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The Place of Confucianism in Pluralist East Asia
Comparative Political Theory, 2021Abstract In this commentary on Shaun O’Dwyer’s Confucianism’s Prospects, I raise three challenges to the arguments presented in the book. First, against his empirical claim that East Asian societies have already become pluralistic, I show that there are important empirical studies supporting the “Confucian heritage” thesis that O’Dwyer rejects. Second,
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On the Edge?: Central Asia’s Place in the Field
Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 2015Shortly before the Soviet Union's collapse, the U.S. Congress invited Firuz Kazemzadeh--at the time, one of the few historians specializing in Russia's southern periphery--to give a briefing about Central Asia. Fully expecting a host of detailed questions about the Soviet republics, he was surprised to discover that much of his session was taken up ...
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Southeast Asia. Subjects and Places
2014The first monographic issue of the new series of Antropologia was born within the Italian Association of Southeast Asian Studies (ITASEAS) and is the expression of a network of local and European researchers who study Southeast Asia. The essays tackle the relationship between subjects and places in contemporary Southeast Asia, and more precisely ask ...
VIGNATO, SILVIA, ALCANO, MATTEO CARLO
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Turkmenistan’s Place in Central Asia and the World
1997The Caspian Sea region has become one of the most sensitive areas of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and of an enlarged Middle East. The vast resources of oil and natural gas have given a new relevance to the newly independent states of Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan in the domain of energy policy and geopolitics, both within the ...
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The Place of the Amorites in the Civilization of Western Asia
Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1925PROFESSOR CLAY in four noteworthy volumes has developed a striking theory of the antiquity of the Amorites, and of the importance of their land as the centre from which all Semitic civilization radiated. He claims in substance that the Amorites possessed a civilization as old if not older than those of Egypt and Babylonia; that they originated or ...
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In quest of the holiest place in Central Asia
Central Asian Survey, 1985(1985). In quest of the holiest place in Central Asia. Central Asian Survey: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 115-119.
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The Place of Kazakhstan in the Study of Central Asia
Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 2015Among the republics of Central Asia, Kazakhstan represents a distinct geographical, geopolitical, cultural, and historical entity. (1) In the west and north, Kazakhstan constitutes a borderland belt (poias prigranich'ia) with Russia and its territories of the lower Volga, southern Urals, and Siberia.
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The Development of Urban Places in Southeast Asia
2017Settlement hierarchies appeared on the Southeast Asian mainland around the middle of the first millennium BC, at approximately the same time as iron technology. Insufficient archaeological research has been done in insular Southeast Asia to date this phenomenon.
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