Activating China: Local Actors, Foreign Influence, and State Response by Setsuko Matsuzawa
English | Jan 21, 2019 | ISBN: 0815360347, 0367581957 | 182 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book examines the effects of the transnational social and environmental advocacy of foreign NGOs in China. Based on three case studies, including China's first participatory development project, its first successful case of transnational anti-dam activism, and its first national park project, the book challenges our typical understanding that global forces shape local outcomes. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in China and archival work in the United States, Matsuzawa sheds light on the entrepreneurial behaviors of Chinese activists, researchers, and government officials. She shows that global projects are often substantially transformed by local actors, despite the original intentions of their foreign collaborators and even China's central government. Thus, it is argued that foreign NGOs are not as hegemonic or culturally imperialistic as is commonly viewed. Matsuzawa reveals that their goals may change profoundly as a result of their engagements with local actors on the ground. She offers a new theory of transnational advocacy together with an account of the Chinese party-state's rising concerns over the influence of foreign NGOs. Activating China will be of interest to sociologists and political scientists working in the fields of social movement studies and activism in China.

English | 2021 | ISBN: 3110688689 | 196 pages | PDF EPUB | 15.42 MB
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National Perspectives on Russia: European Foreign Policy in the Making? By Maxine David (Editor), Jackie Gower (Editor), Hiski Haukkala (Editor)
2013 | 286 Pages | ISBN: 0415538327 | PDF | 6 MB
This book presents a ground-breaking comparative study of the bilateral relations of all 27 EU member states with Russia and an assessment of their impact on the EU s efforts to conduct a coherent and effective policy towards its most important neighbour.While there has been a lot of research on European foreign policy, there has been much less on the role that national foreign policies play in it. Based on a common analytical framework, this book offers a detailed analysis of national perspectives on Russia and how they interact with and affect policymaking at the EU-level. The authors provide deep insights into the relationship between individual states and Russia looking at a range of policy areas: economics, trade, energy, security, culture and education. They are not only interested in examining policy failure but also probing the possibilities of seeing national foreign policies and the bilateralism with third parties that they often entail as a potentially positive resource for the European Union.As Russia is an example of a particularly hard case for EU foreign policy, this book yields important insights concerning the possibilities as well as limits of developing a common EU policy in the future. It will be of interest to students and scholars of European politics, EU Studies, Russian politics, foreign policy studies and international politics.

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Foreign Investor Misconduct in International Investment Law
pdf | 4.31 MB | English | Isbn:B08NDF26JT | Author: Anna Kozyakova | Year: 2020