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.
Security and Migration in Asia: The dynamics of securitisation
1st Edition
Edited
By Melissa Curley, Siu-lun Wong
December 11, 2009
Security and Migration in Asia explores how various forms of unregulated and illegal forms of human movement within Asia and beyond the region have come to be treated as 'security' issues, and whether and how a 'securitization' framework enables a more effective response to them. The process ...
Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems: Learning to Lose
1st Edition
Edited
By Joseph Wong, Edward Friedman
October 13, 2009
This is a path-breaking study by leading scholars of comparative politics examining the internal transformations of dominant parties in both authoritarian and democratic settings. The principle question examined in this book is what happens to dominant political parties when they lose or ...
Advancing East Asian Regionalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Melissa Curley, Nicholas Thomas
May 26, 2009
Developments in East Asia have progressed rapidly in terms of regionalism since the 1997 crisis. The end of the Asian miracle called into question not only the capacity of regional states to meet the needs of their attendant peoples, but also challenged the viability of regional organizations, such...
Japan and China in the World Political Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By Saadia Pekkanen, Kellee Tsai
May 26, 2009
Two powers in East Asia today stand to define the region's economic and commercial future: Japan, which rose in a spectacular industrial burst to become at present the world's second largest economy; and China, which is rapidly advancing towards a market economy under the watchful eye of the world....
Political Cultures in Asia and Europe: Citizens, States and Societal Values
1st Edition
By Jean Blondel, Takashi Inoguchi
May 26, 2009
This book is a study of the attitudes to political and social life among the citizens of eighteen countries in Western Europe, East and Southeast Asia. Drawing on data from the largest cross-national survey on political culture for the last half a century, this book assesses how political...
State Making in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Boyd, Tak-Wing Ngo
May 26, 2009
Including contributions from an international team of leading experts, this volume examines state making from a uniquely Asian perspective and reveals some of the misunderstandings that arise when states and state making are judged solely on the basis of Western history. The contributors argue that...
South Korean Engagement Policies and North Korea: Identities, Norms and the Sunshine Policy
1st Edition
By Key-young Son
April 29, 2009
A fresh historical and theoretical exploration of the much-debated, but still elusive, question of the Korean divide. In contrast to much of the literature on the divide, which deals with state-building on the two sides of the Demilitarized Zone, this book sheds light on the slow, but steady ...
The Balance of Power in Asia-Pacific Security: US-China Policies on Regional Order
1st Edition
By Liselotte Odgaard
April 29, 2009
Investigating the dynamics of balancing patterns in the Asia-Pacific, this book focuses particularly on the contribution of great powers and middle powers to regional stability. Taking the US and China as great powers, and using ASEAN, Russia, Australia and South Korea as example of middle powers, ...
US-China Relations in the 21st Century: Power Transition and Peace
1st Edition
By Zhiqun Zhu
March 10, 2009
US-China Relations in the 21st Century addresses the bilateral relations of these two nations on international, domestic, societal and individual levels between 1990 and 2005. Peaceful power shifts remain a central dilemma in world politics, since historically power transition from a dominant ...
A Rising China and Security in East Asia: Identity Construction and Security Discourse
1st Edition
By Rex Li
December 29, 2008
This volume provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the security discourse of Chinese policy elites on the major powers in East Asia in relation to China’s self-perception as a rising power. It is the first book-length study that utilizes International Relations theories systematically to...
Islam in Indonesian Foreign Policy
1st Edition
By Rizal Sukma
July 25, 2008
This companion volume to the highly successful Islam in Malaysian Foreign Policy explores the extent to which foreign policy in the world's largest Muslim nation has been influenced by Islamic considerations....
Civil Life, Globalization and Political Change in Asia: Organizing between Family and State
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Weller
September 01, 2007
Academics and policy makers have grown increasingly interested in the ways that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) may encourage better governance, democratic politics, and perhaps ultimately a global civil society. In Civil Life, Globalization and Political Change in Asia, Robert Weller ...