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Geopolitics of China's global resources quest / Caceres, Sigfrido Burgos; Ear, Sophal

Ear, Sophal	Journal Article
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2012.

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China's double-digit average growth in the last twenty years has built up manufacturing and industrial behemoths that helped move the country from an agrarian society into a major economic player in the global economy. This prosperous growth coupled with construction of urban infrastructures and the rapid adoption of profligate lifestyles has created dependency on energy sources, raw materials and natural resources that need to be secured to maintain commercial, economic, and social wheels turning. In failing to sustain growth and security, both of which are national priorities, the Chinese Communist Party faces ideological and political risks. As a result, China's global resources quest is taking it to faraway lands and its presence as well as its motives and mechanisms raises geopolitical issues around the globe.

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Geopolitics ; Global Economy ; China ; Chinese Communist Party ; Agrarian Society ; Political Risks

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ID: 085012

Left divided: parties, unions, and the resolution of southern Spain's agrarian social question / Watson, Sara

Watson, Sara	Journal Article
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2008.

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This article challenges dominant explanations in the comparative political economy literature on the origins and purposes of social protection. Far from being a tool of working-class mobilization, social protection in southern Spain was strategically employed by a left party to politically demobilize its supposedly "natural" constituencies. This peculiar outcome is the result of a setting that is common in welfare states outside of northern Europe: the context of a divided left, in which parties and unions are seeking to mobilize different constituencies and in which left parties are themselves divided between moderate and far-left groups. The result in Spain was that social policy became a weapon in parties' efforts to undermine their political competition. This suggests the need to rethink the received wisdom about what the welfare state does to build working-class power in the context of a divided left

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Social Democracy ; Welfare State ; Demobilization ; Unions ; Left Parties ; Agrarian Society

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Rise of Agrarian capitalism with Chinese characteristics: agricultural modernization, agribusiness and collective land rights / Zhang, Qian Forrest; Donaldson, John A

Donaldson, John A	Journal Article
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2008.

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China ; Modernization ; Land Rights ; Agrarian Society ; Agrarian Capitalism ; Agribusiness

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