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This book raises issues of industrial policy and reform in key Asia-Pacific countries in the context of Pacific regional cooperation. It explores how service enterprises have affected trade in goods and transnational manufacturing, forming a regional pattern of interdependence.

First published in 1997, this volume features analysis of one of the fastest growing areas in Asia for gross national product, trade and commerce: the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN).

First published in 1998, this volume responded to the recent fall of the Soviet Union and looks at the process of transitioning away from Socialist economies, including case studies in the former Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, China, East Germany and other Socialist countries.

This book is about Han Chinese who dared to cross over the Great Wall of China, to make a life for themselves on the northern frontier. It compares family lives, the economy, and gender relations among Chinese herders and farmers of Inner Mongolia.

This book sheds light on the evolution of French security policy in general and on the tension between independence and interdependence in French policy in particular. It also examines the major dimensions of French security policy.

First published in 1999, this volume forms part of the Plymouth Studies in Contemporary Shipping series and focuses on Egyptian road freight privatisation.

First published in 1998, this volume contains essays from leading thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic on the relationship between law and science.

In this book, the author argues that the roots of protracted conflict lie in unacknowledged feelings of shame and rage. He builds from the assumption that the social bond is a real and palpable phenomena and that in every type of human contact the bond is built, maintained, repaired, or damaged.

This book discusses pesticide production, distribution, and use, the problems caused by pests and pesticides, and the role of integrated pest management in minimizing these problems. It addresses the relationship of the farmers' practices and attitudes to the development of pest management systems.

First published in 1999, this book analyses the national interests of Russia as thy are indicated by the current policies of the Russian government and formulated in public and not so public discussions in high echelons of government.

This book documents the experiences of anthropologists with development in West Africa during the past decade. It presents case study material to bring out the actual and potential contributions of social science to solving development problems found in Africa and in other parts of the Third World.

This book provides a systematic, integrated review and comparison of the contributions of sociology, political science, economics, demography, anthropology, psychiatry, and psychology to a number of health-related fields, including epidemiology, health services research, and health policy studies.

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This book explores the dynamics of academic exchange and examines such issues as undergraduate versus graduate study abroad and the purpose and effect of sending students to foreign countries. It discusses faculty exchange, collaborative research, and linkages across national boundaries.

This book provides a representation of a world in which none of us have lived and of its potential dynamics. It looks at the interaction of tendencies such as democratization, technological expansion, regional integration, and the obsolescence of war, and discusses U.S. role in changing world order.

This book is designed as a guide which directs the reader through the maze of literature that Political Development studies involves and as a warning against the managerial approach to political change that such literature often masks.

Reviewing the domestic politics, foreign relations, and economies of North and South Korea, this book covers South Korea's security ties with the United States, the history of the South Korean press over the past 30 years, and the difficulties Korean women face in a traditional society.

First published in 1998, this collection of ten essays transforms our understanding of both the role of philosophical anthropology in modern world philosophy and the origins of tribal knowledge in their relation to contemporary assessments of cognition and consciousness.

This book presents the translation of Joseph Perl's Megalle Temirin that reflects the convergence of the author's lifelong interests in Jewish thought, language and literature. It portrays Eastern European Jewish life in the tumultuous early years of the nineteenth century.

This book emphasizes specific aspects of cinematic representations of gender and authority, highlighting the multiple, competing versions of masculinity and femininity constructed in Hollywood movies in the 1980s and the different class positions of their primary, intended audiences.