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Lisbeth S. Fried's insightful study investigates the impact of Achaemenid rule on the political power of local priesthoods during the 6th-4th centuries B.C.E. Scholars typically assume that, as long as tribute was sent to Susa, the capital of the Achaemenid Empire, subject peoples remained autonomous. Fried's work challenges this assumption. She examines the inscriptions, coins, temple archives, and literary texts from Babylon, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Judah and concludes that there was no local autonomy. The only people with power in the Empire were Persians and their appointees, and this was true for Judah as well. The Judean priesthood achieved its longed-for independence only much later, under the Maccabees

Citizen participation and decentralization in the Philippines / Emma Porio -- Everyday citizenship in village Java / Takeshi Ito -- Elections and emerging citizenship in Cambodia / Astrid Noren-Nilsson -- Sosialisasi, street vendors and citizenship in Yogyakarta / Sheri Lynn Gibbings -- Militias, security and citizenship in Indonesia / Laurens Bakker -- Custom and citizenship in the Philippine uplands / Oona Paredes -- Citizenship and Islam in Malaysia and Indonesia / David Kloos and Ward Berenschot -- Digital media and Malaysia's electoral reform movement / Merlyna Lim -- Citizenship, rights and adversarial legalism in Thailand / Wolfram Schaffar -- Defending Indonesia's migrant domestic workers / Mary Austin -- Yellow vs. red and the rise of a new middle class in Thailand / Apichat Satitniramai.

Known from ancient authors such as Herodotus, Thucydides, and Plato, and more than 2,500 inscriptions, proxeny (a form of public guest-friendship) is the best attested interstate institution of the ancient world. This book offers a comprehensive re-examination of our evidence for this important Greek institution and uses it to examine the structure and dynamics of the interstate system of the Greek world, and the way in which these were transformed under the Roman Empire. Based on a detailed analysis of the function of the formulaic language of honorific decrees, this volume presents a new reconstruction of proxeny, and explores the way in which interstate institutions shaped the behaviour of individuals and communities in the ancient world. It draws on other material which has not been systematically exploited to reconstruct the proxeny networks of Greek city-states. This material reveals the extraordinary density of formal interconnections which characterized the ancient Greek world before the age of Augustus and reflected both trade and political contacts of different kinds. 0It also traces the disappearance of both proxeny and the broader institutional system of which it was part. Drawing on nuanced analysis of quantitative trends in the epigraphic record, it argues that the Greek world underwent a profound reorientation by the time of the Roman Principate, which fundamentally altered how Greek cities viewed relations with each other. Readership: For scholars and students interested in the history of ancient Greek institutions, epigraphy, ancient international relations, ancient Greek political structure, and the world of ancient Greece more generally

Yabu, T.: On relations between Greece and Japan. S. 5-22. Chronopoulos, G.: The Meiji reformation 1868-1890: foundation for a modern state. S: 23-42. Chronopoulosm G.: Christianity in Japan from 1500 to modern times. S. 43-52. Roussos, J.: Ancient Greek tragedy and Noh - a parallelism. S. 53-74. Kostakos, G.: Japan on the international political stage and its role in the framework of the United Nations. S. 75-90. Nikolaou, I.: Threat perceptions in the Asian Pacific region. S. 91-106. Vallianatos, S.: The post-war Japanese policy towards the Middle East. S. 107-134. (Text in griechisch). Spanides, P.: JETRO: A commitment to harmony and import expansion. S. 135-150. Klonos, G.: MITI and its role in the Japanese and world economy. S. 151-158. Yamazaki, T.: The action of the Japanese companies facing the EC internal market integration. S. 159-168. Koutsoubas, T.: Japan: a new market opens up. S. 169-180. Papatriantafyllou, D.: Japanese management. S. 181-190. (Text in griechisch)