Human Rights and International Relations in the Asia Pacific Region. Edited by James H. Tang. London: Pinter Publishers, 1995. 275 pp.  37.50

1998 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 295-296
Author(s):  
K. Boyle
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region

scholarly journals APEC’S place in modern political and economic processes in Greater East Asia

2020 ◽  
pp. 337-346
Author(s):  
Dmitrij V. Mosyakov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
International Security ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Issues

This article is devoted to the history of such an authoritative international organization as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation-APEC. This organization, created to address issues of economic integration in the Asia-Pacific region, has gradually turned into the main platform for political negotiations, at which key issues of international security and international relations are discussed.

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONS AND RELIGIOUS CONFLICT IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION

2004 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 713-729 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Evans
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Significant Development ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
National Human ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
National Human Rights Institutions ◽  
National Human Rights Commissions

The last decade has seen the rise of a potentially significant development in the Asia-Pacific region in regard to human rights—the establishment of National Human Rights Institutions (particularly Human Rights Commissions) in numerous States.2 National Human Rights Commissions (hereafter NHRC) established in compliance with United Nations standards have been established in Australia, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, New Zealand, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.3 In many of these States, however, human rights abuses are still widespread and serious. The establishment of NHRC, which generally do not have the power to make enforceable decisions, could easily be derided as an attempt by governments to create a fac.ade of respect for human rights while failing to take the enforcement of those rights seriously.4 While this criticism has a degree of validity, NHRC have played a constructive, if limited role, in the promotion and protection of human rights in the Asia-Pacific region.

Myth and Misrepresentation in Australian Foreign Policy: Menzies and Engagement with Asia

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 57-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Benvenuti ◽  
David Martin Jones
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Conventional View ◽  
Regional Policies ◽  
History Of

The prevailing orthodoxy in the academic literature devoted to the history of Australia's post-1945 international relations posits that a mixture of suspicion and condescension permeated the attitude of the governments headed by Robert Menzies (1949–1966) toward the Asia-Pacific region. Menzies's regional policies, according to this view, not only prevented Australia from engaging meaningfully with its Asian neighbors but also ended up antagonizing them. This article rejects the conventional view and instead shows that the prevailing left-Labor assessments of Menzies's regional policy are fundamentally marred by an anachronistic disregard of the diplomatic dynamics, political challenges, and economic realities of Cold War Asia.

scholarly journals China-U.S. Oil Rivalry in Africa

2008 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhao Hong
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
World Order ◽  
Domestic Demand ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
The World ◽  
Oil Demand ◽  
Consuming Country ◽  
The U.S

China is now the world’s second largest oil-consuming country after the U.S. Its global efforts to secure oil imports to meet increasing domestic demand have profound implications for international relations in the Asia-Pacific region. China’s rising oil demand and its external quest for oil have thus generated much attention. This paper looks at the possibility of China’s clash with the U.S. and other western countries’ interests in Africa as China’s overseas oil quest intensifies, and China’s perception of this impending rivalry that may lead to a disruption of the U.S. and its allies’ foreign policy and the world order.

scholarly journals NAOJ's activities on Astronomy for Development: Aiding Astronomy Education in Developing Nations

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (H16) ◽  
pp. 553-553
Author(s):  
K. Sekiguchi ◽  
F. Yoshida
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Japanese Government ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Public Outreach ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Astronomy Education

AbstractWe summarize NAOJ's efforts to promote astronomy in developing nations. The Office of International Relations, collaborations with the Office of Public Outreach at NAOJ and with the East Asia Core Observatories Association (EACOA), has engaged children, students and educators about astronomy development in the Asia-Pacific region. In particular, we introduce “You are Galileo!“ project, which is a very well received astronomy education program for children. We also report on a continuing effort by the Japanese Government in support of astronomy programs in the developing nations.

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