Journal of Asia Pacific Studies

Volume 1, Issue 3,December 2010

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Editorial Board and Table of Contents

The Relation of Strategic Human Resource Practices with Firm Performance

Wan Khairuzzaman Wan Ismail, Rosmini Omar, and Maryam Bidmeshgipour 

New Wine in Old Bottle: An Analysis of Community Forest Management in South India

V.M. Ravi Kumar 

Coping with Uncertainty in Japanese Defense: Analytical Eclecticism, Nonlinearity,and the Lockwood Method as Approaches to Defense Policy Futures

Daniel Clausen 

Managing Foreign Workers in Southeast Asian Countries

Mohd Na’eim Ajis, Mohamad Nasir Saludin, Azman Ismail,Otto F. von Feigenblatt, Md. Shukri Shuib, and Mohamad Faisol Keling 

EIL in the Primary Classroom: Exploration and Innovation using DVDs for Communication

Steven Graham 

Human Trafficking in Burma and the Solutions Which Have Never Reached

Thanawat Pimoljinda and Apiradee Thianthong 

Problematizing ‘Ethnicity’ in Informal Preferencing in Civil Service: Cases from Kupang, Eastern Indonesia.

Sylvia Tidey 

Introduction of Casino Gaming in Okinawa, Japan: A Case Study of Challenges and Opportunities

Jerome Agrusa, Joseph Lema, Shigefumi Asage, Anna Maples, and Babu George 

What is the Lifetime of the ‘Lifetime Employment’? Empirical Research from Japan

Takashi Saito and Balazs Vuszkun 

Australian Government Media Strategies

Mohd Azizuddin Mohd Sani and Irene Limberis Twombly

A Socio-cultural Analysis of Romantic Love in Japanese Harem Animation: A BuddhistMonk, a Japanese Knight, and a Samurai

Otto F. von Feigenblatt

Multiple Opinions and Perspectives

Engaging North Korea: Is 2010 a Watershed Year for US-DPRK-ROK Relations?

Timothy S. Rich

Book Reviews

Human Security in the Asia Pacific Region: Security Challenges, Regional Integration,and Representative Case Studies. By Otto F. von Feigenblatt

Reviewed by Steven Graham 

Contemporary Global Governance: Multipolarity vs. New Discourses on Global Governance. Edited by Dire Lesage and Pierre Vercauteren

Reviewed by Joseph Tse-Hei Lee