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Nr. 135 (2015) Asien Aktuell 51–60 {:de}Australiens geostrategische Rolle als aufstrebende Mittelmacht im Indo-PazifikThe Indo-Pacific is a young geopolitical concept that views the West-Pacific and the Indian Ocean as an important strategic region. Being westerly in its identity and Asian in its geography, Australia finds itself in the middle of this global upheaval. This creates new possibilities for regional influence, as well as challenges that demand responsible solutions. … von by Max Dietrich
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Nr. 132 (2014) Artikel Article 5–11 {:en}Area Studies cum Disciplines: Asia and Europe from a Transdisciplinary PerspectiveSeeking common ground: the notion of “unwritten rules” This special issue or Themenheft of ASIEN addresses the burgeoning relationship between area studies and different academic disciplines. Most of the articles that are included were first presented as papers in an international workshop held at Marburg University, Germany, in January 2013. The other contributions have been … von by Claudia Derichs
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Nr. 132 (2014) Artikel Article 12–25 {:de}Unwritten Constitutions of Political Rule: Conceptual Approaches to Comparative Area Studies of Asia, the Middle East & North Africa, and EuropeThis article discusses conceptual considerations regarding the constituting and structuring of political governance in Asia, MENA (the Middle East and North Africa), and Europe. It investigates how formal and informal institutions combine with politics and unwritten political rules to form an “unwritten constitution” that acts as a de facto constitution for political governance. Particular emphasis … von by Ursula Birsl und and Samuel Salzborn
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Nr. 132 (2014) Artikel Article 26–34 {:en}Theory-Driven Conceptualization and Epistemic Reflection in Comparative Area Studies: Some Thoughts on “Unwritten Constitutions” and Research DesignsThe discussion of the relationship between disciplines and area studies often revolves around the two issues of theory and methodology. A shared understanding on the part of both disciplinary-oriented scholars and area experts exists with regard to the necessity of making empirical findings regarding the generation of theory, as well as regarding theory testing and … von by Claudia Derichs
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Nr. 132 (2014) Artikel Article 35–52 {:en}Social Order as a Boundary Concept: Unveiling Dichotomies and Conceptualizing PoliticsThis paper introduces social order as an analytical concept that heuristically helps to grasp phenomena related to unwritten rules. It illustrates how the dichotomies of written vs. unwritten rules, formal vs. informal institutions and state vs. society have limited analytical value for understanding societal complexities. Underlying this proposition is the insight that focusing on rules … von by Katja Mielke
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Nr. 132 (2014) Artikel Article 53–59 {:en}China’s Unwritten Constitution: Ideological Implications of a “Non-ideological” ApproachSince the promulgation of China’s present constitution in 1982, liberal approaches have been dominating debates in Chinese constitutional jurisprudence as well as political and legal dialogues between the Chinese and Western governments. More recently, however, the liberal mainstream seems to be challenged by new strands of a “Sinicized Marxist” or “political constitutionalism” criticizing the Chinese … von by Heike Holbig
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Nr. 132 (2014) Artikel Article 60–80 {:en}Political Parties in Europe and South Asia and Unwritten Rules: Patterns, Differences, and Similarities of Party StructuresThis article traces indicators for the “unwritten rules” that shape the functioning of political parties. Unwritten rules are taken to be ideas and patterns of meaning that are not formalized, but that nevertheless still influence and inform the political choices and actions of both individual and collective actors. For these unwritten rules to be able … von by Claudia Wiesner und and Andrea Fleschenberg
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Nr. 132 (2014) Artikel Article 81–97 {:en}Women’s Empowerment in Religious Contexts: Competitive Modernity and the Feminized Public Sphere in MalaysiaThe Malaysian public sphere has provided an effective communication structure for the espousal of group positions. The empowerment of the country’s women in the religious context can only be properly understood when examined within this social framework. However, the feminization of the public sphere in Malaysia has been complicated by the existence of multiple understandings … von by Maznah Mohamad
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Nr. 131 (2014) Artikel Article 5–24 {:de}South Korea’s Reunification Think Tanks: The Development of a Marketplace for IdeasIn contrast to Germany South Korea has for years been continuously preparing for national reunification. As a result, alongside the Ministry of Unification a number of think tanks, research institutes, and other organizations have also been established in South Korea. After years of the dominance in the country of state-run, security-orientated think tanks in the … von by Ralph M. Wrobel
Nr. 131 (2014) Artikel Article 25–45 {:en}The Quest to be a “Human Rights Promoter”: The European Union and the Case of VietnamRecently the political weight of the European Union (EU) in international relations has come under scrutiny. Alongside economic influence, normative power is among the key factors shaping the EU’s foreign policy. In spite of the EU’s efforts at establishing legitimate norms that can be globally exported and applied and its actions to promote these norms … von by Tien Pham und and Vu Truong
Nr. 131 (2014) Asien Aktuell 57–67 {:de}„Krieg um die Geschichte“: Die Schulbuch-Kontroverse in SüdkoreaThe latest controversy on schoolbooks in Korea broke out in spring 2013 when Kyohak Publishing Co. submitted its reactionary revisionist textbook for history classes at high schools to the authorities for approval. That the textbook was officially approved by the Ministry of Education despite the fact that it contained an enormous amount of errors in … von by Hannes B. Mosler
Nr. 129 (2013) Editorial 5–6 {:en}Central Asia: Coming to Terms with the Past — Coping in the PresentIn this special issue of ASIEN, “Central Asia” refers to the newly independent states of Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan as well as Mongolia, Xinjiang, Tibet, and Afghanistan. The papers presented here do not actually cover every part of the area thus outlined, and many other delineations of “Central Asia” also exist in other … von by Ingeborg Baldauf
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Nr. 129 (2013) Artikel Article 7–21 {:de}Strategies of Social Support and Community Cohesion in Rural XinjiangSituated in China’s northwest, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has often been characterized as one of China’s most notorious “restive” areas. Scholarly enquiries to date have, therefore, often focused on issues of ethnicity, identity, and conflict, demonstrating how the center attempts to control its troubled periphery. In contrast, this paper focuses on the everyday strategies … von by Ildikó Bellér-Hann
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Nr. 129 (2013) Artikel Article 22–37 {:en}Recalling the Past to Assert Ethnic Rights in the Present: The Case of the Gawars in AfghanistanThis paper studies the production of historical knowledge in modern Afghanistan. It is argued that after the civil war and following the adoption of the new constitution in 2004, where for the first time in Afghan history the ethnic composition of the country was codified by enumerating the main ethnic groups, an ethnically dominated view … von by Lutz Rzehak
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Nr. 129 (2013) Artikel Article 38–50 {:en}Getting By after Internal Migration. Scenes from the Life of a Day Laborer Family in Mazar-e Sharif, AfghanistanThis article centers around the study of spatial mobility as a response to the uneven distribution of chances and risks. In present-day Afghanistan, moving within the country can be one strategy by which to avoid aggression in certain places and/or to benefit from the better employment opportunities and general life prospects of other locales. The … von by Christoph Wenzel
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Nr. 129 (2013) Forschung und Lehre Research and Teaching 181–99 {:de}Einführung in die Sicherheitspolitik Ostasiens Teil 3This introductory article on East Asian security policy will appear in three parts. The first two will sketch important issue areas and outline major developments and trends. The focus will be on questions of regional order: What does security in East Asia depend on? Who creates it? Who threatens it? Part 1 discusses theoretical approaches … von by Martin Wagner
Nr. 128 (2013) Editorial 5–8 {:en}East Asia’s Role in a New Era of Global Economic GovernanceWhen the current global financial crisis (GFC) broke out in 2008, observers soon embarked on a discussion on whether or not this would create a new leading role for East Asia. A first global summit on financial regulation and the global financial crisis held in Washington in November 2008 turned out to be the starting … von by Sebastian Bersick und and Jörn-Carsten Gottwald
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Nr. 128 (2013) Artikel Article 9–27 {:en}Power Shifts and China’s Challenges to Global Financial GovernanceThis paper aims to identify and assess the challenges facing global financial governance as a result of the shift of power from the West to the East in the world. It argues that these challenges are too weak to be able to alter the pattern of global financial governance in any significant way in the … von by Gerald Chan
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Nr. 128 (2013) Artikel Article 28–44 {:en}Existing and Emerging Powers in the G20: The Case of East AsiaOver the last twenty years, global financial integration and global financial volatility have greatly increased. The 2008 crisis represented a peak in the vulnerability of all countries around the world with regard to global financial volatility. In response to this volatility and as the first line of defense, states have used a growing array of … von by Yves Tiberghien und and Niall Duggan
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Nr. 128 (2013) Artikel Article 45–62 {:en}Focused Leadership: China’s New Role in Global Economic GovernanceChina’s rise in global politics and economics has further fueled perceptions of an East Asian dominance of global institutions. From a power-shift perspective, the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) provides a window of opportunity for a rising power to change existing norms and organizations and to push for the creation of new ones. Although the PRC … von by Sebastian Bersick und and Jörn-Carsten Gottwald
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Nr. 128 (2013) Artikel Article 62–77 {:en}Regional Mediator: A New Role for South KoreaThis article aims at assessing the extent to which the G20 is empowering middlerange countries by analyzing the case of South Korea in the G20 process from an economics perspective. It examines South Korea’s ability to play the role of a regional mediator, particularly through its active role in hosting one of the post-GFC summits, … von by Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan
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Nr. 128 (2013) Artikel Article 78–92 {:en}Japan’s Role in the New Global Economic Governance: Domestic and international factorsJapan has traditionally assumed the role of regional representative in the leading mechanisms of global economic governance as the leading economic power in East Asia, historically speaking, and the only non-European/North American member of the G7/8. However, the rise of the G20, the inclusion of a number of Asian countries, and the supposed eclipse of … von by Hugo Dobson
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Nr. 128 (2013) Forschung und Lehre Research and Teaching 133–45 {:de}Einführung in die Sicherheitspolitik Ostasiens Teil 2This introductory article on East Asian security policy will appear in three parts. The first two will sketch important issue areas and outline major developments and trends. The focus will be on questions of regional order: What does security in East Asia depend on? Who creates it? Who threatens it? Part 1 discusses theoretical approaches … von by Martin Wagener
Nr. 127 (2013) Asien Aktuell 79–94 {:de}Australische Perzeptionen der Machtverschiebung im asiatisch-pazifischen RaumThe shift in discussion among Australia’s political and intellectual elite over the last decade could be aptly summarized with the words “It’s the geography, stupid!” Today’s question of concern is no longer about British heritage and Asian geography, as was the case three decades earlier. Instead, the burden (and opportunities) due to the country’s geography … von by Thomas Prinz

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