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  • The Hermit Kingdom Goes Online

    Information Technology, Internet Use and Communication Policy in North Korea

    by Bernhard Seliger ...
    This study gives a comprehensive overview of the development of the Internet in North Korea, and discusses related applications, challenges and opportunities. It argues that North Korea can no longer ignore the Internet, neither as a chance to further its intentions, e.g., in cyber warfare, national self-representation and business, nor as a threat due to the greater availability of knowledge in ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Korea, the Iron Silk Road and the Belt and Road Initiative

    Soft Power and Hard Power Approaches

    Edited by Ralph M. Wrobel, Bernhard Seliger ...
    Series Book 9 - Emerging Markets Studies
    Korea as a “middle power” in the last decades saw a growing importance, partly through greater economic clout, partly through greater cultural and soft power (“K-pop”), and partly through collective action in institutions like G 20. However, recent instability in Northeast Asia, plus growing trade conflicts and political conflicts in the region and worldwide, endanger this position. Moreover, the ... Read more

    $60.29 USD

  • East Asia and Eastern Europe in a Globalized Perspective

    Lessons from Korea and Estonia

    Edited by Bernhard Seliger, Jüri Sepp, Ralph Wrobel ...
    Series Book 5 - Ordnungspolitische Dialoge
    This book compares development experiences from South Korea and Estonia, which are both very successful examples of development within their region. The development experience of states in the 20th century offers a bewildering variety and often downright contradicting models, which nevertheless led to catching-up and rapid growth rates, leaving policy-makers in countries trying to emulate such ... Read more

    $90.29 USD

  • Towards a Northeast Asian Security Community

    Implications for Korea's Growth and Economic Development

    Edited by Bernhard Seliger, Werner Pascha ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The Northeast Asian security environment is closely linked to Korea’s growth perspectives for the future. The spectacular rise of the South Korean economy in the past half century, also known as “Miracle on the Han River,” has been duly highlighted as one of the most successful cases of economic development worldwide. However, among the factors curbing South Korea’s growth perspectives has been, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    Edited by C. Kuzemko, A. Belyi, A. Goldthau, M. Keating ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Energy in Europe and Russia is in flux. This book presents a rich set of case studies for analyzing the complex and intertwined regional dynamics of multiple actors, levels, and policy fields in energy throughout Europe and Russia, with the aim of offering an alternative view to the prevalent geopolitical or neoliberal approaches. ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Doing Business in South East Europe

    Edited by D. Sternad, T. Döring ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    A comprehensive insight into a region which is characterized by rapid economic and social changes with a significant rise in foreign direct investments and privatization. Analysis covers political, legal, economic and social trends, and topics such as the influence of informal networks and corruption, as well as cultural diversity. ... Read more

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  • Alibaba

    The House That Jack Ma Built

    by Duncan Clark ...
    "The story of Alibaba's rise—along with Jack Ma's—offers a fascinating window onto China's staggering transformation." — The Wall Street JournalIn just a decade and half Jack Ma, a man who rose from humble beginnings and started his career as an English teacher, founded and built Alibaba into the second largest Internet company in the world. The company's $25 billion IPO in 2014 was the world's ... Read more

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  • The Third Revolution

    Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State

    by Elizabeth C. Economy ...
    In The Third Revolution, eminent China scholar Elizabeth C. Economy provides an incisive look at the transformative changes underway in China today. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has unleashed a powerful set of political and economic reforms: the centralization of power under Xi, himself, the expansion of the Communist Party's role in Chinese political, social, and economic life, and the construction ... Read more

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  • The Quest for Good Governance

    How Societies Develop Control of Corruption

    by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi ...
    Why do some societies manage to control corruption so that it manifests itself only occasionally, while other societies remain systemically corrupt? This book is about how societies reach that point when integrity becomes the norm and corruption the exception in regard to how public affairs are run and public resources are allocated. It primarily asks what lessons we have learned from historical ... Read more

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  • Learning Chinese For Newbies

    by Nicholas Peters ...
    Quick Start Guides - Learning Chinese For Newbies Presently, 1.3 billion people speak Chinese around the world, and of this, 885 million speak Mandarin (the official language of China), which also happens to be the most dominant dialect. Currently in the USA, only 24,000 students (Grades 7 through to 12) are actually studying this language, but their numbers are steadily growing. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Overreach

    How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise

    by Susan L. Shirk ...
    Winner, The Lionel Gelber Prize Silver Medal, Arthur Ross Book Award For decades, China's rise to power was characterized by its reassurance that this rise would be peaceful. Then, as Susan L. Shirk, shows in this sobering, clear-eyed account of China today, something changed. For three decades after Mao's death in 1976, China's leaders adopted a restrained approach to foreign policy. They ... Read more

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  • We have been harmonised

    Life in China's surveillance state

    by Kai Strittmatter ...
    Translated by Ruth Martin ...
    CHINA TODAY. TOMORROW, THE WORLD?In China's shiny new 'Smart Cities', citizens can scarcely cross the road or buy an orange without the Party knowing, and posting a satirical online comment about President Xi's Winnie-the-Pooh-like features can land you in jail.A generation after the tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square, China's autocratic leaders are using powerful new technologies to create the ... Read more

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