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Intro -- Preface -- Point of Personal Privilege: Where Regional and Global Politics Meets a Boy-then-Scholar and IGAD(D) -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction-Africa's Regional Economic Communities (RECs) -- Broader Objectives of the Study -- Regional Economic Communities: A Most African Phenomenon -- Characteristics of RECs and the Tendency to Cooperate -- Regional, Continental and International Cooperation as Choice -- Briefly: RECs' Infrastructure -- Structure and Organization of Book Volume -- References -- 2 Locating Africa's Regional Economic Communities (RECs) in IR Scholarship -- Introduction -- States Interacting Globally, Informed by Existing IR Theory -- Considering Colonial and Post-colonial States Through Mainstream IR -- The Colonial State as Applied to Africa: Towards Modern States -- What We Know, Ought to Know: The Grip of History -- Knowledge and Authority Systems in Contemporary African Nations -- Splitting the Hairs of Colonial Government and Its Criminals -- Evoking Suspicion and Disagreement with Kuhn -- Necessity of Kuhn's Paradigm Shift in Rethinking RECs' Existence -- Persistence of Existing Paradigms and Challenges of New Paradigms -- Of Current Foreign Policy Theories and Ferraris in Kinangop -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- 3 New Paradigm: Communitarian, Humanist African Theory of Regional Integration -- Introduction -- INUS IR Theories and a New Paradigm -- Communitarianism Under Contemporary Citizenship: Sociocultural and Political Contestations -- African Citizens' Equality: Impact of Sociocultural Traditions on Politics -- Africa's Domestic Politics, Foreign Policy: Patriarchal and Socioculturally Inclined -- Communitarianism = African? -- Communitarianism: Ubuntu as the Basis of African RECs -- Communitarian and African Socialism: What's in a Name?.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Experiences Gained from Past 13th Five-Year Plans and Guidelines for Subsequent Plans -- 1.1 Historical Context of Five-Year Plans for National Economic and Social Development -- 1.2 Experiences Gained from Past Five-Year Plans for National Economic and Social Development -- 1.3 Studies on the Guiding Thoughts of the Next Five-Year Plan -- 1.3.1 Historical Position and Background in the Next Five Years -- 1.3.2 Basic Conditions and Key Issues in Relation to the Next Five-Year Development -- 1.3.3 Research on the Concept and Guiding Ideology for Development in Next Five Years -- References -- 2 Overall Evaluation and Main Experiences of the Implementation of the 13th Five-Year Plan -- 2.1 Evaluation on the Performance of Major Objectives and Tasks of the 13th Five-Year Plan -- 2.1.1 Evaluation on Economic Growth -- 2.1.2 Evaluation on Innovation -- 2.1.3 Evaluation on Coordinated Development -- 2.1.4 Evaluation on Standards of Living and Quality of Life -- 2.1.5 Evaluation on the Overall Caliber of the Population and the Level of Civility in Society -- 2.1.6 Evaluation on the Quality of Environment and Ecosystems -- 2.1.7 Evaluation on all Systems -- 2.2 Evaluation on the Performance of Main Indicators During the "13th Five-Year Plan"Period -- 2.2.1 Evaluation on Economic Development Indicators -- 2.2.2 Evaluation on Innovation-Driven Indicators -- 2.2.3 Evaluation on Indicators of the Peoples' Living Standards and Wellbeing -- 2.2.4 Evaluation on Indicators of Resources and Environment -- 2.3 Evaluation on the Performance of the Fight Against Poverty -- 2.3.1 Performance of the Poverty Alleviation Tasks -- 2.3.2 Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Poverty Alleviation -- 2.3.3 Ensuring Realization of the Poverty Alleviation Goals and Resolutely Winning the Tough Fight against Poverty.

This book tells the story of the German Democratic Republic from "the inside out," using the lens of generational change to deconstruct an intriguing array of social identities that had little to do with the "official GDR" version authoritarian rulers regularly sought to impose on their citizens. The author compares the "identities" of five societal subgroups (GDR writers and intellectuals; pastors and dissidents; women; youth; and working-class men), exploring the policies defining their lives and status before/during/after the 1989 Wende, as well as the diverging "exit, voice and loyalty" dilemmas encountered by each. The "dialectical" components treated in this work center on the extent to which eastern identities were lost, found and reconfigured across three generations, from 1949 to 1989, from 1990 to 2005, then up to 2020. It explores how the existence of a separate East German state and the socialization processes imposed on each subculture has not only complicated the search for national unity since 1990 but also – perhaps more controversially – invoked new challenges directly related to ongoing East-West structural disparities since unification and the treatment of eastern Germans by often more privileged western Germans.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Why the Dynamic Evolution of China's Comparative Advantages Must Be Accelerated -- 1.1 The Dynamic Evolution of China's Comparative Advantages -- 1.2 Trends in the Dynamic Evolution of China's Comparative Advantages -- 1.2.1 Changes in China's Capability for the Dynamic Evolution of the Country's Comparative Advantages -- 1.2.1.1 China's Factor Accumulation -- 1.2.1.2 China's Technological Progress -- 1.2.1.3 China's Realization of Economies of Scale -- 1.2.1.4 China's Accumulation of Human Capital -- 1.2.1.5 China's Trade Policy Inclination -- 1.2.1.6 Evaluation of China's Dynamic Capacity for Comparative Advantages -- 1.2.2 Changes in China's Comparative Advantages -- 1.2.2.1 China's Export Trade -- 1.2.2.2 The Revealed Comparative Advantages of China's Export Commodities -- 1.2.2.3 China's Index of Concentration on the International Market -- 1.2.2.4 China's International Market Diversity Index -- 1.2.2.5 China's Net Barter Terms of Trade -- 1.3 Research Topics on the Dynamic Evolution of China's Comparative Advantages -- 1.4 Conclusions -- Chapter 2: Resource Constraints in the Dynamic Evolution of China's Comparative Advantages -- 2.1 The End of the Myth of Comparative Advantages of Resources -- 2.2 Literature Review -- 2.2.1 Resource Constraints and the Dynamic Evolution of Comparative Advantages -- 2.2.2 Empirical Analysis of Resource Constraints: A Study on the Growth Drag -- 2.3 Resource Constraint and China's Growth Drag: An Empirical Analysis -- 2.3.1 Empirical Model Setting and Data -- 2.3.1.1 Model Specification -- 2.3.1.2 Data Specification -- 2.3.2 Empirical Analysis -- 2.3.3 Result Analysis -- 2.3.3.1 The Growth Drag of Water Resource -- 2.3.3.2 The Growth Drag of Land Resource.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Maps -- 1 Community-Led Innovation: Facts, Rhetoric, and Policy Challenges -- References -- Part I Models -- 2 New Models of Innovation in Old Industrial Regions -- The Advent of New Framings of Innovation and Policy -- Implications for Old Industrial Regions -- Innovating in the Periphery-The Cardiff Capital Region -- Fashioning Regional Capacity: The Rise of the Cardiff Capital Region -- The Real World of Regional Innovation Policy -- Conclusions and Implications -- References -- 3 On the Performance of Regional Innovation Systems -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Qualitative Procedure -- Quantitative Procedure -- General Patterns -- Articles -- Scientific Journals -- Authors -- Specific Patterns -- Classification of RIS Performance Articles by Type -- Classification of RIS Performance Articles by Theme -- Conclusions -- References -- 4 Social Tipping Dynamics for Disruptive Innovation Policies Towards a Stable Climate Scenario -- Introduction -- The Earth Tipping Points, Social Tipping Dynamics and European Innovation Policy Challenges -- Key Sector Opportunities for Social Tipping Dynamics in Territorial Innovation -- Policy Interventions, Actors and Agency for Disruptive Sustainability and Territorial Innovation -- Conclusions -- References -- 5 Digital Technologies and Mediation in the Context of Territorial Innovation -- Introduction -- Role of Digital Media and Hypermediation in the Territorial-Based Innovation Process -- Methodological Procedures -- Systematic Literature Review -- Narrative Literature Review -- Mapping of Center Region Innovative Initiatives -- Networks Benchmarking -- Website and Application Benchmarking -- Interviews with Local Community/entity Leaders -- Focus Groups -- Discussion of Results.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 A Conceptualisation of Japan's Relations with the Middle East -- 1 Complex Interdependence Revisited -- 2 Critical Adoption of Complex Interdependence in Middle East International Relations -- 2.1 The Role of Security in Complex Interdependence -- 2.2 Agenda Politics -- 2.3 The Role of International Actors -- 3 Methodological Approach -- 3.1 Complex Interdependence through Intercultural Communication -- 3.2 Interdependence through Numerous Channels and Different Agendas -- 3.3 The Emergence of Japanese Interests and Security in the Middle East -- 3.3.1 Energy Security -- 3.3.2 Economic Interests -- 3.3.3 Protection of Nationals -- 3.3.4 Cultural Understanding -- 3.3.5 Multilateralism -- 4 Preview of Chapters -- References -- 2 Japan's Relations with Saudi Arabia: The Evolution of Energy Diplomacy in Response to the Developmental Shift in the Rentier State -- 1 Theoretical Framework: Evolution of Energy Diplomacy -- 1.1 The First Stage: Maintaining a Friendly Diplomatic Relationship -- 1.2 The Second Stage: Facilitating Investment for Economic Diversification -- 1.3 The Third Stage: Advancing Educational Cooperation -- 1.4 Japan and Saudi Arabia -- 2 The First Stage: Maintaining a Friendly Diplomatic Relationship-After 1955 -- 3 The Second Stage: Facilitating Investment for Economic Diversification-After the 1970s -- 3.1 The Resurgence of Investments -- 4 The Third Stage: Educational Cooperation-After the 2000s -- 5 Conclusions -- 3 Japan-UAE Relations: Establishment of Multifaceted Interdependence Based on Energy -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Overview of Japan-UAE Relations -- 2.1 The Emergence Period (1960-1979)-Bilateral Relations Driven by the Business Community.

Intro -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- Part I EU and National Public Policies for Territorial Cohesion -- 1 EU Policies and Strategies and Territorial Cohesion -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 EU Strategic Development Agendas and Territorial Cohesion -- 1.3 EU Cohesion Policy and Territorial Cohesion -- 1.4 EU Territorial Agendas and Territorial Cohesion -- 1.5 Conclusion -- References -- 2 National Policies and Territorial Cohesion -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.1.1 Theoretical Framework and Policy Setting Rationale -- 2.1.2 The Exercise of Compatibility Between Public Policy Instruments Arising from the Recovery and Resilience Facility and from Cohesion Policy 2021-2027 -- 2.1.3 The Recovery and Resilience Facility's Rationale and Intervention Model -- 2.2 Recovery and Resilience Plans and National Policies -- 2.2.1 Main Policy Areas Covered by the RRPs -- 2.3 Strategic and Functional Articulation Between RRPs and CP 2021-2027 -- 2.4 RRPs and the Territorialization of Approaches -- 2.5 Conclusions -- References -- Part II Socioeconomic Development Policies for Territorial Cohesion -- 3 Equal Opportunities, Fair Work and Social Protection: Impacts of COVID-19 on Young People in Portuguese Rural Territories -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 EU and Portuguese Rural Areas: A Snapshot -- 3.3 Young People in Rural Areas -- 3.3.1 Youth and Shrinking Demography -- 3.3.2 Declining Economies -- 3.3.3 Institutional Support -- 3.4 COVID-19 Impacts on Portuguese Young People Living in Rural Areas -- 3.4.1 Equal Opportunities: Education and Transition to the Labour Market -- 3.4.2 Fair Working Conditions: Youth (un)employment -- 3.4.3 Social Protection: Poverty, Social Exclusion and Health Needs -- 3.5 Discussion and Conclusion -- 3.5.1 Implications for Research and Policy -- References.

Intro -- Foreword -- Abstract -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 In Brief: What is the GCM? -- 1.2 Why Research the Role and Influence of NSAs and Local Authorities? -- 1.3 Goals of this Book and Research Question -- 1.4 Key Findings -- 1.5 Overview of Chapters -- 2 Key Concepts, Theory, and the Emergence of Global Migration Governance -- 2.1 Actors Other than States in the International (Governance) System -- 2.1.1 Understanding Global Governance -- 2.1.2 International Relations Theories and Actors Other than States -- 2.1.3 Non-state Actors' Emergence in the International System -- 2.2 The Emergence of a Global Governance on Migration -- 2.2.1 The Early Stages of Migration Governance: Building Norms and Institutions (1919-1989) -- 2.2.2 The Emergence of Conversations, New Approaches and Stock-taking on the Global Level (1990-2006) -- 2.2.3 The Era of Migration and Development (2006-2015) -- 2.2.4 Setting up a New Architecture for Global Migration Governance: The New York Declaration, the GCM and GCR (2015-2018) -- 2.2.5 Post GCM and GCR: Insecure Times of Implementation, Review, and Follow-up -- 2.3 Understanding the actors under investigation -- 2.3.1 Non-state actors -- 2.3.2 Individual Non-state Actor Groups and their Role in Migration Governance -- 2.3.3 Similar but Different: Local Authorities as Actors in Migration Governance -- 3 Framework of Analysis -- 3.1 Measuring Influence-A Broader Concept and Approach for Social Sciences -- 3.1.1 Defining "influence" -- 3.1.2 Influence in Relation to Power -- 3.1.3 How NSAs Exert Influence -- 3.1.4 How Actors Collaborate: Transnational Advocacy Coalitions and Networks -- 3.2 Triangulation as an Approach to Assess Influence -- 3.2.1 Time Period and Actors Under Investigation -- 3.2.2 Data Types -- 3.2.3 Data Sources.