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In the post-Cold War world, the United States and China together forms one of the most significant relationships in the Asian Pacific region. However, this relationship cannot be considered in isolation from the dynamic economic integration of China with Hong Kong and Taiwan into what is now called 'Greater China'. This volume draws on a wide range of international expertise to examine the nature of the US economic interaction with Greater China. Set against the historical and political background of Sino-American relations, the contributors discuss in detail trade and investment flows between Greater China and the United States as well as China's entry into the World Trade Organization. The impact on regional trading partners and global trading organizations is also evaluated. The differing perspectives and analyses presented here make this volume a stimulating re-assessment of the current state of Sino-American economic relations as the region approaches the new century

Contrary to the presumption of the resource curse hypothesis, the oil exporter Venezuela has long been one of the most stable and conflict-free countries in Latin America. The article analyzes this deviant case by employing a context-sensitive approach which shows that the link between oil and internal conflicts or stability cannot be understood without considering crucial resource-specific and non-resource-specific contextual conditions. The findings of this in-depth case study suggest that the interplay of the relatively high oil abundance per capita, the geographical location of the oil reserves, multidimensional redistribution policies, specific political-institutional settings, and behavioral patterns of political elites best explains the generally low level of violent conflicts in Venezuela. These findings are further confirmed by a diachronic comparative analysis undertaken in the second part of this article. It is demonstrated that temporary increases in low-level violence can be explained by historical shifts relating to several of the outlined conditions. Adapted from the source document.

Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Gender and the Politics of the Economic Crisis in Europe -- Introduction -- Feminist Approaches to Analysing the Economic Crisis -- Gendering the Politics of the Crisis -- Austerity Politics, Institutional Changes and Gender Equality Policy in the EU -- The Europeanization of Gender Equality and Policies in Times of Crisis -- Gender and Intersectional Struggles Around Austerity Politics in Europe -- The Content of This Book -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: A Policy in Crisis. The Dismantling of the EU Gender Equality Policy -- Introduction -- Towards a Rights Policy -- Institutional Shifts and Interests Evolution: Structures and Actors in Gender Equality -- The New Cognitive Framework of Gender Equality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: The Gender Politics of EU Economic Policy: Policy Shifts and Contestations Before and After the Crisis -- Introduction -- Gender in EU Strategic Policy -- Contesting Gender in 'Mainstream' EU Policy -- Gender Knowledge Contestation Analysis -- Obscuring Gender Inequality in Mainstream Economic Policy: Insights from Feminist Political Economy -- Gender Knowledge in EU Economic Policies Before 'the Crisis' -- EU 'Micro'-Economic Policy: 1997 to 2005 -- EU 'Macro'-Economic Policy: 1992 to 2005 -- Comparing Gender Knowledge in Micro- and Macro-Economic Policies Before the Crisis -- Policy Shifts in the Balance Between Micro- and Macro-Economic Policies: The 2005 Integrated Guidelines for Growth and Jobs -- Policy Development and Contestation in EU Crisis Responses 2009-2011: The Europe 2020 Strategy -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Opportunity and Setback? Gender Equality, Crisis and Change in the EU -- Introduction -- Feminist Historical Institutionalism

Contributes to the voting behavior literature by specifying the pathways by which ethnicity influences prospective vote choice. Data from a pre-election telephone survey of 506 Latinos & 206 Anglos in TX focused on the 1996 US Senate race, in which a Mexican American Democrat challenged an Anglo incumbent, are used to test hypotheses regarding the relationship between ethnicity & vote preference. Findings show that ethnicity has a direct effect on partisan identification & issue positions & an indirect effect on candidate evaluation & voting preference. Ethnicity directly & indirectly shapes important voting considerations & hence plays a major role in shaping voting preference. 4 Tables, 22 References. Adapted from the source document.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Beyond Sacred and Secular: A Comparative Analysis of Religious Politics in Israel and Turkey -- Part One. Paradox of Modernity? The Conundrum of Religion in Politics -- 1. Politics of Religion: Competing and Coalescing Conceptualizations -- 2. Religion in the Making of the Israeli and Turkish Nation-States: Incomplete Debates and Continuing Institutional Reformations -- Part Two. Ideologues or Pragmatists? The Ideas and Ideologies of Religious Politics -- 3. Representing the Sacred in Mundane Politics: The Ideologies and Leaders of Mafdal and Shas -- 4. Representing Islam in Secular Politics: The Ideologies and Leaders of the Nationalist Action, the National View, and the Justice and Development Parties -- Part Three. The Popular Roots of Religious Parties -- 5. Between Zionism and Judaism? Religious Party Supporters in Israel -- 6. Between Laicism and Islam? Religious Party Supporters in Turkey -- Conclusion. Sacro-Secular Encounters: A Comparative Model of Religious Parties -- Notes -- Index

In a dialogue discussing issues of the relation between empirical and normative theory, four contributors comment upon the edited volume by Richard Price, Moral Limit and Possibility in World Politics, and Richard Price responds. The contributions principally revolve around the following themes: (1) whether a division of labor between normative and empirical theory can or should be overcome, which in turn presupposes notions of (2) just what constitutes normative and empirical international relations as such; and (3) the ethics of constructivism itself, including what if anything is distinctive about how constructivism might respond to the question of 'how we should act'.

En este artículo se reflexiona sobre los servicios de infraestructura urbana en América Latina. Se analizan estos servicios como bienes producidos y distribuidos colectivamente, que apoyan la operación (y reproducción) de la aglomeración urbana. El trabajo trata de estudiar los servicios como parte del proceso de urbanización dentro de las determinaciones es­tructurales y los procesos particulares (sociales y políticos) que los definen. Se desarrolla una breve conceptualización de los servicios urbanos en la urbanización capitalista en general y en América Latina, presentando la cuestión de su orientación en dos fases del capitalismo: el keynesianismo-­bienestar y la reestructuración neoliberal. ; This article reflects on urban infrastructure services in Latin America. It analyzes this services as goods produced and distributed collectively, that support the operation (and reproduction) of the urban agglomeration. This paper tries to study the services as part of process of urbanization inside the structural determinations and the particular processes (social and political) that define them. It develops a brief conceptualization of urban services in capitalist urbanization in general and in Latin America, introducing the issue of guidance, in two phases of capitalism, Keynesianism, welfare and neoliberal restructuring. ; Fil: Pirez, Pedro Tomas. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Investigación de América Latina y el Caribe; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina

Polybius's description of the Roman Republic's mixed constitution is often compared to the "checks and balances" maxim in American politics. The thrust of this study is to follow the idea of establishment of a balanced political system and to ascertain whether the ideas that originated in the ancient Mediterranean world had a direct impact on the writing of the United States Constitution. It is clear that mixed constitutions, diffusion of powers, checks and balances and separation of powers are all ideas and instruments intended to establish a form of government in which interests groups and factions were prevented from amassing excessive powers and establishing an anti-democratic, despotic tyrannical reality. The link between the idea of the mixed constitution of Polybius and the checks and balances theory associated with the American political system becomes apparent: an idea and a system developed in a certain set of circumstances and described and defined in a certain manner according to the social, political and economic realities of antiquity transforms according to prevailing needs and conditions until variations find their way into modern American political culture.