This book empirically examines banking reform in the economies of Southeast Asia as they sought to adapt to major developments in the global economic system over the past three decades, including the globalisation of finance, the debt crisis of the 1980s and the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis. Focusing in particular on the turbulent decade of financial boom and bust from 1994 to 2004, it explores the ways in which states respond to powerful external shocks and the implications for policy choices, demonstrating how different political systems shape economic performance and policy choices....
This book empirically examines banking reform in the economies of Southeast Asia as they sought to adapt to major developments in the global econom...
Before it reached television, science fiction existed on the printed page, in comic books, and on movie screens for decades. Adapting science fiction to the new medium posed substantial challenges: Small viewing screens and limited production facilities made it difficult to achieve the sense of wonder that had become the genre's hallmark. Yet, television also offered unprecedented opportunities. Its serial nature allowed for longer, more complex stories, as well as developing characters and building suspense over time. Producers of science fiction television programming learned to create...
Before it reached television, science fiction existed on the printed page, in comic books, and on movie screens for decades. Adapting science fiction ...
En 1775 Bernardin de Saint-Pierre quitte Paris pour se rendre en Normandie, pour revoir sa s ur et les gens qu'il avait depuis longtemps perdus de vue. Il fait ce voyage surtout a pied et en route il redige un texte au jour le jour, decrivant ce qu'il voit autour de lui, les paysages, les gens, les incidents. Ces descriptions sont ponctuees de reflexions et commentaires, et nous pouvons voir une pensee philosophique qui se prepare, des idees qui, plus tard, vont se trouver dans ses textes publies, surtout Les Etudes de la nature qui seront publiees en 1784 et qui, dans la troisieme edition de...
En 1775 Bernardin de Saint-Pierre quitte Paris pour se rendre en Normandie, pour revoir sa s ur et les gens qu'il avait depuis longtemps perdus de vue...
On ne peut nier l importance et l influence de la critique au 18e siecle. Son role dans la republique des lettres est indeniable. Pourtant, ceux qui la pratiquaient sont mal connus. Etaient-ils des auteurs, des artistes eux-memes ou des professionnels aux marges de la societe artistique ? Il importe d eclairer leur rapport a l objet critique avant d etudier le discours qui en resulte. En effet, l extension de la presse et des modes de diffusion installe la critique au c ur des debats litteraires et en fait un temoin irremplacable des mutations esthetiques et sociales. Agent inseparable de la...
On ne peut nier l importance et l influence de la critique au 18e siecle. Son role dans la republique des lettres est indeniable. Pourtant, ceux qui l...
Offers a comprehensive annual review devoted to the international relations, politics, and economies of the region and its nation-states. The collected volumes of Southeast Asian Affairs have become a compendium documenting the dynamic evolution of regional and national developments in Southeast Asia from the end of the "second" Vietnam War to today.
Offers a comprehensive annual review devoted to the international relations, politics, and economies of the region and its nation-states. The collecte...
These were commercial rather than avant-garde artists, but they nevertheless saw the new medium of cinema as offering the potential to engage with modern concerns of the early 20th century, be it the political and human turmoil of the First World War or new freedoms of the 1920s.
These were commercial rather than avant-garde artists, but they nevertheless saw the new medium of cinema as offering the potential to engage with mod...
"Southeast Asian Affairs, first published in 1974, continues today to be required reading for not only scholars but the general public interested in in-depth analysis of critical cultural, economic and political issues in Southeast Asia.
"Southeast Asian Affairs, first published in 1974, continues today to be required reading for not only scholars but the general public interested in i...
