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by L. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
The Financial Crisis and Federal Reserve Policy is fully revised and updated with the most accurate and thorough coverage available of the causes and consequences of the 2008 Financial Crisis and the role the Federal Reserve played in the recovery efforts.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Natural disasters in Asian countries have brought global attention to the work of local Buddhist communities and groups. Here, the contributors examine local Buddhist communities and international Buddhist organizations engaged in a variety of relief work in countries including India, Thailand, Sri Lanka, China, and Japan.
by Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
This book examines the politics of policing in Greater China, including mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao. As the author shows, police ideological indoctrination is strongest in mainland China, followed by Hong Kong, and Taiwan, where the police is under increasing political stress, in...
Transnational Encounters between Germany and Korea
Affinity in Culture and Politics Since the 1880s
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
This book examines the history of the German-Korean relationship from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century, focusing on the nations’ varied encounters with each other during the last years of the Yi dynasty, the Japanese occupation of Korea, the Cold War, and the post-Cold War era. With...
by K. Park
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
North Korea's foreign policy behavior has long intrigued scholars, puzzled laymen, frustrated negotiators, and aggravated policy-makers. This book brings together the work of ten of the world's foremost scholars on North Korea to critically analyze the key factors that are shaping North Korea's foreign policy behavior and its future direction.
The Origin of Ping-Pong Diplomacy
The Forgotten Architect of Sino-U.S. Rapprochement
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Why and how did Japan Table Tennis Association President Goto Koji invite China to participate in the World Table Tennis Championships in Nagoya, Japan, in 1971 (the Nagoya World's)? Against strong opposition at home and abroad, Goto Koji created a stage for Premier Zhou Enlai to launch Ping-Pong Diplomacy, which changed world history forever
Strategic Thinking about the Korean Nuclear Crisis
Four Parties Caught between North Korea and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea have struggled to navigate between the unsettling belligerence of North Korea and the often unilateral insistence of the United States on how to proceed. This book focuses on their strategic thinking and internal debates over four stages of the crisis.
Traditional Chinese Leisure Culture and Economic Development
A Conflict of Forces
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
This book explores the history of leisure in Chinese culture by tracing the development of Chinese philosophy and leisure values in Chinese tradition and civilization. It addresses the tremendous changes in Chinese society brought about by the country’s rapid economic development and the impact...
by S. Trevaskes
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
China's infamous death penalty record is the product of firm Party-state control and policy-setting. Though during the 1980s and 1990s, the Party's emphasis was on "kill many," in the 2000s the direction of policy began to move toward "kill fewer." This book details the policies, institutions, and story behind the reform of the death penalty.
by D. Opoku
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Since the early 1980s, the World Bank, backed by aid donor countries, has been involved in a determined effort to stimulate capitalist growth in Africa by prescribing a set of orthodox, neoliberal economic policies. Using Ghana as a case study, this book considers why this is the case.
Contemporary Africa
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
60 years after independence, African nations still find it difficult to face a number of challenges, from establishing meaningful democratic institutions to establish social structures centered on the advancement of gender equality. This volume approaches these contemporary African challenges while combating a reflexive and facile Afro-Pessimism.
Political Geographies of Piracy
Constructing Threats and Containing Bodies in Somalia
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
This book examines the increasing role of development organizations in securitization processes and argues that the new security-development counter piracy framework is (re)shaping political geographies of piracy by promoting disciplinary strategies aimed at the prevention and containment of gendered and racialized actions and bodies in Somalia.
Between State and Nation
Diaspora Politics and Kin-state Nationalism in Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2010
Based on a qualitative study of Hungary and its changing relationship to the 3 million ethnic Hungarians in neighbouring states, this book argues that it is not the ties of ethnicity, but the political interests of kin-state elites that drives states in Eastern Europe to take action on behalf of ethnic kin in neighboring states.
Contesting the Nigerian State
Civil Society and the Contradictions of Self-Organization
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
In public choice theory, the received wisdom has long been that self-organization is an impediment to collective action, whether via the tragedy of the commons or a Hobbesian scenario in which self-interest produces social conflict rather than cooperation. Yet as this fascinating collection shows,...