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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"modernization efforts"”.
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China's Pacific Strategy For the Twenty-First Century
… achieve the goals of the state; (2) the military modernization efforts that are intended to give the PRC the ability to meet its strategic requirements; (3) the conflicts with China's Pacific neighbors that have partly arisen as a result of a resurgent Chinese strategic and military force; and (4) …
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Modernization of Solid Waste Disposal and Collection
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Vietnam’s drive to modernize militarily—causes and implications
… Russia. What are the specific details of these modernization efforts? As Vietnam’s economy has developed, its relationship with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has varied due to conflicting territorial claims in the South China Sea (SCS). The PRC took the Paracel Islands from Vietnam in …
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Modernization and music in contemporary China : crisis, identity, and the politics of style
The modernization of Chinese culture has been a major feature of domestic policy since the Chinese Communist Party assumed political leadership in 1949. This modernization program has had profound effects upon indigenous musical practices. But the influence is mutual, for music, as a participant in …
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The divine hand of the state? : how religion has influenced social policies for the poor in Iran
… a central dilemma for development planners: if modernization efforts do not take into account religious sentiments, which are a primary source of meaning for people, such efforts are bound to fail in the long term; and yet, if religious sentiments dominate state-making efforts, it can at best …
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Competitive Microgrid Electricity Market Design
… goal of a smart grid. Majority of recent grid modernization efforts are directed towards the distribution systems to be able to meet these new challenges. One of the key enablers of a fully functional Smart Grid are microgrids — subsystems of the grid, utilizing small generation capacities at …
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(Re)Placing America: Cold War Mapping and the Mediation of International Space
… ones as cartography was drafted into the modernization efforts of the U.S. in mapping the Third World; and the Defense Department's use of maps to argue for nuclear deterrence, while protest groups made radical cartographic challenges to these practices of state power. (Re)Placing America …
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Education policy issues in Turkey
… has been in constant transformation, a result of modernization efforts connected to the political determination of governments to complete Turkey's accession to the European Union. During this period two nation-wide reforms stand out due to their dramatic impact on children, students, teachers and …