Search results for: Mark Byung Moon Suh
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Religion and the Secular State in Kazakhstan
...misses the mark, because it rejects the very premise of Kazakhstan’s policies – the Skeptical/Insulating model of a secular state. Because of this, much of Western criticism falls on deaf...
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China’s Role in UN Peacekeeping
...office as Chinese leader from the late 1970s to the end of the 1980s did mark a softening in China’s position on peacekeeping and its broader engagement with the outside...
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Breaking the Mould: Trump’s China Policy
...trustworthy partners. For the most part, this premise turned out to be false.” Passages like this mark a clear departure from the Obama administration, making reference to China as a...
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Containing Crisis on the Korean Peninsula
...The day after the nuclear test, the South Korean navy engaged in live-fire drills in a show of strength. President Moon, in a dramatic reversal of his previous position, has...
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Human Rights in China
...China, September 29, 2016, http://english.gov.cn/archive/publications/2016/09/29/content_281475454482622.htm [7] Ibid. [8] Ibid. [9] Cheng, Tiejun, and Mark Selden. “The Origins and Social Consequences of China’s Hukou System.” The China Quarterly, no. 139 (1994):...
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The May 2005 Andijan Uprising: What We Know
...and constructive manner. Neither the Government of Uzbekistan, the United States’ State Department, nor the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council chose to mark the decennial of the 2005 events. For...
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Rush to Judgment: Western Media and the 2005 Andijan Violence
...and constructive manner. Neither the Government of Uzbekistan, the United States’ State Department, nor the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council chose to mark the decennial of the 2005 events. For...
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Dreams and Nightmares: Turkey’s Unspoken Drift towards Civil War
...The sustained clashes in urban areas that have wracked southeast Turkey in recent months mark a new stage in the decades-old insurgency of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and...
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Afghanistan and its Neighbors: the Challenge of 2014
...that 2014 will mark the beginning of increased instability. It is often heard, not least in China and India, that the U.S. troop drawdown will not be as fast or...
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Erdoğan Unhinged: The Turkish Power Struggle after Taksim
...country and the movement, none of the options facing him are particularly appealing. Taksim may well mark the beginning of the end of Erdoğan’s single-handed domination of Turkish politics....