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| BURMA IN TURMOIL [Alden T Roycee (ed)] By the end of September 2007, the Burmese military regime had suppressed with force anti-regime protests that began in late August, escalated in mid- September, and were led by Buddhist monks and pro-democracy activists. This drew new protests from the United States over the regime's abusive human rights record. According to human rights reports by the U.S. State Department and private organisations, Burma's poor record worsened in 2004, 2005, and 2006. These reports have laid out a familiar pattern of government and military abuses of civilians. As in the past, U.S. diplomatic initiatives in September 2007 did not prevent the regime's crackdown. China blocked a U.S.-European Union proposal to have the United Nations Security Council consider imposing sanctions on Burma. However, Burmese military leader Than Shwe proposed to a United Nations envoy that he would meet with opposition leader Aung Sann Suu Kyi if she would cease encouraging confrontation with the government and foreign economic sanctions. The SPDC appears unaffected by sanctions imposed by the United States and other Western nations. Western sanctions are uneven with U.S. sanctions being the heaviest. Burma has been able to expand exports of a variety of commodities, including growing earnings from natural gas production. China and India have signed deals with the SPDC for substantial purchases of natural gas. Burma also reportedly earns between $1 billion and $2 billion annually from exports of illegal drugs, heroin and methamphetamines. Most of these earnings go to drug traffickers connected to the Wa and Shan ethnic groups; but Burmese military officials have means to gain a substantial share of these earnings. Burma's fellow members in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have grown more critical of the SPDC, but they continue to oppose sanctions. Chinese diplomatic support of the SPDC and military and economic aid is very important: $2 billion in military aid since the early 1990s, $200 million annually in economic aid, substantial foreign investment including new investment in natural gas, and a huge influx of Chinese migrants into Burma, mainly traders. China's role is a prime justification for India's "constructive engagement" policy toward Burma. Burma has re-established diplomatic relations with North Korea amidst reports of growing military co-operation between them. This book presents a background report on Burma and incisive reports on the country and its internal strive and international interactions. { 105pp, 155x230mm, May 2008; HB, £45.99, 1604563117:9781604563115 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| CAUCASUS REGION : Geopolitical Nexus? [Aleksandro I Kapidze (ed)] Readers may legitimately wonder what the relatively small Caucasus Region has in common with such enormous regions as Asia, Europe and the Americas. The answer is not to be found in geographic size or GDP but rather in historical richness and geopolitical significance of the region. The Caucasus Region is coveted by Russia for historical, economic (read oil) and strategic reasons. It is less clear why the US is so active in the region except perhaps to poke a thumb in Russia's eye or gain access to the Caspian Sea oil or both. China and Japan are showing interest perhaps because they believe the region is a partially Eastern-orientated window to expanding influence in the Middle East and Europe. Thus the Caucasus Region including Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Chechnya, finds itself as a key player in the world geopolitical game of chess. { December 2007; HB, £52.99, 1600219640:9781600219641 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| INDIA ON THE MOVE [Lea M Surit (ed)] Very few countries in the world can be considered economically on the move forward but India, as well as China, is one of them. This book presents a country profile, several issue papers including those dealing with nuclear issues and a chronology of recent events. { 177pp, 180x260mm, September 2007; HB, £52.99, 160021813X:9781600218132 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| INDUSTRY & MODERNISM : Companies, Architecture & Identity in the Nordic & Baltic Countries During the High-Industrial Period [Anja Kervanto Nevanlinna (eds)] For post-war Europe, industrial production and its methods of rationalisation and modernisation were adopted as a model for societies more generally. To replace the nationalism of the 1930s that had led to a catastrophe, universal values and technologies were seen as important. Modernism in architecture was both an instrument to realise these goals and the symbol of modern society. Modernism meant technological progress, economic security, relative political stability and social equality, that is, what being European was about. In the book "Industry and Modernism", the meaning of industrial production is discussed particularly in the context of the Nordic and Baltic post-war histories. The polarities of the Cold War suppressed similarities between the two worlds such as the shared belief in the power of architecture, planning and technology to construct new societies. For many western European countries, Nordic countries represented a model of the welfare state, just as Baltic countries were seen as models within the Soviet hegemony. In the book, economic and social history is integrated with business history, architectural history, and the study of industrial heritage. { 402pp, 180x260mm, December 2007; PB, £23.50, 9517469365:9789517469364 , Finnish Literature Society } |
| JOURNAL OF CYPRUS STUDIES 32 [Özlem Çaykent (ed)] { 106pp, 155x230mm, December 2007; PB, £6.50, EASTERN01 , Eastern Mediterranean University Press } |
| JOURNAL OF CYPRUS STUDIES 33 [Özlem Çaykent (ed)] Text in English & Turkish. { 172pp, 155x230mm, December 2007; PB, £6.50, EASTERN02 , Eastern Mediterranean University Press } |
| MODERN CHINESE RULES OF ORDER : Paradox of Law & Economics [Ulric Killion] The book addresses the issues of China's modern social order, as influenced by an evolving economic order and especially legal order. Ongoing Chinese modernisation is prompted by both domestic needs and WTO commitments, which includes both economic and legal reforms. Emphasis is placed on legal reforms, one of the most important areas of much needed reforms. The directional development of China's legal order has national, interregional and international implications, which affect the growth and prosperity of both China and the world's economy. A problem is an evolving inter-relationship between social order, economic order, and legal order, which can be described as either complementary or paradoxical. However, a paradoxical inter-relationship between these sources of order is problematic, because it effectively renders needed legal reforms that are increasingly more difficult to implement. This book explores both the complementary and paradoxical inter-relationship between these sources of order, the author proposes a "novel" and "viable" alternative for transplanting a more Western constitutional design in China. { 290pp, 180x260mm, June 2007; HB, £52.99, 1600218377:9781600218378 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| NEW CHINA'S LONG MARCH FROM SERVILITY TO FREEDOM [Wei-Bin Zhang] This book is part of a broad study on Confucianism and its implications for the modernisation of East Asia. The Opium War symbolises the beginning of foreign humiliations, and the Cultural Revolution represents the apex of self-oppression, self-intimidation and self-humiliations. China vainly strove under the guns of many countries until the end of World War II, and since then, has suffered from many civil wars. Immediately after New China was established in 1949, the CCP closed the door to the outside (democratic) world, thus creating self-humiliations. Since economic reform was launched in 1978, New China has been developed from the verge of nationwide self-murder to the track for prosperity and freedom. The long march from self-destructiveness to social and economic progresses raises many challenging questions about human survival and processes. Philosophical, historical, political and economic perspectives are discussed. An open and enriching New China could dramatically affect the world in the not-so-distant future. This book describes the history of New China as a dynamic process from the pole of central planning, anti-Americanism and anti-Confucianism towards market economy, Americanisation and modernising Confucian manifestations. { 272pp, 180x260mm, June 2007; HB, £59.50, 1600217915:9781600217913 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| STRANGERS IN THEIR HOMELAND : A Critical Study of Israel's Arab Citizens [Ra'anan Cohen] Too little is written about the ethnic-nationalist identity crisis between the State of Israel and its Arab citizens which becomes intensified with every regional event -- from the US invasion of Iraq, to the second Lebanon war. The author addresses this lacunae by providing a detailed account of the situation of the Arab population of Israel: their political and electoral ambitions, their extended families/tribes, their lands, their political personalities, their society, and their hopes for the future. Beginning with the time when the Arabs were encouraged to belong to 'satellite' factions under the auspices of the Labor Party, up to the fiercely nationalist Arab parties of today, former Member of Israel's Knesset and Cabinet Minister, Dr Ra'anan Cohen examines the political changes that have taken place in the Israeli Arab community over recent decades. His unparalleled viewpoint and access as a researcher, and as former head of the Labour Party's Minorities Commission, provides Israel's decision-makers with meticulously researched data on the political and national challenges that need to be addressed as they take a long overdue look at how better to incorporate Israel's Arab Citizens into the Jewish homeland. This task is deemed by Israeli politicians of all persuasions to be critical to the long-term security of the State of Israel. STRANGERS IN THEIR HOMELAND is essential reading for all people interested and involved in Middle East affairs. { 256pp, 152x229mm, December 2008; PB, £17.95, 1845192672:9781845192679 , Sussex Academic Press } |