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This landmark volume deals with such essential questions as: What points of departure, or resources, can be identified in Chinese history and culture for what we call 'democracy'? What are, and have been, their potential for development in a modern China confronted with powerful Western influences? Are there any connections between imperial China's strong legal tradition and the PRC's current endeavour to restore the rule of law, in a context of legal globalization in which China itself is an important participant? How serious, or superficial, should the political opening which started in the 1980s be regarded, and the discourse on human rights currently heard in official circles? And finally, how relevant is Taiwan's experiment with democratic institutions? In this rich and inspiring volume, foremost French scholars carefully clarify the process of political and legal change, convincingly showing that these questions cannot be answered without a proper understanding of centuries of Chinese juridical, philosophical, religious and political thought. Ouvrage publié avec le soutien du Centre national du livre/ Published with financial support by the Centre national du livre

The harmonization of human rights law : guaranteeing the plurality of individual rights / Jo M. Pasqualucci -- In pursuit of restorative justice : The South African truth & reconciliation commission In light Of the Rome statute for the international criminal court / Emily Atwood -- Tribal courts : the battle to earn respect without sacrificing culture and tradition / Melissa L. Tatum -- Black, white, and shades of grey : horizontality of directives revisited / Takis Tridimas -- Dispute settlement and legal harmonization in Mercosur / Welber Barral -- The dialogue of destruction : globalizing cultural property protection law to meet the challenges of today / Seema Lal -- The pitfalls of harmonization in antitrust law / Bruce Carolan -- Global competition : implications for enforcement / Beth Farmer -- The pursuit of law / Vivian Grosswald Curran -- Legal reasoning and legal certainty / Gunnar Beck -- From "Mother of the World" to the "Third World" and back again : the harmonization cycle between Islam and the global economy / Christopher Stuart -- Convergence, divergence, and resistance : the European Union and the dynamics of federal systems within a matrix of contained conflict / Larry Catá Backer

This paper explores the complex dynamics of racialization and whiteness within the context of British Turks' pursuit of belonging in multiscale public spaces in the UK. It examines how these dynamics ultimately lead them to perceive themselves as "non-British" and affirm their place as "Other" within mainstream British society. Based on their experiences in multiscale spatialities, ranging from urban and provincial cities to university campuses and pubs, this study delves into subtle forms of exclusions and stigmatizations tied to differentiated ways British Turks are racialized, revealing how racial identities are constantly reconstructed and contested in these spaces. Based on the discourses of racialization and whiteness emanating from the social and political context in which xenophobia and Islamophobia emerge, the findings highlight the need to consider the intersections of race, ethnicity, culture, and religion in understanding how British Turks constantly question their place and belonging in the UK and confront racial boundaries and different forms of racisms including Islamophobia within various settings in Britain.

The diversity of the language of the environment of Green School Bali needs to be studied, especially the treasury of green ecolexicon as they reflect strategical effort to preserve local wisdom of Balinese culture. This study used a descriptive qualitative approach. Data was obtained from the Green School Bali educational environment by using observation and interviews method. The results shown that the grammatical category of the 'green' lexicon is in the form of nouns and verbs that are in the form of basic words and phrases and the 'green' syntactic construction at Green School Bali contains these natural lexicons, including noun phrases such as bambu hitam 'black bamboo', and verb phrases such as bermain Jegog 'play Jegog' while the social praxis dimension of the green ecolexicon namely the ideological dimension, the sociological dimension and the biological dimension. This research also uniquely contributes to preserving the concept of local wisdom in real action in the context of international education in Bali.

The ancient Balinese people of North Bali have a tradition of cultivating rice on dry soil, which is called ngaga. The people of Pedawa Village, one of the cluster of five ancient villages in Banjar sub-district, Buleleng Regency, have revitalized this agrarian culture that had been lost for nearly half a century. This study analyses the livelihood of the ngaga tradition in Pedawa Village following of its new development in the last three years. The study focuses on the causes for the reviving of the tradition, as well as the challenges and opportunities that it presents. The study concluded that the reason for the reviving this tradition was due to the need for rituals at Pucaksari Temple. Meanwhile, the obstacle is mostly because of the economic value of the gaga rice This article provides a practical contribution to the process of growing gaga rice in dry land, a cultural practice that the local community of Pedawa in North Bali had been forgotten.

Based on the utmost importance of respecting cultural differences to foster learning among immigrant students from diverse cultures and grounded in Social Psychology Theory, this study investigates the impact of cultural pluralism and social connectedness on immigrant students' achievement through social wellbeing. Moreover, the contingent impact of perceived discrimination in decreasing the positive influence of students' social wellbeing has been assessed. This study advances the body of literature regarding cultural diversity as well as the importance of cultural pluralism and social connectedness in promoting social wellbeing to enhance the achievements of immigrant students. Applying a time-lagged survey methodology, data were collected from the 323 immigrant students from the universities located at Kalimantan Island of Indonesia. Data were analyzed using SmartPLS software. The results revealed the positive impact of cultural pluralism and social connectedness on immigrant students' social wellbeing leading to high achievements. Results also showed that the positive influence of immigrant students' social wellbeing on their achievements decreases in the presence of perceived discrimination as a moderator.

With social media in the 21st century, Americans can argue that the United States has become an interconnected society that exposes all people to different cultures and lifestyles. Although a powerful medium, social media has presented adverse effects that decreases the trust that Millennials, especially Black Millennials, have in American society. In this paper, Millennials ask, what is the value of the Millennial population to American society? Millennials, a creative class of individuals, are working within a system that was created without them in mind and without developing a values-based system that is comprised of empathy and an understanding of the societal challenges, Americans will continue to perpetuate a divided America amongst age groups without the proper solutions for correction. This conversation is rooted in the essence of empathy, equity, and understanding where policy and decision-making in the public and governmental organizations must incorporate to increase Millennial visibility and build a culturally competent and mentally healthier America that will benefit all.

Western historical scholarship has taught us much about Southeast Asia in the period between 1800 and 1940. This was a time when the insistent, intensifying and transforming influence of Dutch colonial society and its culture became widespread in Bali and more broadly in the archipelago. Much too has been written about the analytical framework of European histories of these times. In this essay I discuss Balinese paintings from this same period which shed light on how painters and their works spoke to their viewers both about how the Balinese knew, imagined, thought and felt about the world in which they lived and about the visual representation and communication of these ideas, imaginings and feelings through the medium of narrative paintings. In this paper I hope to draw attention to a number of historiographical issues concerning the reception of the ideas, imaginings and feelings conveyed in paintings. In particular I shall have some remarks to make about the role of philology in this regard.

This study examines the different aspects of the tourism industry in anattempt to identify its potential in Algeria and Morocco and the extent ofthe industry interest. The contribution of the tourism industry to theeconomy of Algeria and Morocco is also examined in an attempt tocompare the two countries during the period from 2008 to 2014 byanalyzing the development of the most important indicators of this sectorin the two countries and the challenges of tourism development inAlgeria and Morocco. The study concluded that The contribution of thetourism sector to the GDP, is failed to achieve the desired results fromthe various strategies adopted by Morocco and Algeria to promote andsupport the tourism sector. The most important recommendation of thispaper is to promote tourism inside and outside the country and thedissemination of tourist culture; in addition to the focus on diversifyingtourism industry in such a way to ensure the sustainability of touristactivity. The latter becomes a concern for governments in adopting industrial investments, especially in the field of energy.

This article examines the commodification of hybrid performing arts in Bali tourism, especially the "Bali Agung - The Legend of Balinese Goddesses" performed regularly at Bali Safari and Marine Park, Gianyar. Data were collected by observation techniques, interviews, and literature review, then discussed with commodity theory and cultural tourism ideology.The study shos that hybridity in this performance is evident from the blended of cultural elements of Bali, China, and Western technology. Hybrid tourism performing arts produced can be communal and institutional in ownership. The hybrid tourism performing art is communal because it is created without copyright so it belongs to the people of Bali, while the hybrid performing arts is institutional because it is created with copyright so that ownership and pro t is only enjoyed by the industry that 'recreated dan performed' it. Although di erent, communal and institutional hybrid tourism performing arts have been able to become arts that give new color to the rich variety of Balinese art and culture.

This study aims to reveal the trade networks and dynamics of maritime history in the waters of Bali, especially in the 19th century. There is an interesting aspect in the study of maritime history in Bali namely the importance of Benoa Bay marine area to be the entrance to Bali since many centuries ago. Benoa Bay region directly opposite the Indian Ocean is also associated with Lombok and Bali Straits that become the entry point of the sea trade between Asia and Australia. The study used historical and ethnographic methods. The historical method as well as ethnographic were used to discuss maritime cultural dynamics to the community around the region of Benoa Bay of Bali waters. The results showed that Benoa Bay area turned into the arena of cultural interactions resulting in he mixed culture (mestizo) which produces a different customs from other regions. The occurrence of cross-cultural and civilization contacts put this region as a typical region or special zones outside the sphere of Islamization as the Sea of Civilization.

Since 9/11, Islam has emerged as the new Other that threatens the world's peace and stability. Islam and the West are polarized and antagonized. They are viewed as monolithic and exclusive binaries. Islam is seen as the arch-enemy of the West and its human rights and cherished values. The Algerian-born French philosopher Jacques Derrida holds some Eurocentric views regarding Islam, which is not surprising in the case of a philosophy that is based on the extermination of all kinds of authority including religion. However, Derrida's perception of Islam as the Other of democracy is in sharp contrast with the main tenet of his philosophy which aims at deconstructing binaries and moving the margin to the center. This paper vindicates that Derrida shows some sympathetic attitudes towards Islam and that his philosophy can be used to debunk the Western myth that represents Islam as a violent, exotic,and destructive Other. Derrida's deconstruction theory makes it possible to deconstruct the polarity Islam/West and open dialoguebetween cultures

This paper gives a brief survey of the WAI 262 claim, and the Tribunal Report, in Aotearoa New Zealand. Colloquially known as the Native or Indigenous Flora and Fauna Claim, WAI 262 was the first whole of government claim to the Waitangi Tribunal, requiring a commission of enquiry to investigate how New Zealand constitutes intellectual and cultural property regimes in relation to Māori peoples across the spectrum of governance, from arts and cultural production to medical research, language, and broadcasting. I give a brief summary of the claim and report, but focus primarily on the ways in which languages of cultural difference and incommensurability are mediated within this quasi-legal framework. I argue that rather than presenting ontologically incompatible frames of 'culture', which is ultimately disempowering for indigenous people in the context of the settler-colony, indigenous alterity is a strategy to assert and reorganize the foundations of sovereignty. The strategic relationship between governance, sovereignty, and property regimes has become a zone of contestation and indigenous cultural production.

The concluding article of a special issue on, "The Quality of Democracy in Post-Communist Europe," offers an overview of postcommunist developments in Eastern & Central Europe. Although a quantitative analysis of democracy in postcommunist Europe during the last 10 years indicates general progress in democratization, a qualitative analysis suggests that much of postcommunist democratization is characterized by arrested development. Various reasons for this deficient democracy have been proposed, including weak development of the rule of law; failure to build an adequate constitutional order; the lack of basic institutions; & issues of political culture. Emphasis is placed on the complexity of the process of postcommunist democratization & the interdependence of a wide range of critical factors. Attention is given to the impact of the European Union & the strengthening of West European links, as well as areas of conflict between the dominant conceptions of economic & political change, which serve to produce further areas of tension in the difficult process of postcommunist democratization. J. Lindroth