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The following paper is based on the author's two-year research and fieldwork in Iran and examines the process of political and social changes since the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the subsequent impact of the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-88. This paper focuses on the transition of traditional, small...
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This paper attempts to describe part of the history of Chinese rural migration to urban industrial areas. Using a case … strategy of regional development. Different types of social mobility are observed in the case study, and over its long history …
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, globalization has resulted in an increasing number of multinational corporations to adopt a platform strategy for their customers in …
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This paper focuses on two distinct facets of globalization: the decrease in the trade costs of goods and the decline of …
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ASEAN+3 is a cooperative framework among ASEAN members and the countries of Japan, China and Korea. It functions at the …
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Against the background of closer diplomatic, political and security ties between Myanmar and China since 1988, their … economic relations have also grown stronger throughout the 1990s and up to 2005. China is now a major supplier of consumer and … capital goods to Myanmar, in particular through border trade. China also provides a large amount of economic cooperation in …
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globalization has an aspect of homogenization of the world economy, but also has another aspect of diversification through …We analyze diversification of boundaries of local firms in developing countries under the economic globalization. The …
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The Arab monarchies of the Gulf have been undergoing striking socio-economic changes caused by the ending of the rent-based welfare state model on which they had largely relied since the 1950s. In this perspective, this paper aims at examining the comparative role of local business communities...
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In this study, we examine the voting behavior in Indonesian parliamentary elections from 1999 to 2014. After summarizing the changes in Indonesian parties' share of the vote from a historical standpoint, we investigate the voting behavior with simple regression models to analyze the effect of...
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How are different positions reconciled under decision making by consensus in international agreements? This article aims to answer this question. Consensus rule provides each participant a veto, which risks resulting in non-agreement. Taking ASEAN as a case study of international organizations...
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