30 Oct 2007

The Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC)
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Self-description: "[A] research initiative and resource base established [1993/2007 - ed.] to promote the study of the history, economy and cultures of the lands and peoples touching the Indian Ocean World - from Africa to the Middle East, India, Indonesia and Australia to China. A complex regional trading system since the 10th Century, the Indian Ocean World constituted the first 'global' economy. Today the region comprises 50 per cent of the planet's population and is forecast to become the leading world economy by 2020. The IOWC pursues an interdisciplinary approach inspired by French historian Fernand Braudel (1902-1985) who posited history as an ongoing interaction between human and natural forces, encompassing geography, environment, climate and disease. The Centre's current research priorities are: * the rise and development of the first global economy * human migration and diaspora * slavery, the slave trade and slave diaspora * the exchange of commodities, technology and ideas."
Site contents: * Mission; * People; * Events; * Research (Indian Ocean World Centre Research Interests, Current Research, Exchange of Scholars and Reseach Results, Background to the IOWC Research Agenda, Indian Ocean World - the first Global Economy); * Resources (#Seminar room & library, #Student research papers, #Archives [of physical, non-electronic objects only - ed.] (Microfilms: L'Encyclopedie coloniale et maritime. Paris, 1946-51. vols. 1-7 (4 rolls). Despatches From United States Consuls: National Archives and Records Service, Washington DC. Despatches From United States Consuls in Mozambique, Portuguese Africa, 1854-1906: T171 (6 rolls). Despatches From United States Consuls in Port Louis, Mascarene Islands, 1794-1805, 1817-1906: M462 (8 rolls). Despatches From United States Consuls in St. Denis, Mascarene Islands, 1880-1892: M463 (1 roll). Despatches From United States Consuls in Seychelles, Indian Ocean, 1868-1888: M454 (1 roll). Despatches From United States Consuls in Tamatave, Madagascar, 1853-1906: T60 (11 rolls). Despatches From United States Consuls in Zanzibar, Mascarene Islands, 1836-1906: M468 (5 rolls). Notes From the Madagascan Legation in the United States to the Department of State, 1883-1894: T806 (1 roll). Government Papers: Cape Blue Books, 1838-1909 (Customs Returns) - photocopy Natal [Blue Books] Customs Returns, 1864-1904 - photocopy Parliamentary Papers: Report of the East Africa Commission. April, 1925. Report of the Commission on Closer Union of the Dependencies in Eastern and Central Africa. January, 1929. Financial and Economic Situation of Swaziland. Report of the Commission Appointed by the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs. January, 1932.), #Links);
URL http://www.indianoceanworldcentre.com/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.indianoceanworldcentre.com/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

29 Oct 2007

Japan Focus: An Asia-Pacific Journal - Issue Oct 29, 2007
japanfocus.org, Ithaca, NY, US
Supplied note: "The following articles were posted on Oct 29, 2007 at Japan Focus.
* Fujiwara Akira, The Nanking Atrocity: An Interpretive Overview
* Gavan McCormack, North Korea and the Birth Pangs of a New Northeast Asian Order
* Congressional Research Service and John Feffer, The Kaesong North-South Korea Industrial Complex and the Future of Northeast Asia
* Arudou Debito, Japan's Future as an International, Multicultural Society: From Migrants to Immigrants
* Stephen S. Roach, The Great Meltdown? A Subprime Outlook for Asia and the Global Economy
* Chietigj Bajpaee, India Looks Toward East Asia
Find them at http://japanfocus.org - m.selden."
URL http://japanfocus.org
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://japanfocus.org
Link reported by: Mark Selden (ms44--at--cornell.edu)
* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: over 3,000 [in fact 8,280]

24 Oct 2007

Strategic Asia 2007-08: Domestic Political Change and Grand Strategy
The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), Seattle, WA, US
Supplied note: "Strategic Asia 2007-08: Domestic Political Change and Grand Strategy is the seventh volume in NBR's Strategic Asia series. This year's volume [edited by Ashley J. Tellis and Michael Wills and published September 2007, ISBN 978-0-9713938-8-2 - ed.] examines the varied political transitions and internal changes occurring in pivotal Asian states and evaluates the impact on Asian foreign policymaking and strategy. Through a combination of country, regional, and topical studies, the book assesses the patterns of political development, the drivers of internal change, the character of governance, and prospects for political stability in the region, and draws implications for Asia and the United States.

This year's contributors and chapters are as follows:
* Domestic Politics and Grand Strategy in Asia - Ashley J. Tellis
* How Domestic Forces Shape the PRC's Grand Strategy & International Impact - Kenneth Lieberthal
* Japan's Long Transition: The Politics of Recalibrating Grand Strategy - Mike M. Mochizuki
* The Two Koreas: Making Grand Strategy amid Changing Domestic Politics - Samuel S. Kim
* Russia: The Domestic Sources of a Less--than-Grand Strategy - Celeste A. Wallander
* Poised for Power: The Domestic Roots of India's Slow Rise - C. Raja Mohan
* Bangladesh and Pakistan: From Secession to Convergence? - Frederic Grare
* Political Change in Southeast Asia: Challenges for U.S. Strategy - Donald E. Weatherbee
* Finding Balance: The Foreign Policies of Central Asia's States - Svante E. Cornell
* Iran: Domestic Politics and Nuclear Choices - Shahram Chubin
* Asian Security Architectures - Nick Bisley
* Environmental (In)security in Asia: Challenging U.S. Interests - Lorraine Elliott
* Strategic Asia by the Numbers [An appendix with 12 tables covering: economic growth, trade and foreign investment; population size and growth; politics and international relations; energy consumption and oil supplies; and armed forces, defense expenditures, conventional military capabilities, weapons of mass destruction, and space programs. The data sets presented here summarize the critical trends in the region as well as changes underway in the balance of power in Asia. - ed.]

For more information on Strategic Asia, to view summaries of the chapters, or to order publications, please visit our website at www.nbr.org - mtj."

[Previous volumes of the Strategic Asia available from the URL www.nbr.org/publications/publicationMain.aspx are:
* Strategic Asia 2006-07: Trade, Interdependence, and Security - Ashley J. Tellis and Michael Wills, published September 2006; * Strategic Asia 2005-06: Military Modernization in an Era of Uncertainty - Ashley J. Tellis and Michael Wills, published September 2005; * Strategic Asia 2004-05: Confronting Terrorism in the Pursuit of Power - Ashley J. Tellis and Michael Wills, published September 2004; * Strategic Asia 2003-04: Fragility and Crisis - Richard J. Ellings and Aaron L. Friedberg with Michael Wills, published September 2003; * Strategic Asia 2002-03: Asian Aftershocks - Richard J. Ellings and Aaron L. Friedberg with Michael Wills, published September 2002; * Strategic Asia 2001-02: Power and Purpose - Richard J. Ellings and Aaron L. Friedberg, published October 2001.

The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution dedicated to informing and strengthening US policy in the Asia-Pacific. - ed.]
URL http://www.nbr.org/publications/book.aspx?id=449
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.nbr.org/publications/publicationMain.aspx
Link reported by: Michael T Jones (mjones--at--nbr.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 100

21 Oct 2007

Central and Inner Asia Seminar (CIAS), May 16-17, 2008
Central and Inner Asia Studies (CIAS, Univ. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Supplied note: "The Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Central & Inner Asia Seminar (CIAS 2008) will be held at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in the Croft Chapter House on Friday and Saturday May 16-17, 2008. The proceedings of the conference will be published in due course in 'Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia'. Volume 9, the papers from CIAS 2007, will be available before the upcoming conference. The theme of this year's gathering is 'The Material Culture, Language and Religion of Central and Inner Asia'. Scholars from any relevant discipline are invited to submit proposals for papers. [...] The deadline for submissions is December 21, 2007 and those selected will be notified by email as soon as possible thereafter. - cias."
URL http://www.utoronto.ca/cias/conference.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.utoronto.ca/cias/conference.html
Link reported by: Central and Inner Asia Studies U. of Toronto (cias--at--utoronto.ca), forwarded by central-eurasia-l--at--lists.fas.harvard.edu
* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

21 Oct 2007

Attempt To Kill Benazir Bhutto: An Update
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, on the above subject is now available at the web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below] - br."
Extract: "The Karachi police investigating the unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Mrs. Benazir Bhutto at Karachi on October 18,2007, shortly after she returned from eight years of political exile, seem to have ruled out the use of a car bomb by the unidentified perpetrators. They believe that the attempt was made by a suicide bomber, who had probably at least one accomplice. According to them, between 12 and 15 kilos of the high-grade RDX explosive were used in the explosion. The RDX is generally available only from the security forces and is rather expensive. This, if confirmed, would indicate the presence of accomplices in the security forces." - b.raman
[The author, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India. - ed. ]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers25/paper2420.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) - the paper was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.saag.org - ed.
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde--at--vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

19 Oct 2007

Central and Eastern European Network for Indian Studies (CEENIS)
CEENIS, European Union.
Self-description: "The Central & Eastern European Network of Indian Studies (CEENIS) is a direct outcome of two conferences: the 1st Central & Eastern European Indological Conference on Regional Cooperation organised at Warsaw University in Poland in September 2005, and the 2nd Central & Eastern European Indological Conference: New Perspectives on Education about India, organised at Vilnius University in Lithuania in August 2006. The participants of both conferences were unanimous that there was an overwhelming need to establish a body coordinating the cooperation in the field of Indian studies, as well as the exchange of Indological expertise and finding the ways in which it could be shared in the regular activity of the Central and Eastern European academic institutions. This task is of vital importance especially in view of the imminent challenges facing all universities in the new EU-member countries as the result of the Bologna Process. The CEENIS has been thus set up to work also for the mobility of teaching staff and students in the region, as well as for the optimal compatibility of didactic programmes of its members."
Site contents: * About Us; * Institutions (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague (the Oriental Institute) Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland (the South Asian Studies Unit, Institute of Oriental Studies) Bucharest University, Romania (the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures) Charles University, Prague, the Czech Republic (the Institute of South and Central Asia) Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary (the Department of Indo-European Studies) The Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland (the Department of Indology, Institute of Oriental Philology) Sapientia - Hungarian University of Transylvania, Miercurea Ciuc, Romania (Alexander Csoma de Koros Centre for Oriental Studies); Sofia University, Bulgaria (the Classical East Department, Centre of Eastern Languages and Cultures); Tartu University, Estonia; The University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia (the Department of Oriental Studies, Faculty of Modern Languages); The University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland (the Department of South Asian Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies); The University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland (the Department of Indian Philology, Institute of Classical Philology and Ancient Culture); Vilnius University, Lithuania (the Centre of Oriental Studies); Zagreb University, Croatia (the Department of Indology and Far-Eastern Studies); * Reports (The Report of Central & Eastern European Indological Conference on Regional Cooperation, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland, 15-17 September 2005); * Contact.
[A site under development. It might be worth visting in a few months time. - ed]
URL http://www.ceenis.eu/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Frank Conlon (conlon--at-u.washington.edu), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

18 Oct 2007

Needling China Before Next Year's Olympics
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, on the above subject is now available at the web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below] - br."
Extract: "Are the US and the European Union (EU) planning to dangle over the head of China the Damocles' Sword of a possible boycott of next year's Beijing Olympics in order to make China to be more amenable to Western pressure on issues such as greater democracy and respect for human rights in China, genuine religious freedom, greater co-operation with the international community in exercising pressure on the unpopular military junta in Myanmar to give up its policy of repression and greater respect for the human rights of the Tibetans and talks with the Dalai Lama on the future of Tibet?" - b.raman
[The author, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India. - ed. ]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers25/paper2415.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) - the paper was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.saag.org - ed.
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde--at--vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

17 Oct 2007

8th Annual Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) Conference, Oct. 18-21, 2007
Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, OH, US.
Supplied note [a note sent to the AS WWW Monitor 17 Oct 2007 - ed.]: "The 8th Annual Central Eurasian Studies Society Conference will be held at the University of Washington from October 18-21, 2007. This international conference welcomes academic specialists on Central Eurasia from all over the world and includes a public lecture and film series. The Keynote Address, "Nationalizing States Revisited," will be delivered by Professor Rogers Brubaker, Department of Sociology, UCLA, and will take place on Friday, October19, from 4:30 to 6:00 pm in Kane Hall room 120 on the University of Washington campus. Films from the region will be shown in the Allen Auditorium in Suzzallo-Allen Library on Saturday, October 20, from 9 am to 4 pm. Both events are free and open to the public. These free public events are sponsored by the Ellison Center for Russian East European and Central Asian Studies, the Henry M. Jackson Foundation and Open Society Institute Budapest.
You may view the program of panels and speakers at [the URL below] - js."
URL http://www.cess.muohio.edu/CESS_Conference.html
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: John Schoeberlein (centasia--at--fas.harvard.edu), forwarded by central-eurasia-l--at--lists.fas.harvard.edu
* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

17 Oct 2007

The Chinese Historical Review (CHR) Journal
College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, US.
Self-description: "The Chinese Historical Review (ISSN 1547-402X) is a fully refereed and vigorously edited transnational journal of history with issues appearing in March and November each year. The journal publishes original research on the history of China in every period, ChinaÕs historical relations with the world, the historical experiences of the overseas Chinese, as well as comparative studies of history. Its Forum section features interviews with leading historians and discussion of issues concerning the profession of teaching and writing history. Its Book Reviews section introduces recent historical scholarship published in Chinese generally unavailable to the English speaking world. The journal is published by The Chinese Historians in the United States, Inc. (CHUS), which was established in 1987 as a professional organization for Chinese students and scholars who were studying history in the United States and is now an affiliated organization of The American Historical Association (AHA) and The Association of Asian Studies (AAS). The journal began its publication in 1987 under the title Historian. In 1989 it was registered with the Library of Congress and began its publication as a referred journal of history under the title Chinese Historians (ISSN 1043-643X) until 2000. It adopted the current title when its regular publication resumed in 2004."
Site contents: * Editorial Board; * For Contributors; * Subscription; * Published Issues [TOCs only] (#2006 - 13/1 (Spring), 13/2 (Fall), #2005 - 12/1 (Spring), 12/2 (Fall), #2004 - 11/1 (Spring), 11/2 (Fall), #2000 - 10/1-2 (Fall), #1996 - 9/1-2 (Fall), #1995 - 8/1-2 (Fall), #1994 - 7/1-2 (Fall), #1993 - 6/1 (Spring), 6/2 (Fall), #1992 - 5/1 (Spring), 5/2 (Fall), #1991 - 4/2 (Jun), #1990 - 3/1 (Jan), 3/2 (Jul), 4/1 (Dec), #1989 - 2/2 (Jun), #1988 - 1/2 (Jul), 2/1 (Dec), #1987- 1/1 (Dec), Three sample articles).
URL http://www.chss.iup.edu/chr/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Ming-Te Pan (pan--at--oswego.edu), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

17 Oct 2007

Bhinneka E- bulletin
Southeast Asia Centre and the South Asia Centre in the Faculty of Asian Studies, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Self-description: "Bhinneka, a bulletin of news and short features from the Southeast Asia Centre and the South & West Asia Centre in the Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University. 'Bhinneka' is an Old Javanese word, ultimately derived from Sanskrit, meaning 'diversity'. Bhinneka will report to you on the diverse tuition programs, research projects and outreach activities of the two centres. [...] For basic information on the Southeast Asia Centre visit our home page at http://www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies/secen.html and on the South & West Asia Centre, http://www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies/swcen.html. [...] Students of the two Centres are invited to submit news and first person features for future issues of Bhinneka."
Site contents: * Bhinneka No. 7, Oct 2007; * Bhinneka No. 6, May 2007; * Bhinneka No. 5, Aug 2006; * Bhinneka No. 4, May 2006; * Bhinneka No. 3, Dec 2005; * Bhinneka No. 2, Sep 2005; * Bhinneka No. 1, Apr 2005.
[A bulletin in PDF format - ed.]
URL http://www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies/secen.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies/secen.html
Link reported by: Karina Pelling (karina.pelling--at--anu.edu.au), forwarded by asia_news--at--anu.edu.au
* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News/Comments
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
International students: ANU CRICOS Provider Number is 00120C