Grand strategist and founder of modern Singapore offers key insights and controversial opinions on globalization, geopolitics, economic growth, and democracy.
When Lee Kuan Yew speaks, presidents, prime ministers, diplomats, and CEOs listen. Lee, the founding father of modern Singapore and its prime minister from 1959 to 1990, has honed his wisdom during more than fifty years on the world stage. Almost single-handedly responsible for transforming Singapore into a Western-style economic success, he offers a unique perspective on the geopolitics of East and West. American presidents from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama have welcomed him to the White House; British prime ministers from Margaret Thatcher to Tony Blair have recognized his wisdom; and business leaders from Rupert Murdoch to Rex Tillerson, CEO of Exxon Mobil, have praised his accomplishments. This book gathers key insights from interviews, speeches, and Lee's voluminous published writings and presents them in an engaging question and answer format.
Lee offers his assessment of China's future, asserting, among other things, that "China will want to share this century as co-equals with the U.S." He affirms the United States' position as the world's sole superpower but expresses dismay at the vagaries of its political system. He offers strategic advice for dealing with China and goes on to discuss India's future, Islamic terrorism, economic growth, geopolitics and globalization, and democracy. Lee does not pull his punches, offering his unvarnished opinions on multiculturalism, the welfare state, education, and the free market. This little book belongs on the reading list of every world leader -- including the one who takes the oath of office on January 20, 2013.
Автор: Yannan Ding; Maurizio Marinelli; Xiaohong Zhang Название: China: A Historical Geography of the Urban ISBN: 3319640410 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319640419 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 93160.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book offers a unique contribution to the burgeoning field of Chinese historical geography. Urban transformation in China constitutes both a domestic revolution and a world-historical event. Through the exploration of nine urban sites of momentous change, over an extended period of time, this book connects the past with the present, and provides much-needed literature on city growth and how they became complex laboratories of prosperity. The first part of this book puts Chinese urban changes into historical perspective, and probes the relationship between nation and city, focusing on Shanghai, Beijing and Changchun. Part two deals with the relationship between history and modernity, concentrating on Tunxi, a traditional trade center of tea, New Villages in Shanghai and street names in Taipei and Shanghai. Part three showcases the complexities of urban regeneration vis-a-vis heritage preservation in cities such as Datong, Tianjin and Qingdao. This book offers an innovative interdisciplinary and international perspective, which will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese urban studies, as well Chinese politics and society.
Автор: Rudi Hartmann; Jing`ai Wang; Tao Ye Название: A Comparative Geography of China and the U.S. ISBN: 9401778051 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401778053 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 93160.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The book is the outcome of a unique venture: a team of Chinese geographers and a team of American geographers collaborated on a new Comparative Geography of China and the United States.
Автор: Feuchtwang Stephan & Steinmuller Hans Название: China In Comparative Perspective ISBN: 1786342383 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786342386 Издательство: World Scientific Publishing Рейтинг: Цена: 103490.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
China in Comparative Perspective provides an overview of China based on empirical observation by field workers, as well as on historical documents, Chinese literary and philosophical texts and core theoretical frameworks in the social sciences. It enables readers to develop ways of putting the modern history, politics, economy and society of China into a framework in which China can be compared and contrasted with other countries.
Topics covered include the rise of capitalism, post-socialist transformations, family and gender, nationalism, democracy, and civil society. Each chapter offers a comparison with other countries in East and South-Asia, Europe and the rest of the world, showing how analytic concepts have to be modified to avoid either Eurocentric or Sinocentric bias, and how ideas derived from Chinese sources and observations must be accommodated for complete understanding of the issues discussed.
Written by two well-known anthropologists of China from the London School of Economics, Stephan Feuchtwang and Hans Steinm ller, this book is a comprehensive course for postgraduate students in Chinese and Asian studies, anthropology, sociology, political economy, politics and international relations.
Автор: Feuchtwang Stephan & Steinmuller Hans Название: China In Comparative Perspective ISBN: 1786342391 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786342393 Издательство: World Scientific Publishing Рейтинг: Цена: 50690.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
China in Comparative Perspective provides an overview of China based on empirical observation by field workers, as well as on historical documents, Chinese literary and philosophical texts and core theoretical frameworks in the social sciences. It enables readers to develop ways of putting the modern history, politics, economy and society of China into a framework in which China can be compared and contrasted with other countries.
Topics covered include the rise of capitalism, post-socialist transformations, family and gender, nationalism, democracy, and civil society. Each chapter offers a comparison with other countries in East and South-Asia, Europe and the rest of the world, showing how analytic concepts have to be modified to avoid either Eurocentric or Sinocentric bias, and how ideas derived from Chinese sources and observations must be accommodated for complete understanding of the issues discussed.
Written by two well-known anthropologists of China from the London School of Economics, Stephan Feuchtwang and Hans Steinm ller, this book is a comprehensive course for postgraduate students in Chinese and Asian studies, anthropology, sociology, political economy, politics and international relations.
Автор: Chen, Kai Название: Comparative study of child soldiering in myanmar-china border ISBN: 9814560014 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789814560016 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 46570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: From comparative perspective, this book explores the dynamics of child soldiering on the Myanmar-China border (i.e., Kachin and Shan States of Myanmar). This book reveals that Myanmar has limited power to reduce child soldiering on the Myanmar-China border, and there is no optimal solution for reducing child soldiering in the near future.
Автор: X. Zhang Название: China`s Trade Patterns and International Comparative Advantage ISBN: 0333740874 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333740873 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 172350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book outlines the process of China`s trade reforms over the past two decades and assesses the impact of these reforms on the economy. The author provides a detailed quantitative analysis to trace China`s evolving commodity pattern of trade and changing comparative advantage structure over the entire reform period.
Автор: Wu Yanrui Название: Understanding Economic Growth In China And India: A Comparative Study Of Selected Issues ISBN: 9814287784 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789814287784 Издательство: World Scientific Publishing Рейтинг: Цена: 74970.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Due to their sheer size and stake in the global economy, China and India have long been identified as the two giant economies of Asia. This book presents a comparative study on the economic growth of China and India by examining the significance of the role of productivity in economic growth as well as their relations with regional partners.
Автор: Wheatley, Paul Название: Origins And Character Of The Ancient Chinese City V. Ii: The Chinese City In Comparative Perspective ISBN: 0202362035 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780202362038 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 59190.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: These two volumes elucidate the manner in which there emerged, on the North China plain, hierarchically structured, functionally specialized social institutions organized on a political and territorial basis during the second millennium b
Автор: Steinberg Paul F., VanDeVeer Stacy D. Название: Comparative Environmental Politics: Theory, Practice, and Prospects ISBN: 0262693682 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262693684 Издательство: MIT Press Рейтинг: Цена: 39500.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Combining the theoretical tools of comparative politics with the substantive concerns of environmental policy, experts explore responses to environmental problems across nations and political systems
How do different societies respond politically to environmental problems around the globe? Answering this question requires systematic, cross-national comparisons of political institutions, regulatory styles, and state-society relations. The field of comparative environmental politics approaches this task by bringing the theoretical tools of comparative politics to bear on the substantive concerns of environmental policy. This book outlines a comparative environmental politics framework and applies it to concrete, real-world problems of politics and environmental management.
After a comprehensive review of the literature exploring domestic environmental politics around the world, the book provides a sample of major currents within the field, showing how environmental politics intersects with such topics as the greening of the state, the rise of social movements and green parties, European Union expansion, corporate social responsibility, federalism, political instability, management of local commons, and policymaking under democratic and authoritarian regimes. It offers fresh insights into environmental problems ranging from climate change to water scarcity and the disappearance of tropical forests, and it examines actions by state and nonstate actors at levels from the local to the continental. The book will help scholars and policymakers make sense of how environmental issues and politics are connected around the globe, and is ideal for use in upper-level undergraduateand graduate courses.
Автор: Nischik, Reingard M. Название: Comparative north american studies ISBN: 1137564229 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137564221 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 74530.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Merging selected case studies with textual analyses, this book explores the field of Comparative North American Literature through writers diverse as Margaret Atwood and Tim O`Brien. Topics include the North American modernist short story, narratives of the Canada-US border, and a never before released interview with Atwood.
Автор: Sangjin Park Название: A Comparative Study of Korean Literature ISBN: 1137557176 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137557179 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 65210.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This study in comparative literature reinterprets and reevaluates literary texts and socio-historical transitions, moving between the Korean, East Asian, and European contexts (and with particular reference to the reception of Dante Alighieri in the East).
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