Bøger af Rafiq Dossani

In this report, RAND researchers study democratization and the factors that influence it among small Asian states, identify policies that can support democratization, and examine how external actors can help countries democratize.

Following the failure of recent efforts by the United States to engage North Korea in denuclearization negotiations, the author proposed and tested an approach to negotiations, the portfolio method, that addresses the reasons for past failures.

Using detailed analyses of China, India, and the Philippines, this book argues that key factors in this phenomenon include the linkage between socioeconomic decline, loss of political power, and narrowing of identity; nationalism and its associated connotations of the assimilation of minorities; and the weakness of civil society generally in Asia.

Does South Asia exist? Globally, regional integration and prominent regional institution -such as the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations -have been on the rise.

Practitioners will be interested in the sections on universal service, technology convergence, and the implications for reducing costs and improving the quality of both basic telephone services and IT-enabled services.