Chinese University Press The East Turkestan Independence Movement, 1930s
Book SynopsisBased on rare first-hand historical data, the author presents the analysis of the East Turkestan from the perspective of Islamic social structure, the origin and evolution of thoughts on national revolution, the internal structure of the independence movement and the power structure of the Republic, international relations, and international politics. Since it was first published in 1995, the original Japanese edition of this book has been recognized as the most authoritative research work on the independence movement of East Turkestan so far. The English edition of this book has been greatly revised and enriched to provide valuable references for the prominent issues of Xinjiang today.Trade Review“Understanding the complex involvement of powerful outside forces, a brutal world war, and an opportunity for groups that saw a chance at independence requires careful examination, and Professor Wang’s book does an admirable job in doing so. His exceptionally well-written book offers numerous insights, many based on materials that range from diaries and documents to memoirs and personal interviews. Altogether, Wang’s recently translated account strengthens our understanding of Xinjiang’s mid-20th century conundrum.” —Linda Benson, Professor Emerita, Oakland University“This research, now available in English, is an important addition to the growing library of work on modern Xinjiang and Uyghur history.” —James Millward, Professor, Georgetown University
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Ateneo de Manila University Press Making Mindanao: Cotabato and Davao in the
Book SynopsisDuring the 1970s southern Mindanao was the battleground of two major rebellions. Standard explanations for these rebellions point to a combination of ethnic disputes and demographic changes. This title argues that colonial construction of the state shaped Mindanao's political landscape.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Islam and Politics in Bangladesh: The Followers of Ummah
Book SynopsisThis book conceptualizes the politics of Bangladesh through an Islamic concept called ummah or the global brotherhood of Muslims. It demonstrates that, against the backdrop of geopolitics, capitalism and free flow of ideas, localization of this global religious concept at individual level, institutional level, major party platforms and state has cemented the current political condition in Bangladesh in which religiosity, religious intolerance, Islamization and extremism take place. By exploring the effects of ummah in Bangladeshi politics, this book shows how major political parties have mainstreamed political Islam in the country. The book rejects the long standing scholarly claim of religious-secular distinction in Bangladeshi politics and argues that with most Muslim-dominated states, there are no major secular parties in Bangladesh. There are only Islamic parties, which are more or less Islamic. The purely ‘rational’ domain of politics in Bangladesh is long lost, and political Islam sets the framework for politics in the country. The reason behind this logic of Bangladeshi politics is formed, contained and expanded by ummah. Table of Contents1. Introduction2. Beyond Clash of Civilizations and Post Islamism: Ummah(s) and the Muslim World3. Geopolitics of Ummah(s) in Bangladesh- A Historic Narrative4. Awami League, Ummah, and Political Islam5. The BNP, Ummah, and Politics in Bangladesh6. Islamization, Ummah Consciousness and Mass Support forPolitical Islam7. Globalization and Transnational Ummah(s) in Contemporary Bangladesh8. Conclusion
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Springer Verlag, Singapore India and China: Beyond the Binary of Friendship
Book SynopsisThis book examines the changing dynamics of the issues between India and China in the wake of extensive globalisation, economic slowdown, the trade wars, Covid 19, Galwan and the undercurrents in the emerging new global order. Providing a comprehensive overview of India–China relationship and the role of the USA in the context of India’s economic and security cooperation in the region, it argues that India–China relations are too complex to be defined through the binary of friendship and enmity, since it includes an element of cooperation, competition, coordination and as well as conflict and confrontation. The book also opens new avenues for research. As such it is of interest to researchers and students of Asian studies, Asian history, China studies, peace and conflict studies and international relations. Table of ContentsChapter 1. India-China Cooperation and Conflict: Assessing the state of Crisis Management Mechanisms.- Chapter 2. Sino-Indian Border Conflict: An outcome of China’s victim’s psychology’ and India’s ‘tough posture’?.- Chapter 3. India, China and Tibet: Fundamental Perceptions.- Chapter 4. China-Pak Nexus: Strategic implications and choices for India.- Chapter 5. 21st Century Maritime Silk Road: Historicity, converging/conflicting interests and responses.- Chapter 6. India-China and the Indo Pacific: Cooperation, competition and overlapping interests.- Chapter 7. Bangladesh, China, India, Myanmar Economic Corridor (BCIM-EC.: Security dilemma rider to regional economic integration.- Chapter 8. Energy Cooperation between China and the ‘Belt and Road’ Countries: Exploring India-China cooperation.- Chapter 9.India and China: Multilateral cooperation and global governance.- Chapter 10. Emerging India and the World Order: Status quoits or a reluctant power?.- Chapter 11. The Rise of China: Implications to the world.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Chinese Agricultural Technology Aid in Africa
Book SynopsisThe book presents findings of anthropological studies conducted by researchers from Agricultural Technology Demonstration Center in a number of African countries, including Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Mozambique. The aim of these ethnological studies is to understand the Center’s experience in these countries as well as the way it works in terms of institutional arrangement, interaction between Chinese and local staff and technology transfer. A basic contention of the book is that insofar as these Centers showcase China’s achievements in domestic development for purpose of sharing the country’s experiences with host countries, what they do essentially points toward a new and innovative approach to foreign aid.Table of ContentsThe book presents findings of anthropological studies conducted by researchers from Agricultural Technology Demonstration Center in a number of African countries, including Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Mozambique. The aim of these ethnological studies is to understand the Center’s experience in these countries as well as the way it works in terms of institutional arrangement, interaction between Chinese and local staff and technology transfer. A basic contention of the book is that insofar as these Centers showcase China’s achievements in domestic development for purpose of sharing the country’s experiences with host countries, what they do essentially points toward a new and innovative approach to foreign aid.Xiaoyun Li, Chair Professor and Honorary Dean of College of International Development and Global Agriculture, China Agricultural University. Lixia Tang, Professor of the College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University. Jixia Lu, Professor of the College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University. Xiuli Xu, Dean of the College of International Development and Global Agriculture (CIDGA) at China Agricultural University. Yue Zhang, Assistant Professor at College of Humanities and Development Studies and College of International Development and Global Agriculture (CIDGA), China Agricultural University. Gubo Qi, Professor at the College of Humanities and Development Studies and the College of International Development and Global Agriculture, China Agricultural University. Chuanhong Zhang, Associate professor of College of Humanities and Development Studies/ and Director of Center for International Development Aid Studies at College of International Development and Global Agriculture (CIDGA), China Agricultural University.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Mainstreaming the Tribal Areas (ex-FATA) of
Book SynopsisThe book addresses why the Pakistani state is facing persistent challenges in extending and consolidating its governance (authority) throughout its territories, especially in the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (ex-FATA)? Even after the de jure merger, the question still remains valid that how Pakistani state could establish its governance in these tribal areas? Through multi-dimensional approaches and multi-pronged analysis of state-centric (top-down), society-centric (bottom-up) and state-in-society (mixed-horizontal) approaches, the book explains factors and dimensions that pose challenges to Pakistani state governance in ex-FATA. The main hypothesis is that societies, where state governance is absent, turn to informal governance and create informal institutions as a substitute for the weak central state governance thereby challenging the domination and control/authority of the state. The book presents policy recommendations for bringing these tribal areas into the mainstream governance system of Pakistan.Table of ContentsChapter 1: State Governance in the Ungoverned Territories of Developing States: The Conceptual Framework.- Chapter 2: Geography, Socio-economic and Political set up of FATA: An Overview.- Chapter 3: Challenges to State Governance in FATA: Society-centred Approach.- Chapter 4: Challenges to State Governance in FATA: ‘State-in-Society’ Approach.- Chapter 5: Challenges to State Governance in FATA: State-centred Approach.- Chapter 6: Extension of State Governance (Authority) in FATA: Prospects.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.- Index.
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