Search results for: S. Frederick Starr
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China’s Urbanization: Hukou Reforms and Social Justice
...Abstract This paper explores the socio-economic impacts of the Household Registration System (Hukou) and the delicate interplay between migration policies and urban development in China. Despite several rounds of...
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Pompeo’s Puzzling Side Trip
...This article was authored by ISDP’s Associated Research Fellow, Ramses Amer, and Li Jianwei, Director and Research Fellow at the National Institute for South China Sea Studies. U.S. Secretary...
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Beijing’s Foothold in Central America: El Salvador’s Diplomatic Realignment
...Introduction The diplomatic struggle between China and Taiwan, officially the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (RoC) respectively, has intensified in recent years. Under the...
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Poems that Decode Japan’s Intellectual DNA: The Ambassador’s choice
...stationed, bilateral issues relating to their home countries and protocol. However, sometimes language barriers, the economic and political importance of the country in question, its peculiar social norms and strong...
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Illusion’s End: Erdoğan and Turkey’s Coming Economic Chill
...The rapid depreciation in the value of the Turkish Lira since the beginning of 2018 is the product not only of the collapse of any remaining vestiges of...
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Turkey’s Constitutional Referendum and Erdogan’s Faded Democratic Credentials
...campaign that preceded it fall short of democratic norms but the Turkish authorities’ refusal to investigate the numerous reports of fraud and apparent irregularities suggests that the regime no longer...
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Redefining Russia’s Pivot and China’s Peripheral Diplomacy
...On January 17 and 18, 2017, Dr. Niklas Swanström participated in a workshop held by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, on Russia and China and their impact on...
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Turkey’s Proposed Constitutional Changes and Erdoğan’s Forever War
...Tayyip Erdoğan, leading to the introduction of a full presidential system in November 2019. Yet recent events have shown that the more power Erdoğan exercises, the worse the situation in...
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People’s or Party’s Army in Vietnam?
...While the Vietnam Communist Party’s grip over the army remains strong, Zachary Abuza examines the growing calls challenging the Vietnam People’s Army’s duty to defend the ruling party over...