The Global Studies Journal, Volume 3, first issue available

The first issue of Volume 3 of  The Global Studies Journal has now been published.

Some of the papers included in Volume 3, Number 1:

• Pension Headache Gone Global, but for Obama, Medicare Migraine is Particularly Worrisome by C. Fiifi Odoom.
• How do New Immigration Policies Affect Immigrant Characteristics in Hong Kong? by Michael C. M. Ng.
• Music Purchasing: Online vs. Conventional by Chiang-Nan Chao, Robert J. Mockler and Marc Gartenfeld.
• Re-Imagining “Religion”: World Religions and the Non-“Religious” Context by William Acres.
• Quality Assurance in the Assessment of Students Academic Performance in Nigerian Universities by Chris Chukwurah and Marcellinus U. Ojuah.
• State Welfare Provisions and Cross-National Differences in Work Quality and Job Satisfaction by Jonathan H. Westover.
• The Binding Power of Architecture by Faida Noori Salim.
• “The World Trade Organization and the Special Case of Child Laborers in the Global Economy” by Richard J. Klonoski.
• Intercultural Dialogue in Education: Theoretical Perspectives on Majority and Minority Relationships in Three Case Studies by Magdalena Herdoíza-Estévez.
• International Education and Student Mobility: Curriculum Design and Delivery by Jennifer Martin and How Kee Ling.
• Education for Interdependence: The University and the Global Citizen by Michael Karlberg.

• Peace Education and Human Rights in the Multicultural School by Vassilios Pantazis.
• Exposing the Secrecy of Offshore Tax Shelters: The Tools and the Enablers: A Call for Vigirance in South Africa by Annet W. Oguttu.
• Ecotourism Management: A Case Study of Khao Pu – Khao Ya National Park, Thailand by Chetsada Noknoi, Wannaporn Boripunt, Sutee Ngowsiri and Saranya Itsararuk.
• The Exclusion and Inclusion of Japanese Manga in Taiwan: A Historic Narratology of Culture Image Expression by Chi-Shoung Tseng and Chin Chia Tsai.
• Space Control and Emancipation: A Brief Inquiry into Zoning and Mixed-Use Spaces by Jing Xie.
• The Effect of a Cross-Cultural Leadership Training Program on the Cultural Intelligence Score of Chinese Students by Andrew Ma.
• An Antiquated Institution: The Socio-political Role of the Modern Sovereign Nation-state by Christos Zagkos and Argyris Kyridis.
• Embracing China — From Market Fundamentalism to Socialised Mercantilist Markets? Enter the Dragon, a New Set of Clothes for Turbo-capitalism by Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto.
• Voices of India: Dialectical Tensions in the Negotiation of Identity and Cultural Values in a Globalized Society by Lael H. Adams.
• The Policy and Military Development of China based on Leadership Phase by Mohamad Faisol Keling, Mohamad Nasir Saludin, Azman Ismail, Otto F. Von Feigenblatt, Md. Shukri Shuib and Mohd Na’eim Ajis.