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Nr. 122 (2012) Artikel Article 75–93 {:de}Die koreanische Halbinsel in der strategischen Kalkulation Chinas und der USAThe article seeks to describe the complicated strategic interaction between China and the United States with each other and with the two Korean states. It argues that the Six-Party Talks for the denuclearisation of North Korea have failed and that the US will not be able to achieve denuclearisation through sanctions or negotiations. After Gaddafi's … von by P. Christian Hauswedell
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Nr. 117 (2010) Artikel Article 7–26 {:de}The Challenges of E-Waste Management in India: Can India draw lessons from the EU and the USA?This article examines e-waste management in India, identifying lessons and implications from e-waste management in the European Union and the United States which may influence or predict both strengths and obstacles to effectiveness in Indian e-waste regulation. India’s new draft E-waste (Management and Handling) Rules are much more comprehensive than any US e-waste regulations and … von by Alexandra Skinner, Yvonne Dinter, Alex Lloyd und and Philip Strothmann
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Nr. 117 (2010) Artikel Article 27–44 {:en}Water Stress in the Cauvery Basin, South India — How current water management approaches and allocation conflict constrain reformThis article presents insights on the state of water management in the Cauvery basin in South India and the ongoing interstate dispute concerning the allocation of the Cauvery’s water between the riparian states Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. A lack of multi-level, intersectoral, and participative approaches on the one hand have led to inadequate conditions in … von by Marius Ferdin, Stefan Görlitz und and Steffen Schwörer
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Nr. 117 (2010) Artikel Article 45–57 {:en}Towards a Public-Private Partnership Regime: An Analysis of Water-supply Systems in Urban IndiaThe institutional arrangements for supplying water to people living in urban conurbations in India is gradually being transformed from a conventional departmental arrangement to a new, rather fragmented structure of public-private partnerships with regulatory set-ups in a few cases. This article tracks the course of this development. It also identifies the prevailing patterns of public-private … von by Gopal K. Sarangi
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Nr. 116 (2010) Artikel Article 16–20 {:de}Einführung: Ostasien zwischen Diktatur und DemokratieDas letzte Viertel des 20. Jahrhunderts war bekanntermaßen geprägt durch den (fast) weltweiten Siegeszug der Demokratie. Nach Berechnungen des amerikanischen Freedom-House Instituts stieg die Zahl der „elektoralen Demokratien – also jene politischen Systeme, die einen regelmäßigen und mit friedlichen Mitteln ausgetragenen, hinreichend freien und fairen Wettbewerb um politische Ämter stattfindet – zwischen 1974 und 2000 … von by Aurel Croissant
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Nr. 116 (2010) Artikel Article 21–40 {:en}How East Asians Understand Democracy: From a Comparative PerspectiveDemocracy is a political model with global appeal, but little is known about how contemporary publics understand it. Are East Asians capable of defining democracy in their own words? Are they also capable of prioritizing its properties? Do they tend to understand it procedurally or substantively? This paper addresses these questions by analyzing responses to … von by Doh Chull Shin und and Youngho Cho
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Nr. 116 (2010) Artikel Article 40–62 {:de}Demokratie in Südostasien auf dem Rückzug?Is democracy in crisis in Southeast Asia? The article gives an overview over the status of democratization in Southeast Asia by looking at established democracy indices such as the Freedom House data and Bertelsmann Transformation Index. After mapping the regime types of Southeast Asian states, the article analyses the state of consolidation in Southeast Asia's … von by Marco Bünte
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Nr. 116 (2010) Editorial 63–79 {:de}Demokratie und zivile Kontrolle über das Militär in Thailand und IndonesienIt is widely accepted that civilian control of the military is a defining element of democratic consolidation. This article demonstrates how a lack of civilian control negatively affects democracy in Indonesia and Thailand. Based on a newly developed concept of civilian control and the concept of embedded democracy it analyzes the direct effects of weak … von by Philip Völkel und and Paul Chambers
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Nr. 116 (2010) Editorial 80–102 {:de}Zivilgesellschaft und kompetitiver Autoritarismus in MalaysiaThis article analyses the development of civil society in Malaysia under competitive-authoritarian rule. Applying the concept of historical institutionalism, institutional legacies will be identified which have been and still are of great influence on the structures and functions of Malaysian civil society. The study shows that civil society changed profoundly since 1957, with regard to … von by Stephan Giersdorf und and Aurel Croissant
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Nr. 116 (2010) Asien Aktuell 103–13 {:en}German Development Aid: Origins, Motives and Future PerspectivesThe German state is heavily indebted. Should it continue to provide aid to developing countries? Some countries like China and India, which spend a great deal on aiding developing countries themselves, still receive millions of euros of German aid. A revision of German aid policy seems to be due. Moreover, there are several agencies administering … von by Dietmar Rothermund
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Nr. 114/115 (2010) Artikel Article 11–15 {:de}Women in Asian Local Politics – A Springboard for Gender Democracy?From a worldwide perspective, Asian women were once at the cutting edge of female political participation. Female prime ministers and presidents have repeatedly governed several Asian nations: Bangladesh, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, India and Pakistan. Women politicians have also been at the forefront of reform and opposition as well as autonomy movements across Asia, for … von by Andrea Fleschenberg und and Claudia Derichs
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Nr. 114/115 (2010) Artikel Article 16–32 {:en}Political Participation of Indigenous Women in CambodiaThis article presents the findings of an action research project undertaken in Cambodia’s northeastern provinces to highlight indigenous and Khmer women’s experiences within the commune councils, and to identify the obstacles impeding their full political participation and their ability to transform political practice and style. The study found that the roles of female commune councillors … von by Margherita A. Maffii und and Sineath Hong
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Nr. 114/115 (2010) Artikel Article 33–49 {:en}Reconstructing Gender Identity for Political Participation: Hill Tribe Women in Northern ThailandThis article aims to take a critical look into political participation patterns and concerns of female local politicians who are also ethnic minorities in Thailand. The representation of women on local councils is low throughout the country, but it tends to be a particular problem in areas occupied by indigenous, minority ethnic groups. The research … von by Nongyao Nawarat
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Nr. 114/115 (2010) Artikel Article 50–67 {:en}Political Theory and Citizenship Discourses: Cast(e) in the Periphery: Understanding Representation of Dalit Women and Politics in IndiaIndian society is deeply gendered in that women have fewer opportunities to participate in public life. The gender division of labour that exists lays a disproportionate burden on women to fulfil the tasks of social reproduction. The care and nurturance of children, the sick and the old, household maintenance and provision for basic needs form … von by Baishali Chatterjee
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Nr. 114/115 (2010) Artikel Article 68–87 {:en}Who Are True Voters? Village Elections and Women’s Participation in Voting in Rural ChinaAlthough national voting statistics show that more than 90 percent of individuals in rural China vote, there is concern that women are excluded from casting their own ballot in some village elections and do not fully participate in others. The purpose of this paper is to provide an empirical basis for understanding the voting behavior … von by Xiaopeng Pang und and Scott Rozelle
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Nr. 107 (2008) Artikel Article 9–10 {:de}Kambodschas Medien – Garant für ein erfolgreiches Rote Khmer-Tribunal? Eine studentische ExkursionWer im Sommer 2007 auf die Plakatierung in den Straßen und Gassen Phnom Penhs geachtet hat, dem wird gelegentlich die Plakatkampagne des Internationalen Gerichtshofes (ECCC) aufgefallen sein.1 Diese besteht aus fünf Plakaten, abwechselnd in Khmer und Englisch. Das erste Plakat dient zum Einstieg und zeigt fiktiv eine der künftigen Gerichtsverhandlungen des kommenden Tribunals. Auf diesem … von by Martin Ritter
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Nr. 107 (2008) Artikel Article 11–25 {:de}Kambodschas Medien – Eine EinführungSince beginning of the democratic transformation 1993 began a liberalisation course of the Cambodian media system. Many new media companies developed. Despite this positive development, numerous deficits can be determined. Media are in the possession of the government, contents are controlled and journalists are not enough qualified. These deficits will stop the next years. A … von by Martin Ritter
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Nr. 107 (2008) Artikel Article 26–37 {:de}Printjournalismus in KambodschaThe following study describes print-journalism in Cambodia regarding journalists in the context of the media system, their cultural and social standards, functions of media system, roles of journalists and political and social structures. The structure of the analysis reflects on “onion model” by Weischenberg. The qualitative study is based on interviews made while accompanying print … von by David Jalilvand, Felix Krebber und and Charlotte Prümmer
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Nr. 107 (2008) Artikel Article 38–58 {:de}Journalistinnen in Kambodscha – Barrieren und KompensationsstrategienThe following study concentrates on the working conditions, resources and strategies of female journalists in Cambodia. It acts on the theory of Gender Mainstreaming which says present gender hierarchies are based on socially constructed role attribution. Its main object is to find out weather there are ambitious and prospective actors for supporting a transformation towards … von by Friederike Günther, Elise Laatz und and Sabrina Schmidt
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Nr. 107 (2008) Artikel Article 59–77 {:de}Die Medienkompetenz der kambodschanischen Bevölkerung: Eine qualitative Studie zur Erforschung der MedienkritikfähigkeitThis study deals with the media ability and expectations of cambodian receivers in the con-text of the so-called „Khmer Rouge Trial“. The Khmer Rouge, a political movement which claimed to develop communism based on the traditional rural population, controlled Cambodia between 1975 an 1979. During the time of their rule, Cambodians had no access to … von by Martin Adam, Juliane Binder und and Theresa Steffens
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Nr. 107 (2008) Artikel Article 78–94 {:de}Zivilgesellschaftliche Beteiligung am Rote Khmer-Tribunal: Rolle und Strategien nationaler und internationaler NGOsNational and international NGOs are important actors of Cambodia’s civil society. Some of them are focusing their work on the Khmer Rouge-Tribunal that currently takes place. The following study describes the role of the involved organizations and analyzes the strategies of the NGOs and the extent they are able to contribute to the trial’s success. … von by Nils Meinzer
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Nr. 104 (2007) Editorial 7–8 {:en}Identities in Afghanistan – Afghan IdentitiesThe attacks of September 11 catapulted Afghanistan into the centre of international awareness. The international intervention and the collapse of the Taliban regime opened for the first time since decades the chance for peace building and a reconstruction of the country. Since 2001 thousands of soldiers, aid workers, consultants and politicians rushed into the country … von by Ingeborg Baldauf und and Conrad Schetter
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Nr. 104 (2007) Artikel Article 9–22 {:en}Between Two Worlds: Feelings of Belonging in Exile and the Question of ReturnFor millions of people around the world, the condition of 'refugee-ness' is a daily reality. They do not live in a place of their own choice, and live there amid a web of complex relationships and processes. These encompass two different universes: firstly, their own socio-cultural, historical and political roots, which in themselves carry a … von by Marije Braakman und and Angela Schlenkhoff
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Nr. 104 (2007) Artikel Article 23–33 {:en}Thoughts on Afghanistan’s Loya Jirga: A Myth?"The Loya Jirga: Pain Therapy for Our Nation". This headline used by the daily newspaper Arman-i Milli (25 June 2002, p. 2, my translation) captioned an article on the loya jirga's role in Afghan history a few days after the 2002 loya jirga, or Grand Council, was held. Twelve years previously, captioning a similar article … von by Benjamin Buchholz
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