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China's new leader Xi Jinping has announced that the China Dream of great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is now closer than ever. This book discusses the meaning and progress of Chinese national rejuvenation from multiple perspectives. It discusses critically China's progress towards becoming a strong, prosperous and well-governed country.

SINCE THE END OF THE COLD WAR, SINO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS HAVE EVOLVED IN A SURPRISINGLY HARMONIOUS FASHION. ON APRIL 23, 1997, BEIJING AND MOSCOW ANNOUNCED BROAD STRATEGIC AGREEMENT AND REJECTED "HEGEMONISM AND POWER POLITICS" AS THE BASIS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. DESPITE THEIR WARM BILATERAL RELATIONS, THERE IS ONE AREA WHERE THE TWO POWERS LACK A STABILIZING DIMENSION: ECONOMICS. THE ROLES OF RUSSIA AND CHINA IN THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMIC SYSTEM ARE UNCLEAR AND HOW THEIR FUTURE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ROLES WILL INTERACT WITH THEIR FOREIGN POLICY IS UNKNOWN. IN THIS ESSAY, THE AUTHOR ASSESSES THE CURRENT ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHINA AND RUSSIA, INDICATES POSSIBLE LINES OF FUTURE DEVELOPMENT, AND SPECULATES ABOUT THEIR FUTURE POLITICAL RELATIONS.

RUSSIA IS SEEKING TO REDEFINE ITS PLACE IN WORLD AFFAIRS. AMONG THE KEY CRITERIA BEING USED TO DEFINE RUSSIA'S SPECIAL INTERESTS AND THUS ITS NEW FOREIGN POLICY ARE THE COUNTRY'S SPATIAL DIMENSIONS AND ITS ALTERED GEOPOLITICAL POSITION IN RELATION TO EUROPE AND ASIA -- OR, AS IT IS INCREASINGLY EXPRESSED, AS A EURASIAN POWER. IN THIS ESSAY, THE AUTHOR EXPLORES RUSSIA'S NEW EURASIANISM AND HOW IT IS REFLECTED IN ITS EVOLVING FOREIGN POLICY.

Findings suggest that the role of attitudes toward homosexuals should be at the center of future explorations of the relationship between the media coverage of AIDS and public opinion. Suggests that anti-gay attitudes constrain the ability of the media to communicate effectively information about risk factors and how the disease is transmitted. Researchers need to explore the possibility that anti-gay attitudes stand between media information and public knowledge and public opinion. (Abstract amended)

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are implemented in business in the hope of obtaining benefits in the form of improved communications and increased efficiency through the standardization of information technology (IT) across functional business areas. The benefits, and in some cases problems, associated with implementation have been well documented, however there is little information available on their effectiveness in different types of organization. This paper looks at ERP implementations in Government Owned Corporations (GOC) and discusses implementation issues by looking at the way we perceive such organisations. A GOC case study is presented and explored in terms of the ERP and GOC literature in the context of existing social research approaches. This paper examines why end users in a GOC appear to be neither complying with, nor fully exploiting the potential of the ERP. The paper contends that discourses by staff at the operational level are different to that of staff at the managerial level. The paper also confirms previous research stating the importance of end user input for effective IT systems and ERP implementation processes.