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Can regional and interregional mechanisms better institutionalize the - creasing complexity of economic and security ties among states in Nor- east, Southeast, and South Asia?

Can regional mechanisms better institutionalize the increasing complexity of economic and security ties among the countries in Northeast Asia?

This volume chronicles the policy challenges and adaptations faced and made by the South Korean government during the post-industrialization and democratization period.

This book provides the most comprehensive survey of mining activity and the principal challenges confronting the resources industry in the Asia-Pacific region today, and presents new theoretical and practical insights into the political and business risks faced by mining companies operating in the region from both academic and corporate perspectives. It focuses on the exploration, production and trade of the principal commodities coal, iron ore, uranium, oil and gas, and gold, as well as the emerging commodities unconventional gas and rare earth minerals, provides the reader with a valuable understanding of resource activity in the region. In addition, it also integrates and draws attention to eight key issue areas which have the potential to pose significant risks, challenges and opportunities for the industry going forward, which include sustainable development, resource governance and economic contributions, declining ore grades and territorial expansion, community aspects of mining, mining and indigenous peoples, climate change, and impact assessment. The contributors to this volume are experts in their respective fields, and the diversity of voices makes this book a must read for scholars, industry participants, investors and policy-makers with an interest in mining in the Asia-Pacific.¿

An unacknowledged key feature of East Asian FTA diplomacy is the region's active cross-regional preferential trading relations.

This book is relevant to both scholars and policymakers concerned with Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy, US foreign policy, EU foreign policy, China-US relations, China-EU relations, international security, international political economy and emerging markets.

This volume addresses the link between trade and security by examining the influence of security factors in driving trade policy measures and the corresponding implications of different types of trade arrangements for international security.

An unacknowledged key feature of East Asian FTA diplomacy is the region's active cross-regional preferential trading relations.

This book examines the uniqueness of Korean regulatory reforms of the mobile telecom sector. It evaluates the influence of markets and technologies on telecom market liberalization and repudiates the single neo-liberal model of market-oriented reform.

This book is relevant to both scholars and policymakers concerned with Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy, US foreign policy, EU foreign policy, China-US relations, China-EU relations, international security, international political economy and emerging markets.

In this context, the volume analyzes the way in which the dynamics of public administration were shaped within the Korean government and the kinds of public policies and instruments that were adopted to encourage this economic and social development.

This volume chronicles the policy challenges and adaptations faced and made by the South Korean government during the post-industrialization and democratization period.

This volume discusses Korea's role as a middle power in the midst of the 21st century global power shift.