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Wilde, P. de; Leupold, A.; Schmidke, H.: Introduction: the differentiated politicisation of European governance. - S. 3-22. - Grande, E.; Hutter, S.: Beyond authority transfer: explaining the politicisation of Europe. - S. 23-43. - Hoeglinger, D.: The politicisation of European integration in domestic election campaigns. - S. 44-63. - Schmidtke, H.: The differentiated politicisation of European tax governance. - 64-83. - Leupold, A.: A structural approach to politicisation in the Euro crisis. - S. 84-103. - Baglioni, S.; Hurrelmann, A.: The Eurozone crisis and citizen engagement in EU affairs. - S. 104-124. - [

Oosterhoff, Pauline ; Müller, Catherine ; Shephard, Kelly: Introduction : sex education in the digital era, S. 1-6. - Van Heijningen, Maiike ; Van Clief, Lindsay: Enabling online safe spaces : a case study of love matters Kenya, S. 7-22. - Waldman, Lind ; Amazon-Brown, Isabelle: New digital ways of delivering sex education : a practice perspective, S. 23-42. - Herbst, Natalia: #Byetaboo: expanding access to sexual and reproductive health and rights education, S. 43-60. - Müller, Catherine ; Oosterhoff, Pauline ; Chakkalakal, Michelle: Digital pathways to sex education, S. 61-80. - Cheney, Kristen ; Kamusiime, Annah ; Yimer, Anteneh Mekonnen: Feeling 'blue' : pornography and sex education in eastern Africa, S. 81-98. - Philpott, Anne ; Singh, Arushi ; Gamlin, Jennie: Blurring the boundaries of public health : it's time to make safer sex porn and erotic sex education, S. 99-116

Using data from a 2011 national household survey, this study examines the factors shaping urban residents' prejudice toward rural-to-urban migrants and the impacts of prejudice on rural migrants' integration into urban communities. The author addresses the endogeneity of the prejudice variable by employing an instrumental variable method. The results show that urban residents with higher education and household income report stronger prejudice. Also, urban residents with urban hukou at birth are more prejudiced toward rural migrants. Given that hukou status at birth is tied to parental hukou status, this result implies that prejudice can be transferred across generations. With regards to rural migrants' integration into urban communities, high levels of prejudice in one's current county of residence reduces perceived social standing of rural migrants and increases the number of livelihood problems they encounter. The author also conducts a falsification test, which provides support that the effect of urban residents' prejudice on rural migrants' integration is causal. (J Contemp China/GIGA)

This paper explores the changing nature of Chinese engagement abroad in the scrap business. Based on primary sources and interviews conducted by the author, it identifies the factors that, at different times, led Chinese scrap dealers and recyclers to extend the scope of their professional activity beyond the borders of their home country. Drawing on recent scholarship in discard studies, the author argues that it is necessary to move beyond the environmental dumping narrative in order to better understand Chinese national policy and its implications. This narrative serves as the main official justification for the bans on imports of recyclable waste that the central government adopted in recent years. However, there is good reason to believe that, by adopting a highly restrictive stance on the international waste trade, the central government sought first and foremost to bolster the municipal solid waste management sector within China. In turn, official support for domestic industrial players makes it possible for some Chinese corporations to emerge as providers of waste collection and recycling services at the international level. The trend, described in the paper, has already begun. It marks a shift from globalisation from below to globalisation from above. (China Perspect/GIGA)

"The article is largely based on a statistical study conducted by the author on Syrians in Egypt in 2013. The statistical study entitled 'Syrian Refugees in Egypt: the challenges of a politically changing environment' traces the situation of Syrian refugees since their arrival in 2011 until August 2013. Building on that study, this article highlights the changes since August 2013 to present, the implications of the continuation of the crisis, and the perspectives for improving the situation." (author's abstract)

The view that the 2015 NPT Review Conference failed because of American, British and Canadian obstructionism is misleading, and sometimes disingenuous. (Survival / SWP)

Introduction / Cornelia Navari 21. - Crisis, Values, and the Purpose of Science: Hans Morgenthau in Europe / Felix Rösch 23. - Scientific Man vs. Power Politics: A Pamphlet and Its Author between Two Academic Cultures / Hartmut Behr 33. - Politics Among Nations: Revisiting a Classic / Christoph Frei 39. - Hans Morgenthau and the National Interest / Cornelia Navari 47. - Hans Morgenthau and The Purpose of American Politics / Richard Ned Lebow 55. - Death of the Statesman as Tragic Hero: Hans Morgenthau on the Vietnam War / Douglas B. Klusmeyer 63

Armed conflict between states in Southeast Asia has been relatively rare, especially since 1979. The most recent exception to this pattern was a border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand that turned violent in 2008 and remained militarized for more than three years. Existing studies of this long-standing conflict have concentrated on explaining the upsurge in violence between 2008 and 2011, but have tended to ignore that fighting was quickly contained each time clashes occurred. This article provides a different perspective and asks how the dispute was managed short of large-scale armed violence. To answer this question, the author adopts an agency-focused perspective that emphasizes the role of critical actors who worked to de-escalate the conflict. Based on field research conducted in Cambodia and Thailand, as well as consulting primary and secondary sources, the author adopts a historical narrative that revisits critical periods from the 1950s onwards and argues that relevant actors in both Cambodia and Thailand had long-standing incentives to avoid escalating the conflict. Two elements were critical: first, crucial actors including Cambodian and Thai bureaucrats, diplomats and members of the security and intelligence services developed an understanding of the problems inherent in defining their land border; and second, the establishment of personal contacts, even in the context of antagonistic relations. Together, these factors created possibilities for Cambodia and Thailand to cooperate in managing conflict and increased the willingness of both sides to exercise self-restraint. (Contemp Southeast Asia/GIGA)

This article discusses the ongoing debates about classics reading (dujing 读经) in the revitalisation and diversification of Confucian classical education in mainland China. It begins by reviewing two disputes about dujing in modern Chinese history and then turns to the contemporary debate, focusing on how one professional and experienced practitioner expounded on the disparities in practicing classical education. The author summarises three controversial issues : (1) the relationship between the educative principles and methods, (2) historical legitimacy, and (3) the linguistic nature of Chinese language. Based on these, this paper reflects on the current dujing movement by concluding that the diversification of classical education has complicated the authenticity of "Chineseness" and rendered it a debatable public issue. (China Perspect/GIGA)

At the Third Plenary of the 18th Chinese Communist Party Central Committee, the Party announced a number of rural reforms. Commentators were quick to pronounce a win for farmers' land rights. However, the broader commitment of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to deepening economic liberalization raises the question: can these reforms protect farmers' rights in the event of land acquisition? The author draws on fieldwork, recent interviews and China's documented history of land acquisition practice to identify four risks posed by these reforms: undervaluation, elite capture, exploitation and the expansion of the urban underclass. The article concludes that China's steadfast resolve to expand capitalism in rural China is undermining its attempts to secure rural property rights. (J Contemp China/GIGA)

The rise and fall of public intellectuals in contemporary China is essentially attributed to the ever changing state-society relations. The author demonstrates that some Chinese public intellectuals have developed a new strategy to promote policy changes in the Hu-Wen era through civic activism in the name of ordinary citizens, by abandoning their traditional capacity as experts or intellectuals. The article summarizes three specific actions of civic activism, namely, 'petition for constitutionality review as citizens', 'provisional voluntary citizen groups' and 'netizen public welfare enterprises'. Cases have been studied to demonstrate that the policy entrepreneurship of public intellectuals in civic activism can be manifested as innovation and strategies that challenge the lacunae between policy and existing institutions. (J Contemp China/GIGA)