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| Spanish version | Number 2 / December 2008 |
| Activities |
 Congress, seminars and courses View + info Scholarships, positions, exchanges and papersView + info |
| Received Publications |
| China, Fragile Superpower: How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise by Susan L. Shirk View + info |
| Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform by Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland View + info |
| Surrounded paradise by Yi Chongjun. View + info |
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The Chinese immigration in Spain. A community connected with its Nation by Gladys Nieto
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| News of the region |
| South Korea, China, Japan show unity at first summit View + North Korea Refuses Nuclear Verification PlanView + South Korea to cut jobs, sell assets of public firmsView + North Korea to ‘Urgently’ Need Food for 40% of People, UN SaysView + The new Museum of Korean Art in Argentina has openedView + |
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All the information related to the dynamics of the Center activities, the actions of its members, fellows, scholarship holders, the lectures and conferences that were organizaded, and much more. View + info |
| Editorial | |
| This second number comes to light in a moment marked by the global economic crisis challenges that cast doubts on the actual hegemonic economic model. It also takes place in a time when there is an important shift going on in US politics that unquestionably will have repercussions all over the globe and particularly in a complex and dynamic Latin America that consolidates its democracies respecting the cultural diversities of each sub-region. View + info |
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 The elections in the United States and its impact in the Korean Peninsula
By Jorge Di Masi Barack Obama’s victory in the United States elections opened an interesting debate in the Republic of Korea. The central questions were: What general effects will have on the Korean Peninsula the assumption of a democratic government in the United States and how the relationship between that country and South Korea will be structured from now on.View + info |
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The political process in the DPRK: an enigma to the analyst
By Jorge E. Malena To the Latin American observer, grasping the political developments in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (hereafter DPRK) results in a colossal task. This is because not only the existing cultural and linguistic barriers but also the enigmatic nature of the North Korean political process.View + info |
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A new debate about alterity
By Pablo Ariel Blitstein Twenty-five years ago it was the American Other (1); today it is the Asian Other who triggered a heated debate in French intellectual circles. This new Other looks, however, quite different: while the American Other was surrounded by the nostalgia felt for someone who disappeared from history, the new Asian Other is burdened with the distressing uncertainty of someone present yet not well known.View + info
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Colonial Korea’s memories through Cinema
By Pilar Álvarez The Japanese occupation over Korea is still one of the most controversial issues of the traumatic Korean history of the XX century. Analyzing the complexity of the colonization project, the different stages and strategies of domination, in the light of collective memory studies, permits to critically discern diverse forms in which the past is presented in current Korean society.View + info |
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