This book shows how one of the most powerful tools of security studies--strategic culture--illuminates the origins and implications of the Asia-Pacific region's difficult issues, from the rise of China and the American pivot, to the shifting calculations of many other actors. Strategic culture sometimes challenges and always enriches prevailing neo-realist presumptions about the region. It provides a bridge between material and ideational explanations of state behavior and helps capture the tension between neoclassical realist and constructivist approaches. The case studies in this book survey the role of strategic culture in the behaviors of Australia, China, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea and the United States. They show the contrast between structural expectations and cultural predispositions, as realist geopolitical security threats and opportunities interact with domestic elite and popular interpretation of historical narratives and distinctive political-military cultures to influence security policies. The concluding chapter devotes special attention to methodological issues at the heart of strategic cultural studies, as well as how culture may impact the potential for future conflict or cooperation in the region. The result is a body of work that helps deepen our understanding of strategic cultures in the Asia-Pacific in comparative perspective and enrich security studies.
This book was published as a special issue of Contemporary Security Policy.
Автор: Agamuthu Pariatamby; Masaru Tanaka Название: Municipal Solid Waste Management in Asia and the Pacific Islands ISBN: 981445172X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789814451727 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 18284.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book offers a comprehensive, coherent investigation in municipal solid waste (MSW) management in Asia and the Pacific Islands, including, definitions used, generation, sustainable waste management system, legal framework and impacts on global warming.
Автор: David Timothy Duval Название: Air Transport in the Asia Pacific ISBN: 1409454061 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409454069 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: What was once a region in the shadow of larger and more prosperous continents such as North America and Europe is now at the forefront of expansion in commercial air-service networks, frequency and capacity, and the overall growth in the contribution of air transport to economies on regional and, in many cases, individual country levels.
Описание: This comparative analysis of administrative frameworks, functions, and performance of revenue bodies in 28 Asia–Pacific economies includes developments and trends in tax administration practice and performance.The analysis and practical guidance provided in this report are based on surveys of revenue bodies conducted in 2016 and 2017, along with accompanying research of revenue bodies’ corporate documents, and guidance and diagnostic materials published by international organizations that seek to promote improvements in tax administration. This report also encourages governments and revenue officials to identify opportunities to enhance the operation of tax systems.It is third in the series on ADB's tax administration that aims to help revenue bodies and governments identify opportunities for enhancing the operation of their tax systems by sharing internationally comparable data on aspects of tax systems and their administration. However, considerable care needs be taken with international comparisons of tax administration setups and performance-related data. In this report, ADB adopted the International Survey on Revenue Administrations survey instrument.
Автор: Rollason Will Название: Pacific Futures ISBN: 1782383506 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781782383505 Издательство: Berghahn Рейтинг: Цена: 17846.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The Pacific region presents a huge diversity of cultural forms, which have fuelled some of the most challenging ethnographic work undertaken in the discipline. But this challenge has come at a cost. Culture, often reconfigured as ‘custom’, has often served to trap the people of the Pacific in the past of cultural reproduction, where everything is what it has always been, or worse—outdated, outmoded and destined for modernization.
Pacific Futures asks how our understanding of social life in the Pacific would be different if we approached it from the perspective of the futures which Pacific people dream of, predict or struggle to achieve, not the reproduction of cultural tradition. From Christianity to gambling, marriage to cargo cult, military coups to reflections on childhood fishing trips, the contributors to this volume show how Pacific people are actively shaping their lives with the future in mind.
Автор: Ramsay Raylene L. Название: Literatures of the French Pacific ISBN: 1781380376 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781781380376 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 32761.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A path-breaking analysis of hybridity in the literatures of the Francophone Pacific.
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