Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Volume 1
Chapter 1. Maritime Territorial and Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) Disputes Involving China: Issues for Congress (Updated)
Chapter 2. China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities—Background and Issues for Congress (Updated)
Chapter 3. What’s the Difference?—Comparing U.S. and Chinese Trade Data
Chapter 4. A Peace Treaty with North Korea?
Chapter 5. China’s Retaliatory Tariffs on Selected U.S. Agricultural Products
Chapter 6. India’s New Government and Implications for U.S. Interests
Chapter 7. Testimony of Lisa Curtis, Senior Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation. Hearing on ”Indispensable Partners – Re-energizing U.S.-India Ties”
Chapter 8. India 2013 International Religious Freedom Report
Chapter 9. 2014 Investment Climate Statement: India
Volume 2
Chapter 10. The Growing Complexity of Sino-Indian Ties
Chapter 11. China-India Relations: Tensions Persist Despite Growing Cooperation
Chapter 12. China’s Navy Extends its Combat Reach to the Indian Ocean
Chapter 13. India-U.S. Economic Relations: In Brief
Chapter 14. Trade, Investment, and Industrial Policies in India: Effects on the U.S. Economy
Volume 3
Chapter 15. China’s Rise and Reconfiguration of Central Asia’s Geopolitics: A Case for U.S. ”Pivot” to Eurasia
Chapter 16. Central Asia: Regional Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests
Chapter 17. The State and the Opposition: Change and Transformation in Tajikistan’s Civil War
Chapter 18. A New Perspective on Blue Domes in the Architecture of Central Asia: History, Morphology, Geometry, and Typology
Chapter 19. The Conflict between Hydropower and Irrigation in the Joint Use of Water Resources of Transboundary Rivers in the Aral Sea Basin
Chapter 20. Southeast Asia: Trends in U.S. and Chinese Economic Engagement
Chapter 21. Southeast Asia: Trends in U.S. and Chinese Economic Engagement in Indonesia and Vietnam
Volume 4
Chapter 22. North Korea: Legislative Basis for U.S. Economic Sanctions
Chapter 23. North Korea Sanctions: United States Has Increased Flexibility to Impose Sanctions, but United Nations Is Impeded by a Lack of Member State Reports
Chapter 24. North Korea: U.S. Relations, Nuclear Diplomacy, and Internal Situation
Chapter 25. Military and Security Developments Involving the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Chapter 26. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) 2012 International Religious Freedom Report
Chapter 27. Domestic Propaganda and Press Support: Examining the Obama Administration’s Handling of the 2009 North Korean Nuclear Test
Chapter 28. Information on Therapeutically as well as Nutritionally Important Terrestrial Arthropods in North Korea and an Examination of the Idiomatic Roles Insects Play in North Korean Proverbs and Sayings
Chapter 29. An Emergent Path of the Six-Party Talks: Toward Institutional Multilateralism in Northeast Asia
Chapter 30. Satellites, Missiles and the Geopolitics of East Asia
Volume 5
Chapter 31. 2013 Investment Climate Statement: Philippines
Chapter 32. The Republic of the Philippines and U.S. Interests—2014
Chapter 33. Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda): U.S. and International Response to Philippines Disaster
Chapter 34. Philippines 2012 International Religious Freedom Report
Chapter 35. The Tibetan Policy Act of 2002: Background and Implementation
Chapter 36. Report on Tibet Negotiations
Chapter 37. Tibet 2013 International Religious Freedom Report
Chapter 38. International School Choice in Sri Lanka
Chapter 39. The Complexity of Land Laws, Policies and the Resettlement-Development Axis: A Review and Case Study
Chapter 40. The Fallacy of Underlying Assumptions of Green Revolution Technology in Sri Lanka: A Historical Comparative Analysis
Volume 6
Chapter 41. Comprehensive Collectivization in Kirghiz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1929-1932: Overcoming Bias and Partiality in Assessing Modernizing Effects of Soviet Collectivization on the Kyrgyz and Their Developmental Advancement
Chapter 42. Explaining Islamist Orientations in Kyrgyzstan: Evidence from Survey Research
Chapter 43. Past and Potential Future Socioeconomic Impacts of Environmental Hazards in Kyrgyzstan
Chapter 44. Russia’s 2018 Presidential Election
Chapter 45. Russia: Background and U.S. Policy
Chapter 46. Russian Compliance with the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty: Background and Issues for Congress (Updated)
Chapter 47. The New START Treaty: Central Limits and Key Provisions (Updated)
Chapter 48. The Balkans and Russia
Volume 7
Chapter 49. Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress
Chapter 50. ”Womenomics” in Japan: In Brief
Chapter 51. Japan 2014 International Religious Freedom Report
Chapter 52. Japan Investment Climate Statement 2015
Chapter 53. 2013 Investment Climate Statement: Malaysia
Chapter 54. Malaysia: Background and U.S. Relations
Chapter 55. Malysia 2012 International Religious Freedom Report
Volume 8
Chapter 56. Agricultural Economy of Bangladesh at the Crossroads: Achievements, Challenges and Potential for Future
Chapter 57. Bangladesh Agricultural Sustainability: Economic, Environmental and Social Issues
Chapter 58. Political Economy of Participatory Forestry in Bangladesh
Chapter 59. Effectiveness of Agricultural Extension System in the Implementation of Relevant Policies of Bangladesh
Chapter 60. Monitoring and Evaluating Climate Change Adaptation Interventions in Bangladesh: A Review of Selected Government Interventions
Chapter 61. The Invisible Workforce: Women’s Role in Agricultural Decision-Making and Production in Bangladesh
Chapter 62. The War and Its Afterlife in Bangladesh: Of Secularism, Faith and Estranged Siblings
Chapter 63. Clientelism, Corruption and Kleptocratic Politics in Bangladesh: A Political Economy Analysis
Chapter 64. Violent and Non-Violent Extremism: The Conceptual and the Applied Domain with Reference to Bangladesh
Chapter 65. Overcoming Red Tape in Bangladesh: Government Contacts and Personal Ties
Chapter 66. “Fringe Fishers Are Slaves of the Water”: A Tale of Maritime Anthropology for Small-Scale Fishing in the Bay of Bengal
Chapter 67. Intimate Partner Violence against Women in Rural Bangladesh
Chapter 68. Towards Sustainable Waste Management in Myanmar through Experiences of Other Asian Countries: A Review
Chapter 69. Learning Environments in Myanmar
Chapter 70. The Current Situation of Myanmar’s Environmental and Natural Resources Governance
Volume 9
Chapter 71. English Fever: Problematising Language Proficiency Testing in South Korea
Chapter 72. The Development of Confucius Institutes and Some Implications for Language Centres in European Higher Education
Chapter 73. The Creation of an Active Learning Context for a Chinese Class
Chapter 74. The Translation of Gender Representation in Keyes’s Watermelon and Ahern’s P.S. I Love You into Vietnamese
Chapter 75. An Investigation of Chinese National Cinema through the Representation of Nationalism in Chinese Martial Arts Films
Chapter 76. Re-routing Intercultural Theatre? A Chinese Perspective on the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Orphan of Zhao
Chapter 77. Game Localisation as Emotion Engineering: Methodological Exploration
Chapter 78. Towards the Optimal Use of Impact Captions on TV Programmes
Chapter 79. A Place for Translation Technologies in Disaster Settings: The Case of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake
Chapter 80. The View from Asian Writing Systems: Eye Movement Control in Reading Thai and Chinese
Chapter 81. Cohesion Instead of Integration – Shifting Borders and the Role of Communications
Chapter 82. Neo-Confucian Theory on the Self-Other Relationship: Rethinking the Concept of Responsibility
Chapter 83. Ideological Conflict and Communication in Sport between the Two Koreas
Chapter 84. Political Responses to the Economic Crisis: China, Japan and South Korea
Chapter 85. Engaging with the World: The History of China’s Participation in the World Fairs (1851–1915)
Chapter 86. Globalisation, Americanisation and the Emergence of Consumer Culture in China: A Narrative Study of NBA Fans
Chapter 87. An Intra-Country Comparison of Chinese Business Leaders’ Personal Values
Chapter 88. Mother-in-Law and Daughter-in-Law Relationships: A Cross Cultural Comparison
Volume 10
Chapter 89. Resettlement in the Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge Project: Innovations and Good Practices
Chapter 90. Beyond Resettlement: The SAP II Program in the Bhairab Bridge Project
Chapter 91. Self-Managed Resettlement by the Informal Settlers in the Jamuna-Meghna River Erosion Mitigation Project
Chapter 92. Gender and Resettlement in Bangladesh: A Review of Experience
Chapter 93. Income and Livelihood Restoration in the Tongi–Bhairab Bazar Double Line Project
Chapter 94. The Impact of Development on Adibasi People in Bangladesh
Chapter 95. The Padma Multipurpose Bridge Project: The Ten “Best Practices” in Resettlement Management
Chapter 96. Land Acquisitions and Resettlement in Urban Transport Projects in Dhaka City: Planning Experience and Innovations
Chapter 97. Resettlement in RCIP-Rail Projects: A Review of the Planning Experience
Chapter 98. Resettlement Planning and Implementation: Making Things Happen
Chapter 99. Training and Capacity Building in Resettlement Management: The MLARR Program at BRAC University
Chapter 100. External Monitoring in CEIP-1 Project: Review and Early Experience
Chapter 101. Toward a Land Acquisition and Resettlement Law for Bangladesh: Issues for Consideration
Chapter 102. Flooding and Erosion Risk Management in the Brahmaputra-Jamuna Floodplain: Hope and Despair
Chapter 103. 2013 Investment Climate Statement: Thailand
Chapter 104. Thailand: Background and U.S. Relations
Chapter 105. Thailand 2012 International Religious Freedom Report