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Market reform and the emergence of the entrepreneurial state in China: The case of state commercial and real estate departments in Tianjin. (1996)
Thesis
Duckett, J. Market reform and the emergence of the entrepreneurial state in China: The case of state commercial and real estate departments in Tianjin. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

China's post-Mao reforms have gradually introduced markets and transformed the planned economy. This dissertation investigates the impact of those market-oriented reforms on state bureaux that administered the planning system. It does this through a... Read More about Market reform and the emergence of the entrepreneurial state in China: The case of state commercial and real estate departments in Tianjin..

Traditionalization of authority: Roles and authority of village party branch secretaries in China, 1978-1995. (1996)
Thesis
Wibisono, I. W. Traditionalization of authority: Roles and authority of village party branch secretaries in China, 1978-1995. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This dissertation is about the roles of party branch secretaries in the villages after the introduction of Reform in late 1978. There are approximately 730,000 such individuals in China. This dissertation argues that the strategy of nominal encapsula... Read More about Traditionalization of authority: Roles and authority of village party branch secretaries in China, 1978-1995..

The Korean Peninsula in Transition (1996)
Book
Kim, D. H., & Kong, T. Y. (Eds.). (1996). The Korean Peninsula in Transition. St Antony's-Macmillan/St Martin's. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25141-4

Since the 1980s the Korean peninsula has been in a state of transition. Forged by the Cold War, the politico-economic systems of North and South Korea as well as the international system of Northeast Asia are in a state of flux. Apart from identifyin... Read More about The Korean Peninsula in Transition.

The Resumption of Armed Struggle by the Party of Democratic Kampuchea (1996)
Book Chapter
Heder, S. (1996). The Resumption of Armed Struggle by the Party of Democratic Kampuchea. In S. Heder, & J. Ledgerwood (Eds.), Propaganda, Politics and Violence in Cambodia: Democratic Transition Under United Nations Peace-Keeping (73-113). M E Sharpe

On 23 October 1991, Party of Democratic Kampuchea (PDK) I President Khieu Samphan and Vice-President Son Sen signed the Agreements on a Comprehensive Political Settlement of the Cambodia Conjlict. 2 In so doing, the PDK facade for the covertly commun... Read More about The Resumption of Armed Struggle by the Party of Democratic Kampuchea.

State Strategies in the Global Political Economy (1996)
Book
Deans, P., & Palan, R. (1996). State Strategies in the Global Political Economy. Pinter. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474212939

State Strategies in the Global Political Economy, Palan, Abbott and Deans argue that the state is not about to decline or ‘wither away’, but must restructure and evolve in response to forces of transnationalization. The state may be besieged but it c... Read More about State Strategies in the Global Political Economy.

Iran-Saudi Arabia Relations and Regional Order (1996)
Book
Tripp, C., & Chubin, S. (1996). Iran-Saudi Arabia Relations and Regional Order. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315000435

Both countries will have strong incentives to test the artificial balance established by the US and from which they are excluded. Each state, in the face of continued embargoes, may find the lure of weapons of mass destruction correspondingly increas... Read More about Iran-Saudi Arabia Relations and Regional Order.