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The article examines the problem of relations between the General and the Unique in the social and political sciences. The author highlights the different views on this perspective: some scientists explain specific cases by bringing them under general theories and laws while others researchers emphasize that each case, each phenomenon is unique and shouldn't be generalization. The author theorizes that there is a methodological bridge between the generalizing spirit of social science and uniqueness of events and cases.

Introduction 1. Anglo-Japanese Relationship and Korea before the Imo Mutiny 2. The Imo Crisis and Its Aftermath, July 1882-April 1884 3. East Asian Crises, Phase One: May 1884-October 1885 4. East Asian Crises, Phase Two: November 1885-February 1887 5. The Post-Crises Order in East Asia, March 1887-July 1892 6. The Road to the First Sino-Japanese War, August 1892-July 1894 7. The First Sino-Japanese War and Anglo-Japanese Relations Conclusion

The text of an analysis on Burundi presented by Mr. René Lemarchand on September 22, 1988 before the Africa Subcommittee of the United States House of Representatives was published in the 1989 winter number of ISSUE. As noted, more precise research has been published since this date on the Ntega and Marangara events by people who actually went to "revisit" the country, which is not the case of Mr. Lemarchand, since his last visit to Bujumbura was in autumn 1973.