FREE CORSICA! A Study of Contemporary Chinese Nationalism
Written by JAMES PEARSON On Monday 7 April, 2008, disabled Chinese fencing pro Jin Jing 金晶 went from being a somewhat unknown Paralympian to a household name on the Chinese...
China’s Naval Policy Off The Coast of Somalia: Int. Participation, the Preservation of Strategic Interests, or Security?
Written by DR. JEAN-PAUL GAGNON Friday, 14 October 2011 18:12 An argument stemming from an emerging scholar and friend, Antony Ou, posits that China’s entrance into naval policing off the...
The Missing Leader
By NICK MILLER | 26.09.2011 Where is Jiang? As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was celebrating its 90th anniversary on July 1, 2011 one of the key things that fixated China...
Conflict in the ‘South China Sea’: Lessons from the Dene peoples and the Arctic Conflict?
Written by DR. JEAN-PAUL GAGNON Monday, 26 September 2011 11:43 Foreword Before we engage this enthralling subject, I should like to point out an added detail to the works cited in...
Bhutan Cements Its Democracy
BY DR. PAUL RICHARDSON** | 13.09.2011 At the end of June the picturesque Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan held its first ever local elections. Over recent years this tiny country of...
Returning Home Towards a New Future:
A Study of Nepal's Reintegration Programme for Former Child Soldiers, 2005—2009* BY DILLI BINADI** | 07.09.2011 Background From 1996-2006, Nepal experienced a decade of armed conflict between the government and...
The Chinese Art of Elegant Bribery
BY ANTONY OU | 15.07.2011 "There is more than aesthetics and investment in today's demand for Chinese art. Art has become an “invisible cloak” that helps businessmen navigate Chinese corruption."...
An Analysis Of Chinese Naval Deployments In International Waters
Is There A Significant Policy Change With The PRC’s Recent Deployment Of Ships To The Gulf Of Aden?* BY DR. JEAN-PAUL GAGNON** | 08.06.2011 The central aim of...
Rare Metals Industry and Pollution: Assessing Chinese Authoritarianism in the 21st Century
BY NICHOLAS MILLER** AND ANTONY OU*** | 08.06.2011 Economic Progress, Political Stability and Environmental Degradation in China It is common sense amongst political analysts that China in the 21st century is...
China and Argentina: A Brief Review of The Literature
Exploring Sino-Latin American Relations, Part 1 By JEAN-PAUL GAGNON | 23.05.2011 Two and a half centuries ago, the French Sinologist De Giognes proposed that the New World was discovered not...
China’s Rising Stars
By NICK MILLER | 18.05.2011 Who Are the Fifth Generation Leaders? The Fifth Generation elites are the leaders that will be taking power during the 18th National Party Congress in...
Women’s Empowerment through Self-help Groups and its Impact on Health Issues: Empirical Evidence
BY ASSIST. PROF. SUDIPTA DE & PROF. DEBNARAYAN SARKER Introduction Why lend to women rather than to men? Nobel laureate Prof. Yunus is of the view that if the goals...
Madness and Peking University: A Review of Insanity in the Age of Harmonious Society
Written by ANTONY OU Sunday, 03 April 2011 16:00 On 4th May 1919, over 3000 students of Peking University and other colleges demonstrated at Tiananmen. They condemned their current government for...
Constitutional Legitimacy An International ill and Gap in the Literature?
By Dr. Jean-Paul Gagnon [1] | 25 February 2011 The central argument of this work is that “democratic constitutional legitimacy”[2] probably does not currently exist in the politics of any...
Suppressed Democracy in China: Theoretical Rationalisation using a Cosmopolitan Methodology
Written by DR. JEAN-PAUL GAGNON Wednesday, 09 February 2011 09:49 The intention of this work is to explain theoretically that democracy logically exists in China, despite the statements to the...