Politics in Asia: Politics in Asia
About the Book Series
Politics in Asia has long been established as a source of distinctive and authoritative studies on the political life of Asia. The series covers a broad range of countries and aspects of politics, and includes volumes from some of the leading scholars working in the field.
Indonesia's War over Aceh: Last Stand on Mecca's Porch
1st Edition
By Matt Davies
September 10, 2012
Since 2001, Indonesia’s military commitment to Aceh province resulted in one of Southeast Asia’s largest wars for decades. Indonesia's War over Aceh presents the background and history of this war, investigating its domestic and international implications, at a time when the recent tsunami ...
Domestic Politics, International Bargaining and China's Territorial Disputes
1st Edition
By Chien-peng Chung
July 11, 2012
This is a groundbreaking analysis of China's territorial disputes, exploring the successes and failures of negotiations that have taken place between its three neighbours, namely India, Japan and Russia. By using Roberts Putnam's two level game framework, Chung relates the outcome of these disputes...
Security Cooperation in Northeast Asia: Architecture and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By T.J. Pempel, Chung-Min Lee
June 01, 2012
Defining and conceptualizing Northeast Asia’s security complex poses unique quandaries. The security architecture in Northeast Asia to date has been predominately U.S.-dominated bilateral alliances, weak institutional structures and the current Six Party Talks dealing with the North Korean nuclear ...
China's Multilateral Co-operation in Asia and the Pacific: Institutionalizing Beijing's 'Good Neighbour Policy'
1st Edition
By Chien-peng Chung
October 11, 2011
The leaders and bureaucrats of China have actively attended, initiated, promoted or made skilful use of regional multilateral political, economic, and security institutions to accelerate regional cooperation and integration with neighboring states, convince Asian states that China’s rise will not ...
Communitarian Politics in Asia
1st Edition
By Beng Huat Chua
September 13, 2011
With the collapse of European socialism in the late 1980s, ascendancy of the liberal capitalist democracy and individual self-interest became prevalent in the West. In contrast, many polities in Asia, both by tradition and choice, have explicitly adopted communitarianism as a national ideology, for...
Taiwan in the 21st Century: Aspects and Limitations of a Development Model
1st Edition
Edited
By J. Megan Greene, Robert Ash
June 20, 2011
Throughout the twentieth century Taiwan was viewed as a model - whether in terms of a model colony, a model China or a development model. This perception was based on the notion of Taiwan undergoing an economic miracle and political developments. Yet much of Taiwan’s history is unique and may not ...
Rise of China: Beijing’s Strategies and Implications for the Asia-Pacific
1st Edition
Edited
By Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, Cheng-Yi Lin
April 14, 2011
Despite the growing internal social unrest and disparity of economic development, the People’s Republic of China is the third largest world economy and the second largest defense spender. Showing no clear signs of slowing down, China’s rise is seen as both an opportunity and a challenge by the ...
Elections as Popular Culture in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Chua Beng Huat
March 17, 2011
Conventional political science depicts legitimate elections as rational affairs in which informed voters select candidates for office according to how their coherently presented aims, ideologies and policies appeal to the self-interest of the electorate. In reality elections, whether in first world...
Torture, Truth and Justice: The Case of Timor-Leste
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Stanley
March 17, 2011
This book highlights how, and why, torture is such a compelling tool for states and other powerful actors. While torture has a short-term use value for perpetrators, it also creates a devastating legacy for victims, their families and communities. In exposing such repercussions, this book addresses...
Governance and Regionalism in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicholas Thomas
March 15, 2011
In the decade since the Asian financial crisis the ten states of Southeast Asia that form ASEAN, together with China, Japan and South Korea have formed the basis of a community intended to support the well-being of its member states, markets and peoples. This highly successful regionalisation was ...
East Asia's New Democracies: Deepening, Reversal, Non-liberal Alternatives
1st Edition
Edited
By Yin-wah Chu, Siu-lun Wong
May 10, 2010
This collection brings us up-to-date on the contemporary situations in the new democracies of East Asia, and debates on the prospect of introducing liberal democracy to this part of the world. The chapters cover a wide range of cases, including in-depth examination of China, Korea, Taiwan, the ...
Asian States: Beyond the Developmental Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Boyd, Tak-Wing Ngo
December 22, 2009
A team of international leading experts provide a much needed re-examination of the theoretical claims and the empirical foundation of developmental state theory. Asian States argues that regardless of the merits of the developmental state as an explanation of economic growth, it falls far ...