Search Results

ENGLISH

Implications Of The National Security Law In Hong Kong

~~225,25€~~ 202,73€ 10% OFF

 Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The United Kingdom (UK) established Hong Kong as colony in 1841 and administered it until 1997 when the UK transferred it to the PRC. The PRC agreed that after the handover, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) would retain a high degree of autonomy, except in foreign and defense affairs through 2047. In 2020, following large-scale protests opposing a bill that would have allowed the extradition of fugitives to mainland China, China’s legislature, with the stated purpose of restoring order, imposed a national security law (NSL) on Hong Kong. The NSL criminalizes the organization and perpetration of "terrorist activities," "secession," "subversion," and "collusion" with foreign entities "to endanger national security." This book reviews the implications of the NSL and its effects on the citizens of Hong Kong.
ENGLISH

Uyghurs: Forced Labor And Ongoing Genocide

~~152,38€~~ 137,14€ 10% OFF

 Uyghurs are a Muslim ethnic minority group living primarily in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in the far northwest of the People’s Republic of China. The Chinese government has detained as many as two million Uyghurs in mass internment camps and subjected them to political indoctrination, torture, forced labor, and other human rights abuses. The export of products made by forced labor has enabled the CCP to build a technologically enabled surveillance state and allowed the party to profit from its atrocities. The U.S. government has responded by implementing targeted restrictions on trade with Xinjiang and imposing visa and economic sanctions.
ENGLISH

People'S Republic Of China: Relations, Policies And Military Implications

~~165,63€~~ 149,07€ 10% OFF

 Beginning in 1978, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) focused on market-oriented economic development and opening the country to foreign trade, while maintaining the rule of the CCP. Since the change, China has been among the world’s fastest growing economies, with real gross domestic product averaging over 9% growth annually through 2021, lifting an estimated 800 million people out of poverty and dramatically improving overall living standards. By 2011, the PRC’s economy was the second largest in the world. Over the past decade, China has increased its global outreach, including military deployments, participation in international organizations, and a global connectivity plan in 2013 called the "Belt and Road Initiative" (BRI). Many nations have signed on to BRI agreements to attract PRC investment, but others have expressed concerns about such issues as the opaque nature of the projects, financing, and potentially unsustainable debt obligations.
ENGLISH

Tensions In The China Seas: Background, Competition And Disputes

~~152,38€~~ 137,14€ 10% OFF

 Over the past 10 to 15 years, the South China Sea (SCS) has emerged as an arena of U.S.-China strategic competition. China’s actions in the SCS—including extensive island-building and base-construction activities at sites that it occupies in the Spratly Islands, as well as actions by its maritime forces to assert China’s claims against competing claims by regional neighbors such as the Philippines and Vietnam—have heightened concerns among U.S. observers that China is gaining effective control of the SCS, an area of strategic, political, and economic importance to the United States and its allies and partners. Actions by China’s maritime forces at the Japan-administered Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea (ECS) are another concern for U.S. observers. Chinese domination of China’s near-seas region—meaning the SCS and ECS, along with the Yellow Sea—could substantially affect U.S. strategic, political, and economic interests in the Indo-Pacific region and elsewhere.
ENGLISH

Human Rights And Religious Freedom Issues In The People'S Republic Of China

~~152,38€~~ 137,14€ 10% OFF

 The People’s Republic of China is an authoritarian state in which the Chinese Communist Party is the paramount authority. Communist Party members hold almost all top government and security apparatus positions. Government officials and the security services often committed human rights abuses with impunity. Significant human rights issues included credible reports of: arbitrary or unlawful killings by the government; forced disappearances by the government; torture by the government; harsh and life-threatening prison and detention conditions; arbitrary arrest and detention by the government and child labor. The constitution of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which cites the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), states that citizens "enjoy freedom of religious belief" but limits protections for religious practice to "normal religious activities," without defining "normal." The government recognizes five official religions: Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Protestantism, and Catholicism. Only religious groups belonging to one of the five state-sanctioned "patriotic religious associations" representing these religions are permitted to register with the government and are officially permitted to hold worship services.
ENGLISH

China'S Role In The Fentanyl Crisis

~~225,25€~~ 202,73€ 10% OFF

 Fentanyl is a poison that is afflicting every community in this country. This poison is synthetic opioid, 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine. Just 2 milligrams equal to 10 to 15 grains of salt is enough to be lethal. It is vital to understand the essential role that China plays in the fentanyl crisis. China is the primary source of the know-how and illicit materials that Mexican cartels use to manufacture lethal synthetic opioids. Moreover, despite the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) publicly-professed policy against the export of dangerous drugs for illicit use, the CCP supports the Chinese companies that export fentanyl precursors by offering them government benefits and preferential tax policies.
ENGLISH

Chinese Threat To The American Economy

~~225,25€~~ 202,73€ 10% OFF

 The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will stop at nothing to undermine U.S. global leadership and weaken the economy. The CCP has invested heavily in artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. Paired with this investment, China is creating favorable environments for their private-sector companies and entrepreneurs to deploy and test these technologies. This has forced many American companies with global footprint and American innovators with cutting-edge ideas to consider a hard decision: whether to move their operations from American to Chinese shores. It is also allowing Chinese companies to invest and expand further, potentially endangering our own infrastructure and data security.
ENGLISH

Chinese Communist Party'S Threat To U.S. National Security

~~165,63€~~ 149,07€ 10% OFF

 The Chinese Communist Party threatens the safety and privacy of American citizens through economic espionage and theft of U.S. intellectual property, the theft of personal data of American citizens through cyber-attacks, the recent use of a spy balloon and other methods of surveillance to illegally gather intelligence on American territory, and the build-up of military capabilities that seek to eclipse the United States and our democratic allies. Under President Xi, the Chinese Communist Party has nearly tripled its defense spending in the last decade. Through the CCP’s aggressive national strategy of Military- Civil Fusion, the People’s Liberation Army and the Chinese government are stealing information from U.S. military and civilian targets. Most of the threats China poses to the U.S. homeland security are occurring below the threshold of traditional conflict.
ENGLISH

Authoritarian Disaster: The Duterte Regime And The Prospects For A Marcos Presidency

212,00€ + 10% CARD

 This book investigates Duterte’s brand of authoritarianism from a multidisciplinary approach. It brings together views from scholars and activists from diverse disciplines and areas of work to look into the core of Duterte’s disastrous authoritarianism and how it takes specific forms in various contexts (e.g., the church, peace process, discourse, Lumad schools, state). The book and its contributors do not in any way hide behind the language of academic neutrality. What is at work here is an engaged scholarship that does not investigate the problem of authoritarianism from a neutral ground supposedly devoid of all values, beliefs, and interpretations. Rather, the book recognizes scholarship to be a political practice which aims to elucidate a theoretical position that intends not only to understand authoritarianism but also to imagine the prospects for a democratic future.
ENGLISH

Taiwan: Environmental, Political And Social Issues

304,75€ + 10% CARD

 At the turn of the century, Taiwan appeared to be a success story in both its economic and political development. Rapid economic growth and economic transformation had commenced in the 1960s and continued through the 1990s, earning the name of a "‘miracle" in the 1980s. While considerably delayed, the country’s transformation from a one-party dictatorship began slowly in the late 1980s but was completed without much trauma by the mid-1990s, reflecting both reforms from above by the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) and pressure from below by the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). The first two decades of the 21st century brought generally bad news, however. The economy slowed and became considerably more dependent on China, who claimed sovereign control over Taiwan; and politics became more conflictual as Taiwan’s situation worsened. In terms of issues, national identity and cross-Strait relations dominated Taiwan politics throughout much of the democratic era. However by the late 2010s, economic and social issues had become important concerns as well. Consequently, as the 2020s opened, Taiwan was clearly at a crossroads in its international, political, and social situation. This book analyzes issues in contemporary Taiwan. The first two chapters consider a variety of issues; the next four analyze cross-Strait relations; then come three chapters on issues and the party system and three on constitutional and legal issues; and the final one focuses on a social issue.
ENGLISH

Modern China In Transition And Development: A Panoramic View

by Yanqing Jiang

212,00€ + 10% CARD

 This is a book discussing China’s economic transition and development since the beginning of modern times. The book is chronologically divided into eight connected chapters that collectively provide a comprehensive and coherent discussion of the book’s focus - China’s economic transition and development in modern and contemporary times. However, each one of the eight chapters is sufficiently self-contained and can be read on its own, which potentially enhances the usefulness of the book. Chapter 1 provides an introduction and overview. All the subsequent chapters go into detail with each one of them pertaining to a specific historical time period as the corresponding chapter title properly implies. Chapter 2 focuses on the period of transformational development of the Late Qing Dynasty and the socio-economic situation after the founding of the Republic of China. Chapter 3 is about the Chinese economy in wars and covers the period of the Anti-Japanese War and China’s War of Liberation. Chapter 4 is concerned with the economy under the early governance of the People’s Republic of China while Chapter 5 focuses on the subsequent twists and turns of the socialist economic construction. The longest chapter, Chapter 6 is devoted to the great turning point in the history of China’s socialist construction - the reform and opening up. The last two chapters, Chapters 7 and 8, stride into the 21st Century. Chapter 7 is about the new stage of China’s economy, new development strategies, completion and prospect, and the achievements of the first 12 years into the new century, while Chapter 8 discusses the economic new normal and the socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era.
ENGLISH

Is China Encircling India?

by Mohd Aminul Karim

212,00€ + 10% CARD

 Encircling India from different flanks is seemingly a key strategic objective of China, apart from others. China needs dominance in this part of the world both for economic and strategic reasons. China wants to regain its lost grandeur that it lost during the ‘Century of Humiliation'' on the world stage. Southeast Asia is generally under China’s influence, by means foul or fair. It could even manage the Philippines after it got a verdict in its favor in the international court on an issue related to the South China Sea. China’s economic power is impacting its relations with Southeast Asian countries. Given the recent conflict between China and India, India is more likely to align itself with the United States. India is a strong partner in the Quadrilateral Dialogue (QUAD), alongside Japan, the United States, and Australia. The QUAD is getting stronger militarily, and the U.S. has been generous to India, especially under former President George W. Bush, who signed a civil nuclear agreement that set India as a nuclear power. India is likely to become a potent naval force in the Indian Ocean, where China is also making advances. China is now more closely aligned with Russia. The combined forces of China and Russia are a great deterrent to the United States. Added to that, the Bridge and Road Initiative (BRI) is drawing more countries across Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. The coming decade won’t be divided by an iron curtain but clearly by two blocks vying for influence. China has huge economic and proximity advantage whereas the United States has its military component and potent alliance powers especially with India and Japan. After the pandemic, the turn of history may be different, so the 21st century scenario development may be problematic as it stands now. That said, the book attempts projection and scenario development extrapolating the vexed issues and events between India and China within the broader framework of Indo-Pacific.
ENGLISH

Children And Youth In China Since 1978: Opportunities And Challenges

304,75€ + 10% CARD

 China, while maintaining high speed in economic growth, has made tremendous social progress since 2000, particularly in the provision of general education and health services. In the same period, the society is rapidly aging, particularly in North and Northeastern China where the proportion of population over 65 years of age has exceeded twenty percent. Decision makers are facing difficulties in balancing the protection expenses between the young and the old. This book aims to describe the situations of children and youth in China, a country characterized by regional disparities and urban-rural divisions in every social aspect. The book aims to report the many hardships and difficulties youth and children face when support from the State or public goods are unavailable. It also aims to identify areas of future growth.
ENGLISH

Challenges Of Law And Governance In Indonesia In The Disruptive Era I

212,00€ + 10% CARD

 This book originates from papers presented at the 2nd ICLAVE 2018 conference in Bali, Indonesia, on 5-6 November 2018, organized by the faculty of law at Universitas Indonesia. The conference aims to provide an international platform for academicians, researchers and budding students around the world to share their findings and foster future collaborations. Various topics related to the clash between law and the Industrial Revolution 4.0 were covered at the conference. The organizer believes that the law must deal with disruptive innovation, digitalization, and the constant development of technology concerning how to protect personal data, artificial intelligence, financial technology, and other things that accompany technological progress. There are around 30 articles in this book that discuss laws in the disruptive era from the perspectives of administrative law, constitutional law, business law, intellectual property law, and criminal law.
ENGLISH

Challenges Of Law And Governance In Indonesia In The Disruptive Era Ii

304,75€ + 10% CARD

 This book originates from papers presented at the 2nd ICLAVE 2018 conference in Bali, Indonesia, on 5-6 November 2018, organized by the faculty of law at Universitas Indonesia. The conference aims to provide an international platform for academicians, researchers and budding students around the world to share their findings and foster future collaborations. Various topics related to the clash between law and the Industrial Revolution 4.0 were covered at the conference. The theme for the 2nd International Conference on Law and Governance in a Global Context (the 2nd iCLave) is "Law and Governance in the Disruptive Era." The term "disruptive" refers to the latest trends related to the utilization of technology, automation process, data exchange and cloud computing, and also includes the cyber-physical system, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, and cognitive computing. The organizer believes that the law must deal with disruptive innovation, digitalization, and the constant development of technology concerning how to protect personal data, artificial intelligence, financial technology, and other things that accompany technological progress. There are around 30 articles in this book that discuss laws in the disruptive era from the perspectives of human rights and access to justice, adat (customary) law and Sharia law, judiciary law, and international law.
ENGLISH

Governance And Security Issues In South Asia

304,75€ + 10% CARD

 South Asia represents an extravagantly diverse region with a multitude of asymmetrical characteristics with regard to size, population, biodiversity and economy. Governance and Security issues in South Asia incarnates a comprehensive peep into the nature, gravity, navigation and drivers of governance and security issues across the South Asian region. While canvassing the different aspects of governance and security issues in the region, the authors have critically portrayed security dilemmas and governance pitfalls. The book is useful for academicians, policy makers, scholars, researchers, development professionals, think tanks and people involved in South Asian affairs.
ENGLISH

Dissecting History And Problematizing The Past In Indonesia

304,75€ + 10% CARD

 Studies on Indonesian history commonly deal with issues revolving around the nation’s politics, religion, and identity. However, the development of human civilization does not always occur in merely these three aspects. Other aspects such as technological and scientific advancement are also factors which contribute to the progress of human life. Unfortunately, it is uncommon for the academic discipline of history to tackle such issues, especially with a more particular focus on Indonesia. Dealing with these two major themes may also pose some difficulties. To understand recent technological and scientific developments, understanding our ancestors’ ways of survival, cultivation, and belief system becomes necessary. Nonetheless, without using manuscripts or conducting interviews with local people of a particular place, information regarding our ancestors’ way of life would become mere stories. To overcome these obstacles, Dissecting History and Articulating the Past is produced as an edited volume which explores these issues, particularly in the space of Indonesia. To provide more comprehensive information, Indonesia’s relation with its neighboring countries such as Malaysia and Australia is also presented in this edited volume. This edited volume consists of 7 parts, each of which examines particular issues: (1) History of Indonesian Infrastructures; (2) History and Indonesian Politics; (3) History and Social Issues; (4) History and Transnational Relation; (5) History and Economics; (6) Religion in Indonesian History; (7) History and Manuscripts. The chapters of the edited volume are written by researchers from particular regions in Indonesia. In studying their places of origin, these researchers write the chapters with emotional attachments uniquely belonging to them. Such emotional attachments result in findings with unique perspectives which differ from those of foreign and other Indonesian researchers who have studied the same location. At the same time, researchers who present their findings on Indonesia-Malaysia or Indonesia-Australia relation (along with the life of society in respective countries) also make fresh contributions to existing repository of historical writings on politics and international relations. With diverse issues explored and investigated, this edited volume will prove to be useful for not only historians, but also researchers from different academic disciplines whose focus of research is related to technology and culture.
ENGLISH

Hong Kong: Past, Present And Future

108,65€ + 10% CARD

 Hong Kong: Past, Present and Future first explores the "non-national" features of Hong Kong citizenship by analysing its development in relation to three key features: people’s identities, uneven political participation, and the development of civil society. The subsequent study explores ideological detachment from ideas of "nation-ness", if English language discourse is to produce a stable model of Hong Kong identity. The authors examine the discourses of young people and older people pertaining to socio-political issues concerning Hong Kong, reviewing major research studies conducted in Hong Kong on young people’s attitudes towards the society. The closing review provides an extensive summary on phonetics and phonology research on Hong Kong English in the past two decades, and also discusses how the codification and standardisation of Hong Kong English would aid in its development.
ENGLISH

Asian Countries: Economic, Political And Social Issues

258,38€ + 10% CARD

 Over the last four decades, Asian countries have experienced a substantial increase in their global competitiveness. While some of this is due to their economic activity, politics are also a contributing factor. Technological advances, particularly concerning the internet and social media, have also contributed, as have many other factors. We expect information and communication technology led by the development of the internet to make the transformation of knowledge easier and more efficient, thus contributing to faster economic growth worldwide. Sound macroeconomic policy and political conditions facilitate this process. Many Asian countries have learned from the experience of the Asian Crisis of 1987 when the Thai baht lost its value due to a shortage of reserves by the Central bank of Thailand, and capital outflow spread throughout the region. Asian countries now know that to avoid such a run on foreign currencies, they must hold enough reserves to support their own currency. Sound fiscal and monetary policies, as well as an exchange rate policy combined with an efficient banking system, are required to enhance the reserve policy. Another requirement for the effectiveness of macroeconomic policies is desirable political conditions to enhance international confidence in these countries. Strong political stability requires sound rules, laws, and democratic institutions that must be transparent. Granting excessive power to any one ruler has proved to lead to corruption which is an impediment to growth. This book addresses the issues above by providing theoretical and empirical evidence using data from some countries in Asia.
ENGLISH

Burma: Background, U.S. Relationship And Human Rights Abuses

304,75€ + 10% CARD

 Major changes in Burma’s political situation since 2016 have raised questions concerning the appropriateness of U.S. policy toward Burma (Myanmar) in general, and the current restrictions on relations with Burma in particular. Various developments in Burma between 2010 and 2016 led the Obama Administration and others to perceive positive developments toward the restoration of a democratically elected civilian government in that nation after nearly five decades of military rule. Based on that perception, the Obama Administration waived most of the sanctions on Burma, particularly after Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy won the 2015 parliamentary elections and a new NLD-controlled Union Parliament took office in April 2016. Certain events since 2016, however, have led some to call for the reinstatement of some of the waived sanctions and/or the imposition of new restrictions on relations with Burma.
ENGLISH

South Korea: International Relations, Trade And Policies

311,38€ + 10% CARD

 Since late 2008, relations between the United States and South Korea have been arguably at their best state in decades. By the middle of 2010, in the view of many in the Obama Administration, South Korea had emerged as the United States'' closest ally in East Asia. This new book examines U.S.-South Korea relations; the EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement and its implications for the United States; the issues surrounding the U.S.-South Korea beef dispute; the Kaesong North-South Korean Industrial complex and major policy considerations for the U.S. and South Korean cooperation in the world nuclear energy market.
ENGLISH

Contemporary Issues In South Asia

304,75€ + 10% CARD

 The problems of the South Asian region are different from those in the developed world. The region is characterised by rapidly changing socioeconomic scenario, fast-increasing urbanization and longevity, changes in dietary patterns and decrease in mortality from infectious diseases. Drought, cyclones, floods, rural poverty and deprivation push rural population to flock to cities. Therefore, urbanization can be viewed as a consequence of these factors rather than the result of economic growth. This leads to environmental degradation, poverty and growth of urban slums. Rapidly growing population along with the rapid pace of urbanization and industrialisation puts pressure on the scarce resources including arable land. The food needs of the growing population has entailed considerable damage, including depletion and degradation of natural resources and unsustainable use of land and water resources. The lack of investment in human development indicators, namely education and health, has contributed to underdevelopment of these regions. This makes them vulnerable to the negative consequences of globalization. The book "Contemporary Issues in South Asia" provides insight into human problems, the capitalistic system that has caused irreversible damage to human existence, ideology given by Guru Nanak, the relationship between the human development index and its indicators, the current state of e-government development within South Asian countries, the link between governance structure and web-based reporting of financial and non-financial information, the illegal migration from Bangladesh to India, the geostrategy of Sri Lanka, the workplace diversity and the role of management to eliminate factors leading to occupational stress, the rising environmental concerns that have influenced business firms and the concept of green GDP. The book seeks to address the emerging issues of the South Asian countries, namely Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives, by presenting research and analysis, which are both cross-sectional and multi-disciplinary. The book aims to create a research space to explore the emerging multi-dimensional issues and shall benefit the researchers working on South Asia and South Asian Diasporas in the post-colonial era. The book encourages the development of future research agendas across arts and social sciences disciplines based on the South Asian region.
ENGLISH

Climate Adaptation For A Sustainable Economy: Lessons From Bangladesh, An Emerging Tiger Of Asia

258,38€ + 10% CARD

 When thinking of the leaders of Asia who brought landmark prosperity to their respective nations from the second half of the 20th century, two leaders immediately come to mind: late Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore and Dr. Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia. Bangladesh’s own Sheikh Mujibur Rahman did not have time to turn Bangladesh into a prosperous nation, but he was the architect of the Bangladesh nation, which sacrificed three million men and women, and two hundred thousand women lost dignity in a liberation war in 1971. These leaders had one thing in common, they had visions about prosperity and freedom. Singapore and Malaysia realized late Prime Minister Lee and Prime Minister Mahthir’s visions in their lifetime. Mahathir is still living. Mujib too had a vision for the prosperity of his people. His vision was, in his words, "I want to make Bangladesh the Switzerland of Asia". In other words, Sheikh Mujib wanted to make Bangladesh a Golden Bengal, a member of the OECD nations. Since the dark days of 1975 when he was killed by assassins’ bullets, the nation has been looking for opportunity to realize Mujib’s visions. Finally, the opportunity came to his daughter Sheikh Hasina in 1996 and with a break of next five years at last she got momentum in 2009 for taking Bangladesh to prosperity. The incumbent government since 2009 has been doing extraordinarily well to maintain and fulfill all the requirements of a "middle income" status which was awarded in March 2018. Sheikh Hasina has recently said, "Bangladesh will achieve the goals to become a middle-income nation by 2021, three years ahead of the deadline set by the World Bank. She has been working tirelessly for transforming Bangladesh into a "developed" nation by 2041. Indeed, she is a visionary too for realizing the visions of Mujib by making Bangladesh the Switzerland of Asia. Her vision 2021 is coming to an end in two years’ time and it is clear now world-wide on the nation’s development agenda in place to 2041, coinciding with UN agenda 2030 (Sustainable Development Goals).
ENGLISH

North Korea And South Korea

125,88€ + 10% CARD

 Hopes for denuclearization in North Korea were raised with the holding of three inter-Korean summits and the first ever North Korea-United States summit in 2018, and many discussions have taken place on building a peace regime on the Korean Peninsula. However, no practical progress on denuclearization has been made so far. Denuclearization, the signing of a peace agreement and the establishment of a peace regime all depend on progress in North Korea-US relations. Accordingly, in a situation where the respective stances of North Korea and the United States regarding denuclearization remain unchanged, the South Korean Moon Jae-in administration can only play a limited role as a mediator. As such, this collection first focuses on the essence of the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula as an issue between the US and the Democratic People''s Republic of Korea since the Trump administration assumed office. It makes the case for rethinking the negotiations and the historical background of the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. The authors also provide background information on how ethnic minorities have been formed in the process of social development in Korea. In particular, the main social issues and affairs that have influenced the development of ethnic minority groups such as the government policy, economic development, labour shortage in dangerous industries, a serious shortage of marriageable partners for men in Korean rural areas and globalization since the establishment of Korea are considered. The main goal of the concluding study is to determine how Spain is perceived by South Koreans and their travel motivations, and whether Spain may be a suitable destination for Korean tourists. The information was gathered by means of a questionnaire administered to university students residing in South Korea.
Loading results...

View more results