Tag: Asia

Contemporary Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia


Free Download William Case, "Contemporary Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0415556414, 0415846765 | EPUB | pages: 188 | 0.3 mb
Over the past two decades, book-length analyses of politics in Southeast Asia, like those addressing other parts of the developing world, have focused closely on democratic change, election events, and institution building. But recently, democracy’s fortunes have ebbed in the region. In the Philippines, the progenitor of ‘people power’, democracy has been diminished by electoral cheating and gross human rights violations. In Thailand, though the former Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, scored successive electoral victories, he so committed executive abuses that he served up the pretext by which royalist elements in the military might mount a coup, one that even gained favour with the new middle class. And in Indonesia, lauded today as the region’s only democracy still standing, the government’s writ over the security forces has remained weak, with military commanders nestling in unaccountable domains, there to conduct their shadowy business dealings. Elsewhere, dominant single parties persist in Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, while a military junta perpetuates its brutal control over Burma.

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Intelligence and Security Informatics Pacific Asia Workshop, PAISI 2007, Chengdu, China, April 11-12, 2007. Proceedings


Free Download Intelligence and Security Informatics: Pacific Asia Workshop, PAISI 2007, Chengdu, China, April 11-12, 2007. Proceedings By Hsinchun Chen (auth.), Christopher C. Yang, Daniel Zeng, Michael Chau, Kuiyu Chang, Qing Yang, Xueqi Cheng, Jue Wang, Fei-Yue Wang, Hsinchun Chen (eds.)
2007 | 332 Pages | ISBN: 3540715487 | PDF | 9 MB
Intelligence and security informatics (ISI) is concerned with the study of the development and use of advanced information technologies and systems for national, international, and societal security-related applications. The annual IEEE International Conference series on ISI was started in 2003 and the first four meetings were held in the United States. In 2006, the Workshop on ISI (http://isi. se. cuhk. edu. hk/2006/) was held in Singapore in conjunction with the Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, with over 100 contributors and participants from all over the world. These past ISI conferences have brought together academic researchers, law enforcement and intelligence experts, information technology consultants, and practitioners to discuss their research and practice related to various ISI topics including ISI data management, data and text mining for ISI applications, terrorism informatics, deception and intent detection, terrorist and criminal social network analysis, public health and bio-security, crime analysis, cyber-infrastructure protection, transportation infrastructure security, policy studies and evaluation, and information assurance, among others. We continued this stream of ISI conferences by organizing the 2007 Pacific Asia Workshop on ISI (PAISI 2007) to especially provide a stimulating forum for ISI researchers in Pacific Asia and other regions of the world to exchange ideas and report research progress. PAISI 2007 was hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the University of Arizona, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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GIS for Health and the Environment Development in the Asia-Pacific Region With 110 Figures


Free Download GIS for Health and the Environment: Development in the Asia-Pacific Region With 110 Figures By Gerard Rushton (auth.), Poh C. Lai, Ann S. H. Mak (eds.)
2007 | 310 Pages | ISBN: 3540713174 | PDF | 4 MB
"As the world becomes more integrated through the trade of goods and services and capital flows, it has become easier for diseases to spread through states, over borders and across oceans – and to do serious damage to vulnerable human and animal populations. " American RadioWorks and NPR News, 2001 The global cost of communicable diseases is expected to rise. SARS has put the world on alert. We have now Avian Flu on the watch. Recognizing the global nature of threats posed by new and re-emerging infectious d- eases and the fact that many recent occurrences originated in the Asia – cific regions, there has been an increased interest in learning and knowing about disease surveillance and monitoring progresses made in these – gions. Such knowledge and awareness is necessary to reduce conflict, d- comfort, tension and uneasiness in future negotiations and global coope- tion. Many people are talking about the GIS and public and environmental health. The way we make public policies on health and environmental m- ters is changing, and there is little doubt that GIS provides powerful tools for visualizing and linking data in public health surveillance. This book is a result of the International Conference in GIS and Health held on 27-29 June 2006 in Hong Kong. The selected chapters are organized into four themes: GIS Informatics; Human and Environmental Factors; Disease modeling; and Public health, population health technologies, and surve- lance.

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Web Technologies and Applications 15th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2013, Sydney, Australia, April 4-6, 2013. Proceeding


Free Download Web Technologies and Applications: 15th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2013, Sydney, Australia, April 4-6, 2013. Proceedings By Haixun Wang (auth.), Yoshiharu Ishikawa, Jianzhong Li, Wei Wang, Rui Zhang, Wenjie Zhang (eds.)
2013 | 845 Pages | ISBN: 364237400X | PDF | 19 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th Asia-Pacific Conference APWeb 2013 held in Sydney, Australia, in April 2013. The 80 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on distributed processing; graphs; Web search and Web mining; XML, RDF data and query processing; social networks; probabilistic queries; multimedia and visualization; spatial-temporal databases; data mining and knowledge discovery; privacy and security; performance, query processing and optimization. There are also sections summarizing the tutorials and containing the papers from the following workshops: second international workshop on data management for emerging network infrastructure, international workshop on soical media analytics and recommendation technologies, and international workshop on management of spatial temporal data.

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India and Southeast Asia in a Changing World Exploring Relationship Prospects for a Sustainable Future


Free Download Shailza Singh, "India and Southeast Asia in a Changing World: Exploring Relationship Prospects for a Sustainable Future"
English | ISBN: 1032944366 | 2024 | 216 pages | EPUB | 1341 KB
This book presents a comprehensive analysis of India’s relationship with the Southeast Asian nations in the context of the changing dynamics of international relations and the emergence of Indo-Pacific as the theatre of world politics. It covers a wide range of themes, from strategic to political, economic, diplomatic and security aspects, and assesses how India’s redefining of its role in world politics unfolds through its posture towards the Southeast Asian region.

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The US Pivot and Indian Foreign Policy Asia’s Evolving Balance of Power


Free Download H Pant, Y Joshi, Sowerbutts, "The US Pivot and Indian Foreign Policy: Asia’s Evolving Balance of Power"
English | 2016 | pages: 164 | ISBN: 1349718432, 1137557710 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
China’s exponential rise and America’s relative decline have led to a transition of power in contemporary Asia. The US pivot towards Asia is the most evident manifestation of such a transition, and Indian foreign policy shows signs of a hedging strategy, with attempts to strengthen ties with both China and the US.

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The Discursive Construction of Southeast Asia in 19th Century Colonial-Capitalist Discourse


Free Download Farish A. Noor, "The Discursive Construction of Southeast Asia in 19th Century Colonial-Capitalist Discourse "
English | ISBN: 9089648844 | 2016 | 304 pages | PDF | 1078 KB
The nations of Southeast Asia today are rapidly integrating economically and politically, but that integration is also counterbalanced by forces ranging from hyper-nationalism to disputes over cultural ownership throughout the region. Those forces, Farish A. Noor argues in this book, have their roots in the region’s failure to come to a critical understanding of how current national and cultural identities in the region came about. To remedy that, Noor offers a close account of the construction of Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century by the forces of capitalism and imperialism, and shows how that construct remains a potent aspect of political, economic, and cultural disputes today.

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