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  • 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

    $61.19 USD

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

    The Real Story of China in Africa

    by Deborah Brautigam ...
    Is China a rogue donor, as some media pundits suggest? Or is China helping the developing world pave a pathway out of poverty, as the Chinese claim? In the last few years, China's aid program has leapt out of the shadows. Media reports about huge aid packages, support for pariah regimes, regiments of Chinese labor, and the ruthless exploitation of workers and natural resources in some of the ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • 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 ...
    Series series Africa Now
    In recent years, China and India have become the most important economic partners of Africa and their footprints are growing by leaps and bounds, transforming Africa's international relations in a dramatic way. Although the overall impact of China and India's engagement in Africa has been positive in the short-term, partly as a result of higher returns from commodity exports fuelled by excessive ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • 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

    $32.39 USD

  • The Rule of Law in South Korea

    Edited by Jongryn Mo, David W. Brady ...
    Expert contributors examine the challenges of fully implementing the rule of law in South Korea's fledgling democracy and market economy. The expert contributors detail the obstacles that must be overcome, such as corruption in politics and corporate governance and a deep-rooted cultural indifference to the rights of the individual, and offer suggestions on what can—and what should not—be done. ... Read more

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  • European Union Sanctions and Foreign Policy

    When and Why do they Work?

    by Clara Portela ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in European Politics
    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

    $77.99 USD

  • China and Global Trade Governance

    China's First Decade in the World Trade Organization

    Edited by Ka Zeng, Wei Liang ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    China's historic accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in November 2001 not only represents an important milestone in the country’s transition to a market economy and integration into the global economy, but is also among the most important events in the history of the WTO and the multilateral trading system. China and Global Trade Governance: China's First Decade in the World Trade ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Japan's Foreign Aid

    Old Continuities and New Directions

    Edited by David Arase ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    Filling a gap in the existing literature, this book analyzes the distinctive features of Japan’s development aid, especially technical co-operation, in comparison with other donors’ aid. Incorporating a wealth of research, it discusses whether Japan is behind other leading donor countries in rethinking its aid policy and whether it lacks transparency, sensitivity to recipient needs, and a coherent ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Arbitration in China

    A Legal and Cultural Analysis

    by Kun Fan ...
    Series series China and International Economic Law Series
    In the context of harmonisation of arbitration law and practice worldwide, to what extent do local legal traditions still influence local arbitration practices, especially at a time when non-Western countries are playing an increasingly important role in international commercial and financial markets? How are the new economic powers reacting to the trend towards harmonisation? China provides a ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Slovenian Democratic Evolution and Praxis

    by Miro Haček, Marjan Brezovšek, Simona Kukovič ...
    According to the Nations in transit and HDI measurements, Slovenia isregarded as a democratic country yet with some measurements it can alsobe found lower down the scale (problems with corruption). Although suchmeasurements are not completely accurate, most of them rank Sloveniaamong the most successful countries in democratic transition. Since gainingindependence in 1991, Slovenia has completely ... Read more

    $13.58 USD

  • Africa and China

    How Africans and Their Governments are Shaping Relations with China

    Edited by Aleksandra W. Gadzala ...
    The China-Africa relationship has so far largely been depicted as one in which the Chinese state and Chinese entrepreneurs control the agenda, with Africans and their governments as passive actors exercising little or no agency. This volume examines the African side of the relation, to show how African state and non-state actors increasingly influence the China-Africa partnership and, in so doing, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Law and Development Perspective on International Trade Law

    Edited by Yong-Shik Lee, Gary Horlick, Won-Mog Choi, Tomer Broude ...
    Economic development is the most important agenda in the international trading system today, as demonstrated by the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) adopted in the current multilateral trade negotiations of the World Trade Organization (the Doha Round). This book provides a relevant discussion of major international trade law issues from the perspective of development in the following areas: general ... Read more

    $60.69 USD