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Implications of US policy of changes in the region; 4 articles. Covers China, the Soviet Union, North and South Korea, Southeast Asia; excludes Japan.

This is the first book that focusses on how proportionality analysis - a legal transplant from the West - is applied by courts around Asia, and it explores how a country's commitment to democracy and the rule of law is fundamental to the success of the doctrine's judicial enforcement. This book will appeal to lawyers, political scientists, and students of law and political science who seek to understand how proportionality analysis is blossoming and, in some cases, flourishing in Asia.

Six articles. Contents: The United States in South Asia, by Zalmay Khalilzad; Afghanistan: "back to feudalism," by Barnett R. Rubin; Political decay in Sri Lanka, by Robert C. Oberst; India: state and society diverge, by James Manor; Pakistan under Benazir Bhutto, by William L. Richter; The struggle for development in Bangladesh, by Craig Baxter.

Book reviewed in this article:Kopfjagd und Menschenopfer in Assam und Birma und ihre Ausstrah‐lungen nach Vorderindien.Mutterrecht und Kopfjagd im westlichen Hinterindien. Dr. Robert Heine‐Geldern.

A discussion of PO surveys in Southeast Asia, describing: (1) instit's for empirical soc res in Asia; (2) the feasibility of PO res in Asia (underlining the success obtained when new, non-Western methods are devised); (3) res as a supplement to fieldwork; (4) 30 major surveys undertaken from 1960-1962 in Singapore, Vietnam, Burma, Thailand, the Philippines, Japan, & India; (5) marketing res for gov's & firms carried on by the new instit's of empirical soc res; (6) problems in drafting questionaires; (7) representative methods of selection (noting the preference for the 'area sampling' procedure in Asian surveys; & (8) practical problems, including: (A) need for consent of gov'al authorities to undertake surveys, (B) incomplete or nonexistant statistical data, (C) the influence of pol'al factors, esp of non-cooperative pol'al minorities, (D) primitive COMM's systems & vast geographical areas, (E) ignorance by the interviewer of nat'l customs, (F) the difficulties of using non-Asians for surveys in Asia, & (G) shortage of trained personnel, both Western & Asian. Positive factors in Asian PO res are: (a) the natural, 'unspoilt' nature of HR in these countries, (b) their clear-cut soc structure, & (c) the feasibility of using smaller samples than in the West, due to infrequent intermingling of the SC's. (See SA 0827-A9630) L. Gimenez Melo.