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  • Contending Approaches to the Political Economy of Taiwan

    by Edwin A. Winckler, Susan Greenhalgh ...
    This work compares IT parks in China, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hawaii, in search of strategies that policy makers can employ to reduce the Global Digital Divide, advance distributional equity, and soften some of the negative effects of economic globalization. ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • Elections in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan under the Single Non-Transferable Vote

    The Comparative Study of an Embedded Institution

    Edited by Bernard Norman Grofman, Sung-Chull Lee, Edwin Winckler, Brian Woodall ...
    In recent years there has been a marked resurgence of interest in the effects of electoral laws on important aspects of politics such as party competition. In this volume, a distinguished group of scholars looks at the impact of one set of electoral rules--the single non-transferable vote--on electoral competition in Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Under this plan citizens are allowed one vote even ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

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  • The Dragon's Gift:The Real Story of China in Africa

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  • The Rise of China and India in Africa

    Challenges, Opportunities and Critical Interventions

    by Dot Keet, Kwesi Aning, He Wenping, Fredrick Mutesa, Peter Kragelund, Alex Vines, Sanusha Naidu, Liu Haifang, Sanjukta Bhattacharya, Alemayehu Geda, Atnafu G. Meskel, Peter Draper, Tsidiso Disenyana, Renu Modi, Linn Axelsson, Professor Timothy M Shaw ...
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  • Soft Power

    China's Emerging Strategy in International Politics

    by Jianfeng Chen, Xiaohe Cheng Xiaogang Deng, Yong Deng, Zhongying Pang, Ignatius Wibowo, Lening Zhang, Yongjin Zhang, Gang Chen, Joshua Kurlantzick, Suisheng Zhao, Zhiqun Zhu ...
    Soft power has become a very popular concept in international affairs, appearing in government policy papers, academic discussions, and the popular media. In China, soft power has become one of the most frequently used phrases among political leaders, leading academics, and journalists. Defined against hard power, which often involves threat and coercion, soft power applies attraction, persuasion, ... Read more

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  • Famine in North Korea

    Markets, Aid, and Reform

    by Stephan Haggard, Marcus Noland ...
    In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance, but was compounded by the regime's failure to formulate a quick response-including the blocking of desperately needed humanitarian relief.As households, enterprises, local party ... Read more

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  • China-Europe Relations

    Perceptions, Policies and Prospects

    Edited by David Shambaugh, Eberhard Sandschneider, Zhou Hong ...
    The fast-developing relationship between China and Europe has become one of the most important in international affairs. China-Europe Relations takes an innovative and insightful look at this phenomenon, examining:the state of Chinese studies in Europe and European studies in Chinathe decision-making behind the EU’s China policy, and what the Chinese perceptions and assessments are of Europe that ... Read more

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    Edited by Jongryn Mo, David W. Brady ...
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  • European Union Sanctions and Foreign Policy

    When and Why do they Work?

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    Winner of the THESEUS promising award for Research on European Integration 2011.Sanctions are an important tool within the foreign policy of the European Union, which have until now remained obscure to both scholars and the general public. This book examines sanctions as a political tool of influence and evaluates the efficacy of sanctions imposed by the EU against third countries and their ... Read more

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