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CHAPTER ONE. - Redefining the region: the Indo-Pacific idea 7. - CHAPTER TWO. - The Asia-Middle East Nexus: Dependency and Resilience 27. - CHAPTER THREE. - South Pacific Island States and Regional Security 45. - CHAPTER FOUR. - The United States' Evolving Regional Military Posture 61. - CHAPTER FIVE. - China's Regional Grand Strategy Paves the Way for Realising the China Dream 77. - CHAPTER SIX. - Japan and its Regional Relations: Making Common Cause 91. - CHAPTER SEVEN. - Back in the Game: Russia's Potential in Asia and the Pacific 103. - CHAPTER EIGHT. - South Korea's Regional Relations 119. - CHAPTER NINE. - Indonesia: An Emerging Maritime Power 135. - CHAPTER TEN. - China's Domestic Security Challenges: Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong 147. - CHAPTER ELEVEN. - Myanmar's Nationwide Ceasefire 163. - CHAPTER TWELVE. - Search and Rescue, Disaster Relief and Inter-state Cooperation 177. - CHAPTER THIRTEEN. - Assessing ASEAN's Security Role 191. - CHAPTER FOURTEEN. - New Leaders: New Possibilities for Collaboration? 203. - CONCLUSION 215

1. Introduction / Atsushi Maki -- 2. Are luxury goods really luxuries? The validity of the Tornqvist-Wold hypothesis / Atsushi Maki and Mlemba Abassy Kamwe -- 3. Engel's law in Vietnam and the Philippines : effects of in-kind consumption on inequality and poverty / Atsushi Maki and Satoshi Ohira -- 4. Informal agriculture sector in Indonesia : big in size, small in contribution, and full of the working poor / Kadarmanto -- 5. Effects of remittances on income inequality and poverty in the Philippines / Satoshi Ohira and Karen Villaquer Firshan -- 6. Area disparity of income and expenditure in Sri Lanka : based on micro-data sets of household income and expenditure survey of 2006-2007 / Yasumasa Baba. [et al.] -- 7. The agricultural sector in Thailand's middle-income stage / Satoshi Ohira and Atsushi Maki -- 8. The possibility of a border economic zone : Asian golden quadrangle / Satoko Okuyama -- 9. Development of the fishery systems in modern Taiwan / Nobutake Koiwa -- 10. Conclusion / Atsushi Maki.

Introduction: Remapping the Early Slave Narrative / Nicole N. Aljoe -- Irony and Modernity in the Early Slave Narrative : Bonds of Duty, Contracts of Meaning / Ian Finseth -- Trials and Confessions of Fugitive Slave Narratives / Gretchen J. Woertendyke -- "They Us'd Me Pretty Well" : Briton Hammon and Cross-Cultural Alliances in the Maritime Borderlands of the Florida Coast / Jeffrey Gagnon -- Uncommon Sufferings : Rethinking Bondage in A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man / Keith Michael Green -- Narrating an Indigestible Trauma : The Alimentary Grammar of Boyrereau Brinch's Middle Passage / Lynn R. Johnson -- "The Most Perfect Picture of Cuban Slavery" : Transatlantic Bricolage in Manzano's and Madden's Poems by a Slave / R.J. Boutelle -- Seeking a Righteous King : A Bahamian Runaway Slave in Cuba / Jose Guadalupe Ortega -- Literary Form and Islamic Identity in The Life of Omar Ibn Said / Basima Kamel Shaheen -- Coda: Animating Absence / Kristina Bross

"The Handbook of Global Health Policy provides a definitive source of the key areas in the field. It examines the ethical and practical dimensions of new and current policy models and their effect on the future development of global health and policy. Maps out key debates and policy structures involved in all areas of global health policy Isolates and examines new policy initiatives in global health policy Provides an examination of these initiatives that captures both the ethical/critical as well as practical/empirical dimensions involved with global health policy, global health policy formation and its implications Confronts the theoretical and practical questions of 'who gets what and why' and 'how, when and where?' Captures the views of a wide array of scholars and practitioners, including from low- and middle-income countries, to ensure an inclusive view of current policy debates "--

"The Handbook of Global Health Policy provides a definitive source of the key areas in the field. It examines the ethical and practical dimensions of new and current policy models and their effect on the future development of global health and policy. Maps out key debates and policy structures involved in all areas of global health policy Isolates and examines new policy initiatives in global health policy Provides an examination of these initiatives that captures both the ethical/critical as well as practical/empirical dimensions involved with global health policy, global health policy formation and its implications Confronts the theoretical and practical questions of 'who gets what and why' and 'how, when and where?' Captures the views of a wide array of scholars and practitioners, including from low- and middle-income countries, to ensure an inclusive view of current policy debates "--

"This book provides a fresh perspective on the population history of Italy during the late Republic. It employs a range of sources and a multidisciplinary approach to investigate demographic trends and the demographic behaviour of Roman citizens. Dr Hin shows how they adapted to changing economic, climatic and social conditions in a period of intense conquest. Her critical evaluation of the evidence on the demographic toll taken by warfare and rising societal complexity leads her to a revisionist 'middle count' scenario of population development in Italy. In tracing the population history of an ancient conquest society, she provides an accessible pathway into Roman demography which focuses on the three main demographic parameters - mortality, fertility and migration. She unites literary and epigraphic sources with demographic theory, archaeological surveys, climatic and skeletal evidence, models and comparative data. Tables, figures and maps enable readers to visualise the quantitative dynamics at work"--

This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership and access to external finance affect the likelihood of manufacturers in emerging markets to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for differences across firms in terms of labor productivity, size, etc., we find that foreign ownership and access to external finance are statistically significant determinants of the likelihood that a firm will export or import. Foreign ownership has a large positive impact on the likelihood to engage in direct trade but a negative effect on the likelihood to trade through intermediaries; the effects vary across upper and lower middle income countries. Access to external finance has a modest but positive effect on the likelihood to engage in any of the modes of connecting with foreign customers or suppliers.

Overcoming a past of deteriorating homes, empty storefronts, and corrupt city administrations, Somerville, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston, proudly defines itself as a longtime immigrant city, a historically blue collar town, and a hip new urban center with a progressive city government. In this book, the author shows how beneath high levels of engagement by Somerville residents lies a struggle about who should be the city's elected leaders and how they should conduct the city's affairs. It is a struggle waged between diverse residents - relatively new immigrants and a new middle class trying to gain a foothold in democratic participation, and the city's political "old guard." This book informs debates about the place of immigrants in civic and political life, and the role of voluntary associations in local politics and government. In the process, the author provides useful lessons for midsize urban communities.

Since the Gilded Age, social scientists, middle-class reformers, and writers have left the comforts of their offices to "pass" as steel workers, coal miners, assembly-line laborers, waitresses, hoboes, and other working and poor people in an attempt to gain a fuller and more authentic understanding of the lives of the working class and the poor. In this first, sweeping study of undercover investigations of work and poverty in America, award-winning historian Mark Pittenger examines how intellectuals were shaped by their experiences with the poor, and how despite their sympathy toward working-class people, they unintentionally helped to develop the contemporary concept of a degraded and "other" American underclass. While contributing to our understanding of the history of American social thought, Class Unknown offers a new perspective on contemporary debates over how we understand and represent our own society and its class divisions.

Lush, L.: Why do the poor lack access to essential medicines? - S. 1-20 Preker, A. S.: From health to wealth and back to health. - S. 21-41 Conroy, A. C. ...: Responding to health crises : the frustrations of a small African country. - S. 45-63 Attridge, J.; Atun, R.: Economy regulatory frameworks for the pharmaceutical sector in middle-income countries. - S. 64-106 Heaton, A.: Joint public-private initiatives and developing-country health systems. - S. 109-115 Sturchio, J. L.: Partnership for action : the experience of the Accelerating Access Initiative, 2000-04, and lessons learned. - S. 116-151 Besten, H.; Gonzi, J.: Non-profit drug distribution : the experience of the International Dispensary Association. - S. 152-160 Attaran, A.: Understanding patents and out-licensing in the procurement of anti-retroviral medicines. - S. 161-171 Attaran, A.; Granville, B.: Who needs to do what? - S. 175-192

One of the great American pragmatic philosophers alongside Peirce and Dewey, William James (1842–1910) delivered these eight lectures in Boston and New York in the winter of 1906–7. Though he credits Peirce with coining the term 'pragmatism', James highlights in his subtitle that this 'new name' describes a philosophical temperament as old as Socrates. The pragmatic approach, he says, takes a middle way between rationalism's airy principles and empiricism's hard facts. James' pragmatism is both a method of interpreting ideas by their practical consequences and an epistemology which identifies truths according to their useful outcomes. Furnished with many examples, the lectures illustrate pragmatism's response to classic problems such as the question of free will versus determinism. Published in 1907, this work further develops James's approach to religion and morality, introduced in The Will to Believe (1897) and The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), both reissued in this series

Which voices, bodies and practices have expressed critical powerlessness in the face of institutional power, and who is expressing this today? What is at play, and what is the root of this powerlessness? These questions are at the core of this book. With Michel Foucault's theory of power and powerlessness as a point of departure, the contributing authors analyze and discuss the many conflicts and tension that arise when service users and patients take (or relinquish) a particular position.

Institutions and professional practitioners have used and still use traditions, theories and methods that often weaken more than strengthen service users', patients' and clients' own volition and subjectivity. The chapters are by researchers in a variety of disciplines including theology, nursing, ethics, child welfare, disability research, history, diakonia, and social work. In the context of these fields, recognizing and emphasizing people's dignity and promoting equity are explored. But both historically and at present, research and experience show that the opposite also occurs. The ethical takes place between power, powerlessness and practice. - Hvilke stemmer, kropper og praksiser har uttrykt en kritisk motmakt til institusjonenes makt, og hvem uttrykker den i dag? Hva står på spill, og hvor er motmakten forankret? Dette er spørsmål som står i sentrum for denne boken. Med utgangspunkt i Michel Foucaults teori om makt og motmakt analyserer og drøfter forfatterne i denne boka de mange spenninger og konflikter som oppstår når tjenestebrukere og pasienter tar (eller gis) en egen posisjon.

Institusjoner og profesjonsutøvere har brukt og bruker tradisjoner, teorier og metoder som ofte mer svekker enn styrker tjenestebrukeres, pasientenes og klientens egen vilje og subjektivitet. Kapitlene kommer fra forskere innen mange fagfelt, som teologi, sykepleie, etikk, barnevern, funksjonshemmingsforskning, historie, diakoni og sosialt arbeid. I disse kunnskapsområdene handler det om å anerkjenne og å styrke menneskers verdighet og fremme rettferdighet. Men både historisk og aktuelt viser forskning og erfaring at det motsatte også skjer. Det etiske utspiller seg mellom makt, motmakt og praksis.

This article mobilizes Jesus Martín Barbero's magnum opus, Communication, Culture, and Hegemony, towards a better understanding of the contemporary global success of Turkish television drama, known as dizi, in Latin America, the land of the once-mighty telenovela. Hilighting Martín-Barbero's centrality to my own intellectual project on the transnational connection and transcultural resonances between the Middle East and Latin America, I draw on preliminary fieldwork in Argentina and Mexico, where Turkish dizi have been hits, to revisit Martín-Barbero's pivotal conceptualization of mediaciones and accounts for forces of global media competition, aesthetic mimicry, and the fundamental problematic of South-to-South relations that got a new lease on life with the success of dizi in Latin America. Ultimately, I probe Martín-Barbero's "precious anachronism" to elaborate a notion of "coiled temporality" that emerges between different geocultural zones through the consumption of narrative television fiction.

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For more than a decade, civil conflicts intensity has been high in the Middle East and North Africa, yet the monetary and financial impacts of such episodes have received relatively little attention. Using macroeconomic and conflict panel data for Arab League members, Iran and Turkey during the period 1970–2018, this paper constructs a country-specific real exchange rate misalignment index and adopts an instrumental variable approach to show that civil conflicts lead to real exchange rate overvaluations in the region: a 1 unit increase in civil conflict intensity leads to a 0.24 unit increase in the RER misalignment index. The results suggest that upward pressures on the real exchange rate, such as inflation resulting from physical capital and output loss, dominate. Economic policy during post-conflict transitions should mitigate this effect by incorporating a strategy to realign the currency.

Verbal children with autism often present communication difficulties such as articulation disorders. As a result they are not able to communicate effectively and sometimes their attempts to communicate may take the form of challenging behaviors. Previous studies have demonstrated the efficacy of video-modeling in increasing the communication skills in verbal children with autism. Moreover other studies have shown that video-modeling, as a treatment package, can maintain strength and generalize all the newly learned skills. In this study, we will extend the use of video-modeling across 3 verbal children who have been diagnosed with autism and simultaneously exhibit articulation disorders in phoneme /r/ in three different positions within words. We will implement multiple baseline design across behaviors (i.e., target phoneme at the beginning, middle, and end of the words). The effectiveness will be evaluated by focusing on pre to follow-up changes of our participants’ articulation.