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Sino-Ghana bilateral relations and Chinese migrants’ illegal gold mining in Ghana 中加双边关系与中国移民在加纳非法采金问题

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Asian Journal of Political Science Pub Date : 2019-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/02185377.2019.1669473

E. Debrah, Richard Asante

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引用次数: 7

Paradoxical class: paradox of interest and political conservatism in middle class 悖论阶级：中产阶级的利益悖论与政治保守主义

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Asian Journal of Political Science Pub Date : 2019-07-17 DOI: 10.1080/02185377.2019.1642772

Rahim Baizidi

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Deconstructing the multi-layered nature of citizen participation in Vietnam: conceptual connotations, discourses of international development, and the country’s institutional context 解构越南公民参与的多层次性：概念内涵、国际发展话语和国家制度语境

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Asian Journal of Political Science Pub Date : 2019-06-25 DOI: 10.1080/02185377.2019.1631866

Seohee Kwak

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引用次数: 2

China’s international socialization of Caribbean state-society complexes: Trinidad and Tobago as a case study 中国对加勒比国家社会复合体的国际社会化——以特立尼达和多巴哥为例

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Asian Journal of Political Science Pub Date : 2019-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/02185377.2019.1633938

Theodor Tudoroiu, Amanda R. Ramlogan

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Race relations, nationalism and the humanitarian Rohingya crisis in contemporary Myanmar 种族关系、民族主义与当代缅甸的人道主义罗兴亚危机

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Asian Journal of Political Science Pub Date : 2019-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/02185377.2019.1627668

Kunal Mukherjee

{"title":"Race relations, nationalism and the humanitarian Rohingya crisis in contemporary Myanmar","authors":"Kunal Mukherjee","doi":"10.1080/02185377.2019.1627668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185377.2019.1627668","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The recent ethnic tensions in Myanmar especially in the Rakhine state has once again placed the country onto the centre stage of global media attention. The aim of this paper is to look at race relations in contemporary Myanmar with a special focus on the Rohingya community. The paper argues that problematic race relations in the country today should be analysed within a certain historical context and should be seen as part of a historical continuum. This paper places a lot of importance on this historical continuum. In this connection, the British colonial policies of divide and conquer, politicians and their obsession with Buddhism and trying to make it the state religion shortly after independence in 1948, and the xenophobic policies followed by the military junta after 1962 deserve special mention. The paper further argues that the current state of affairs and escalation in violence has happened recently because of the convergence of the activities and ideologies of certain political groups like the military junta, the National League for Democracy, the Arakan League for Democracy, and the role played by certain Buddhist extremist groups like the MaBaTha in Burmese politics. To ease the existing tension in the Rakhine, the central government would need to take a more federally minded approach and introduce meaningful democracy and development in the frontier parts of the country where there is a strong ethnic minority presence.","PeriodicalId":44333,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Political Science","volume":"27 1","pages":"235 - 251"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02185377.2019.1627668","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49578248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

One size does not fit all: an analysis of the corruption preventative approach of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in Bangladesh 一种方法并不适用于所有情况:对孟加拉国反腐败委员会(ACC)预防腐败方法的分析

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Asian Journal of Political Science Pub Date : 2019-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/02185377.2019.1642773

N. Sakib

引用次数: 12

Public attitudes toward immigration policies in South Korea 韩国公众对移民政策的态度

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Asian Journal of Political Science Pub Date : 2019-03-18 DOI: 10.1080/02185377.2019.1594322

H. Chang

引用次数: 5

Cambodia votes: democracy, authority, and international support for elections, 1993–2013 柬埔寨投票：民主、权威和国际社会对选举的支持，1993-2013年

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Asian Journal of Political Science Pub Date : 2019-03-12 DOI: 10.1080/02185377.2019.1588139

Sivhuoch Ou

引用次数: 0

Interactive effects of advertising platform credibility and partisanship on advertising evaluation and recall 广告平台可信度和党派性对广告评价和召回的互动效应

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Asian Journal of Political Science Pub Date : 2019-02-04 DOI: 10.1080/02185377.2019.1576055

C. S. Park

引用次数: 2

Indonesia’s swift securitization of the Natuna Islands how Jakarta countered China’s claims in the South China Sea 印尼迅速将纳土纳群岛证券化雅加达如何对抗中国在南中国海的主权主张

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Asian Journal of Political Science Pub Date : 2019-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02185377.2019.1590724

P. K. Meyer, Achmad Nurmandi, Agustiyara Agustiyara

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引用次数: 19