Asian Business and Economics Research Unit (ABERU)

http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/units/aberu/


19 Dec 2008

ABERU, Business and Economics, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Self-description:
"The Asian Business and Economics Research Unit (ABERU) is a broad faculty-based research unit encompassing all the Departments in the Faculty of Business and Economics: Accounting and Finance, Business Law and Taxation, Econometrics and Business Statistics, Economics, Management and Marketing. ABERU draws on the experience and expertise of its members to produce inter-disciplinary research covering China, East Asia and South Asia, researching the Asian economies from a business or economics perspective."

SIte contents:
* Search; * Research Projects (Business social protection in China, China's migrant labour shortage, Effects of intergroup contact on attitudes of Chinese migrant workers to urban locals, English language self-efficacy among Chinese market vendors: Impact on bargaining with international customers, Financial markets reform in Asia, Financial risk management, Foreign exchange exposure and competition in Taiwanese manufacturing, Globalization and labour mobility in China, Industrial organisation in Japan: Evidence from the manufacturing sector, The social and business implications of extending China 's social security system, Subjective quality of life and job satisfaction among Chinese urban and migrant workers, Tourism and travel in Asia, Urban affluent consumers in China - their adoption and usage of credit cards);
* Prato Conference 2008;
* South Asia Research Program (Staff Research Interests, Publications [bibliographical details only]);
* East Asia Research Program (Staff Research Interests, Publications [bibliographical details only]);
* China Research Program (Staff Research Interests, Publications [bibliographical details only]);
* Past Events;
* Discussion Papers (2004- 2008. [The 2008 full-text downloadable papers are: P51 (2008) Change and Restructuring in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises - Russell Smyth and Zhai Qingguo; P52 (2008) An Emerging Credit Reporting System in China - Guibin Zhang and Russell Smyth; P53 (2008) Computable General Equilibrium Estimates of the Impact of the Bali Bombing on the Indonesian Economy - Djauhari Pambudi, Nathalie McCaughey and Russell Smyth; P54 (2008) Islands in the Stream: Chinese Internet Points in Prato - Graeme Johanson and Tom Denison; P55 (2008) Environmental Attitudes and Subjective Well-Being in Urban China - Russell Smyth and Xiaolei Qian; P56 (2008) New Empirical Evidence on Capital Mobility in Two Southeast Asian Economies: Malaysia and Singapore - Goh Soo Khoon, Tuck Cheong Tang and Koong Seow Shin; P57 (2008) Determinants of Job Satisfaction Among Chinese Off Farm Migrants - Russell Smyth, Qingguo Zhai and Xiaoxu Li; P58 (2008); Private and Public Financing of Education and Regional Disparities in Education Inputs in Contemporary China - Xiaolei Qian and Russell Smyth; P59 (2008) Exchange Rate and Stock Price Interaction in Major Asian Markets: Evidence for Individual Countries and Panels Allowing for Sturctural Breaks - Hooi Hooi Lean, Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth; P60 (2008) Educational Expenditure in Urban China: Income Effects, Family Characteristics and the Demand for Domestic and Overseas Education - Xiaolei Qian and Russell Smyth; P61 (2008) The Costs to Business of Providing Social Security in China - Russell Smyth; P62 (2008) Are International Visitor Arrivals to the Home of World Heritage (Cambodia) Sustainable? An Empirical Analysis - Tuck Cheong Tang and Koi Nyen Wong; P63 (2008) Aggregate Import Demand Function for Japan: A Cointegration Re-Investigation - Tuck Cheong Tang; P64 (2008) Domestic Saving and Economic Growth in China - Hooi Hooi Lean and Yingzhe Song; P65 (2008) Inequality and Happiness in Urban China - Russell Smyth and Joanne Xiaolei Qian; P66 (2008) The Savings and Investment Nexus: Evidence from Rolling Windows Bounds Test - Chor Foon Tang and Hooi Hooi Lean; P67 (2008) Making Indonesia More Attractive to Foreign Investors: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of Reducing the Risk Premium in Central Java - Djauhari Pambudi and Russell Smyth; P68 (2008) Exchange Rate Volatility and International Visitor Arrivals to the Home of World Heritage - Cambodia: Fresh Empirical Evidence - Koi Nyen Wong and Tuck Cheong Tang; P69 (2008) Are Shocks to Real Output Permanent or Transitory? Evidence from a Panel of Pacific Island Countries - Vinod Mishra, Susan Sharma and Russell Smyth; P70 (2008) Are Fluctuations in Energy Consumption Per Capita Transitory? Evidence from a Panel of Pacific Island Countries - Vinod Mishra, Susan Sharma and Russell Smyth]);
* ABERU Newsletters (monthly, 2004-2008);
* ABERU Publications [bibliographical details only];
* Contact us; * Links.

URL http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/units/aberu/

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/units/aberu/

Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info. / Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V. Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

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National [Web] Portal of India

http://www.india.gov.in/


17 Dec 2008

National Portal Secretariat, National Informatics Centre, Government of India, New Delhi, India.

Self-description:
"This is the National Portal of India, developed with an objective to enable a single window access to information and services being provided by the various Indian Government entities. The content in this Portal is the result of a collaborative effort of various Indian Government Ministries and Departments, at the Central/State/District level. This Portal is Mission Mode Project under the National E-Governance Plan."

SIte contents:
* Search;
* Government (Constitution of India, Who's Who, Parliament, Govt. Websites, Rules, Acts, Policies, Schemes, Publications, Employees Corner);
* Know India (Profile, National Symbols, Culture & Heritage, States/UTs, Districts of India, Photo Gallery, Kids Corner);
* Sectors (Agriculture, Rural Development, Education, Health & Family Welfare, Commerce and Industries, Finance, Science and Technology, Transport);
* Citizen (Health, Education, Employment, Taxes, Senior Citizen Corner, Agriculture, RTI Complaint & Appeal);
* Business (Starting a Business, Growing Business, Indian Economy, Managing a Business, FAQ's, Business Update);
* Overseas (Visit India, Study in India, Indian Diaspora, Passport/VISA, Embassies & Consulates, Travel Advisory);
* News Update;
* How do I? (Obtain a Birth Certificate, Obtain a Driving License, Apply for a Passport, Apply for a Ration Card);
* Press Release;
* Weather (Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi);
* Web Directories (Indian Government websites, [Indian] Telephone Directories, Government [Ministry / Department, State / UT] Contacts, STD [Subscriber Trunk Dialing Code] Codes, ISD [International Subscriber Dialing] Codes, PIN [Postal Index Number] Codes);
* Documents [Ministry / Department, State / UT];
* Forms [Ministry / Department, State / UT];
* Maps (India Map, States of India, Demographic Maps; Sectoral Maps);
* Tenders.

URL http://www.india.gov.in/

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.india.gov.in/

Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide / Documents / News
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Government
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: over 3,000 [in fact, over 17,900]

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Handbook to the collections of Sir Aurel Stein in the UK

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_publications/ [ break ] online_research_publications/handbook_stein_collection.aspx


14 Dec 2008

The British Museum, London, UK.

Supplied note:
"The updated and expanded edition of the Handbook to the Collections of Sir Aurel Stein in the UK (edited by Helen Wang and John Perkins) has just been published (December 2008) on the British Museum website [in PDF format, 921KB - ed.]. This new online edition is available free of charge to everyone, and has a convenient search facility, as well as active website [...] Sir Aurel Stein, Proceedings of the British Museum Study Day, 23 March 2002 (unchanged since its appearance as a hard copy publication in 2004) is also available on the British Museum website: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_publications/ [ break ]
online_research_publications/sir_aurel_stein.aspx - hw."

Site contents:
* Preface (2008); * Foreword (1999); * The Stein Collections In London (British Academy (BA), British Library (BL), British Museum (BM) National Archives (Kew), National Portrait Gallery (NPG,) Royal Asiatic Society (RAS), Royal Geographical Society (RGS), Royal Society for Asian Affairs (RSAA), University College London (UCL), Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A)); * The Stein Collections in Oxford (Bodleian Library, Corpus Christi College (CCC), Oxford University Press (OUP), University of Oxford); * The Stein Collections In Cambridge 37 (Cambridge University Library); * Appendices (Appendix 1 Reports of the Stein Days held in 1995 and 1996, Appendix 2 Sir Aurel Stein -- Obituary, Appendix 3 Sir Aurel Stein -- Chronology, Appendix 4 Sir Aurel Stein -- Bibliography, Appendix 5 Sir Aurel Stein -- Correspondence, Appendix 6 The People who worked with Aurel Stein on his Central Asian Expeditions).

URL http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_publications/ [ break ]
online_research_publications/handbook_stein_collection.aspx

Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]

Link reported by: Helen Wang (hwang--at--thebritishmuseum.ac.uk), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

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IndCat: Online Union Catalogue of Indian Universities

http://indcat.inflibnet.ac.in/


10 Dec 2008

Inflibnet Centre, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

Self-description:
"[U]nified Online Library Catalogues of books, theses and journals available in major university libraries in India. The union database contains bibliographic description, location and holdings information for books, journals and theses in all subject areas available in more than 112 university libraries across the country. A Web-based interface is designed to provide easy access to the merged catalogues. The IndCat is a major source of bibliographic information that can be used for inter-library loan, collections development as well as for copy cataloguing and retro-conversion of bibliographic records. The IndCat consists three components available in open access to users and librarians.
* Books: Over ten millions bibliographical records of books from more than 112 university libraries.
* Theses: [220 206] Doctoral theses submitted to various Indian universities till date.
* Serials: Currently subscribed journals by the universities and holdings information on [22,471] serials available in various university libraries."

URL http://indcat.inflibnet.ac.in/

Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]

Link reported by: Pankaj Jain (pankajaindia--at--gmail.com),
forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

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globalEDGE (TM) [Business knowledge portal]

http://globaledge.msu.edu/


10 Dec 2008

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, US.

Self-description:

"Created by the International Business Center at Michigan State University (IBC), globalEDGE (TM) is a knowledge web-portal that connects international business professionals worldwide to a wealth of information, insights, and learning resources on global business activities. Partially funded by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI B grant, globalEDGE (TM) is your source for global business knowledge."

# SIte contents:
* Home [about the globalEDGE (TM) project]; * Resource Desk;
* Countries (the whole world, including: Asia and Middle East - Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Georgia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Korea, North, Korea, South, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen);
* States [of the USA]; * Industries; * Blog; * Academy; * Diagnostic Tools.
# Structure of the information for each listed country:
* Key Facts: (GDP (ppp) per capita, Inflation Rate, Population, Country Risk Ratings, Ease of Doing Business, Global Competitiveness);
* Introduction;
* Statistics [modelled on the CIA World Factbook - ed.];
* Economy (Economic Policy, Banking Sector, Exports and Trade, Oil and Minerals Sector, Investment);
* History;
* Government [modelled on the CIA World Factbook - ed.];
* Culture [business etiquette and culture];
* Risk;
* Corporations [major banks and businesses];
* Competitive Rankings: (Politics and Freedom: Press freedom index (Freedom House), Corruption: Corruption perceptions index (Transparency International), Country Risk Ratings, Global Competitiveness Report, Index of Economic Freedom, Foreign Policy Globalization Index, Ease of Doing Business Rankings, Tax Misery & Reform Index, E-readiness Rankings, Global Services Location Index) * Resources [web sites];
* Headlines [news];
* gE network;
* Country Memo.

URL http://globaledge.msu.edu/

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://globaledge.msu.edu/

Link reported by: "FITA's Really Useful Sites" (newsletter--at--fita.org)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 3,000

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Institute of East Asian Studies IN-EAST

http://www.uni-due.de/in-east/index.php


08 Dec 2008

University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.

Self-description:
"The Institute of East Asian Studies IN-EAST [Institut fuer Ostasienwissenschaften - ed.], established in 1994, is a Research Center of the University of Duisburg-Essen, engaged in both research and graduate edudation on East Asia. With more than 25 scholars from different disciplines in the social and economic sciences, IN-EAST is the most comprehensive university institute committed to contemporary East Asian studies in Germany. Chinese and Japanese Studies are the main focus of the research program and graduate curriculum."

SIte contents:
* About us; * Study Programs; * Information for Students; * Research (several projects, including: # Korean foreign direct investment in Europe; # Gender and comparative institutional studies in embedded capitalism - the cases of Japan and Germany; # Expats or locals? On the choice of senior management in German subsidiaries in Japan; # General analysis of areas of competitiveness of EU industrial and service sectors vis-a-vis China; # Evaluation of the European Commission's co-operation and partnership with the People's Republic of China; # Industrienahe Forschungs- und Technologiepolitik der chinesischen Regierung; # VIP-NET Virtual working and learning in project-based networks; # Globalization, gender and work transformation; # Recent developments at KOPRA - International Internship Platform (www.kopra.org); # Intraregional and interregional economic relations in East Asia; # New mechanisms of economic policy in Japan; # Administrative reforms in Germany and China in comparison (2): decentralised policies, environment policy as a case study; # Innovation of local administration in China and Germany in comparison; # Theory and application of the concept of Strategic Groups - scope and limitations of a social science paradigma between structure and action; # Ethnic entrepreneurs between market behaviour and social morality. The impact of ethnic entrepreneurship on social change and ethnicity. A case study among the Yi in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in China; # Demographic ageing and shrinking in old industrial areas in Germany (Ruhr area, Emscher zone) and Japan (Northern Kyushu): challenges, adjustment strategies, and development options; # Public housing and urban development in Singapore - ethnic groups between residential segregation and residential integration; # Career formation and the development of vocational competencies in international comparison);
* Publications
(# Institute Report no. 1, 1993 - no. 15, 2008, # Green Series [Duisburg Working Papers on East Asian Studies, downloadable, in PDF format - ed.] (no. 1- no 76) [Titles of the last 10 working papers: 76 - Yu Keping - China's Governance Reform from 1978 to 2008; 75 - Thomas Heberer - Taskforce "Entwicklungspolitik in China: Herausforderungen, Loesungsstrategien und deutsch-chinesische Entwicklungszusammenarbeit"; 74 - Markus Taube - Oekonomische Entwicklung in der VR China - Nachholendes Wachstum im Zeichen der Globalisierung; 73 - Norifumi Kawai und Manja Jonas - Ownership Strategies in Post-Financial Crisis Southeast Asia: The Case of Japanese Firms; 72 - Werner Pascha, Cornelia Storz, Markus Taube (eds.) - Institutional Foundations of Innovation and Competitiveness in East Asia; 71 - Norifumi Kawai - Spatial Determinants of Japanese Manufacturing Firms in the Czech Republic; 70 - Werner Pascha und Cornelia Storz (eds.) - Workshop Institutionen in der Entwicklung Ostasiens I - Offenheit und Geschlossenheit asiatischer Wirtschaftssysteme; 69 - Christian Goebel - The Peasant's Rescue from the Cadre? An Institutional Analysis of China's Rural Tax and Fee Reform; 68 - Thomas Heberer - Institutional Change and Legitimacy via Urban Elections? People' Awareness of Elections and Participation in Urban Neighbourhoods (Shequ); 67 - Momoyo Huestebeck - Tanaka Makiko: Scharfzuengige Populistin oder populaere Reformerin?; 66 - Momoyo Huestebeck - Park Geun-hye: Als Praesidententochter zur ersten Staatspraesidentin Suedkoreas?; 65 - Werner Pascha und Cornelia Storz (eds.) - Workshop Organisation und Ordnung der japanischen Wirtschaft V - Themenschwerpunkt: Deutschlandjahr in Japan - Eine Zwischenbilanz; 64 - Christian Goebel und Thomas Heberer (eds.) - Task Force: Civil Societal Developments in China; 63 - Thorsten Nilges - Zunehmende Verschuldung durch Mikrokredite - Auswertung eines Experiments in Suedindien; 62 - Jun Imai - The Rise of Temporary Employment in Japan: Legalisation and Expansion of a Non- Regular Employment Form);
* Media; * News; * Contact; * Intranet / bscw; * Sitemap; * Search.

[A bi-lingual (DE, EN) site - ed.]

URL http://www.uni-due.de/in-east/index.php

Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archive at the time of this abstract]

Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate info./Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V. Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

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Afrasian Centre for Peace and Development Studies

http://www.afrasia.ryukoku.ac.jp/eng/info/index.html


04 Dec 2008

Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan

Self-description:
"In the age of globalisation, Asia and Africa are experiencing dramatic economic development alongside frequent wars and armed conflict. At the Afrasian Centre for Peace and Development Studies, we aim to carry out interdisciplinary research in the area of conflict resolution as a key to comprehensively understanding, and practically solving, conflict situations. [...] Our four research teams carry out research into the following areas; 1) conflict resolution: nations & international relations, 2) environments & resources, 3) culture & networks, and 4) poverty & development."

SIte contents:
* About the Afrasian Centre;
* Research Activities (#The Afrasian Centre, # Research Group 1 - An Agent or a Barrier? The Role of the Nation in Conflict Resolution, # Research Group 2 - International Political Economy and Conflict Resolution: Conflicts over resources and energy, U.S foreign policy towards Middle East and the relationship with oil, Dimensions of conflicts over resources and prospect of regime formation as a means to resolve existing disputes and frictions, Regional and international disputes over Iran's nuclear development policy, WTO negotiations on agricultural production in Asia, Global warming and its impact on Asia and Africa, Problems surrounding Asian migrant workers in the Middle East, The prospect of regional cooperation on energy in Asia. # Research Group 3 - Is Culture the Answer? The Role of Networks and Culture in Conflict Resolution, # Research Group 4 - Poverty and Regional Development in the Process of Conflict Resolution);

* Symposium; * Newsletters; * Publications (Afrasia Working Papers [downloadable] - 37. Migration and Mosques: The Evolution and Transformation of Muslim Communities in Manila, the Philippines (Akiko Watanabe) 2008; 36. The Increasing Enclosure of Mangrove Wetlands: Towards Resource Management in Frontier Areas (Shinji Suzuki) 2008; 35. Multiplicity of Community Forestry as Knowledge Space in the Northern Thai Highlands (Anan Ganjanapan) 2008; 32. Useful or Useless Relics: Today's Strange Monarchies (Benedict Anderson) 2007; 31. The "Invention of Tradition" in Java under the Japanese Occupation: The Tonarigumi System and Gotong Royong (Kazuo Kobayashi) 2007; 30. "Iriai Forests Have Sustained the Livelihood and Autonomy of Villagers": Experience of Commons in Ishimushiro Hamlet in Northeastern Japan (Kokki Goto) 2007; 29. Land Ownership for the Preservation of Environment and Livelihood (Hiroyuki Torigoe) 2007; 28. Reconciliation, Restitution and Healing: The Role of Vietnam Veterans in Facilitating a New Era in U.S.-Vietnam Relations, 1985-2005 (Michael Furmanovsky) 2007; 27. Forced Removals, Land Struggles and Restoration of Land in South Africa: A Case of Roosboom (Chizuko Sato) 2007; 26. The Social Process of Migration from the Eastern Visayas to Manila (Naomi Hosoda) 2007; 25. The Hegemony of Tabloid Geopolitics: How America and the West Cannot Think International Relations beyond Conflict, Identity, and Cultural Imposition (Francois Debrix) 2007; 24. Human Security, Universality, and National Interest: A Critical Inquiry (Kosuke Shimizu) 2007; 22. The Place of the United States in the Triangle of Japan, China and India (Takashi Inoguchi) 2007; 21. Participatory Community Development and a Role of Social Statistical Analysis: Case of the JICA-Indonesia Project-Takalar Model (Yoshio Kawamura) 2007; 19. Not the Most Popular Decision: Japan's Ground Self Defense Force Goes to Iraq (Kazuo Takahashi) 2007; 18. International Energy Regime: Role of Knowledge and Energy and Climate Change Issues (Kenichi Matsui) 2007; 17. Macroeconomic Impacts of Terrorism: Evidence from Indonesia in the Post-Suharto Era (Tomoya Suzuki) 2006; 16. The Middle East, the Middle Kingdom and Japan (Kazuo Takahashi) 2006; 15. An Overview of the Debate on the African State (Masahisa Kawabata) 2006; 14. Regional Security in Africa (Takehiko Ochiai) 2006; 13. Asia and the Rise of the Early Modern World Economy (Om Prakash) 2006; 12. The United States and the United Nations Operation in the Congo (ONUC) (Takuya Misu) 2006; 11. The Composition and Job Structure of Female-Headed Households: A Case Study of a Rural Village in Siemreap Province, Cambodia (Nao Sato) 2006; 10. Discourses of Leadership and Japanese Political Economy: Three Phallus-centrists (Kosuke Shimizu) 2006; 9. East Asia, Middle East and the World Economy: Further Notes on the Oil Triangle (Kaoru Sugihara) 2006; 8. The Kurdish Situation in Iraq (Kazuo Takahashi) 2006; 7. Ethnicity and the State in Africa (Eghosa E. Osaghae) 2006; 6. Regional Governance and State Reconstruction in Africa (Daniel C. Bach) 2006; 5. Political Liberalization or Armed Conflicts? Political Changes in Post-Cold War Africa (Shin'ichi Takeuchi) 2006; 4. WTO/FTA and the Issues of Regional Disparity (Yoshio KAWAMURA and Zhan JIN) 2006; 3. Satyagraha as a Non-violent Means of Conflict Resolution (Nobuko Nagasaki) 2006; 2. Sustainable Management of Tank Irrigation Systems in South India (K. Palanisami) 2005; 1. Future of the Dairy Industries in China, Japan and the United States: Conflict Resolution in the Doha Round of WTO Agricultural Trade Negotiations (James R. Simpson) 2005.
Proceedings, Others);
* Visiting Researchers; * Media Articles; * Links; * Contanct Information; * Miscellaneous.

URL http://www.afrasia.ryukoku.ac.jp/eng/info/index.html

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.afrasia.ryukoku.ac.jp/eng/info/index.html

Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info/Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

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