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1.	Japan's Peace-building Diplomacy in Asia: Seeking a more active political role By LAM Peng Er Routledge, 2009 Abstract The conventional portrayal of Japan's role in international affairs is a passive political player which - despite its position as the world's second largest economic power - punches below its weight on the world stage: its foreign policy driven by Washington, mercantilism and constrained by domestic pacifism. This book examines Japan's emerging identity as an important participant in conflict prevention and peace-building in Southeast and South Asia, demonstrating that Japan has increasingly sought a positive and active political role commensurate with its economic pre-eminence. The book considers Japanese involvement in many of the region's most serious recent conflicts including Japan's part in the brokering and maintaining of peace in Cambodia, which in 1992 saw the first dispatch of troops abroad by Tokyo since the end of World War II, and the attempts to bring peace to Aceh, Sri Lanka, East Timor and Mindanao. The Japanese example, when compared with other countries prominent in the fields of conflict prevention, suggests that Tokyo — given its pacifist strategic culture — relies on diplomacy and Official Development Assistance rather than peace enforcement through military means. Overall, this book provides a lucid appraisal of Japan's overall foreign policy, as well as its new role in conflict prevention and peace-building — analysing the reasons behind this shift towards an active international role and assessing the degree of success it has enjoyed. Introduction Peace-building as a new pillar in Japan's foreign policy Cambodia: Japan's first comprehensive peace-building East Timor: Japan and the birth of a nation Japan in Aceh: to end a civil war Japan in Mindanao: partnering Malaysia, the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front Japan in Sri Lanka: from ceasefire to a civil war resumed Conclusion: Japanese peace-building and its future To purchase a copy, please refer to: http://www.routledge-ny.com/books/Japans-Peace-Building-Diplomacy-in-Asia-isbn9780415413206

2.	Politics Of China's Environmental Protection: Problems and Progress By CHEN Gang World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd, 2009 Abstract As the dazzling economic and social changes in China have imposed substantial impact upon the quality of environmental governance, it is time to review the problems and progress in the politics of China's environmental protection. This book analyzes the factors in China's governance and political process that affect and restrain its capacity to handle the mounting environmental problems. It argues that solutions to China's ecological woes to a larger extent lie in the political and institutional changes rather than in engineering, technological and investment input. The book talks about new policies and reform measures in the green area taken by the government since 2007, arguing that some of them may be quite effective in the long run, as long as they alter institutional factors and the "growth-first" mindset that obstruct the green effort. The book also includes discussion of China's climate change policy not only because global warming has come under the limelight of the international community in recent years, but also because it offers a unique dimension to analyze the country's environmental diplomacy and domestic bureaucratic structure on emissions cutting and related energy issues. China is currently at the crossroads of further political and economic reform, and the intensified public attention to environmental pollution may help the Chinese Communist Party to decisively push forward the long-sluggish political reforms. To purchase a copy, please refer to http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7177.html http://www.amazon.com/Politics-Chinas-Environmental-Protection-Contemporary/dp/9812838694

3.	China's Information and Communications Technology Revolution: Social Changes and State Responses Edited by ZHANG Xiaoling and ZHENG Yongnian Routledge, 2009 Abstract In recent years, China has experienced a revolution in information and communications technology (ICT), in 2003 surpassing the USA as the world's largest telephone market, and as of February 2008, the number of Chinese Internet users has become the largest in the world. At the same time, China has overtaken the USA as the world's biggest supplier of information technology goods. However, this transformation has occurred against the backdrop of a resolutely authoritarian political system and strict censorship by the Party-state. This book examines China's ICT revolution, exploring the social, cultural and political implications of China's transition to a more information-rich and communication-intensive society. The pace of the development of ICT in China has precipitated much speculation about political change and democratisation. This book explores the reality of ICT in China, showing clearly that whilst China remains a one-party state, with an ever-present and sophisticated regime of censorship, substantial social and political changes have taken place. It considers the ICT revolution in all its aspects, outlining the dominant trends, the impact on other countries of China as an ICT exporter, strategies of government censorship and use of ICT for propaganda, the implications of censorship for Chinese governance, the political implications of internet culture and blogging, and the role of domestic and foreign NGOs. Overall, this book is a vital resource for anyone seeking to understand a rapidly transforming China, both today and in the years to come. To purchase: http://www.routledge.com/books/Chinas-Information-and-Communications-Technology-Revolution-isbn9780415462303

4.	全球化与中国国家转型（政治与社会译丛）郑永年著郁建兴、何子英译杭州：浙江人民出版社（2009年3月第1版）译者序英文版序第一章全球化：国家衰弱还是国家重建？中国的全球化信息社会的兴起中国国家的弱化全球化与国家本书论题本书结构第二章国家、领导集团与全球化学术背景：国家与全球化全球化与国家的重塑全球化与中国国家转型第三章全球主义、民族主义和有选择的输入作为一种心态的全球主义作为有选择的输入的全球主义民族主义与全球主义：历史遗产改革、合法性与有选择的输入民族主义、有选择的输入与创新第四章权力、利益与资本主义的正当性：建构以利益为基础的政治秩序对一种以利益为基础的社会秩序的热望经济发展与政治利益以利益为基础的社会秩序的兴起政治秩序受到怎样的影响对以利益为基础的政治秩序的反对建构一个新的政治秩序结论第五章官僚机构改革与适应市场重组官僚机构的动力官僚机构改革：一个回顾朱镕基领导下市场导向的机构建设小型国务院（国家经济贸易委员会）的发展结论第六章建立一个现代经济国家：税收、金融与企业制度税收改革与税制金融自由与集权建立现代企业制度经济国家主义与国家建构第七章国家重建、大众抗议与集体行动国家建构与社会运动中国的国家重建及其不满者社会抗议的兴起：农民与工人结论第八章关于中国国家的争论：新自由主义与新左派 1989年后知识分子话语的兴起新自由派的话语新左派的话语结论第九章全球化与走向法治的国家治理？法制抑或法制党与法治党与治理危机回归传统？结论

5.	中国奶粉事件与治理危机郑永年，潘国驹主编新加坡：八方文化创作室（2009年1月第一版）序言（郑永年）毒奶粉事件概述三鹿奶粉污染事件政治篇中国如何跳出自我击败的治理模式（郑永年）飞舟上天和奶粉落地：毒奶粉事件挫伤了中国的“软实力”（庞中英）为企业合规性投石问路（季卫东）从政治文化角度看奶粉危机（郝志东）从毒奶粉事件看中国官员责任（薄智跃）经济篇毒奶粉事件和中国的奶制品产业政策（杨沐）中国乳业的“产业结石”（卢洋、顾清扬）奶粉危机放大投资者眼中的中国式风险（陈刚）重塑中国企业的商业伦理与社会责任观（盛思鑫）社会篇谁喝了三鹿奶粉？（赵力涛）问题食品：中国特色，还是工业化的必然？（张谦）中国学新加坡：什么还没学到？（杜平）从三鹿奶粉事件看中国悲喜剧（韩山元）从奶粉危机思量母乳哺婴（何乃强）附录一：毒奶粉海外蔓延附录二：何为三聚氰胺？附录三：检出含三聚氰胺乳粉和企业名单附录四：中国近年来食品安全事故一览附录五：全球毒奶粉事件一览 To purchase a copy, please refer to http://www.globalpublishing.com.sg/chinese/bookshop/g211.html

6.	非政府部门的发展与地方治理：2006年非政府部门与中国地方治理和可持续发展国际学术研讨会论文集郎友兴，陈剩勇，郑永年，毛丹主编杭州：浙江大学出版社（2008年6月第一版）主编前言一．公民社会、非政府部门的兴起及其意义到底谁的市民社会？全球市民社会的三种模式和一个经验主义研究议题（Catherine Gotz）对国际非政府组织可持续性发展的哲学的一个批判性评述（Vanessa Pupavac）中国公民社会的兴起及其对治理的意义（俞可平）民间组织的政治意义：社会建构方式转型与执政逻辑调整（林尚立）中国公民社会组织发展的制度性障碍分析（何增科）农民需要怎样的“集体主义”？ ------ 民间组织资源与现代国家整合（秦晖）国外非政府组织在中国地方治理中的角色（谭青山）中国草根治理理论和实践：五种模式（何包钢）二．中国非政府部门与地方治理关系的理论分析试论政府与非政府组织的治理边界（陈广胜）从单中心治理到多中心治理的可能性 ------ 民营经济对中国大陆社会治理结构的意义（韩福国）非政府组织的去政治化问题（王春光）乡村民间组织的转型与分化 ------ 从宗族组织到农村合作组织（李熠煜）文化、非政府部门与乡村治理（吴理财）论中国的政府、公司企业的社会责任（郑永年）三．非政府部门与政府的互动：中国地方的经验政府与非政府组织的良性互动 ------ 浙江省温州市对干部实行双向立体型监督的过程（景天魁）和谐社区建设中民间力量与政府互动的重要性 ------ 对深圳市月亮湾片区人大代表工作站的考察（张定淮）农村微观组织再造与社区自我整合 ------ 湖北省杨林桥镇农村社区建设的经验与启示（徐勇）交换关系的断裂与重塑 ------ 关于“民工荒”的政治社会学（国虹、毛丹）商议性民主与公众参与环境治理 ------ 以浙江农民抗议环境污染事件为例（郎友兴）民营经济背景下的环境管理及其新特点 ------ 来自浙江台州的实践（郭夏娟）农村社区型股份合作制研究 ------ 以杭州市西湖区转塘镇为个案（陈学明）四．浙江的自治组织、商会与地方治理浙江省自治组织与民间组织的发展与管理（万亚伟）自主治理能力的增长 ------ 温州市塑料工业行业协会个案分析（王应有）非营利组织的成长范式 ------ 以温州慈善总会为例（王健）民间商会与地方治理：功能及其限度 ------ 温州异地商会的个案研究（陈剩勇、马斌）商会与政府、企业间的互动：基础与途径 ------ 以浙江省温州市为例（郁建兴）温州商会与中国公民社会的潜能与局限（傅士卓（Joseph Fewsmith）） To purchase a copy, please refer to http://www.zjupress.com/book_detail.html?book_id=225947

7.	Oil in China: The Concept of Self-Reliance By LIM Tai Wei NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008 This project looks at how the equipment, infrastructure, and trained manpower of Fushun oil shale industry (formerly Japanese-occupied Manchuria and today in Liaoning province, Northeast China) and Yumen oil field (Gansu province, Western China) contributed to the PRC's efforts in discovering and exploiting the Daqing oil field (Heilongjiang province, Northeast China). Continuity is evident not only in material exchanges such as the PRC building upon the resources (technology and manpower) initiated by the Nationalist government but also in non-tangible aspects (e.g. transference of skills and training). Yumen itself may not have achieved absolute self-reliance in terms of oil supply, but it put the PRC on a path in that direction in the three very important areas of equipment manufacture, training, and experience. To show the forms of continuity in the quest for self-reliance, particular attention is given to the three decades between 1931, with the annexation of Manchuria and the buildup of Fushun's oil shale facilities, which would be useful for the postwar oil industry in China, and 1963, when Daqing production achieved basic self-reliance. This period is crucial in the study of the Chinese oil industry's transition through different regime, from Japanese-occupied Fushun and wartime Nationalist Yumen to the founding of the PRC oil industry and the eventual development of the Daqing oil field and oil self-reliance. The story ends in 1963 when the PRC declared oil self-reliance, the ultimate goal and longstanding aim of the Chinese oil industry.

8.	China's Opening Society: The non-state sector and governance Edited by ZHENG Yongnian and Joseph FEWSMITH Routledge, 2008 Abstract Since the instigation of the reform and open-door policy almost three decades ago, China has been experiencing rapid economic growth. An increasingly open economy has created the sound infrastructure necessary for an open society. Communist regimes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were not able to survive reform, and the fall of these regimes led to democratization. Despite an open economy and an opening society, China's political system remains authoritarian. Yet, the regime has found it increasingly difficult to govern its increasingly open and complicated society. Will china be able to establish good governance? This book answers this key question by focusing on the dynamics of the development of the non-state sector and its impact on governance in China. It examines international experiences of the development of civil society and sustainable development, ranging from international NGOs and global civil society to newly rising civil organizations in Russia. It then explores the major issues facing the development of the non-state sector and of governance in China, covering important areas such as corporate social responsibility, the Internet and deliberative institutions. Special attention is paid to development in Zhejiang province, which has a developed private sector. This book also discusses the experiences of international NGOs in China and how they have promoted democratic governance in rural China. To purchase a copy, please refer to http://www.routledge.com/books/Chinas-Opening-Society- isbn9780415451765

9.	Technological Empowerment: The Internet, State, and Society in China By ZHENG Yongnian Stanford University Press, 2008 Abstract Will new information technologies, especially the Internet, bring freedom and democracy to authoritarian China? This study argues that the Internet has brought about new dynamics of socio-political changes in China, and that state power and social forces are transforming in Internet-mediated public space. Its findings are fourfold. First, the Internet empowers both the state and society. The Internet has played an important role in facilitating political liberalization, and made government more open, transparent, and accountable. Second, the Internet produces enormous effects which are highly decentralized and beyond the reach of state power. Third, the Internet has created a new infrastructure for the state and society in their engagement with (and disengagement from) each other. Fourth, the Internet produces a recursive relationship between state and society. The interactions between the state and society over the Internet end up reshaping both the state and society. Click here for a review of this book To purchase a copy, please refer to http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=5737

10.	The Kyoto Protocol and International Cooperation against Climate Change By CHEN Gang Xinhua Press, 2008 This book, taking the example of long-term international negotiations on climate change and the Kyoto Protocol signed by most states as the first binding agreement in this area, analyses the huge economic cost of different states when controlling greenhouse gases domestically, as well as the limited and vague common interest that the Kyoto Protocol may achieve even when it is fully implemented. It also lists the differentiated interests that the Kyoto Protocol provides to various countries through the three "Flexibility Mechanisms," including emission trading, joint implementation and clean development. The first two mechanisms help industrialised nations reduce the cost of cutting their greenhouse gas emissions, while the last will benefit both developed and developing countries when they jointly launch emission reduction projects. The trading may bring billions of dollars to transitional economies such as Russia and Ukraine that own "hot air," a possibility that these countries might meet the Kyoto targets without any domestic action and will thus be able to sell their surplus emission allowance without incurring any abatement cost. The clean development mechanism will also help developing countries like China attract foreign investment worth billions of dollars at no cost. The author believes that this kind of individual benefit is the true incentive that pulls state actors into collective actions. Without such selective incentives, it is almost impossible for the international community to sign a binding agreement in the area of global warming. To purchase a copy, please refer to http://www.amazon.cn/mn/detailApp?qid=1229563707&ref=SR&sr=13- 1&uid=168-5524346-5514641&prodid=zjbk723115

11.	China and the New International Order Edited by WANG Gungwu and ZHENG Yongnian Routledge, 2008 Abstract This book explores China's place in the 'new international order', from both the international perspective and from the perspective within China. It discusses how far the new international order, as outlined by George Bush in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the liberation of Kuwait in the Gulf War, with its notions of 'international order', as viewed by the United States, and with the United States seeing itself as the single dominant power, applies to China. The contributors offer the implications, both positive and negative, of China's growing economic power, and the possibility that China will increase its military power. They also examine the idea that the Chinese leadership is being carried along itself by events in China, which it does not fully control, and that other growing forces within China, such as nationalism, increasing social grievances, structural instability, and rivalry between the centre and the regions potentially work against China's growing strength in the international arena. Considering traditional Chinese notions of 'international' power, where the world is seen as sino-centric, with neighbouring countries subservient to China in varying degrees, the book argues that this represents a fundamentally different view of the international order, one where the equal sovereignty of every state does not apply, where there is an acknowledged hierarchy of power, and where domestic and international issues are highly interdependent. To purchase a copy, please refer to http://www.routledgeasianstudies.com/books/ China-and-the-New-International-Order-isbn9780415441117

12.	China's Elite Politics: Political Transition and Power Balancing By BO Zhiyue World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd, 2007 Abstract China's Elite Politics provides a new theoretical perspective on elite politics in China and uses this theoretical perspective to explain power transfer from Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao and political dynamics between different factional groups since the Sixteenth Party Congress of November 2002. It explains the transition in structural terms, presents characteristics of China's political elites, and analyzes the balance of power among formal institutions as well as among factional groups. It also examines political interactions between Jiang Zemin and his cronies on the one side and Hu Jintao and his allies on the other over a number of issues: the epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS); ideological institutionalization; the politics over economic overheating; Jiang Zemin's complete retirement; and Hu Jintao's power consolidation in both ideological and personnel terms. To purchase a copy, please refer to http://www.worldscibooks.com/eastasianstudies/6250.html

13.	De Facto Federalism in China: Reforms and Dynamics of Central-Local Relations By ZHENG Yongnian World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd, 2007 Abstract This book is the first attempt to conceptualize China's central-local relations from the behavioral perspective. Although China does not have a federalist system of government, the author believes that, with deepening reform and openness, China's central-local relations is increasingly functioning on federalist principles. Federalism as a functioning system in China is under studied. The author defines the political system existing in China as "de facto federalism", and provides a detailed analysis of its sources and dynamics in the book. The system is mainly driven by two related factors -- inter-governmental decentralization and globalization. While economic decentralization since the 1980s has led to the formation of de facto federalism, globalization since the 1990s has accelerated this process and generated increasingly high pressure on the Chinese leadership to institutionalize de facto federalism by various measures of selective recentralzation. To purchase a copy, please refer to http://www.worldscibooks.com/eastasianstudies/6230.html

14.	Discontented Miracle: Growth, Conflict, and Institutional Adaptations in China Edited by YANG Dali World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd, 2007 Abstract China has been enjoying stellar economic growth for more than a quarter of a century. Yet the rapid growth amid market-oriented reforms has not been an unalloyed blessing. The "China Miracle" has been accompanied by soaring income inequality and rising social tensions, over-taxing China's resource base and contributing to an environmental crisis. Despite substantial improvement in the standard of living and other social indicators, China's leaders have, in the aftermath of the Tiananmen crackdown, steadfastly held back the opening up of the political system. In this volume, contributors from the disciplines of economics, political science, and sociology examine how existing institutions, broadly defined, might have exacerbated tensions in China's evolving economy, society and polity as well as how institutional developments have been introduced to deal with existing or emerging conflicts and tensions. To purchase a copy, please refer to http://www.worldscibooks.com/eastasianstudies/6292.html

15.	Supply Chain Management: Issues in the New Era of Collaboration and Competition By William Yu Chung WANG , Michael S. H. HENG , Patrick Y. K. CHAU Idea Group Publishing, 2007 Abstract The e-business environment has brought about a new kind of competition. Instead of the traditional mode of firms competing against firms, we now have supply chains competing against supply chains. Supply Chain Management: Issues in the New Era of Collaboration and Competition examines this new business landscape in background, touching on major issues of the supply chain, and providing readers the assets to obtain that important competitive advantage. Supply Chain Management: Issues in the New Era of Collaboration and Competition contributes to this interesting global phenomenon by collecting well-researched works that illuminate in SCM issues in the e-business environment. To purchase a copy, please refer to http://www.igi-global.com/books/details.asp?ID=6095

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