The Enigma of Japanese Power explores the underlying mechanisms of Japan’s political, economic, and social system from a critical outsider’s perspective. Karel van Wolferen argues that despite its outward cohesion and stability, Japan’s power structure lacks a truly independent state in the Western sense: its institutions act as intermediaries rather than sovereign rulers. The book delves…
This is about a whole range of colorful cultural genres taht are known collectively as "folk literature" and folk perfoming arts
In the colonial period, the imposition of alien culture has produced a situation in which there developed a symbiosis in which aspects of the traditional culture and the imposed foreign culture through the medium of language, christianity and western education were merged to produce a new culture. But there are also cases in which the traditional culture displayed so much resilience that the at…
For one hundred years the Netherlands' Plant Protection Service has been operating in an incessantly changing environment. This book presents an overview of developments in plant protection policies in the 20th century and the prospects for the coming decade.
The contents of this book: - Culture and Foreign Politics - Beyond Blood and Belief: Culture and Foreign - History and Foreign Policy: From Contucted Identities to "Ancient Hatreds" East of the Caspian
A compilation of comparative studies of local politics and political cultures in term of the social integration in postcolonial insular Southeast Asia such as Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia. This book attempts to clarify the influence of colonial knowledge on the relationship between the colonized and the colonizer, focusing on the postcolonial political situations as a local pros…
This book contains the first comprehensive study of nepalese voters. Sponsored by Danish Development Aid, it is on hour-long interviews with one thousand nepalese voters spared over the himalayan kingdom. the survey was conducted immediately after teh general election in May 1991.
This book is many things. On one level, it is a defense of what has come to be called derisively the “area studies” approach to Japanese politics. This work is therefore part of an ongoing debate within the discipline of political science and the subfield of Japanese political studies about the proper way to study political institutions and behavior. There is no modeling, little in the way…
The Routledge Handbook of German Politics and Culture offers a wide-ranging and authoritative account of Germany in the 21st century. It gathers the expertise of internationally leading scholars of German culture, politics, and society to explore and explain historical pathways to contemporary Germany the current ‘Berlin Republic’ society and diversity Germany and Europe Germany and …
This new series publishes theoretically challenging and empirically authoritative studies of the traditions, functions, paradigms and institutions of modern diplomacy. Taking a comparative approach, the New Diplomacy Studies series aims to advance research on international diplomacy, publishing innovative accounts of how 'old' and 'new' diplomats help steer international conduct between anarchy…