Korea's Role for Peacebuilding and Development in Asia
In: Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 243-266
ISSN: 2288-2707
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In: Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 243-266
ISSN: 2288-2707
In: Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, Band 4, Heft 1, S. 29-51
ISSN: 2288-2707
In: Asian survey, Band 54, Heft 1, S. 78-82
ISSN: 1533-838X
In 2013 Laos joined the World Trade Organization, economic growth was over 8%, and graduation from least-developed country status by 2020 remains achievable. But its human development index of 0.543 remained below the regional average. Macro development projects still threaten the vulnerable. The abduction of a prominent campaigner and repatriation of North Korean refugees highlighted human rights challenges.
In: Asian survey: a bimonthly review of contemporary Asian affairs, Band 54, Heft 1, S. 78-82
ISSN: 0004-4687
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In: Asian survey, Band 53, Heft 1, S. 150-155
ISSN: 1533-838X
The year 2012 saw rapid economic growth, resource development, and a young, dynamic population starting to change the face of Lao public life. The governing Lao People's Revolutionary Party was quick to claim across the board success. There remain, however, significant caveats: success has been moderate, and growth has come with human costs.
In: Asian survey: a bimonthly review of contemporary Asian affairs, Band 53, Heft 1, S. 150-155
ISSN: 0004-4687
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In: Public administration and development: the international journal of management research and practice, Band 32, Heft 4-5, S. 345-356
ISSN: 1099-162X
SUMMARYWe expect those who govern to do so in the interests of the governed. From an international institutional perspective on governance, derived from major international donor frameworks (IMF, WB, EU), good governance refers to efficiency in the provision of services and economic competitiveness. Increasingly, good governance has also come to mean accountability in the provision of services and in the generation and distribution of the collective good. Although even then, there are concerns regarding the impact on the extreme poor, cultural relativity and path dependency, as aggregate measurements of success are used, top‐down exogenous values and primarily Western standards are imposed and political rights are prioritised over other, perhaps more immediate, entitlement rights. This article returns to a fundamental conceptualisation of governance, arguing that the 'right' approach to public administration is that which provides for the basic human needs of all to the greatest extent, but in particular, provides for those of the most vulnerable sections of society. Poverty is one of the greatest challenges to human security and basic human needs, in particular, as addressed in this article, when it is linked to insecurity due to the impact and legacy of conflict. Thus, the article examines conceptual and policy problems related to the provision of 'safe havens' for the vulnerable, regardless of their citizenship status. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
In: Public administration and development: the international journal of management research and practice, Band 32, Heft 4, S. 345-357
ISSN: 0271-2075
In: Public administration and development: the international journal of management research and practice, Band 32, Heft 4-5
ISSN: 0271-2075
In: Asian perspective, Band 30, Heft 1, S. 191-219
ISSN: 0258-9184
The North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 was an attempt under U.S. domestic law to provide aid and humanitarian relief to and broadcast support for those perceived as suffering from the actions of the North Korean regime. It also aimed to transform the regime and contribute to the peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula (in a process similar to that which had occurred as a result of the Helsinki Accords with regard to Eastern Europe). However, contrary to serving its avowed objectives, the act contributes little to enhance human rights protection in North Korea and to instigate regime transformation. Rather, the act is more likely to endanger strategic relations in Northeast Asia. (Asian Perspect/GIGa)
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In: Asian perspective, Band 30, Heft 1, S. 191-219
ISSN: 2288-2871
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 39, Heft 4, S. 761-792
ISSN: 0026-749X
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In: Irish studies in international affairs, Band 11, S. 41-54
ISSN: 0332-1460
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This thesis examines theoretical explanations for why military interventions have taken place in the 'long-decade' following the end of the Cold War. International relations paradigms are evaluated in terms of whether their theoretical precepts provide a potential logical motivation for intervention in each case, based upon the available physical evidence and rational modelling. For the first time the importance of normative justifications for intervention will be assessed in terms of the likelihood of them forming the actual motivation for key decision-makers to make the decision to intervene, using the very rational and empirical methods utilised by critics of new world order claims and that have hitherto been shunned by its advocates. This thesis will attempt a measurement of the fit between theoretical models and empirical evidence in the form of analysis of case studies of "humanitarian intervention" or normative war fighting; a category particularly apt for study, as it can be made to fit with the world-views of all competing paradigms. ; TARA (Trinity's Access to Research Archive) has a robust takedown policy. Please contact us if you have any concerns: rssadmin@tcd.ie
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In: Development cooperation and non-traditional security in the Asia-Pacific