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This collection focuses on the relationship between social care, community and citizenship, linking them in a way relevant to both policy and practice. It explores key concepts, policies, issues and relationships and draws on contrasting illustrations from England and Scotland. The authors examine the ethics of care exploring the theoretical and moral complexities for both those receiving and those delivering care. The book also incorporates practice-based chapters on anti-social behaviour, domestic violence, community capacity to care, black and minority ethnic care, volunteering, befriending and home care and provides international comparisons and perspectives with chapters from Sweden, Germany and Japan

Democratization and federalization in Asia / Baogang He -- Multi-nation federalism / Will Kymlicka -- Regionalist federalism : a critique of ethno-national federalism / David Brown -- Federal accommodation of ethnocultural identities in India / Gurpreet Mahajan -- Democracy and federalism in Pakistan / Katharine Adeney -- Semi-democracy and minimalist federalism in Malaysia / William Case -- Indonesia's post-revolutionary aversion to federalism / Anthony Reid -- Federalism versus autonomy in the Philippines / R.J. May -- Ethnicity and federal prospect in Myanmar / Alan Smith -- China's de facto federalism / Yongnian Zheng -- Toward federalism in China? : the experience of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region / Peter T.Y. Cheung -- Federal traditions and quasi-federalism in Japan / Takashi Inoguchi -- Federalism and Asia / Brian Galligan

Part 1. Laying the Table -- Introduction / Brendan Taylor -- Alliances and Alignments in the Twenty-First Century / William Tow -- Part 2. Dining with Giants -- Australia-United States / Paul Dibb -- Australia-Japan / Brendan Taylor and Desmond Ball -- Australia-China / Michael Wesley -- Australia-India / Sandy Gordon -- Part 3. Working the Room -- Australia-Indonesia / Allan Gyngell -- Australia-South Pacific / Hugh White -- Australia-New Zealand / Robert Ayson -- Australia-Singapore / Ron Huisken -- Part 4. Washing Up -- Threats without Enemies: Are Australia's alliances and alignments still relevant? / Christopher Chung -- Australia's Changing Alliances and Alignments: Towards a new diplomatic two-step? / Puline Kerr and Shannon Tow

Northeast Asia is a region of both extraordinary economic growth and dangerous tensions which could explode in war. This book examines how domestic politics in all the countries of the region - China, Japan, Russia, Taiwan, North Korea and South Korea and, of course, the USA - intensifies the forces of both mutually beneficial prosperity and also war-prone tensions. It goes on to provide policy suggestions for making the better prospects more likely and the worse outcomes less likely. The book, highlighting how domestic imperatives shape foreign policies, will be an important contribution to the literature on Northeast Asian regionalism and the prospects for its future development.

The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM, est. 1996) is an interregional forum which consists of the members of the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and China, Japan and South Korea. The main components of the ASEM process include political dialogue, economy, education and culture. Multiregionalism and Multilateralism focuses on the institutionalsiation of intra-regional and inter-regional cooperation in the international system with emphasis on the changing relationship between the EU, China and India. The role of ASEM in this relationship is growing more important because of the growth of multilateralism as cornerstone of the international system.

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- PART I: INTRODUCTORY SURVEY -- 1. Sanctions Regimes under Article 41 of the UN Charter -- 2. Implementing Sanctions Resolutions in Domestic Law -- PART II: NATIONAL STUDIES -- 3. Argentina -- 4. Belgium -- 5. The European Union -- 6. Finland -- 7. France -- 8. Germany -- 9. Japan -- 10. Jordan -- 11. The Netherlands -- 12. Poland and Czech Republic -- 13. South Africa and Namibia -- 14. Sweden -- 15. Switzerland -- 16. United Kingdom -- 17. The United States -- 18. Concluding Remarks -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Acronyms -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- Introduction -- 1 Setting the Scene -- 2 Power, Politics and the Idea of Human Rights -- 3 Asian Ways -- 4 The Asia Pacific Game of Human Rights -- 5 Asia Pacific Realism and Human Rights -- 6 Asia Pacific Regionalism and Human Rights -- 7 The Meaning of Human Rights and the Uncertainty of Death -- 8 Political Rights of Non-nationals: The Constitutional Debate in Japan -- 9 Indigenous Peoples of the Asia Pacific: A Case Study of the Ainu -- 10 Globalization, Sovereignty, International Law and Human Rights -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

1. Rao, Sandhya: The cyberpath to development in some Asian countries. Introduction. 2. Klopfenstein, Bruce C.: The role of the United States in global internet innovation and diffusion. 3. Mori, Yuji ; Phoha, Vir V.: The internet in Japan. 4. McIntyre, Bryce T.: Let a hundred modems bloom. The internet in today's China. 5. Rao, Sandhya: The skills route to Cyberspace. India's internet experience. 6. Kang Wonsuk: The engine for the next economic leap. The internet in Korea. 7. Bin Abu Hassan, Musa: The internet in Malaysia. 8. Peng Hwa Ang ; Lee, Brian: Wiring an intelligent island. The internet in Singapore. 9. Panol, Zenaida Sarabia ; Rao, Sandhya: Taiwan. An epicenter in the high-tech world

Welfare in context / Anne Digby and John Stewart -- Excess female mortality : constructing survival during development in Meiji Japan and Victorian England / Sheila Ryan Johansson -- Poverty, health and the politics of gender in Britain, 1870-1948 / Anne Digby -- Octavia Hill and women's networks in housing / Caroline Morrell -- Late nineteenth-century philanthropy : the case of Louisa Twining / Theresa Deane -- The campaign for birth control in Britain in the 1920s / Lesley Hoggart -- "The children's party, therefore the women's party" : the Labour Party and child welfare in inter-war Britain / John Stewart -- Gender, welfare and old age in Britain, 1870s-1940s / Pat Thane -- Gender and welfare in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Jane Lewis.

"Inequality kills. Both rich and poor die younger in countries with the greatest inequalities in income. Countries such as the United States with big gaps between rich and poor have higher death rates than those with smaller gaps such as Sweden and Japan. Why? In this provocative book, Richard Wilkinson provides a novel Darwinian approach to the question. This is a penetrating analysis of patterns of health and disease that has implications for social policy. Wilkinson concludes that rather than relying on more police, prisons, social workers, or doctors, we must tackle the corrosive social effects of income differences in our society."--Jacket

Tribal-Tattoos sind ursprünglich Stammestätowierungen, von denen jedes einzelne Zeichen eine besondere (magische oder spirituelle) Bedeutung hat. Im 1., kulturgeschichtlichen Teil laden die beiden Herausgeber zu einer Reise um den Erdball ein - von Neuseeland über Borneo, Tahiti, Japan, Nordamerika bis zu den Kelten, Germanen u.a.m. - und gehen den Wurzeln und der Bedeutung der Tribals und ihrem fortwährenden Wandel nach. Der 2. Teil dagegen ist praxisbezogen und bietet denjenigen Infos, die sich selbst ein Tribal stechen lassen wollen. Hier gibt es verschiedene Möglichkeiten, nämlich zum ersten Kennenlernen es zuerst mit Henna-Tattoos zu versuchen. Aber auch das Tätowieren mit der Nadel wird behandelt, dazu werden verschiedene Motive, auch speziell für Frauen, vorgestellt. Im Anhang Bibliographie und Adressen von Tattoo-Studios. Großformatiger Band mit vielen Schwarz-Weiß-Zeichnungen/-Fotos, der in 1. Linie informativen Charakter hat (vgl. auch "Geschmückte Haut", BA 2/97, und M. Feige "Das Tattoo- und Piercing-Lexikon", BA 2/01), anwendungsbezogener ist z.B. A. Cavelius (BA 11/99). (3) (Margit Seeger-Meier)

We develop a simple search equilibrium model of workplace training and education based on two features. First, investment in education improves job-related learning skills and reduces training costs burdened by firms. Second, firms with vacant skilled job slots can choose between recruitment from the market and training. Compared to Germany and Japan, the US has both a higher inflow rate into unemployment and a higher efficiency of the matching process. While the combined effort of these differences on the share of educated labor is ambiguous, the effect on the percentage of firms undertaking workplace training is to unambiguously reduce it.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Archaeology, Descent, Emergence: American Mythology and East Asian Reality -- 2 East Wind, Rain Red Wind Black Rain: The United States-Japan War, Beginning and End -- 3 Colonial Formations and Deformations: Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam -- 4 Civil Society and Democracy in the United States and East Asia -- 5 Nuclear Imbalance of Terror: The American Surveillance Regime and North Korea's Nuclear Program -- 6 The World Shakes China -- 7 Boundary Displacement: The State, the Foundations, and International and Area Studies during and after the Cold War -- 8 East Asia and the United States: Double Vision and Hegemonic Emergence -- Notes -- Index

This critical analysis of long-term trends and recent developments in world systems examines such questions as: Will the cycles of boom and bust, peace and war of the past 500 years continue? Or have either long-term trends or recent changes so profoundly altered the structure of world systems that these cycles will end or take on a less destructive form? The noted international contributors to this volume examine the question of future dominance of the core global systems and include comprehensive discussions of the economic, political and military role of the Pacific Rim, Japan and the former Soviet Union.

The opening of the Caspian Sea basin to Western investment following the breakup of the Soviet Union produced a major contest for access to the region's vast energy reserves on the part of powers as close as Russia, Turkey, and Iran, and as far away as Japan and the United States. Indeed, the struggle to exploit Caspian oil has been one of the most monumental geopolitical developments of the post-Cold War era as external powers vie for political, economic, and military influence in a region brimming not only with oil, but also with ethnic conflicts and historical animosities.||The coming decad