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Media and Sovereignty: The Global Information Revolution and Its Challenge to State Power

Price, Monroe E. - The MIT Press

Media have been central to government efforts to reinforce sovereignty and define national identity, but globalization is fundamentally altering media practices, institutions, and content. More than the activities of large conglomerates, globalization entails competition among states as well as...

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New Forces in the World Economy

Roberts, Brad (contributor) - The MIT Press

Two factors have brought the world economy to the center of the international political arena: first, the end of the Cold War and the increasing importance of economic factors relative to strategic ones in the foreign policies of the major powers; and, second, the emergence of a rapidly...

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Shifting Ground: The Changing Agricultural Soils of China and Indonesia

Lindert, Peter H. - The MIT Press

--China and Indonesia--where anecdotal evidence has suggested serious problems. Lindert does what no scholar before him has done … influence of human activity. China and Indonesia are good test cases because of their geography and history. China has been at … agriculture. Most of Indonesia's lands were created by volcanoes and erosion, and its rapid deforestation and shifting slash …

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Technology Choice in Developing Countries: The Textile and Pulp and Paper Industries

Amsalem, Michel A. - The MIT Press

manufacturing equipment procured by a sample of firms in Colombia, Brazil, the Philippines, and Indonesia are the focus of the study …

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Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries: A Comparative Perspective

Bardhan, Pranab (contributor); Mookherjee, Dilip (contributor) - The MIT Press

countries: Bolivia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, South Africa, and Uganda. Some of these countries witnessed an … unprecedented "big bang" shift toward comprehensive political and economic decentralization: Bolivia in 1995 and Indonesia after the …

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