India's Habituation with the Bomb: Nuclear Learning in South Asia
ISBN: 9780190701390 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Scramble in the South China Sea: Regional Conflict and US Strategy
ISBN: 9781502468260 / Angielski / Miękka / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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China Fiscal Policy Revamp Faces Hurdles
ISBN: 9781502738608 / Angielski / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During his first year in office, President Xi Jinping put fiscal reform back on top of China's policy agenda. The Party Politburo followed the president's lead in June, promising to finish major fiscal and tax reform tasks by 2016 and establish a modern fiscal system by 2020.1 Among the proposals is the elimination of a tax that discriminates against services companies, adding a recurring tax on property, and imposing a price-based tax on coal, along with measures to improve budget management. China last overhauled its tax-and-spend system in 1994, when the country's economy was much smaller...
During his first year in office, President Xi Jinping put fiscal reform back on top of China's policy agenda. The Party Politburo followed the preside...
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Operational Art Requirements in the Korean War
ISBN: 9781502926159 / Angielski / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historical examples are an expedient way to develop an understanding of operational art theory and concepts. A historical illustration of both operational success and failure is the Korean War. Several aspects of the Korean War remain relevant to operational art in contemporary conflicts. It had a complex and evolving strategy, a dramatic interplay of tactical success and failures, uncertainty and miscalculation, shortages of means to accomplish ends, and the difficult challenge to set the conditions for a satisfactory conclusion to the conflict. An examination of three distinct operational...
Historical examples are an expedient way to develop an understanding of operational art theory and concepts. A historical illustration of both operati...
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Central Asia After 2014
ISBN: 9781502945921 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The research collected here was presented at the Fourth annual Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) conference on Russia in May 2012. They focus largely, though not exclusively, on the interactions of the great powers in, about, and around Central Asia. That said, it is imperative that anyone trying to make sense of the complex situation in Central Asia remember that the contemporary or new great game is not played upon a chessboard of inert Central Asian subjects, as was the case in Kipling's time. Today the Central Asian states are all active subjects, as well as objects of international...
The research collected here was presented at the Fourth annual Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) conference on Russia in May 2012. They focus largely,...
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Deciphering Chinese Strategic Deception: The Middle Kingdom's First Aircraft Carrier
ISBN: 9781502947673 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The study examines China's employment of strategic deception in the acquisition and development of its first aircraft carrier -the Liaoning in 2012. By examining China's national goals, strategy and propensity to employ deception, this study aims to: 1. Explain how China's national goals and strategy drove it to develop an aircraft carrier. 2. Explain the aircraft carrier's role in China's maritime strategy. 3. Explain how China employed deception in the acquisition and development of the aircraft carrier. 4. Assess the implications of China's use of strategic deception in developing its...
The study examines China's employment of strategic deception in the acquisition and development of its first aircraft carrier -the Liaoning in 2012. B...
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Japan's National Interests in Taiwan
ISBN: 9781502958174 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The U.S.-Japan alliance continues to be the cornerstone of the U.S.-led security structure in East Asia. Within the parameters of this alliance, the unresolved status of Taiwan still presents one of the most precarious security situations in the region, one that could lead to a major war with China. Within the larger scope of U.S.-China-Japan-Taiwan relations, Japan and Taiwan's relationship would generally be considered the least prominent of all possible combinations. Despite this reality, when pulling back the veneer from this seemingly tertiary regional relationship, there is a depth of...
The U.S.-Japan alliance continues to be the cornerstone of the U.S.-led security structure in East Asia. Within the parameters of this alliance, the u...
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From Red Cliffs to Chosin: The Chinese Way of War
ISBN: 9781503300224 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines Chinese warfare and suggests that three and a half millennia of Chinese military history have produced a distinctive and enduring Chinese way of war. While the art and science of war in China have evolved considerably throughout its history, the characteristics and philosophies of its style of warfare contain some propensities that endure from antiquity to the present. They are: The Chinese military orientation focuses more on the strategic and operational levels of war than the tactical. The Chinese prefer strategic maneuver warfare to attritional or other forms of...
This book examines Chinese warfare and suggests that three and a half millennia of Chinese military history have produced a distinctive and enduring C...
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Economic Revival: The Key to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's Survival
ISBN: 9781505225754 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Life in the Shadow: An Examination of the Minor Foreign Relations of the DPRK
ISBN: 9781505361803 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This thesis explores the diplomatic relations of North Korea, officially known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), with an emphasis on its minor diplomatic relations. Minor, for purposes of this thesis, refers to those states other than the Big Four Plus One (i.e., China, Japan, South Korea, Russia, and the United States). This thesis covers the evolution of these relations, assesses trends, and predicts the direction in which these relations may be headed. While many refer to North Korea as a hermit kingdom, its diplomatic relations challenge this label. The DPRK has been...
This thesis explores the diplomatic relations of North Korea, officially known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), with an emphasis o...
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The Rise and Fall of Chosen Soren: Its Effect on Japan's Relations on the Korean Peninsula
ISBN: 9781508844495 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Korean Diaspora in Japan is a legacy of Japan's colonization of Korea in the first half of the 20th century and has always been the largest group of foreign residents in an otherwise ethnically homogenous Japan. A major issue is the role that Koreans in Japan play in supporting North Korea. Although a very small segment of the population, Koreans affiliated with the organization known as Chosen Soren have figured prominently in the triangular relationship between Japan, North Korea, and South Korea over the past 50 years. During the Cold War, Chosen Soren activities in support of North...
The Korean Diaspora in Japan is a legacy of Japan's colonization of Korea in the first half of the 20th century and has always been the largest group ...
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From Mao Toward Modernity: The Increasing Westernization of the People's Liberation Army
ISBN: 9781511447102 / Angielski / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While the People's Republic of China (PRC) continues to grow as a great power within the Asian region, its military continues to seek and develop commensurate military capabilities. People's Liberation Army (PLA) ambitions to modernize provoke a number of questions regarding underlying PLA rationale and motivation. Specifically, what has driven the PLA to choose to become less of a rural based guerilla force primarily focused on defense, and more of a modern, and Western-like standing military with a credible offensive capability? Further, what events, in particular, have shaped, and continue...
While the People's Republic of China (PRC) continues to grow as a great power within the Asian region, its military continues to seek and develop comm...
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Central Asia in Context: Local Rules of the Great Game
ISBN: 9781511452946 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Central Asian States balance influences from Russia, China, and the United States, as well as those of other Central Asian actors. This monograph analyzes, through qualitative research, how these governments' actions in their own self-interest affect United States' theater security cooperation. Three case studies look at (1) Kazakhstan's security engagements with other Central Asian nations, as well as Russia, China, and the United States; (2) Kazakhstan's energy involvement with these nations; and (3) United States' basing involvement in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. The case studies...
The Central Asian States balance influences from Russia, China, and the United States, as well as those of other Central Asian actors. This monograph ...
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The Jim Domain: Examination of U.S. Military Sustainment Assistance Following North Korean Regime Collapse
ISBN: 9781511615327 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United States of America has and continues to have a long-standing adversarial relationship with North Korea. As Presidential administrations turn over, the U.S. policy on North Korea remains largely unchanged due to North Korea's unpredictable, volatile, and oftentimes erratic behavior as perceived from a global premise over the past 60 years. This condition exists because of the dictatorial regimes of Kim Jong Un and his predecessors. North Korea isolates itself from the rest of the global community through the auspices of communist ideals and provocations that led to damaging ties with...
The United States of America has and continues to have a long-standing adversarial relationship with North Korea. As Presidential administrations turn...
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Modern Day Sino-Soviet Split: Russia's Role in the U.S. Pivot Towards Asia
ISBN: 9781511635660 / Angielski / Miękka / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the end of the Cold War, the US has ignored Russia's role as an Asian power leaving. Moscow out of U.S. strategy for the Asia-Pacific. Instead, the US pursued two separate and disconnected strategies; one isolated Russia in Europe while the other contained China in Asia, All the while, China and Russia drifted away from America and toward each other as they developed a new strategic partnership. Today, Beijing and Moscow yield significant global influence through the current strategic partnership. In the future, China and Russia could transform their partnership.into an alliance,...
Since the end of the Cold War, the US has ignored Russia's role as an Asian power leaving. Moscow out of U.S. strategy for the Asia-Pacific. Instead, ...
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Losing the Philippines: Its Impact on Our National Military Strategy for the 90's
ISBN: 9781522739524 / Angielski / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Gender Equity: Womens Political Empowerment in South Korea
ISBN: 9781523200306 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. South Korea has undergone many drastic transformations from the time the state formally emerged in 1948 until now, becoming a thriving democracy and the world's 12th-largest economy. Women in South Korea have enjoyed many aspects of this recovery and rise. According to the 2013 World Economic Forum's Annual Gender Gap Index, South Korea's women today have the highest literacy and healthy life expectancy rates in the world. Yet according to the same index, South Korea placed 111th out of 136 countries in gender equality. While this index highlights the need for further improvement, the ranking...
South Korea has undergone many drastic transformations from the time the state formally emerged in 1948 until now, becoming a thriving democracy and t...
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Chinas Economic Development Plan in Xinjiang and How it Affects Ethnic Instability
ISBN: 9781523200528 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To decrease ethnic instability in Xinjiang, the Chinese government's plan is to economically develop the region. Xinjiang is rich in natural resources, is geographically significant and has a special economic zone. China is also investing in Central Asia to further meet its energy demand. A network of pipelines and major rail systems connect sources from China to Central Asia and beyond. Xinjiang's economy will benefit from the network because it is the gateway and corridor to Central Asia and a hub for the Silk Road traffic. This book suggests that Xinjiang's economic development led to a...
To decrease ethnic instability in Xinjiang, the Chinese government's plan is to economically develop the region. Xinjiang is rich in natural resources...
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The Evolution of Malaysias Immigration Policy Since 1970
ISBN: 9781523223763 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1970s, Malaysia's government promoted economic growth through an economic structural change from agriculture to industry. During the economic changeover, Malaysia's lack of human capital contributed to the persistent labor shortages. To meet the demand for labor, especially in manufacturing and construction, the government adopted a liberal immigration policy that permitted large numbers of workers to enter the country. Although many entered legally, many more did not. Most workers entered from Indonesia, which was close in proximity and shared a common culture. By the 1990s, many...
In the 1970s, Malaysia's government promoted economic growth through an economic structural change from agriculture to industry. During the economic c...
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Chinese White Paper: Deception or Guide? Case in Assessing China's Declared Foreign Policy Goals
ISBN: 9781523224524 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The emergence of the People's Republic of China as a significant economic and military power demands an assessment of the likely objectives of future Chinese foreign policy. Will China use its growing economic and military development as a tool for regional hegemony or for stability and cooperation? Are China's benign statements of its foreign policy objectives credible? This book argues that Chinese foreign policy since 1949 has consistently attempted to operate within the framework of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence as articulated by the Chinese during the 1954 Bandung...
The emergence of the People's Republic of China as a significant economic and military power demands an assessment of the likely objectives of future ...
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