Recently added articles from Internationales Asien Forum. International Quarterly for Asian Studies:
Das Ende der nepalischen Monarchie: Demokratischer Aufbruch oder andauernde Krise?
Nov 01, 2008; Krämer, Karl-Heinz ... Nach zehn Jahren eines maoistischen Aufstands und einem stufenweise erfolgten Putsch des Königs brachte ein Volksaufstand im April 2006 Nepal zumindest zeitweilig zur Ruhe. Seither bemühten sich Parteipolitiker, einschließlich der Maoisten, um einen dauerhaften Frieden und einen Neubeginn des ...
Bildung als Herausforderung für die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung Indiens
Nov 01, 2008; Brosch, Elena; von Hauff, Michael ... 1. Einleitung Bildung hat weltweit einen hohen Stellenwert und ist ein Menschenrecht. In diesem Kontext wird Bildung oft auch in den Katalog der Grundbedürfnisse eingeordnet (Wolff 2005). Geht man jedoch von der ökonomischen Beziehung zwischen Bildung und wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung ...
The Crescent Rising over Nusantara Discourses of Re-Islamization in Malaysia and Indonesia*
Nov 01, 2008; Stark, Jan ... Introduction If one is to believe terrorism experts and the media, the attacks of September 11 have brought about a new era of globalizing confrontation between the Western world and Islam. According to this view, the existing system of nation states, still part of two solid blocks ...
Technological Change Management Strategies in Asian Small-Scale Businesses: Trends in Singapore*
Nov 01, 2008; Menkhoff, Thomas; Wah, Chay Yue ... 1. Introduction Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are of critical importance for a country's economic growth, industrial development, and employment generation (Rauch et al. 2005; Bjerke 1998; Howard 1991; Toffler 199). Operating in an era of rapid industrial and technological ...
Economic Factors Shaping Private Sector Development in the Greater Mekong Subregion
Nov 01, 2008; Nam, Chang Woon; Nam, Kee Yung ... Introduction The more than 250 million people and six countries that share the Mekong River - Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, as well as Yunnan and lately Guangxi provinces in China - comprise what is known today as the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). Apart from the two ...
Chinese Foreign Policy and Oil Security1
Nov 01, 2008; Tseng, Yu-Hui ... Introduction Over the past 30 years, China's explosive economic growth has increased its energy consumption. After a period of self-sufficiency in petroleum China has become the second largest oil consumer and importer behind the United States in the course of less than a decade. The ...
Eine regionale hochsprachliche Tradition in Südasien: Sanskrit-Literatur bei den buddhistischen Singhalesen
Nov 01, 2008; Meisig, Konrad ... HEINZ BECHERT, Eine regionale hochsprachliche Tradition in Südasien: Sanskrit-Literatur bei den buddhistischen Singhalesen. (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, Sitzungsberichte, Bd. 718; Veröffentlichungen zu den Sprachen und Kulturen Südasiens, Heft ...
Die Religion des Rgveda. Erster Teil: Das religiöse System des Rgveda/Die Religion des Rgveda. Zweiter Teil: Kompositions-analyse der Soma-Hymnen des Rgveda
Nov 01, 2008; Michaels, Axel ... THOMAS Oberlies, Die Religion des Rgveda. Erster Teil: Das religiöse System des Rgveda. (Publications of the Nobili Research Library 26). Wien: Institut für Indologie, 1998. XIV, 632 pages, euro 67.59. ISBN 3-900271-31-3 THOMAS Oberlies, Die Religion des Rgveda. Zweiter Teil: ...
Lived Islam in South Asia. Adaptation, Accommodation & Conflict
Nov 01, 2008; Oesterheld, Christina ... IMTIAZ Ahmad / HELMUT Reifeld (eds.), Lived Islam in South Asia. Adaptation, Accommodation & Conflict. Delhi: Social Sciences Press, 2004. XXV, 308 pages, Rs. 695. ISBN 81-87358-15-7 The volume under review presents the proceedings of a conference which was organised in Goa in ...
Karakoram in Transition: Culture, Development, and Ecology in the Hunza Valley
Nov 01, 2008; Schmidt-Vogt, Dietrich ... HERMANN Kreutzmann (ed.), Karakoram in Transition: Culture, Development, and Ecology in the Hunza Valley. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2006. VII, 419 pages, figures, maps, tables, color and b/w photographs, Rs 895.00. ISBN 978-0-19-547210-3 The Hunza Valley in the Northern Areas of ...
Military Inc. Inside Pakistan's Military Economy
Nov 01, 2008; Zingel, Wolfgang-Peter ... AYESHA SlDDIQA, Military Inc. Inside Pakistan's Military Economy. London: Pluto Press, 2007. XI, 292 pages, euro 30.00, $ 35.00, £ 19.99. ISBN 978-0-7453-2545-3 (pb) Discussing freely a possible US intervention in Pakistan during the election campaign is a clear indication that the hopes ...
Bürger mit Turban. Muslime in Delhi im 19. Jahrhundert
Nov 01, 2008; Mann, Michael ... MARGRIT Pernau, Bürger mit Turban. Muslime in Delhi im 19. Jahrhundert. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 2008. XI, 404 Seiten, 2 Grafiken, euro 49,90. ISBN 978-3-525-36843-5 Für ein europäisches und gar ein selbstgefälliges deutsches Lesepublikum mag allein schon der Titel dieses ...
Die Indienpolitik der DDR. Von den Anfängen bis zur Anerkennung (1952-1972)
Nov 01, 2008; Lütt, Jürgen ... JOHANNES VOIGT, Die Indienpolitik der DDR. Von den Anfängen bis zur Anerkennung (1952-1972). (Stuttgarter Historische Forschungen, Bd. 5). Köln, Weimar, Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 2008. XVIII, 717 Seiten, euro 69,90. ISBN 978-3-412-18106-2 In keinem zweiten Land der Welt hat die DDR sich so ...
After the Tsunami: Relief and Rehabilitation in Sri Lanka...restarting towards the future
Nov 01, 2008; Schipper, E Lisa F ... MANFRED DOMRÖS (ed.), After the Tsunami: Relief and Rehabilitation in Sri Lanka.. .restarting towards the future. New Delhi: Mosaic Books, 2006. 228 pages, Rs 350/euro 20.00. ISBN 81-85399-20-4 This book is a collection of papers on various aspects of the relief and recovery process in ...
Soziale Netzwerke und Gesundheit: Health Vulnerability städtischer Marginalgruppen in Colombo/Sri Lanka
Nov 01, 2008; Hollenbach, Pia ... CHRISTIANE NOE, Soziale Netzwerke und Gesundheit: Health Vulnerability städtischer Marginalgruppen in Colombo/Sri Lanka. (Studien zur Geographischen Entwicklungsforschung, 34). Saarbrücken: Verlag für Entwicklungspolitik, 2007. XX, 238 pages, euro 30.00. ISBN 978-3-88156-793-0 Since the ...
Economic and Social Development in Burma/Myanmar. The Relevance of Reforms
Nov 01, 2008; Sell, Axel ... MICHAEL VON Hauff, Economic and Social Development in Burma/Myanmar. The Relevance of Reforms. (Schriften zur Wirtschaft Asiens 1). Marburg: Metropolis-Verlag, 2007. XI, 171 pages, 6 maps, euro 19.80. ISBN 978-3-89518-635-6 The book summarizes the findings of a research project of the ...
Seventeenth Century Burma and the Dutch East India Company 1634-1680
Nov 01, 2008; Frasch, Tilman ... WILL O. DIJR, Seventeenth Century Burma and the Dutch East India Company 1634-1680. (NIAS Monographs 102). Singapore/Copenhagen: Singapore University Press and NIAS Press, 2006. XVIII, 348 pages, 12 maps, euro 24.90/?18.99. ISBN 978-87-91 1 14-69-4 In its "golden age", the 17th century, ...
Knowledge Society - Vision and Social Construction of Reality in Germany and Singapore
Nov 01, 2008; Menkhoff, Thomas ... ANNA-KATHARINA HORNIDGE, Knowledge Society - Vision and Social Construction of Reality in Germany and Singapore. (ZEF Development Studies 3). Berlin, Münster: Lit Verlag, 2007. XVII, 408 pages, euro 34.90. ISBN 978-3-8258-0316-2 The effective governance of knowledge is a key enabler of ...
Indonesian Reformasi as Reflected in Law: Change and Continuity in Post-Suharto Era Legislation on the Political System and Human Rights
Nov 01, 2008; Ziegenhain, Patrick ... PETRA STOCKMANN, Indonesian Reformasi as Reflected in Law: Change and Continuity in Post-Suharto Era Legislation on the Political System and Human Rights. (Demokratie und Entwicklung 53). Münster: Lit Verlag, 2004. 398 pages, euro 39.90. ISBN 3-8258-7679-9 After the regime change in ...
Histories of the Borneo Environment. Economic, Political and Social Dimension of Change and Continuity
Nov 01, 2008; Schreer, Viola ... REED L. WadLEY (ed.), Histories of the Borneo Environment. Economic, Political and Social Dimension of Change and Continuity. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2005. VII, 315 pages, euro 35.00. ISBN 90-6718-254-0 The last decades of the twentieth century brought remarkable environmental challenges to ...
