A Siamese Tragedy
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A Siamese Tragedy
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Author : Walden F. Bello
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books
Release Date : 1998
A Siamese Tragedy written by Walden F. Bello and has been published by Zed Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Economic development categories.
Thailand has come to be known as the Fifth Tiger. With the Asian economic collapse of 1997-1998, this book poses the central question: Is this merely a short term crisis, or is there a real prospect of Thailand being pushed back into Third World status? The International Monetary Fund has intervened with an irrelevant, indeed damaging, policy package that promises to determine the outcome.A Siamese Tragedy argues that, even before the collapse, the Thai economy had feet of clay. Walden Bello and his co-authors show how vested interests, local and international, propelled the Thai people down a particular path which is unsustainable in terms of human exploitation, social disruption, ecological damage and economic fragility. Thailand, like the rest of the world, needs to rethink the fundamentals of its economic model.
A Siamese Tragedy
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Author : Walden F. Bello
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books
Release Date : 1998
A Siamese Tragedy written by Walden F. Bello and has been published by Zed Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Business & Economics categories.
Thailand has come to be known as the Fifth Tiger. With the Asian economic collapse of 1997-1998, this book poses the central question: Is this merely a short term crisis, or is there a real prospect of Thailand being pushed back into Third World status? The International Monetary Fund has intervened with an irrelevant, indeed damaging, policy package that promises to determine the outcome.A Siamese Tragedy argues that, even before the collapse, the Thai economy had feet of clay. Walden Bello and his co-authors show how vested interests, local and international, propelled the Thai people down a particular path which is unsustainable in terms of human exploitation, social disruption, ecological damage and economic fragility. Thailand, like the rest of the world, needs to rethink the fundamentals of its economic model.
The Poetical Works
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Author : Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (Barón)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1836
The Poetical Works written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (Barón) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1836 with categories.
Socrates
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Author : Ann Ward
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2009-03-26
Socrates written by Ann Ward and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-26 with Philosophy categories.
Socrates is widely regarded as the first philosopher to investigate not simply the natural world but to make human and political questions concerning justice, virtue and the good life central to rational inquiry. Thus, Socratic philosophy is often viewed as taking a rationalist approach to human narratives and becomes a narrative itself. After Socrates the prevailing view of what defines the Greeks and those commonly regarded as their descendents, the Europeans, is their civilizational foundation in philosophic rationalism. The Socratic conception of Greek and European identity has not gone unchallenged however. In antiquity the comic poet Aristophanes lampooned Socrates as impious and unjust and cast doubt on whether the Socratic way of life was an appropriate basis for politics. Examples from more recent times include the ambiguous place that Socratic philosophizing holds in the philosophies of Hegel, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche. The re-assessment of Socratic rationalism in the 19th century has led a to a “post-modern” suspicion of “grand narratives.” The radical critique of Socrates as the remote but powerful source of the priority assigned to reason in the 17th and 18th century Enlightenment(s) has shaken European faith in scientific, social and political progress. The European mind is left longing for a unifying narrative that crystallizes the European identity. Can Socratic philosophy survive the powerful challenges made in the name of history, faith and art? Does Socratic philosophizing adequately sustain political life in the face of such challenges, and does it prioritize reason over other human ways of knowing and representing their world? Alternatively, do the positions of later thinkers offer superior ways to understand the human person and develop political communities? This volume addresses these and related questions as it seeks to recover and revise our understanding of Socratic philosophy as an appropriate paradigm for European identity. It takes an interdisciplinary and international approach with contributions from scholars in the fields of philosophy, classics, religion, English and political science. The contributors teach and research in Europe, Canada, the United States and Iran.
Poetical Works
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Author : Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1836
Poetical Works written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1836 with categories.
Poetical Works
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Author : Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1836
Poetical Works written by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1836 with categories.
Global America
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Author : Natan Sznaider
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2004-03-01
Global America written by Natan Sznaider and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-01 with Political Science categories.
Many contemporary issues cannot be readily or fully understood at the level of the nation state and the concept of globalization is used to develop understanding through the analysis of global (transnational) processes. This volume explores the phenomenon of Americanization, and its worldwide impact, and the cultural consequences of globalization.
Energy Governance And Security In Thailand And Myanmar Burma
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Author : Adam Simpson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-29
Energy Governance And Security In Thailand And Myanmar Burma written by Adam Simpson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-29 with Political Science categories.
Across the world states are seeking out new and secure supplies of energy but this search is manifesting itself most visibly in Asia where rapid industrialisation in states such as China and India is fomenting a frantic scramble for energy resources. Due to entrenched societal inequities and widespread authoritarian governance, however, the pursuit of national energy security through transnational energy projects has resulted in devastating impacts on the human and environmental security of local populations. These effects are particularly evident in both Thailand and Myanmar (Burma), which, located at the crossroads of Asia, are increasingly engaged in the cross-border energy trade. Based on extensive fieldwork and theoretical analysis this ground-breaking book proposes a new critical approach to energy and environmental security and explores the important role that both local and transnational environmental movements are playing, in the absence of effective and democratic governments, in providing ’activist environmental governance’ for energy projects throughout the region. By comparing the nature of this activism under two very different political regimes it delivers crucial theoretical insights with both academic and policy implications for the sustainable and equitable development of the South’s natural resources.
Textures Of Struggle
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Author : Piya Pangsapa
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2011-05-02
Textures Of Struggle written by Piya Pangsapa and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-02 with Political Science categories.
Based on intensive ethnographic fieldwork in Thailand, Textures of Struggle focuses on the experiences of Thai women who are employed at textile factories and examines how the all-encompassing nature of wage work speaks to issues of worker accommodation and resistance within various factory settings. Why are some women less tolerant of their working conditions than others? How is it that women who have similar levels of education, come from the same socioeconomic background, and enter the same occupation, nevertheless emerge with different experiences and reactions to their wage employment? Women in the Thai apparel industry, Piya Pangsapa finds, have very different experiences of labor "militancy" and "non-militancy." Through interviews with women at two kinds of factories—one linked to the global economy through local capital investment and another through transnational capital—Pangsapa examines issues of worker consciousness with a focus on the process by which women become activists. She explores the different degrees of control and coercion employed by factory managers and shows how women were able to overcome conditions of adversity by relying on the close personal ties they developed with each other. Textures of Struggle reveals what it is like for women to feel powerlessness and passivity in Thai sweatshops but also shows how they are equally able to resist and rebel.
Southeast Asian Paper Tigers
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Author : K. S. Jomo
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-04-03
Southeast Asian Paper Tigers written by K. S. Jomo and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-03 with Business & Economics categories.
This important collection is a timely contribution to the debate on the Asian financial crisis. With chapters written by well-established international experts in Asian economics, this book constitutes a finely judged example of the varying opinions on the matter.
