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This article examines how businesses perceived political risk in South Asia and Latin America over the last half century. Employing data from an oral history database at Harvard Business School, the article identifies five major sources of political risk: macroeconomic and policy turbulence, excessive bureaucracy, political instability, corruption, and violence. Marked regional differences were identified in perceptions and responses to risks. Macroeconomic and policy turbulence was the biggest perceived source of risk in Latin America. Excessive bureaucracy was the biggest source of perceived risk in South Asia. South Asian businesses often avoided bureaucracies, while Latin Americans worked with them.

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Drawing on decolonial perspectives on peace, statehood and development, this illuminating book examines post-liberal statebuilding in Central Asia. It uses ethnographic fieldwork in Southern Kyrgyzstan to offer a detailed examination of community security and peacebuilding discourses and practices.
Through its analysis, the book highlights the problem with assumptions about liberal democracy, modern statehood and capitalist development as the standard template for post-conflict countries, which is widespread and rarely reflected upon.

'Home and Hegemony: Domestic Service and Identity Politics in South and Southeast Asia' edited by Kathleen M. Adams and Sara Dickey is reviewed.

Heritage is a cultural identity to be refl ected in the purview of individual, unique and multiple layers of pluralism, especially with respect to religion, at least in Oriental cultures that maintained their traditions and continuity together with examples of contestation, destruction and also sometimes harmonious co-existence. In the span of time the layering of various cultures put their marks, which in the sequence of time turn to be the issue of confl icts due to claims and controls by the diff erent groups. As a consequence there resulted issues of representation, belongingness, control and power, dissonance and contestation. Despite all theoretic constructs and human concerns for peace and harmony the issue of dissonance dominates, especially withreference to ethnicities and religion. The religious built environments are the pitiful suff erers in such happenings of turmoil recorded every parts of the world. In South Asia the Muslim invasion in medieval period (15th to 18th centuries) had been the major force and process for destruction and superimposing Islamic structure, like in case of major sacred cities of Hindus in north India. In the areas of old culture one fi nds heritagescapes that are subject to 'ill construction and jumbled space' where 'several sites appear incompatibly'. The confl icts between secularist democracy and democratic religiosity are the common phenomena in South Asian region. So on, confl icts between archaeological sites or monuments and lived cultural heritage. It may be accepted rationally that if the two communities, Hindus and Muslims, are ready not to heap defeat and humiliation with an aim to re-establish the history of the medieval times, the issues can be resolved amicably. This essay reviews the emerging literature dealing with the enduring role and context of religion in the issue of contesting heritage (mostly cultural). Emphasis is further laid on the contextual constructs of analysis, examples from diff erent parts of Southern Asia, and fi nally role of religion in policies, mitigation and management of contesting heritage.

The authors analyze the influence of cultural and civilizational differences between developing and developed countries. The Asian and African states are building their own alternative models of democracy and modernization, which largely contradict the individualistic Western paradigm. The section studies contemporary challenges which threaten security of the countries in Asia and Africa, to wit: terrorism, ethnic and religious conflicts, demographic and environmental challenges, energy security. ; Авторы анализируют проблему влияния культурно-цивилизационных различий между развивающимися и развитыми странами на современном этапе. Страны Востока выстраивают собственные альтернативные модели демократии и модернизации, которые во многом противоречат индивидуалистической западной парадигме. В разделе исследованы современные вызовы, угрожающие безопасности стран Азии и Африки: терроризм, этноконфессиональные конфликты, демографические и экологические проблемы, проблемы энергетической безопасности.

Introduction : global broadband battles : why the US and Europe lag while Asia leads / Martin Fransman -- Broadband, information society, and national system in Japan / Takanori Ida -- Broadband, the information society, and national systems : the Korean case / Inho Chung -- Broadband access development in China / Manqiang Liu -- Broadband in the United States / Johannes M. Bauer -- Emergence and growth of broadband in the French infocommunications system of innovation / Jackie Krafft -- Development of the broadband market in Germany / Franz Bllingen -- Broadband in Italy : timing in intermodal rivalry / Cristiano Antonelli and Pier Paolo Patrucco -- The Swedish broadband market / Sven Lindmark and Per Bjrstedt.