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Bringing geography back in: civilizations, wealth, and poverty / Woods , Dwayne

Sept 2003

Woods , Dwayne	Journal Article
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Environment ; Poverty ; Civilization ; Determination

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Confronting China in an Asymmetric Relationship: the case of peace efficacy in Taiwan / Shih, Chih-yu

Shih, Chih-Yu	Journal Article
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is study seeks to explain how a weaker party could decide on its own to confront a stronger party. e weaker party relies on relational turn in international relations to provide an alternative to the realist view. On the basis of relational turn, which stresses the importance of discovering the processual mechanisms of behavior instead of the structure or corelationship among variables, this study oers an empirically based speculation of the plausible psychological mechanisms that enable a weaker party in Taiwan to resort to confrontation against a stronger party in China. ese psychological mechanisms are arguably necessary processes that lead to confrontational policy. This study argues that a small party is epistemologically equal to its stronger counterpart in relational coupling. is assumption is based on prior understandings that constitute the identities of both parties. The former exerts agency for confrontation when acting upon the senses of ecacy, determination, and/or legitimacy that are embedded in relational coupling. North Korean Leader Kim Jung Un executed his uncle Jang Song-thaek for treason on 13 December 2013. e execution was conducted in the most theatrical fashion and was seemingly designed for the entire world to see. Jang was a top-ranking pro-China veteran who believed in the Chinese style of reform. A year before, Jang was still collaborating with

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Taiwan ; Determination ; Confronting China ; Asymmetric Relationship

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On Self-Determination of peoples in the present scenario / Burman B K Roy

Dec 14, 2002 Article

Burman B K Roy	Article
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Publication	Dec 14, 2002.
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Self-determination ; Determination

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