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January-March 2011 <strong>JOURNAL</strong> <strong>OF</strong> <strong>EURASIAN</strong> <strong>STUDIES</strong> Volume III., Issue 1.<br />

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Western European countries. The role of the three major social institutions are discussed (i.e. religion,<br />

family and military) in the modern state building in these three countries.<br />

Chapter 2. Kurt W. Radtke: Nationalism in the Age of Globalisation: The Case of East Asia examines the rise<br />

and evolution of modern nationalism in China and Japan and highlights the differences with the Western<br />

nationalisms. It is concluded that the roots of these differences can be traced back to the different causes of<br />

the nationalisms and the different societal, cultural environments wherein they were born.<br />

Chapter 3. Thomas Jandl: Domestic Mobility and Elite Rent-Seeking: The Right to Migrate among Provinces and<br />

Vietnam’s Economic Success Story combines a theoretical framework with empirical research in analyzing<br />

Vietnam’s resounding economic turnaround since 1986. Ample empirical evidence is provided to support<br />

the main argument: economic federalism leads to a country/region’s overall economic success, improving<br />

the standard of living of most citizens. The usability of Vietnam’s case for generic purposes is also<br />

highlighted.<br />

Chapter 4. Yuki Shiozaki: The State and Ulama in Contemporary Malaysia examines the relationship<br />

between the state and the Islamic religious authority (ulama) in the 20 th century Malaysia. First a brief<br />

historical background is presented followed by an extensive analysis of the latest developments in this<br />

field with a well-balanced detail.<br />

Chapter 5. Rui Graça Feijó:Counting Votes That Count: A Systematic Analysis of the 2007 Timorese Elections<br />

and the Performance of Electoral Institutions and Chapter 6. Moisés Silva Fernandes: The Ongoing Crisis in East-<br />

Timor: Analysis of Endogenous and Exogenous Factors deal with the current developments in East-Timor. The<br />

first paper is an analysis based on field-research concerning the workings of the electoral system in the<br />

three elections held in 2007. The second paper is an in-depth analysis of the on-going crises unfolding in<br />

East-Timor that is caused by a combination of both domestic and international factors.<br />

Chapter 7. Christian Schafferer: Populism in East Asia’s New Democracies: An Analysis of the Taiwanese<br />

Discourse examines the academic discourse on populism in post-Cold War Taiwan. First a discussion on<br />

populism in general is presented and this theoretical framework is used to examine the discourse itself. In<br />

the end it is concluded that the discourse is part of the political culture; unfortunately the discourse itself<br />

turns out to be populist because it is dominated by party preferences instead of objective analysis, due<br />

primarily of the lack of exact definition of populism.<br />

Chapter 8. Bahadir Pehlivanturk: Dominance of SMEs among Overseas Chinese Business Networks: A Network<br />

Structural Approach attempts to lay the ground for a thorough analysis of the nature and power of the<br />

business networks of overseas Chinese. The applicability of generic network theories is considered and a<br />

first attempt is made to use it in assessing the structural composition and working of these networks. The<br />

paper definitely pioneers new paths in the analysis of such (business) networks.<br />

Chapter 9. Thomas S. Wilkins: Building Regional Security Architecture: The Shanghai Cooperation<br />

Organisation from an Organisational Theories Perspective examines the structure and nature of the Shanghai<br />

Cooperation Organisation. First a conceptual framework based on organisational theories is established<br />

and then its applicability is examined. The importance of this paper can not be overestimated for two<br />

reasons: first, this organization hardly appears in the mainstream media in the West, and second, due to<br />

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