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Formal Rules in Institutional Transitions : An Examination Based on the Meiji Restoration and Xinhai Revolution

Aoki, Masahiko - 2014

Qing China and Tokugawa Japan were enforced, supplemented, or modified by the strategic interactions among the ruler, the …

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Islamism and U.S. Foreign Policy : The Gulf between Two Agendas

Karoui, Hichem - 2006

In early 2004, the Presidential study group, - a bipartisan commission of statesmen, diplomats, legislators, scholars, and experts - was conveyed to examine the state of the Middle East and the effectiveness of U.S. policy in advancing U.S. interests in that region. According to the report it...

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Comfort Women : The North Korean Connection

Ramseyer, J. Mark; Arima, Tetsuo - 2022

Through its "comfort women" framework, the World War II Japanese military extended its licensing regime for domestic … prostitutes (we limit this article to women recruited from Korea and Japan) through variations on the standard indenture contracts … that the licensed brothels had used in Korea and Japan. Some women took the jobs because they were tricked by fraudulent …

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The Evolving Legal Mechanism for Medical Malpractice Dispute Resolution in China

Lin, Nuannuan; Hu, Weijun (William) - 2019

This Article investigates the evolution of the Chinese legal mechanism for medical malpractice dispute resolution (MMDR) from the establishment of the first rules for MMDR in 1955 to the promulgation of the Regulation on Preventing and Dealing with Medical Malpractice Disputes in 2018. Using...

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International Political Economy Thought in Premodern and Colonial Korea

Chey, Hyoung-kyu - 2019

of colonial Korea under Imperial Japan, and during this time economic nationalist movements were pursued while Marxist …

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Were Korean Girls Enslaved or Indentured into Military Brothels During Wwii?

Cha, Myung Soo - 2022

This paper empirically evaluates the two opposite representations of the pre-1945 Korean comfort women. Far exceeding the estimate advocated by contract view, the scale of mobilization as estimated using demographic information falls within the range proposed by enslavement view. Indicating one...

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Religion and the Great Divergence of East and West : The Persistent Effects of Networks of Church and State in the Economic History of China and Europe

Root, Hilton L. - 2022

Networks of Church and State that originated in premodern times played an important role as conduits for the transmission of cultural values that have endured into the present and set the economic history of China apart from that of Europe. The imprints of those networks, which preceded the...

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Academic Big Falsehood - 'Enslaved Koreans : Comfort Women'

Hosoya, Kiyoshi - 2022

Ramseyer Paper gave the sex-slave theory believers a considerable shock but did not activate the arguments. The paper demonstrates the sustainability of the comfort women system with contracts for sex, which reinforces the prostitute theory and indirectly denies the slave theory. Rebuttals...

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The economy of the Sino-Soviet Alliance : trade and transfers between Eastern Europe and China during the early Cold War

Chen, Tao; Zofka, Jan - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 63 (2022) 2, pp. 575-610

the end of the Chinese Civil war until the Sino-Soviet split (1949-1960/63). The Soviet and Eastern European contribution … governmental negotiations. In contrast to classical Cold War perspectives, which assume a primacy of (geo-)politics, the paper …

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The True History and Legal Meaning of Colonialism in the Holy Land : The 2042 B.C.E. Project

Greendorfer, Marc - 2022

One of the most inexplicable uses of certain Marxist terms, such as colonialism, imperialism and settler-colonialism is with regard to the State of Israel, a frequent target of Marxists, and ethnic Jews, the descendants of the indigenous people of the modern State of Israel, who are often...

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