Explores the societal challenges that voluntary and non-profit organisations face in Japan and evaluates their future impact on Japanese society. Essential for any student of Japanese studies or the international non-profit sector...
This book offers important perspectives on the experience of modernity in China and reveals the dynamic responses of ethnic minorities as they encounter the forces of state sponsored modernization...
This book examines practical steps for achieving progress toward disarmament, realistically assessing both challenges and opportunities associated with achieving a world without nuclear weapons...
This book examines practical steps for achieving progress toward disarmament, realistically assessing both challenges and opportunities associated with achieving a world without nuclear weapons...
This new study examines the economic relationship between China and Europe, its importance and how it is likely to evolve and includes case studies of the automobile, toy, watch, telecommunications, banking and insurance industries...
This book uses case studies of governance from across Asia to examine how good governance principles translate into local settings, how local settings influence the conception of what is good governance and how the debate over good governance is deployed as a political or administrative strategy...
This book uses case studies of governance from across Asia to examine how good governance principles translate into local settings, how local settings influence the conception of what is good governance and how the debate over good governance is deployed as a political or administrative strategy...
It is often assumed that privatization leads to profit, and that well-delineated property rights and a strong private sector will help boost economy. This book investigates the property rights in Chinese enterprises in the reform era...
This is the first book-length analysis of Turkmenistan’s foreign policy, covering the most significant period in the formation of the independent nation. It furthers our understanding of Turkmenistan and provides an informed background for the study of continuity and change in Turkmen foreign policy..