cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
GITA DHARAMPAL-FRICK / ALI USMAN QASMI / KATIA ROSTETTER (eds.): Revisioning Iqbal as a Poet and Muslim Political Thinker
Creators: name: Banerjee, Milinda
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 41 Nr. 3-4 (2010): Internationales Asienforum
Loa "Principio tuvieron todas las cosas del mundo": edición TEI a cargo de Alejandro García-Reidy
Creators: name: Garcia-Reidy, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: TEI edition
Spanish Golden Age Drama

description: An electronic edition, encoded by Alejandro García-Reidy in XML language following the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative, based on his edition published in the MANOS Digital Library

 
description: Este trabajo se ha beneficiado de la ayuda de I+D+i «MANOS. Ampliación y exploración de la base de datos de manuscritos teatrales áureos (ASODAT Tercera Fase)» (ayuda PID2022-136431NB-C61 financiada por MCIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 y por FEDER «Una manera de hacer Europa»).
Population ageing in Australia: policy implications of recent projections
Creators: name: Betts, Katharine
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Recent projections published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics set out a range of possible demographic futures for Australia. This article examines 12 of these which all share the same life expectancy assumptions, but which differ in their assumptions for fertility and net overseas migration. It shows that all of the projection series that include net migration entail considerable population growth, but have a minimal effect on the age structure. In contrast the projection series that assumes near replacement fertility (a total fertility rate of 2.0) and nil net migration leads to modest growth. It also leads to a younger age structure than series which combine immigration with a lower fertility rate of 1.6.
Staff satisfaction with information resources in a university of technology
Creators: name: Hardy, Gary
name: Sharma, R.
name: Whitehead, Derek
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Information Resources are gaining in significance and importance in the university of 21st century, particularly given recent developments in information and communications technology (ICT). In this environment the higher education library needs to monitor the perceived importance, satisfaction and use of the services it provides. This study reports on a study of university staff satisfaction with information resources provision in an Australian university of technology. This survey suggests that the demand for traditional library services - such as book borrowing and reference services - remains strong, with both frequency of usage and perceived importance generally high. At the same time, online services, in terms of both perceived importance and frequency of use, are also at a high level, with indications of unmet demand in these emerging areas. The study suggests that the environment for Higher Education libraries will become more challenging, with continuing demand for traditional services and rapidly expanding expectations for online services.
MUHAMMAD KHALID MASUD (ed.): Travellers in Faith. Studies of the Tablīghī Jamāʾat as a Transnational Islamic Movement for Faith Renewal
Creators: name: Malik, Jamal
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 41 Nr. 3-4 (2010): Internationales Asienforum
Risks for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among Asian men who have sex with men in Vancouver, British Columbia: a cross-sectional survey
Creators: name: Maung Maung, Thiha
name: Chen, Becky
name: Moore, David M.
name: Chan, Keith
name: Kanters, Steve
name: Michelow, Warren
name: Hogg, Robert S.
name: Nakamura, Nadine
name: Robert, Wayne
name: Gustafson, Reka
name: Gilbert, M.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: Individuals of Asian heritage represent the largest ethnic minority in Canada. Approximately 10% of the new HIV diagnoses in men in British Columbia occur among Asian-Canadians. However, the HIV risk patterns of Asian men who have sex with men (MSM) have not been extensively studied. Methods Participants aged ≥ 19 years were enrolled in a venue-based HIV serobehavioural survey of MSM in Vancouver, Canada. We compared the demographic characteristics, risk behaviours, and prevalence of HIV and other sexual and blood borne infections between Asian and non-Asian MSM using bivariate analysis and logistic regression confounder modelling. Results Amongst 1132 participants, 110 (9.7%) self-identified as Asian. Asian participants were younger than non-Asian participants (median age 29 vs. 32 years; p < 0.001), but otherwise did not differ from other study participants. HIV prevalence was lower among Asian MSM compared to Non-Asian MSM (3.7% vs 19.0%, p <0.001). Among men who self-reported as HIV negative or unknown we found no differences in unprotected anal intercourse (UAI) with a discordant or unknown serostatus partner in the previous six months (11 vs. 13%; p = 0.503). However, Asian MSM were less likely to report ever using injection drugs (10.8% vs. 19.2%; p = 0.043) or using alcohol before having sex (52% vs. 64.4%; p = 0.017). Conclusions Asian MSM in our study reported similar rates of UAI as non-Asian MSM, but had a lower prevalence of HIV infection. Other factors, such as the use of drugs and alcohol, in relation to sex, may partly explain these differences. However this requires further investigation.
JAMES W. HEISIG / TIMOTHY W. RICHARDSON / ROBERT RAUTHER: Vereinfachte Hanzi lernen und behalten 1. Bedeutung und Schreibweise der häufigsten chinesischen Schriftzeichen
Creators: name: Linck, Gudula
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 41 Nr. 1-2 (2010): Internationales Asienforum
ANDREAS FULDA: Förderung partizipativer Entwicklung in der VR China. Möglichkeiten und Grenzen politischer Einflussnahme durch Akteure der deutsch-chinesischen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (2003-2006)
Creators: name: Gransow, Bettina
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 41 Nr. 1-2 (2010): Internationales Asienforum
ARNOUD H. KLOKKE (ed.): Fishing, Hunting and Headhunting in the Former Culture of the Ngaju Dayak in Central Kalimantan
Creators: name: Schreer, Viola
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 41 Nr. 1-2 (2010): Internationales Asienforum
ALEXANDRA KENT/DAVID CHANDLER (eds.): People of Virtue: Reconfigurating Religion, Power and Moral Order in Cambodia Today
Creators: name: Grabowsky, Volker
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 41 Nr. 1-2 (2010): Internationales Asienforum
MARK P. WHITTAKER: Learning Politics from Sivaram. The Life and Death of a Revolutionary Tamil Journalist in Sri Lanka
Creators: name: Hellmann-Rajanayagam, Dagmar
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 41 Nr. 1-2 (2010): Internationales Asienforum
Streben nach Selbstbestimmung. Zur Begründung von Minderheitenrechten der Ureinwohner Taiwans
Creators: name: Porsche-Ludwig, Markus
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: In the Republic of China (ROC, Taiwan), the Han majority and the indigenous people live side by side. These indigenous minority groups have always resided in the territory of the ROC. They differ from the majority of the population with regard to their language, culture, and history and have had to fight continuously for recognition as minorities. The crucial question is how to legally substantiate minority rights and introduce adequate legislation for indigenous people in a setting of "deep diversity". This term was introduced in the corresponding Canadian debate by, among others, Charles Taylor to characterize conflicts between ethnic and cultural groups that, on principle, oppose integration. The indigenous people in Taiwan consider themselves as having an own culture and identity and they make a claim for control and authority over political and social institutions in an enclosed territory. In this article, it is shown that "national minority rights" should be recognized and how these can be realized.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 40 Nr. 3-4 (2009): Internationales Asienforum
Probleme mit den Wasser- und Bodenressourcen in China
Creators: name: Bückmann, Walter
name: Lee, Yeong Heui
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Soil and water in China are at considerable risk for global ecological and anthropogenous reasons; their capacity to absorb these risks is to a large degree overstretched and ecological functioning is in the balance. In the north-west in particular, the ecological situation is alarming: as a result of human exploitation and of climate change, large areas have become inhospitable deserts over the years. This is one of the outcomes of the Chinese policy of prioritising economic and global-strategic objectives, as well as of accelerated industrial and agricultural development. Consequently, a vicious circle arises, due to water scarcity and over-use of water resources, of climate-induced natural catastrophes, destruction of the eco-system balance due to human activities, and of continuing contamination and inadequate water management. Water scarcity, soil degradation and desertification comprise some of the greatest barriers to sustainable development. Finding an effective counterbalance to these problems is one of the major challenges to Chinese policy. China's future is endangered unless solutions are found to water and soil problems. The state and society need to adopt a nwew development strategy towards an economy and a way of life which are ecologically compatible, towards resource-saving production and social and political attitudes to nature in accordance with cultural tradition.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 40 Nr. 3-4 (2009): Internationales Asienforum
A Bright Future Ahead? A Pilot Study of the Vietnamese Labour Market and its Social and Economic Context
Creators: name: Blien, Uwe
name: Hong Van, Phan Thi
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Vietnam is a country which has shown high rates of economic growth in the past 20 years. The absolute level of incomes and of the standard of living is still low, however. There is hope that the situation will improve in the future, though in the current period unpleasant signs of an economic crisis are visible. As a consequence of important reform steps, many structural parameters of the Vietnamese economy have adapted to the new institutional setting of a market system. This paper presents a regional case study of the labour market of Vinh City in central Vietnam and its socio-economic context. By covering over 12 000 individuals in two surveys it is possible to identify precisely the changes that have taken place within a time span of six years. On the basis of the data the structure and dynamics of a regional economy can be assessed. It is possible to find answers to many important questions which concern the whole of Vietnam. The results of the study reflect a remarkable development process.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 40 Nr. 3-4 (2009): Internationales Asienforum
Loa "Principio tuvieron todas las cosas del mundo": edición a cargo de Alejandro García-Reidy
Creators: name: Garcia-Reidy, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Spanish Golden Age drama

description: An edition in PDF by Alejandro García-Reidy, part of the MANOS Digital Library
description: Este trabajo se ha beneficiado de la ayuda de I+D+i «MANOS. Ampliación y exploración de la base de datos de manuscritos teatrales áureos (ASODAT Tercera Fase)» (ayuda PID2022-136431NB-C61 financiada por MCIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 y por FEDER «Una manera de hacer Europa»).
Pakistan: Kunststaat, Militärstaat und Krisenstaat
Creators: name: Rösel, Jakob
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: The emergence of Pakistan - the first secessionist state at the very beginning of decolonisation - coincided with the onset of the cold war. Only due to massive American aid and political patronage could the new and artificial state survive. The article retraces the transformation of this state into a military dictatorship and, presently, a state of crisis. This twofold transition can only be understood through an analysis of the fundamental importance of the army apparatus not only politically, but also socially and economically: The army is one of the largest landowners; it runs its own industries and banks; it constitutes an economic empire of its own. At the same time it has evolved as and into a parallel society that reaches into the most remote corners of Pakistan's highly stratified, tribal as well as feudal society. Yet, this expansion has its price: Profound involvement in the anti-Soviet Jihad and in the establishment of the Taliban regime combined with the unchecked growth of the Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) has led to a state of crisis. It has become increasingly unclear where the general's authority ends, and where the ISI's power and the fundamentalist's involvement or resistance begin.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 40 Nr. 3-4 (2009): Internationales Asienforum
Die Parlamentswahlen in Indien 2009
Creators: name: Gottschlich, Pierre
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: The Lok Sabha elections 2009 in India were a decisive victory for the Congress party and the ruling United Progressive Alliance. While the result of the election on the national level suggests a more stable political environment and a decline of power of the fragmented state parties, a closer look might reveal different dynamics. Hence, this study focuses on the crucial state level of Indian politics. First, however, the different and ever-changing alliances before the 2009 elections are described in detail. Second, and most importantly, the study analyzes the Indian parliamentary elections in some of the key states (Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, and Orissa), since the national result alone does not reveal the dynamics at the all important state level. Third, and finally, the significance of the election result and its long-term implications are assessed.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 40 Nr. 3-4 (2009): Internationales Asienforum
Globular clusters in early-type galaxies with GMOS
Creators: name: Bridges, Terry J.
name: Beasley, Michael
name: Faifer, Favio Raul
name: Forbes, Duncan
name: Forte, Juan Carlos
name: Gebhardt, Karl
name: Hanes, David A.
name: Sharples, Ray M.
name: Zepf, Stephen E.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present recent results from our long-term Gemini/GMOS study of globular clusters in early-type galaxies. To date, we have obtained photometry and spectroscopy for clusters in NGCs 3379, 4649, 524, 7332, and IC 1459. We find a clear bimodality in the NGC 4649 cluster colour distribution, with the fraction of blue/red clusters increasing with galactocentric radius. We derive ages and metallicities for 22 clusters in NGC 3379, finding that most of the clusters appear old (10-15 Gyr); however, there is a group of 4 metal-rich, younger clusters with ages of 2-6 Gyr. The NGC 3379 cluster velocity dispersion decreases with radius, as does the inferred (local) mass-to-light ratio: there is no evidence for a dark matter halo in NGC 3379 based on our globular cluster data.
Blick zurück nach vorn: "Gandhi unterm Hammer"
Creators: name: Kantowsky, Detlef
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Die Versteigerung von Gegenständen aus dem persönlichen Besitz Mahatma Gandhis im März 2009 ist Anlass für einen Rückblick auf das erste Heft der 1970 gegründeten Zeitschrift "Internationales Asienforum".
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 40 Nr. 1-2 (2009): Internationales Asienforum
Loa "Incitado del deseo": edición a cargo de Alejandro García-Reidy
Creators: name: Garcia-Reidy, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Spanish Golden Age drama

description: An edition in PDF by Alejandro García-Reidy, part of the MANOS Digital Library
description: Este trabajo se ha beneficiado de la ayuda de I+D+i «MANOS. Ampliación y exploración de la base de datos de manuscritos teatrales áureos (ASODAT Tercera Fase)» (ayuda PID2022-136431NB-C61 financiada por MCIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 y por FEDER «Una manera de hacer Europa»).
The temporal relationship between drug supply indicators : an audit of international government surveillance systems
Creators: name: Werb, Dan
name: Kerr, Thomas
name: Nosyk, Bohdan
name: Strathdee, Steffanie A.
name: Montaner, Julio
name: Wood, Evan
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Objectives Illegal drug use continues to be a major threat to community health and safety. We used international drug surveillance databases to assess the relationship between multiple long-term estimates of illegal drug price and purity. Design We systematically searched for longitudinal measures of illegal drug supply indicators to assess the long-term impact of enforcement-based supply reduction interventions. Setting Data from identified illegal drug surveillance systems were analysed using an a priori defined protocol in which we sought to present annual estimates beginning in 1990. Data were then subjected to trend analyses. Main outcome measures Data were obtained from government surveillance systems assessing price, purity and/or seizure quantities of illegal drugs; systems with at least 10 years of longitudinal data assessing price, purity/potency or seizures were included. Results We identified seven regional/international metasurveillance systems with longitudinal measures of price or purity/potency that met eligibility criteria. In the USA, the average inflation-adjusted and purity-adjusted prices of heroin, cocaine and cannabis decreased by 81%, 80% and 86%, respectively, between 1990 and 2007, whereas average purity increased by 60%, 11% and 161%, respectively. Similar trends were observed in Europe, where during the same period the average inflation-adjusted price of opiates and cocaine decreased by 74% and 51%, respectively. In Australia, the average inflation-adjusted price of cocaine decreased 14%, while the inflation-adjusted price of heroin and cannabis both decreased 49% between 2000 and 2010. During this time, seizures of these drugs in major production regions and major domestic markets generally increased. Conclusions With few exceptions and despite increasing investments in enforcement-based supply reduction efforts aimed at disrupting global drug supply, illegal drug prices have generally decreased while drug purity has generally increased since 1990. These findings suggest that expanding efforts at controlling the global illegal drug market through law enforcement are failing.
"Der Teekult in Japan". Eine Erinnerung an das grundlegende Werk von Anna Berliner
Creators: name: Kantowsky, Detlef
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Anna Berliner's (1888-1977) book on the tea-cult in Japan (Leipzig, 1933) is an extensive and highly instructive manual of the practice of the Japanese tea-ceremony. It is based on first-hand experiences in Japan where the author had worked as psychological adviser to an advertising company in Tokyo from 1921 to 1925. During that time she took private lessons from a well-known teacher once or twice a week. She firmly believed that the tea-ceremony is a genuine expression of basic traits of Japanese culture and that the stepping-stones to a tea-hut lead us straight into deeper layers ot the Japanese mind. As a psychologist, however, who did her Ph.D. under the guidance of Wilhelm Wundt in Leipzig in 1913 with an empirical study of subjective/objective patterns of cognitive processes, she does not indulge in "japonistic" projections of "otherness" but describes in great detail, and richly illustrated with drawings and photos from her own collection as well, (a) the elaborate prerequisites necessary for the tea-cult, and (b) its different seasonal patterns and rules of appropriate behaviour that minutely prescribe each and every movement of host and guests. Finally (c) the inner meaning of the tea-cult and its systematic elaboration over centuries is derived from Japanese sources. It is a sad fact that due to the author's Jewish origin this path-breaking study did not receive the attention it deserved at the time of publication nor thereafter, neither in Germany nor abroad. Together with her husband Siegfried Berliner (1884-1961) Anna Berliner migrated to the USA in 1938 where she died in 1977 after a career as Professor of Psychology at the Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon from 1948 until 1968.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 40 Nr. 1-2 (2009): Internationales Asienforum
Can Tea Save Non-warriors and Women? The Japanese Tea Ceremony as an Empowering Public Sphere
Creators: name: Kato, Etsuko
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: This article examines what kind of "public sphere" the tea ceremony, a 400-year-old Japanese art, is providing its contemporary practitioners with, and what significance the sphere has for them. Diachronic comparison between social groups that practice(d) the tea ceremony today and in the Edo period (1603-1867), namely, women and non-warriors respectively, reveals unique empowering effects on the "politically second-from-top" people. Unlike Habermas' concept of the bourgeois public sphere in 17th to 18th century Europe as a cradle of modern democracy, the tea ceremony has not led to political changes. Rather, it has provided its practitioners with an apolitical and empowering public sphere that defies the worldly order of political power. Today this public sphere is especially significant for women practitioners, most of whom are housewives, enabling them to sustain and expand their own empowering sphere outside home and to be socially acknowledged as "guardians of tradition".
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 40 Nr. 1-2 (2009): Internationales Asienforum
Regionalisierung und Urbanisierung in Osttibet
Creators: name: Gertel, Jörg
name: Gruschke, Andreas
name: Breuer, Ingo
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Local societies in the Tibetan Highlands are experiencing challenging transformations, recently expressed by a new and unprecedented scope of urbanization. State-driven economic liberalization combined with large-scale infrastructural upgrading of roads, railways and telecommunication systems are fostering new processes of labour mobility, migration and social differentiation among the peasant communities and nomadic peoples of the highlands. With local subsistence economies based on animal husbandry losing ground, the collection and marketing of a natural resource, the caterpillar fungus, is contributing to booming cash incomes in local societies, at least in the Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Yushu in Qinghai province. Against this background the paper argues that the conjunction of different regionalization processes, reflecting the local appropriation of the global, is structuring the conditions of livelyhood security - and their territorial manifestations - in one of the most remote landscapes in China
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 40 Nr. 1-2 (2009): Internationales Asienforum
Promoting Participatory Development in the People's Republic of China. A Case Study of Sino-German Development Cooperation (2003-2006)
Creators: name: Fulda, Andreas Martin
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Since 1991, the promotion of participatory development has been a corner-stone of German foreign and development policy. Participation - the active involvement of citizens in all decisions that affect their lives - is seen as a key condition for a functioning democracy and for poverty reduction. While participation is now a prevalent cross-cutting theme on the new policy agenda (NPA), and ever increasing implementation gap can be observed. The protracted paradigm shift from a technical to a political understanding of development among key agents of Sino-German development cooperation is seen as the single most important obstacle to effective policy implementation. Research findings suggest that while China is caught in international rules, responsibilities and sanctioning procedures, German external actors are also getting caught up in the institutional practices of a corporatist Chinese party-state. As contractual partners of an authoritarian regime they appear to sacrifice their organizational autonomy for a highly circumscribed engagement with China. Based on recent parliamentary debates the author concludes that German legislators can contribute to the promotion of participatory development in the PR China by exercising greater parliamentary oversight over German ministerial bodies and agencies in charge of cooperating with Chinese state and non-state recipient organizations.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 40 Nr. 1-2 (2009): Internationales Asienforum
Drawing in Treacle: Mediation Efforts in Sri Lanka, 1983 to 2007
Creators: name: Hellmann-Rajanayagam, Dagmar
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: The civil war in Sri Lanka has officially ended with a thorough and bloody defeat for the LTTE. The article traces the many and varied attempts to come to grips with the problems between the Sinhalese and the Tamils that have been variously defined for over sixty years: as linguistic, religious, ethnic conflicts. What has remained constant is the failure to find a solution to the problem by negotiation. From the first attempt to negotiate an agreement in 1958 in the form of the Banda-Chelva-Pact, the Dudley-Chelva-Pact of 1965 to the Indo-Lanka Accord of 2002, all agreements and pacts have been abrogated or torpedoed by interested parties. The paper discusses some possible and probable reasons for this state of affairs as well as the underlying mindsets and expectations of both sides to the conflict that always let both internal and external attempts at mediation and a negotiated solution founder. The future for the Tamils in particular and Sri Lanka in general looks grim.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 40 Nr. 1-2 (2009): Internationales Asienforum
Mit Bildung in die "Flat World"? Bildung in Indien zwischen Reproduktion sozialer Strukturen und Transformation kultureller Tradierung
Creators: name: Clemens, Iris
name: Holzwarth, Simone
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: India, with a system of social stratification on the basis of caste, shows interesting dynamics regarding the role of education in society. On the one hand access to education remains connected to social status. Despite a rhetoric of "Education for All" there is evidence of systematic exclusion from education. This can lead to a reproduction of hierarchical social structures. However, on the other hand there are signs of a transformation of the values associated with education. This transformation challenges the traditional semantics of pure and impure as the central dichotomy of the caste system and might even marginalize them. As the article shows, certified education is gaining higher value than membership in a specific caste group. This transformational and reproductional potential of education is discussed on the basis of two empirical studies. The first study takes a closer look at the situation of Dalit children in a rural context; the second analyses the notions of education of an urban middle-class sample. Overall the article points to the importance of a cultural perspective in education research.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 40 Nr. 1-2 (2009): Internationales Asienforum
title: Financial Proxy Warfare: Employment and Microfinance as Geopolitical Instruments
title: The Strategic Use of Economic Tools in Shaping Geopolitical Influence and Social Control
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Kallol, Chakrabarti
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Financial Proxy Warfare explores the strategic use of financial tools such as microfinance, employment schemes, and fintech platforms in global geopolitics. It examines how states and transnational actors leverage economic dependency and digital financial infrastructure to influence regions of strategic interest, often as an alternative to traditional military engagement. By analyzing the intersection of financial ecosystems and geopolitical strategy, this project reframes proxy warfare to include economic tactics for ideological alignment, social engineering, and long-term compliance. The study focuses on regions where conventional military involvement is politically sensitive, with a case study on Bangladesh to highlight the practical application of financial proxy warfare.
Continuity and Hiatus: Structural Patterns of Iran's Policy in Afghanistan
Creators: name: Wilde, Andreas
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: In some respects, the Western perspective on Iran and Afghanistan is a Eurocentric one, emphasizing the restrictive character of the Iranian regime and the threat caused by the hotly debated nuclear program. In the current discourse on the situation in Afghanistan, Iran does not play any role and its position is largely unknown. The following essay focuses on the history of Afghan-Iranian relations and highlights Iran's position and self-image in the wider region. As the title suggests, bilateral relations between the two countries are characterized by continuity and shifts. In addition, the paper sheds light on Iran's skillful handling of international affairs and politics, though the strategic maneuverings of Iranian policy makers have not always helped to reach the envisaged targets. Regarding Afghanistan, the Iranians have been sophisticated players, but the essay argues that Iran's relations with its eastern neighbor are shaped by both domestic factors and circumstances on the global level.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 40 Nr. 1-2 (2009): Internationales Asienforum
Hard to reach? Engagement, governance and community consultation in Victorian local government
Creators: name: Brackertz, Nicola
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Under the Bracks Labour government in Victoria, the community strengthening agenda has emerged as a vehicle to promote community engagement, joined up government and networked approaches to governance. Its key dimensions challenge conventional relationships between state, federal and local governments and the top-down relationship between government and community; networked models of partnerships between public and private actors are favoured for the development of policy and the delivery of services. Local government is identified as a key player in this agenda through the work it already undertakes with local communities and as the site where localised reforms are likely to have the greatest impact. Increasing community involvement in local government decision-making through community consultation forms part of this agenda. Traditionally designed to obtain procedural legitimisation prior to decision-making, community consultation is now seen as a mechanism that will also connect citizens with each other and with government, will increase social capital, and will ensure effective and responsive policy and services delivery. The convergence of local government and community sits at odds with traditional models of representative democracy and raises challenges for management, accountability and citizenship in local government. Using case studies from eight Victorian local councils, this paper investigates how community consultation is played out in practice. What is the role of community consultation in community strengthening? What is the capacity of local governments to connect widely with multiple publics, in particular groups who may not be inclined to participate? The term ‘hard to reach’ is sometimes used to describe these demographics. Our research indicates that ‘hard to reach’ is not a quality endemic to certain community groups, but that it depends on the willingness and ability of local councils to identify and reach out to groups who are reluctant to participate via traditional means. [Introduction]
ADIVASI-KOORDINATION IN DEUTSCHLAND e.V. (Hg.): Rourkela und die Folgen. 50 Jahre industrieller Aufbau und soziale Verantwortung in der deutsch-indischen Zusammenarbeit
Creators: name: Zingel, Wolfgang-Peter
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 41 Nr. 1-2 (2010): Internationales Asienforum
Zyklische Geschichtsauffassung und Zeitkritik: Das essayistische Vermächtnis des japanischen Bestsellerautors Shiba Ryōtarō (1923-1996)
Creators: name: Meyer, Harald
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: With some 200 million copies of his various publications sold to date Shiba Ryōtarō must indeed be one of Japan’s best-selling authors. His oeuvre includes not only a vast number of historical novels, but also numerous essays on Japanese history, lectures and recorded discussions with other writers and scholars. This paper focuses on Shiba’s legacy, especially his late essays on a number of aspects of Japanese modern history and various cycles of historical development. His critical views about Japan’s severe financial crisis during the bursting of the socalled “bubble economy” are also included. At the end of his life, Shiba tended to be rather pessimistic about the future of his country. Looking back from today by quoting several comments by some of Shiba’s most concerned readers also helps us get a better understanding of the present status of public opinion in Japan.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 41 Nr. 1-2 (2010): Internationales Asienforum
Negotiating Self and Other. Transnational Cultural Flows and the Reinvention of Mongolian Buddhism
Creators: name: Jadamba, Lkhagvademchig
name: Schittich, Bernhard
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: The article examines processes of constructing self and other in the context of the Buddhist revival in Mongolia. The text figures a historical outline of the genesis of the connections between Mongolian and Tibetan Buddhism, as well as the developments during the Communist era, when there was a strong influence on and against Buddhism in Mongolia. The present revival of Buddhism in Mongolia since 1990 restores ancient connections between the Mongolian and the Tibetan Buddhist communities, the latter having been globalized since 1959, when the larger part of the Tibetan clergy went into exile in India and later to different Western countries. Thus a deterritorialised worldwide Buddhist community was generated, within which resources such as ideas, people, and money have been circulating. These transnational cultural flows foster the postsocialist revival of Mongolian Buddhism, bringing back traditional Buddhist knowledge as well as practices of establishing Buddhism in modern societies. The article examines how these cultural flows are integrated into Mongolian identity on the one hand and rejected as foreign influences threatening the uniqueness of Mongolian Buddhist identity on the other.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 41 Nr. 1-2 (2010): Internationales Asienforum
Endlich "Frieden"? Lokale Sichtweisen von Ethnizität, Geschlecht und Entwicklung im Norden Sri Lankas
Creators: name: Gerharz, Eva
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Taking the current situation characterised by the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) by the Sri Lanka military forces in May 2009 as a starting point, this article looks into the potential prospects for peace. The main part is based on an empirical case study conducted in the northern peninsula of Jaffna, where the LTTE lost their stronghold in the mid-1990s. The subsequent occupation of Jaffna by the Sri Lankan military forms the point of departure for an analysis of reconstruction and development efforts after the ceasefire of 2002. Based on a detailed analysis of shifting gender relations this article argues first that the interrelatedness of gendered and ethnic relations with regard to the construction of local "culture" produces meaningful markers for demarcationl. The second focus relates to local perspectives on the state as an actor in development and reconstruction. The article highlights that local actors' negotiating of the potential role of both the state and the LTTE are ambivalent and embedded in constructions of sameness and difference. The article concludes by shedding light on recent developments and Sri Lanka's future perspectives.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 41 Nr. 1-2 (2010): Internationales Asienforum
การศึกษาเชิงคุณภาพเกี่ยวกับความท้าทายด้านการปฏิบัติทางภาษีของธุรกิจพาณิชย์อิเล็กทรอนิกส์ผ่านแพลตฟอร์มออนไลน์ : กรณีศึกษาประเทศไทย
Creators: name: วัฒนี รัมมะพ้อ
Publisher: name: คณะพาณิชยศาสตร์และการบัญชี มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2024
Subjects: ภาษีอากร
ธุรกิจพาณิชย์อิเล็กทรอนิกส์
การศึกษาเชิงคุณภาพ

description: วารสารวิชาชีพบัญชี JAP, 20, 67 (กันยายน 67), 5
Pentagon, LulzSec, News of The World ... we live in interesting times for hacking
Creators: name: Branch, Philip
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The hacking stories just keep on coming. Of course, The News of the World is the big one at the moment, matched, for the moment at least, by the hacking of The Sun’s website by celebrity---and proficient---hacking group LulzSec. Other interesting stories on hacking exploits keep cropping up, but are perhaps not getting the same high-profile coverage. One well worth having a look at is the fact a Pentagon supplier recently lost 24,000 files to a foreign intelligence service.
The Relationship between Institutional Investors and ESG Disclosure: The Moderating Role of CEO Managerial Ability
Creators: name: Chattima Yokcive
Publisher: name: คณะพาณิชยศาสตร์และการบัญชี มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2024
Subjects: Institutional Investors
Management Ability
ESG Disclosure

description: วารสารวิชาชีพบัญชี JAP, 20, 67 (กันยายน 67), 30
Kicking Away the Ladder. Student Politics and the Making of an Indian Middle Class
Creators: name: Jeffrey, Craig
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: In many poorer countries, middle classes are reshaping economic and political life, and nowhere is this process more evident than in post-colonial India. This paper uses ethnographic research on student politicians from rich farming backgrounds to reflect on class "in the making". Building on a critical reading of the work of Bourdieu (1984), I document the ability of young men from rich farming families in western Uttar Pradesh (UP) to entrench their middle-class standing in the space of university politics. I pay particular attention to the local-level political networks through which upwardly mobile young men from rural middle-caste backgrounds seek to express, legitimize and secure their power. The paper points to the imaginative and energetic manner in which middle-classes in poorer countries defend their interests within local politics. I stress the importance of studying middle-class formation relationally and with reference to the spatiality of power.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 41 Nr. 1-2 (2010): Internationales Asienforum
The Flow of Concepts and Institutions, Heidelberg, 6-8 October, 2010
Creators: name: Carciumaru, Radu
name: Hofmann, Martin
name: Mervart, David
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 41 Nr. 3-4 (2010): Internationales Asienforum
Knowledge on the Move: Circulation, Domestication, and Transcultural Reconfigurations, Heidelberg, 25-29 July 2010
Creators: name: Vöckel, Verena
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 41 Nr. 3-4 (2010): Internationales Asienforum
JÜRGEN RÜLAND / CLEMENS JÜRGENMEYER / MICHAEL NELSON / PATRICK ZIEGENHAIN: Parliaments and Political Change in Asia.
Creators: name: Bünte, Marco
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 41 Nr. 3-4 (2010): Internationales Asienforum
The Role of Accounting and Other Information in Equity Valuation: Evidence from Listed Companies on the Stock Exchange of Thailand
Creators: name: Chitrath Changlaw
Publisher: name: คณะพาณิชยศาสตร์และการบัญชี มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2024
Subjects: Equity Valuation
Other Information
Ohlson (1995)
Residual Income
Linear Information Dynamics
Analysts' forecasts

description: วารสารวิชาชีพบัญชี JAP, 20, 67 (กันยายน 67), 58
Die Metamorphose des Schamanismus. Die Transformation der altreligiösen Kultur zum Medium des Protestes im heutigen Südkorea
Creators: name: Park, Hee Seok
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: The 1970s and the 1980s saw a great surge in the protest movement in the Republic of Korea. In its course student activists and intellectuals unexpectedly turned to traditional culture as their source of inspiration. Folk culture, for example shamanism, long considered a distant relic of the past, found a new focus. This paper addresses one question in particular: how an old religious culture, which had been suppressed as “superstitious” in the public sphere, resurfaced through the protest movement. In this context two aspects are examined based on writings from this period: what implications did shamanism hold for those in protest circles; and what function did this belief system perform for the protest movement. It is shown that three distinctive features of shamanism were brought into prominence in the literature examined. In the final analysis it is argued that the protest movement utilised the old religious culture as a means to distance itself from the authoritarian regime.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 41 Nr. 3-4 (2010): Internationales Asienforum
Effect of continuous statistically standardized measures of estrogen and progesterone receptors on disease-free survival in NCIC CTG MA.12 Trial and BC Cohort
Creators: name: Chapman, Judith-Anne W.
name: Nielsen, Torsten
name: Ellis, Matthew J.
name: Bernard, Phillip
name: Chia, Stephen
name: Gelmon, Karen A.
name: Pritchard, Kathleen I.
name: Maitre, Aurelie L.
name: Goss, Paul E.
name: Leung, Samuel
name: Shepherd, Lois E.
name: Bramwell, Vivien H. C.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Introduction: We hypothesized improved inter-laboratory comparability of estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PgR) across different assay methodologies with adjunctive statistical standardization, akin to bone mineral density (BMD) z-scores. We examined statistical standardization in MA.12, a placebo-controlled pre-menopausal trial of adjuvant tamoxifen with locally assessed hormone receptor +/- tumours, and in a cohort of post-menopausal British Columbia (BC) tamoxifen-treated patients. Methods: ER and PgR were centrally assessed for both patient groups with real time quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) and immunohistochemistry (IHC). Effects on disease-free survival (DFS) were investigated separately for 345 MA.12 and 673 BC patients who had both qPCR and IHC assessments. Comparisons utilized continuous laboratory units and statistically standardized z-scores. Univariate categorization of ER/PgR was by number of standard deviations (SD) above or below the mean (z-score ≥1.0 SD below mean; z-score <1.0 SD below mean; z-score ≤1.0 SD above mean; z-score >1.0 SD above mean). Exploratory multivariate examinations utilized step-wise Cox regression. Results: Median follow-up for MA.12 was 9.7 years; for BC patients, 11.8 years. For MA.12, 101 of 345 (29%) patients were IHC ER-PgR-. ER was not univariately associated with DFS (qPCR, P = 0.19; IHC, P = 0.08), while PgR was (qPCR, P = 0.09; IHC, P = 0.04). For BC patients, neither receptor was univariately associated with DFS: for ER, PCR, P = 0.36, IHC, P = 0.24; while for PgR, qPCR, P = 0.17, IHC, P = 0.31. Multivariately, MA.12 patients randomized to tamoxifen had significantly better DFS (P = 0.002 to 0.005) than placebo. Meanwhile, jointly ER and PgR were not associated with DFS whether assessed by qPCR or by IHC in all patients, or in the subgroup of patients with IHC positive stain, for pooled or separate treatment arms. Different results by type of continuous unit supported the concept of ER level being relevant for medical decision-making. For postmenopausal BC tamoxifen patients, higher qPCR PgR was weakly associated with better DFS (P = 0.06). Conclusions: MA.12 pre-menopausal patients in a placebo-controlled tamoxifen trial had similar multivariate prognostic effects with statistically standardized hormone receptors when tumours were assayed by qPCR or IHC, for hormone receptor +/- and + tumours. The BC post-menopausal tamoxifen cohort did not exhibit a significant prognostic association of ER or PgR with DFS. Adjunctive statistical standardization is currently under investigation in other NCIC CTG endocrine trials.
Programmierter Dauerkonflikt? Die Suche nach einem tragfähigen Frieden in den Südphilippinen
Creators: name: Werning, Rainer
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: The southern Philippines – Mindanao, Basilan and Jolo in particular – is plagued with the longest-running conflict in Southeast Asia which has claimed the lives of approximately 150,000 people. Several attempts since the midseventies to ease the tensions have ended in deadlock, the latest being the thwarted signing of the so-called Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MoA-AD) in August 2008. This paper tries to explain the length of the conflict and its salient features. In particular, it deals with the interests pursued by the main protagonists and the factors leading to recurring internal frictions and divisions within the ranks of organized Moro resistance. It also sheds light on the prospects for the numerous NGOs and observers of the International Monitoring Team (IMT) stationed in the southern Philippines to ensure permanent peace in the region and to forge closer political as well as economic ties with neighboring Malaysia and Indonesia.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 41 Nr. 3-4 (2010): Internationales Asienforum
Contingency Factors Influencing the Use of Management Accounting Techniques in Indonesian Manufacturing Firms
Creators: name: Ludji, Theodorus Radja
Publisher: name: คณะพาณิชยศาสตร์และการบัญชี มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2024
Subjects: Contingency Factors
Competition Intensity
Extent of Decentralisation
Top Management Support
Resources Availability
Management Accounting Techniques

description: วารสารวิชาชีพบัญชี JAP, 20, 67 (กันยายน 67), 88
Forensic Accounting and Fraud Examination
Creators: name: สมชาย ศุภธาดา
Publisher: name: คณะพาณิชยศาสตร์และการบัญชี มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2024
Subjects: Forensic Accounting and Fraud Examination

description: วารสารวิชาชีพบัญชี JAP, 20, 67 (กันยายน 67), 116
Conflict, International Intervention and Criminal Tribunals as Transitional Justice Mechanisms: The Legacy of Failed Justice in Timor-Leste
Creators: name: Cumes, Guy
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2015

description: The criminal tribunals established separately in East Timor and Jakarta to deal with the atrocities committed in East Timor in 1999 failed as mechanisms of international justice. They did not ensure that the leading political and military perpetrators of the violence were held accountable for their conduct through properly conducted trials, although this would have been an essential ingredient for the restoration of peace and order in post-conflict East Timor. Rather, the resulting culture of impunity that followed the failure of the trials exacerbated deep, underlying social and political tensions in East Timorese society and this contributed to the civil conflict known as the ‘crisis’ that erupted in 2006–07.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 41 Nr. 3-4 (2010): Internationales Asienforum