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This edited translation of Katutugu Yoshida's Jiyuno Nigaiaji
analyses the gradual process of reform in Taiwan over the past 100
years. It pays particular attention to the dilemmas, compromises
and pitfalls that have faced reformists as they have strived to
bring democratic change under a series of brutal dictatorships. The
author discusses the historical background to Taiwan's current
constitutional issues and its difficult relationship with the
People's Republic of China. It explores in detail the way in which
local political activism has transformed national politics,
providing original analysis of democratic political thought in East
Asia and a rich explanation of the social, historical and political
context of democratization in Taiwan. The book makes a significant
theoretical contribution to the literature on political reform by
using the Taiwanese context to explore debates between reformists
and revolutionaries and to consider the development of the concept
of the right to self-determination. This challenging and
stimulating book will strongly appeal to scholars and students with
an interest in Asian studies, politics, public policy and public
choice.
The first book-length study of adoption in Japan, this impressive
work tackles the innovative and sometimes controversial subject of
the policies of adoption agencies in Japan. The book places special
adoption in the context of a liberal reformist agenda that has
challenged traditional concepts of the family through the efforts
to place children with difficult family backgrounds, including
mixed and minority ethnic backgrounds. Drawing on empirical source
material gathered since the late 1980s, the authors consider the
central policy issue of whether agencies should be given a free
hand to create their own policies, or whether they should be more
tightly regulated. Finally, the book analyzes how different agency
strategies for finding homes for hard to place children are related
to different assumptions about the psychology and reasoning of
prospective parents. Adoption in Japan makes a significant
contribution to the academic literature in the fields of Japanese
studies, public policy, social work and sociology. It will also be
of interest to professionals involved in adoption agencies,
specialist social work and adoption panels.
Effective policies to prevent global warming and climatic change
are urgently required by the world community. However,
international negotiations on this issue repeatedly come up against
the problems of allocating responsibility for the greenhouse
effect, and bearing the costs of remedying the situation.;This
volume offers a multidisciplinary response to the challenge. It
presents the scientific, economic and political issues and goes on
to describe the policy options available. The different ways of
determining responsibility for greenhouse gases and calculating
obligations to pay for hazards to the environment are analyzed. The
contributors examine the implications for various countries, while
a concluding chapter explores climatic change negotations - what is
at stake, and for whom.
Peter Hayes has been teaching Holocaust studies for decades and
Why? grows out of the questions he's encountered from his students.
Despite the outpouring of books, films, memorials, museums and
courses devoted to the subject, a coherent explanation of why such
carnage erupted still eludes people. Numerous myths have sprouted,
many to console us that things could have gone differently if only
some person or entity had acted more bravely or wisely; others cast
new blame on favourite or surprising villains or even on
historians. Why? dispels many legends and debunks the most
prevalent ones, including the claim that the Holocaust never
happened. Hayes brings scholarly wisdom to bear on popular views of
the history, challenging some of the most prominent interpretations
and arguing that the convergence of multiple forces at a particular
moment resulted in this catastrophe.
In this unique volume, an international cast of leading scholars
from several disciplines offers a comprehensive assessment of the
current status of space-based weaponry. Regional and technical
experts offer their analysis of the major powers' special interests
in space and also examine the broader issues of ICBM proliferation,
testing, monitoring, and verification as well as possible
opportunities for cooperation between states with a stake in space
power.
The first book-length study of adoption in Japan, this impressive
work tackles the innovative and sometimes controversial subject of
the policies of adoption agencies in Japan. The book places special
adoption in the context of a liberal reformist agenda that has
challenged traditional concepts of the family through the efforts
to place children with difficult family backgrounds, including
mixed and minority ethnic backgrounds. Drawing on empirical source
material gathered since the late 1980s, the authors consider the
central policy issue of whether agencies should be given a free
hand to create their own policies, or whether they should be more
tightly regulated. Finally, the book analyzes how different agency
strategies for finding homes for hard to place children are related
to different assumptions about the psychology and reasoning of
prospective parents. Adoption in Japan makes a significant
contribution to the academic literature in the fields of Japanese
studies, public policy, social work and sociology. It will also be
of interest to professionals involved in adoption agencies,
specialist social work and adoption panels.
In this unique volume, an international cast of leading scholars
from several disciplines offers a comprehensive assessment of the
current status of space-based weaponry. Regional and technical
experts offer their analysis of the major powers' special interests
in space and also examine the broader issues of ICBM proliferation,
testing, monitoring, and verification as well as possible
opportunities for cooperation between states with a stake in space
power.
Korean security was the focus of worldwide attention and concern in
1993-95 with North Korea's "suspected" nuclear weapons program.
Dubbed by some as the first post-Cold War nuclear crisis, it was
triggered by the United Nations Security Council's move to impose
economic sanctions on North Korea. Although the immediate crisis
was defused diplomatically, the nuclear time bomb continues to tick
on the Korean peninsula and the issues remain under close
international surveillance. This important book examines North
Korea's nuclear controversy from a variety of perspectives,
including nuclear reactor technology and technology transfer,
economic sanctions and incentives, strategic calculus and
confidence-building measures, the major powers, and environmental
challenges that a nuclear-free zone in Korea will present.
Korean security was the focus of world-wide attention and concern
in 1993-95 with North Korea's "suspected" nuclear weapons program.
Dubbed by some as the first post-Cold War nuclear crisis, it was
triggered by the United Nations Security Council's move to impose
economic sanctions on North Korea. Although the immediate crisis
was defused diplomatically, the nuclear time bomb continues to tick
on the Korean peninsula, and the issues remain under close
international surveillance. This important book examines North
Korea's nuclear controversy from a variety of perspectives,
including nuclear reactor technology and technology transfer,
economic sanctions and incentives, strategic calculus and
confidence-building measures, the major powers, and environmental
challenges that a nuclear-free zone in Korea will present.
Effective policies to prevent global warming and climatic change
are urgently required by the world community. However,
international negotiations on this issue repeatedly come up against
the problems of allocating responsibility for the greenhouse
effect, and bearing the costs of remedying the situation.;This
volume offers a multidisciplinary response to the challenge. It
presents the scientific, economic and political issues and goes on
to describe the policy options available. The different ways of
determining responsibility for greenhouse gases and calculating
obligations to pay for hazards to the environment are analyzed. The
contributors examine the implications for various countries, while
a concluding chapter explores climatic change negotations - what is
at stake, and for whom.
From Cooperation to Complicity is a study of the Degussa
corporation, a firm which played a pivotal role in the processing
of plundered precious metals in Nazi-occupied Europe and controlled
the production and distribution of Zyklon B, the infamous pesticide
used to gas the inmates of Auschwitz and Majdanek concentration
camps, during the Third Reich. The author traces the extent of the
corporation's involvement in these and other Nazi war crimes,
including the Aryanization of Jewish-owned property and the
exploitation of forced labour, and delineates the motivations for
such conduct.
This book is the English translation of Gerald D. Feldman's
contributions to the multi-author, two-volume study
OEsterreichische Banken und Sparkassen im Nationalsozialismus und
in der Nachkeriegszeit, which was originally published in German by
C. H. Beck in 2006. Austrian Banks in the Period of National
Socialism focuses on the activities of two major financial
institutions, the Creditanstalt-Wiener Bankverein and the
Landerbank Wien. It details the ways the two banks served the Nazi
regime and how they used the opportunities presented by Nazi rule
to expand their business activities. Particular attention is given
to the role that the Creditanstalt and Landerbank played in the
'Aryanization' of Jewish-owned businesses. The book also examines
the two banks' relations with their industrial clients and
considers the question of whether bank officials had any knowledge
of their client firms' use of concentration camp prisoners and
other forced laborers during World War II.
This book is the English translation of Gerald D. Feldman's
contributions to the multi-author, two-volume study
OEsterreichische Banken und Sparkassen im Nationalsozialismus und
in der Nachkeriegszeit, which was originally published in German by
C. H. Beck in 2006. Austrian Banks in the Period of National
Socialism focuses on the activities of two major financial
institutions, the Creditanstalt-Wiener Bankverein and the
Landerbank Wien. It details the ways the two banks served the Nazi
regime and how they used the opportunities presented by Nazi rule
to expand their business activities. Particular attention is given
to the role that the Creditanstalt and Landerbank played in the
'Aryanization' of Jewish-owned businesses. The book also examines
the two banks' relations with their industrial clients and
considers the question of whether bank officials had any knowledge
of their client firms' use of concentration camp prisoners and
other forced laborers during World War II.
This book collects some of the most influential scholars in
international relations who focus on Asia globally in exploring the
challenges of diplomacy faced in Asia as US policy drastically
changes. The president-elect has suggested policies which, if
implemented, would radically transform the way that the region
functions; what will this mean in practice? China's government is
also retrenching nationalist positions; what is the future of
China, and what does that mean for the region? A wide range of
distinguished scholars, concerned about the future, have
contributed their thoughts in an attempt to spark a global
dialogue.
This book collects some of the most influential scholars in
international relations who focus on Asia globally in exploring the
challenges of diplomacy faced in Asia as US policy drastically
changes. The president-elect has suggested policies which, if
implemented, would radically transform the way that the region
functions; what will this mean in practice? China's government is
also retrenching nationalist positions; what is the future of
China, and what does that mean for the region? A wide range of
distinguished scholars, concerned about the future, have
contributed their thoughts in an attempt to spark a global
dialogue.
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