China's Legal Awakening
China's Legal Awakening

Author: Carlos Wing-hung Lo

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

Published: 1995-07-01

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 9622093809

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After decades of nihilistic rule under Mao Zedong, can legal order be restored in China? How successful is Deng Xiaoping's initiative in developing a socialist legal system? Where is China on its road to the 'rule of law'? This book illustrates - through the analysis of more than two hundred criminal cases selected from Minzhu yu fazhi (Democracy and the Legal System) in the period 1979-89 - that the establishment of a formal criminal justice system and the development of an embryonic socialist theory of law in China reflect a genuine and widespread legal awakening. A rudimentary legal culture has taken hold among Party leaders, cadres, judicial personnel, intellectuals and the general public. Nevertheless, the contradiction between legal order and Party supremacy remains, as demonstrated by the June Fourth incident in Beijing and the ensuing trials of the 1989 dissidents.

The Future Of Satellite Communications
The Future Of Satellite Communications

Author: George A Codding

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-11

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 1000301664

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This book emphasizes U.S. policy considerations in as much as the U.S. has been at the forefront of satellite technology and its application. It addresses the impact of the earlier U.S. policy of global monopoly on the development of international satellite systems.

The Revolutionary Guards in Iranian Politics
The Revolutionary Guards in Iranian Politics

Author: Bayram Sinkaya

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-19

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1317525647

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The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has been dubbed the ‘kingmaker’ in recent studies of Iranian politics, precipitating heated debates surrounding the potential militarization of the Iranian regime and giving rise to paradoxical understandings of the IRGC; whether as a military institution entering politics, or a political institution with a military history. Revolutionary Guards in Iranian Politics offers a way out of this paradox by showing that the IRGC is not a recently politicized institution, but has instead been highly politicized since its inception. It identifies the ways in which the IRGC relates to national political dynamics, examines the factors contributing to this relationship, and its implications on Iranian politics from the revolution up to the present day. The book examines the three decades following the revolution, uncovering the reasons behind the rise of the Revolutionary Guards and tracking the organization’s evolving relationship with politics. Establishing a theoretical framework from revolution and civil-military relations theories, this book provides new perspectives on the relationship between the IRGC and Iranian politics. This book would be of interest to students and scholars of Middle East Studies and Iranian Studies, in particular Iranian Politics.

The International Legal System as a System of Knowledge
The International Legal System as a System of Knowledge

Author: Linderfalk, Ulf

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2022-10-25

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1839105585

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International law is an underdeveloped branch of legal research: researchers still disagree over the proper understanding of several of its most fundamental issues, and genuinely so. This book helps to explain why. It brings clarity that will no doubt make international legal research more rational, which in turn vouches for a more productive legal discourse.

The Postwar Developments of Japanese Studies in the United States
The Postwar Developments of Japanese Studies in the United States

Author: Helen Hardacre

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 9789004109810

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This volume of twelve essays with useful bibliographies, in the fields of history, art, religion, literature, anthropology, political science, and law, documents the history of United States scholarship on Japan since 1945.