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The digital turn might as well be marked as an Asian turn. From flash-mobs in Taiwan to feminist mobilisations in India, from hybrid media strategies of Syrian activists to cultural protests in Thailand, we see the emergence of political acts that transform the citizen from being a beneficiary of change to becoming an agent of change. In co-shaping these changes, what the digital shall be used for, and what its consequences will be, are both up for speculation and negotiation. Digital Activism in Asia marks a particular shift where these questions are no longer being refracted through the ICT4D logic, or the West's attempts to save Asia from itself, but shaped by multiplicity, unevenness, and urgencies of digital sites and users in Asia. This reader crowd-sources critical tools, concepts, analyses, and annotations, self-identified by a network of change makers in Asia as important in their own practices within their own contexts. ; Nishant Shah: Foreword Denisse Albornoz: From Taboo to Beautiful. Menstrupedia Esra'a Al Shafei: Keeping Our Voices Loud. The Evolution of CrowdVoice.org Maesy Angelina: Digital Natives' Alternative Approach to Social Change Sumandro Chattapadhya: We Come from an Activist Background. An Interview with Htaike Htaike Aung, MIDO Anat Ben-David: Digital Natives and the Return of the Local Cause Sumandro Chattapadhyay: Greatfire.org Tracey Cheng: Taiwan's Sunflower Protest. Digital Anatomy of a Movement Armand Hurault: Digital Revolution in Reverse. Syria's Media Diversifies Offline Rachel Jolley: India Calling Youngmi Kim: Digital Populism in South Korea? Internet Culture and the Trouble with Direct Participation Merlyna Lim: Many Clicks but Little Sticks: Social Media Activism in Indonesia Subhashish Panigrahi: Rising Voices. Indigenous Language Digital Activism Prabhas Pokharel: Towards 2 Way Participation Urvashi Sarkar: Wikipedia, Bhanwari Devi and the Need for an Alert Feminist Public YiPing (Zona) Tsou: Digital Natives in the Name of a Cause. From "Flash Mob" to "Human Flesh Search" Hu Yong: Three Forces Acting behind the Development of the Internet Huma Yusuf: Old and New Media. Converging During the Pakistan Emergency (March 2007 – February 2008) Weiyu Zhang: Redefining Youth Activism through Digital Technology in Singapore

The problems and prospects of democratic peace have attracted both scholars of international relations and policy makers in recent years. The main argument is that the promotion of democracy will lower the probability of war because democracies have not yet gone to war against each other. The promotion of democratic governance therefore became one of the cornerstones of the foreign policies in both the U.S. and the member countries of the European Union (EU) in the 1990s. South Asia can surely be regarded as a region where the benefits of democratic peace would be more than desirable. South Asia's image as a region of chronic instability was only to be seconded by U.S. President Clinton's remarks in March 2000 that the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir is the 'most dangerous place in the world'. The events following September 11 and the growing tensions between India and Pakistan after the attacks of Islamic militants on the Indian parliament in December 2001 have again increased the probability of a nuclear war in this part of the world. But the overall picture of the region is more complex. Besides the well-known conventional and nuclear security risks, South Asia is also among the poorest and least developed regions in the world according to international social and economic indicators. Despite these developments there are remarkable traditions of democratic rule at the same time. During most of the 1990s, South Asia was the biggest democratic region after the transition from authoritarian rule in Pakistan (1988), Nepal (1990) and Bangladesh (1990). Moreover, South Asia is the only region where western political institutions go hand in hand with a variety of non-western civilisations and where religion plays an active role in current politics. The only forms of Hindu and Islamic democracies are to be found in Nepal and Bangladesh, and Buddhism received a foremost place in the Sri Lanka constitution. In contrast to other Asian regions there is a strong commitment by South Asian countries to follow the ...

Touhey, R ; Woo, Y. P.: Canada and Asia. - S. 875-877 Kawasaki, T.: Strangers no longer : The identity shift in the Canada-Japan relationship. - S. 879-890 Jiang, W.: Seeking a strategic vision for Canada-China relations. - S. 891-909 Touhey, R.: From periphery to priority : Lessons of the Canada-India relationship 1976-2009. - S. 911-925 Stubbs, R. ; Williams, M. S.: The poor cousin? Canada - ASEAN relations. - S. 927-939 Kim, R. B. ; Bureau, S.: Canada-Korea economic relations. - S. 941-952 A conversation on Canada-Asia relations. - S. 953-971 Ciuriak, D. ; Curtis, J. M.: Canada's commercial relationship with Asia. - S. 973-987 Chin, G.: Shifting purpose : Asia's rise and Canada's foreign aid. - S. 989-1009 Yu, H.: Global migrants and the new Pacific Canada. - S. 1011-1026 Evans, P.: Canada and Asia Pacific's track-two diplomacy. - S. 1027-1038 Donaghy, G.: To know and be known : The Department of External Affairs and the creation of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, 1978-194. - S. 1039-1054

This volume of Princeton Readings in Religions brings together the work of more than thirty scholars of Islam and Muslim societies in South Asia to create a rich anthology of primary texts that contributes to a new appreciation of the lived religious and cultural experiences of the world's largest population of Muslims. The thirty-four selections--translated from Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, Gujarati, Hindavi, Dakhani, and other languages--highlight a wide variety of genres, many rarely found in standard accounts of Islamic practice, from oral narratives to elite guidance manuals, from devotional songs to secular judicial decisions arbitrating Islamic law, and from political posters to a discussion among college women affiliated with an "Islamist" organization. Drawn from premodern texts, modern pamphlets, government and organizational archives, new media, and contemporary fieldwork, the selections reflect the rich diversity of Islamic belief and practice in South Asia. Each reading is introduced with a brief contextual note from its scholar-translator, and Barbara Metcalf introduces the whole volume with a substantial historical overview

Regional performance figures. Political developments in the region. The power game. Food and population. Fishing. Development banks. Trade and aid. Asian finance. Asian investment. Commodities. Aviation. Shipping. Energy. Asian organisations ASEAN, South Pacific. Country reports. News roundup. (DÜI-Ptk)