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Overview of the Jewish presence in contemporary China / M. Avrum Ehrlich -- China's realities from the viewpoints of "foreign experts" / Matthias Messmer -- Contemporary development of Jewish life in Asia: a personal memoir / David C. Buxbaum -- Crossing boundaries between Confucianism and Judaism / Galia Patt-Shamir and Yaov Rapoport -- Confucianism and Judaism: a dialogue in spite of differences / Galia Patt-Shamir -- Judaism and its referential value to the cultural reconstruction of modern China / Fu Youde -- Rethinking the Nanjing massacre and its connection with the Holocaust / Zhang Qianhong and Jerry Gotel -- A Chinese perspective of Judaism and the Jewish people / Fu Youde -- Israel and the Jewish people in Chinese cyber space since 2002 / Zhang Ping -- The influence of Jewish literature in China / Fu Xiaowei and Wang Yi -- Australian Jewry, its relations with China, and the first steps in Jewish studies / Sol Encel and Suzanne D. Rutland -- The developing role of the Hebrew Bible in modern China / Yiyi Chen -- Modern Hebrew literature in China / Zhong Zhiqing -- The contemporary condition of the Jewish descendants of Kaifeng / M. Avrum Ehrlich and Liang Pingan -- Chinese government policy towards the descendants of the Jews of Kaifeng / Xu Xin -- The Judaism of the Kaifeng Jews and liberal Judaism in America / Anson Laytner -- The adoption of Chinese children into Jewish families and the effect on North American Jewish identity / David Straub -- Sino-Israel relations at the start of the second decade: a view from Shanghai and Jerusalem / Ilan Maor -- Economic and cultural relations between China and Israel since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1992 / Jonathan Goldstein -- China's potential contribution to Middle East cooperation / Liang Pingan

Intro -- Contents -- A Poet's Response: De Rong Radio -- Contributors -- Foreword: From Live Aid to Live 8 -- Preface: the UN Millennium Campaign -- Introduction: History in the making -- Making Poverty History -- The UN Declaration of Human Rights, printed with comments -- Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- 'It's Positively Medieval': Challenging Some Preconceptions of History -- Inequality: A Modest Proposal? -- The Other, Man-made Tsunami -- Africa, the Crisis Continent? -- How the Modern-day Missionaries Called 'Human Rights Activists' Help Wreak Havoc in Africa -- Twenty Years with AIDS -- Reviving Democracy -- Celebrating the Heroes of Democracy -- Cinema in Control and Conscience: Moviemakers from 'Double V' to McCarthyism -- Time to Make War History As Well -- Islam: Clash or Dialogue of Civilizations? -- Conflict and Personal Liberty -- What Price Imprisonment? -- 'Places Without a Future': the Jarrow March and the Great Depression -- Reporters on the Line: Risk Taking and Conscience in the Former Soviet Union -- The Media's Fault? -- Genocide: the Violence and the Silence -- Change – and North Korea: Is Aid Really Making a Difference? -- The Dregs in the Pot of Gold: the Irish Experience of Exchanging Dignity for Racism -- Silent Suffering, Stoic Resistance: Human Rights Abuses of Women and Children in Latin America -- Pious Aspiration or a Tool for Change? The Significance of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child -- The Politics of Sexuality: Faith – the Final Frontier? -- Surviving Ourselves: Environment, Society and the Future of Our Civilization -- Greenbacks in the Garden of Eden: an Essay on How Not to Save the Rainforests -- Ourselves and Other Animals: the Ethics of Farming -- The Human Race – a Marathon, not a Sprint: the Millennium Development Goals and their Ethos

PART I. THE NEED FOR INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON -- Perspective Through International Comparison in the Evaluation of Family Support / John Pinkerton and Ilan Katz -- PART II. UNDERPINNING ISSUES -- Political and Technical Issues Facing Evaluators of Family Support / Jane Tunstill -- Social Exclusion, Family Support and Evaluation / Corinne Wattam, et al. -- The Value of Resilience as a Key Concept in Evaluating Family Support / Robbie Gilligan -- Issues in Evaluating Family Support Services: An American Perspective / Peter Pecora -- Comparative Research as a method evaluating family support / Rachael Hetherington -- PART III. 'CASE STUDIES' FROM AROUND THE WORLD -- National Policy Making and the Need to Evaluate Family Support in the Republic of Ireland / Catherine Hazlett -- A Culturally Relevant Model for Evaluating Family Services in Hong Kong / Monit Cheung -- Lessons from the Evaluation of Family Support in New Zealand / Jackie Sanders and Robyn Munford -- An Evaluation of Family-Support Services Provided by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in the United Kingdom / Ruth Gardner -- Empowering Parents: A Two-Generation Intervention in a Community Context in Northern Ireland / Nuala Quiery, et al. -- The Indicators Study: An Cross Site Implementation Evaluation of the Community Partnerships for Protecting Children Initiative in America / Stephen Budde -- Policy Roots and Practice Growth: Evaluating Family Support on the West Coast of Ireland / John Canavan and Pat Dolan -- The Resourceful Adolescent Project: A Universal Approach to Preventing Adolescent Depression Through Promoting Resilience and Family Well Being in Australia / Ian Schochet and David Ham -- Evaluation of the Contact Family Service in Sweden / Gunvor Anderson -- PART IV. TOWARDS AN INTERNATIONAL AGENDA -- International Convergence, and Divergence: Towards an Open System Model in the Evaluation of Family Support / Ilan Katz and John Pinkerton.

Intro -- Working through Whiteness -- Contents -- Introduction by Cynthia Levine-Rasky -- Part I: Contexts of Whiteness -- 1. Whiteness and The Great Law of Peace by David Bedford and W. Thom Workman -- 2. "The Iniquitous Practice of Women": Prostitution and the Making of White Spaces in British Columbia, 1898-1905 by Renisa Mawani -- 3. A White World? Whiteness and the Meaning of Modernity in Latin America and Japan by Alastair Bonnett -- 4. White Noise: Australia's Struggle with Multiculturalism by Andrew Jakubowicz -- Part II: Studies in Whiteness -- 5. A Room without a View: Social Distance and the Structuring of Privileged Identity by Michael Alan Sacks and Marika Lindholm -- 6. Looking at the Invisible: A Q-Methodological Investigation of Young White Women's Constructions of Whiteness by Stephanie Kellington -- 7. Building a Home on a Border: How Single White Women Raising Multiracial Children Construct Racial Meaning by Jennifer A. Reich -- 8. The Impact of Whiteness on the Culture of Law: From Theory to Practice by L. A. Visano -- Part III: Pedagogies for Whiteness -- 9. "In Whitest England": New Subject Positions for White Youth in the Post-Imperial Moment by Anoop Nayak -- 10. When the Big Snow Melts: White Women Teaching in Canada's North by Helen Harper -- 11. Developing Feminist Pedagogical Practices to Complicate Whiteness and Work with Defensiveness by Jessica Ringrose -- 12. Critical/Relational/Contextual: Toward a Model for Studying Whiteness by Cynthia Levine-Rasky -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION: The Ecology of Imagination -- NOTES -- 1 NGORONGORO: Primeval Past as Living Present -- 2 AFRICA: Three Landscapes as a Single Organism -- I. THE ORGANISM CONCEPT APPLIED TO LANDSCAPE AND CONTINENT -- II. THE LANDSCAPES OF AFRICA -- III. SUMMARY. HUMANKIND AND THE FUTURE OF THE AFRICAN LANDSCAPE -- 3 RAINFORESTS: What Do Rainforests Have to Do with Us? -- GLOBAL THINKING-GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY -- MONOTONY IN GREEN -- MORPHOLOGICAL CONVERGENCE -- A GIANT ORGANISM IN DECLINE? -- IS REJUVENATION POSSIBLE? -- 4 HUMANKIND AND NATURE: Humankind and Nature in Different Cultures and Continents -- SOUTH AMERICA: An Impoverished Land of Homeless People -- SRI LANKA: Original Oneness of Culture and Nature -- DEMETRIA: A Model for Restoring Life to Depleted Soil -- 5: Juvenilization in Evolution and Its Ecological Significance -- PARALLELS IN THE PLANT KINGDOM -- JUVENILIZATION IN THE ANGIOSPERMOUS FLOWERING PLANTS -- THE ANTICIPATORY NATURE OF NEOTENY -- ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF JUVENILIZATION -- 6 NEW ZEALAND: Old Land, Young Land -- GLOBAL CONNECTIONS -- STREAMS OF LIFE -- HOW DID ELEMENTS OF THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE END UP IN THE SOUTHERN ONE? -- THE SOUTH AMERICAN CONNECTION -- BEECH GROVES AND TROPICAL RAINFORESTS -- THE "COLD TROPICS" OF NEW ZEALAND -- THE INFLUENCE OF THE SOUTHERN OCEANS -- BIROS IN PLACE OF MAMMALS -- FLOWERS WITHOUT COLORS -- PRIMEVAL VEGETATIVE ABUNDANCE -- NEW ZEALAND: RESERVOIR OF FORMATIVE POTENTIAL FORTHE FUTURE? -- HUMANKIND AS DESTROYER AND AS AGENT OF FURTHER EVOLUTION -- FUTURE DEVELOPMENT? -- 7 THE GREAT RIFT VALLEYS: The Signature of the Great Rift Valleys -- PARALLELS IN THE HISTORY OF EARTH AND HUMANITY -- THE AFRICAN-MIDDLE EASTERN-EUROPEAN RIFT SYSTEM -- PARALLELS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EARTH AND HUMANITY -- OTHER RIFT-VALLEY SYSTEMS AND THE BAIKAL REGION.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- PART ONE: INTRODUCTION -- International Formulation of the Right -- PART TWO: CONTEMPORARY LEGAL CONTENT -- General Principles of Interpretation -- Article 12 of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -- 'provided by law' -- 'necessary' -- 'national security' -- 'public order (ordre public)' -- 1. The State or collectivity as ultimate guarantor and benificiary of rights -- 2. Limitations on the right to leave based on economic considerations, including the 'brain drain' -- 3. Migration and population policies -- 'public health or morals' -- 'rights and freedoms of others' -- 'consistent with the other rights recognized in the present Covenant' -- 'arbitrarily' -- The Evolving Jurisprudence of the Right to Leave and Return -- The Right to Emigrate -- Refugee Issues and the Right to Seek Asylum -- The Right to Travel -- The Right to Return to One's Country -- 1. 'one's own country' -- 2. Citizenship -- 3. Exile and Expulsion -- Refugee Issues and the Right to Repatriation -- PART THREE: STATE PRACTICE -- General Observations -- Asia and the Pacific -- Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the U.S.A. -- Latin America and the Caribbean -- Western Europe -- Eastern Europe and the U.S.S.R. -- Middle East and North Africa -- Africa -- PART FOUR: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- APPENDICES -- APPENDIX A. Country reports under Article 40 of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which refer to rights guaranteed under Article 12 of the Covenant -- APPENDIX B. National constitutional provisions guaranteeing the right to leave and/or return -- APPENDIX C. Draft Principles on Freedom and Non-Discrimination in respect of the Right of Everyone to Leave Any Country, including His Own, and to Return to His Country, by Judge Jose Ingles, Special Rapporteur, 1963.

"A bracing assessment of U.S. foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades, anchored by a major new Pentagon-commissioned essay about changing power dynamics among China, Eurasia, and America--from the renowned geopolitical analyst and bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and The Coming Anarchy. In the late thirteenth century, Marco Polo began a decades-long trek from Venice to China. The strength of that Silk Road--the trade route between Europe and Asia--was a foundation of Kublai Khan's sprawling empire. Now, in the early twenty-first century, the Chinese regime has proposed a land-and-maritime Silk Road that duplicates exactly the route Marco Polo traveled. In the major lead essay, recently released by the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment, Robert D. Kaplan lays out a blueprint of the world's changing power politics that recalls the late thirteenth century. As Europe fractures from changes in culture and migration, Eurasia coheres into a single conflict system. China is constructing a land bridge to Europe. Iran and India are trying to link the oil fields of Central Asia to the Indian Ocean. America's ability to influence the power balance in Eurasia is declining. This is Kaplan's first collection of essays since his classic The Coming Anarchy was published in 2000. Drawing on decades of firsthand experience as a foreign correspondent and military embed for The Atlantic, as well as encounters with preeminent realist thinkers, Kaplan outlines the timeless principles that should shape America's role in a turbulent world: a respect for the limits of Western-style democracy; a delineation between American interests and American values; an awareness of the psychological toll of warfare; a projection of power via a strong navy; and more. From Kaplan's immediate thoughts on President Trump ("On Foreign Policy, Donald Trump Is No Realist," 2016) to a frank examination of what will happen in the event of war with North Korea ("When North Korea Falls," 2006), The Return of Marco Polo's World is a vigorous and honest reckoning with the difficult choices the United States will face in the years ahead. "These essays constitute a truly pathbreaking, brilliant synthesis and analysis of geographic, political, technological, and economic trends with far-reaching consequences. The Return of Marco Polo's World is another work by Robert D. Kaplan that will be regarded as a classic."--General David Petraeus (U.S. Army, Ret.)"--

"Throughout her prodigious life, activist and lawyer Pauli Murray systematically fought against all arbitrary distinctions in society, channeling her outrage at the discrimination she faced to make America a more democratic country. In this definitive biography, Rosalind Rosenberg offers a poignant portrait of a figure who played pivotal roles in both the modern civil rights and women's movements. A mixed-race orphan, Murray grew up in segregated North Carolina before escaping to New York, where she attended Hunter College and became a labor activist in the 1930s. When she applied to graduate school at the University of North Carolina, where her white great-great-grandfather had been a trustee, she was rejected because of her race. She went on to graduate first in her class at Howard Law School, only to be rejected for graduate study again at Harvard University this time on account of her sex. Undaunted, Murray forged a singular career in the law. In the 1950s, her legal scholarship helped Thurgood Marshall challenge segregation head-on in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case. When appointed by Eleanor Roosevelt to the President's Commission on the Status of Women in 1962, she advanced the idea of Jane Crow, arguing that the same reasons used to condemn race discrimination could be used to battle gender discrimination. In 1965, she became the first African American to earn a JSD from Yale Law School and the following year persuaded Betty Friedan to found an NAACP for women, which became NOW. In the early 1970s, Murray provided Ruth Bader Ginsburg with the argument Ginsburg used to persuade the Supreme Court that the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution protects not only blacks but also women - and potentially other minority groups - from discrimination. By that time, Murray was a tenured history professor at Brandeis, a position she left to become the first black woman ordained a priest by the Episcopal Church in 1976. Murray accomplished all this while struggling with issues of identity. She believed from childhood she was male and tried unsuccessfully to persuade doctors to give her testosterone. While she would today be identified as transgender, during her lifetime no social movement existed to support this identity. She ultimately used her private feelings of being "in-between" to publicly contend that identities are not fixed, an idea that has powered campaigns for equal rights in the United States for the past half-century."--

"This will be the first book about the Civil War to examine the meaning of amputation, and of amputees, in the U.S. South. Brian Craig Miller provides medical history of the procedure, looks at men who rejected amputation, and examines how Southern men and women adjusted their ideas about honor, masculinity, and love in response to the presence of large numbers of amputees during and after the war. While some historians have explored the lives of the wounded, disabled and amputated soldiers throughout the major military conflicts of the twentieth century, few monographs have returned to a time when medical care remained primitive at best in American history: the Civil War. While one recent article explored what amputation may have meant to Union soldiers returning from battle, the same has yet to be done for the losing side in the military conflict. The destruction of slavery, the perseverance of the Union and the triumph of liberty, freedom and equality ensured that the sacrifices of Northern men would be recognized, memorialized and cherished for generations beyond the battlefield. However, can the same be said for Southern amputated men, who returned from the war scarred, disillusioned and defeated? In his travels in the South over the past five years, Miller has combed through archives, producing a wealth of surgical and medical manuals, hospital records, surgeons reports, diary, letter and journal entries pertaining to amputation, legislative records, pension files and applications, newspaper reports and numerous anecdotes about what it means to lose a limb. These sources allow Miller to combine political, medical, military, social, cultural and gender history into a much-needed disability study of the Confederacy"--Provided by publisher

Non-elite or marginalized early modern women-among them the poor, migrants, members of religious or ethnic minorities, abused or abandoned wives, servants, and sex workers-have seldom left records of their experiences. Drawing on a variety of sources, including trial records, administrative paperwork, letters, pamphlets, hagiography, and picaresque literature, this volume explores how, as social agents, these doubly invisible women built and used networks and informal alliances to supplement the usual structures of family and community that often let them down. Ten essays, ranging widely in geography from the eastern Mediterranean to colonial Spanish America and in time from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, show how flexible, sometimes ad hoc relationships could provide crucial practical and emotional support for women who faced problems of livelihood, reputation, displacement, and violence

Machine generated contents note:pt. 1Geographies of Indigenous Revival and Conservation --Introduction. Whose Sacred Sites? Indigenous Political Use of Sacred Sites, Mythology, and Religion /Randall Borman --ch. 1Connecting Policy and Practice for the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites /Gerard Verschoor --ch. 2Structural Changes in Latin American Spirituality: An Essay on the Geography of Religions /Axel Borsdorf --pt. 2Framing Sacred Sites in Indigenous Mindscapes --Introduction to Part 2. Framing Sacred Sites in Indigenous Mindscapes /Sarah Hitchner --ch. 3El Buen Vivir and "the Good Life": A South -- North Binary Perspective on the Indigenous, the Sacred, and Their Conservation /Larry M. Frolich --ch. 4Sacred Mountains: Sources of Indigenous Revival and Sustenance /Edwin Bernbaum --ch. 5Frozen Mummies and the Archaeology of High Mountains in the Construction of Andean Identity /Constanza Ceruti --ch. 6Sacred Sites and Changing Dimensions of Andean Indigenous Identities in Space and Time /Christoph Stadel --ch. 7National Park Service Approaches to Connecting Indigenous Cultural and Spiritual Values to Protected Places /Charles W. Smythe --pt. 3Case Studies --Introduction to Part 3. Case Studies /Sarah Hitchner --ch. 8Collaborative Archaeology as a Tool for Preserving Sacred Sites in the Cherokee Heartland /Benjamin A. Steere --ch. 9Biocultural Sacred Sites in Mexico /Geraldine Patrick Encina --ch. 10New Dimensions in the Territorial Conservation Management in Ecuador: A Brief Political View of Sacred Sites in Ecuador /Xavier Viteri --ch. 11Sustainability and Ethnobotanical Knowledge in the Peruvian Amazon: New Directions for Sacred Site Conservation and Indigenous Revival /Fernando Roca Alcazar --pt. 4Conclusion --Conclusion /John Schelhas.

Bei den Wahlen zum 7. Parlament der Islamischen Republik Iran im Februar 2004 tragen die sogenannten pragmatischen Konservativen der Mitte den Sieg davon, nicht zuletzt aufgrund der massenhaften Zurückweisungen von Kandidaten der Reformbewegung durch den Wächterrat. Das Wahlergebnis wird im allgemeinen als das Ende der Reform-Ära in Iran bewertet. Vor diesem Hintergrund zeichnet die Studie ein zusammenhängendes Bild über die Wahlen und die Folgen für die iranische Politik. Dabei werden die folgenden Aspekte der inneren Dynamik Irans seit der Revolution vor 25 Jahren berücksichtigt: (1) Verlauf der Wahlen und Wahlergebnis, (2) die politische Bewegung der konservativen Mitte, (3) die innenpolitische und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung sowie die außenpolitische Entwicklung gegenüber den USA und Europa. Nach Einschätzung des Autors bedeutet das Abdrängen der führenden Reformpolitiker durch die konservativen Kräfte nicht den 'Tod' der Reformideen von Demokratisierung und Rechtsstaatlichkeit. Zunächst beendet sind jedoch die Versuche, bestehende Strukturen zu reformieren sowie konzeptionell und institutionell ein neues Verhältnis von Religion und Politik zu begründen. Es bleibt jedoch die Frage, wie sich die Europäer, die Fortschritte in den Reformprozessen zur Voraussetzung ihres Engagements in Iran machen, nun verhalten wollen. (ICG2)

'In den neunziger Jahren hat sich ein neuer Regionalterminus von geostrategischer Bedeutung eingebürgert, der allerdings noch seiner präzisen Abgrenzung und Gliederung bedarf: 'Kaspischer Raum'. Unter ihn werden die beiden Regionen Kaukasien und Zentralasien subsummiert, die ihrer historischen Entwicklung, ihren kulturellen Verhältnissen sowie ihren ethno- und geographischen Strukturen nach recht unterschiedlich sind, aber für etwa zwei Jahrhunderte die Südperipherie des zaristischen und sowjetischen Imperiums gebildet hatten. Auf der politischen Landkarte umfaßt dieser Raum acht Nachfolgestaaten der Sowjetunion und drei Sezessionsgebilde. Letztere werden völkerrechtlich zwar nicht anerkannt, haben aber in der mehrjährigen Dauer ihrer Abtrünnigkeit eigenmächtig staatliche Strukturen geschaffen, Dieser neue, über die unmittelbaren Anrainer des Kaspi-Sees weit hinausgreifende Raumbegriff wurde vor allem aufgrund der Exploration von Erdöl- und Ergasfeldern sowie internationalen Auseinandersetzungen über die Exportkanäle dieser strategischen Rohstoffe prominent. Für Rußland bedeutet 'Südpolitik' die Bewältigung seines strategischen Machtverlusts an dieser ehemaligen Reichsperipherie und das Verhalten gegenüber internationalen Akteuren in diesem Raum. Von dieser Perspektive aus gestaltet sich auch seine Politik gegenüber einem weiteren Süden und Osten (Türkei, Iran, China, Partner ehemaliger sowjetischer Drittweltpolitik im Mittleren Osten). Die in den letzten Jahren gewachsene Konkurrenz mit den USA im Kaspischen Raum hat Rußlands Forderung nach einer multipolaren Weltordnung bekräftigt, die gemeinsam mit Staaten wie Iran und China vorgetragen wird. Die 'kaspische Politik' der USA negiert die Abhängigkeit dieses Raums von einer regionalen Hegemonialmacht, fordert im Grunde genommen eben jene 'Multipolarität' für die internationalen Beziehungen in der Region. Dabei sind die USA dort selber aber zu einer relevanten Einflußmacht geworden. Im vorliegenden Bericht wird auch das Thema europäischer Politik im Kaspischen Raum berücksichtigt.' (Textauszug)

The authors of this book challenge the view that was current among many people in the Netherlands during the period 1945-1949 that the American government and its foreign policymakers unequivocally backed the Indonesian Republic's struggle for independence. The same myth of America's political endorsement of Indonesians' quest for independence continues to reverberate in the United States itself. In fact, ex-President Clinton repeated the story as recently as 1995 when he wrote to ex-President Suharto that in the post-World War II era, President Truman and the U.S. Congress had actively supported Indonesia 'as the nation was being born'. On the basis of research in American, Indonesian, Dutch, and Australian diplomatic records and in the archives of the United Nations, Gouda and Brocades Zaalberg describe and analyze American visions of the Dutch East Indies/Indonesia from the 1920s to December 1949, when the Kingdom of the Netherlands relinquished its sovereignty over the archipelago in southeast Asia to the United States fo Indonesia. Their historical analysis suggests that the American diplomatic establishment was not as ignorant of conditions in the Indonesian archipelago as many Dutch people assumed, both before and after World War II. They also chronicle the unfolding of America's steady but tactic backing of its faithful Dutch ally in northern Europe until early 1949, when U.S. assessments of the regions in the world where the Cold War might ignite into a 'Hot War' began to incorporate the anti-colonial, nationalist struggles in Indonesia and Vietnam.