Author: C. H. Kwan
Publisher: Brookings Inst Pr
Keywords: asia, integration, economic, bloc, yen
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2001-05
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0815700830
ISBN-13: 9780815700838

In this important new book, C.H. Kwan asks whether the Japanese yen can, or will, replace the dollar as the key currency in East Asia. Kwan analyzes the implications for Japan and Asia’s developing countries should they come together to form a yen bloc-a grouping of countries that use the yen as an international currency and maintain stable exchange rates against the yen. Combining academic analysis with his experience advising the Japanese prime minister and the Japanese minister of finance, Kwan concludes that a yen bloc might benefit Asia’s developing countries-as well as Japan-

Authors:JANE SHAPIRO ZACEK, ILPYONG J. KIM,
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Keywords: bloc, soviet, legacy
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1997-05-03
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0813014751
ISBN-13: 9780813014753

Contributors consider why communist political systems in the USSR, Eastern Europe, China and the developing world could not be revamped so as to allow communist parties to retain political power within an environment of reform. Among the issues discussed are the unwillingness of communist parties to relinquish real political and economic control; the reemergence of virulent nationalism and its role in ensuring the disintegration of multinational states; postcommunist transition strategies, both political and economic and the degree of continuity of change between Soviet and post-Soviet foreign

Authors:E. Fischer, J. P. Frahm, W. Frey, W. Lobin, T. l. Bloc
Publisher: Apollo Books
Keywords: europe, ferns, mosses, liverworts
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2006-10-03
List price: $96.00
ISBN-10: 0946589704
ISBN-13: 9780946589708

Author: Raymond J. Struyk
Publisher: University Press of America
Keywords: soviet, bloc, democracies, post, tanks, critics, think, reconstructive
Number of Pages: 267
Published: 1999-04
List price: $23.50
ISBN-10: 0877666911
ISBN-13: 9780877666912

This book provides the first in-depth examination of the activities of think tanks in the former Soviet bloc. Based upon detailed fieldwork, including interviews with think tank personnel and senior policy-makers in four countries, the author assesses their success in influencing policy and creating a citizenry that is better informed on key policy issues. Chapters include a general discussion of the policy research industry; a detailed profile of think tanks in Russia, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Armenia; and a critical analysis of their policy record in these countries. Most important, the author

Author: Ronald Dworkin
Publisher: New York Review Books
Keywords: court, wing, bloc, right, new, phalanx, supreme
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2008-05-13
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1590172930
ISBN-13: 9781590172933

George W. Bush’s nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court in 2005 were widely expected to turn it sharply to the right. But no one foresaw the rapidity or the revolutionary zeal with which, as Ronald Dworkin writes, the Court would begin “overruling, most often by stealth, the central constitutional doctrines that generations of past justices, conservative as well as liberal, had constructed.”  Dworkin examines the key decisions of the Court’s 2006-–2007 term and argues that these two new justices, along with Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, have c