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.
Hong Kong Politics after the National Security Law: Autocratization and Its Consequences
1st Edition
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By Stephan Ortmann, Raymond Kwun-Sun Lau, Kenneth Ka-Lok Chan
April 22, 2025
Ortmann, Lau, and Chan together with the contributors provide an innovative assessment of the impact of the National Security Law on Hong Kong politics. The law was introduced by the Chinese government in 2020 and has since fundamentally transformed the political landscape of the former British ...
American Paradiplomacy and Chinese Power: Demystifying US-China Subnational Relations
1st Edition
By Czeslaw Tubilewicz
December 31, 2024
This book investigates contemporary US-China subnational relations and considers the extent to which subnational, national and international power contests inform American states’ strategies of internationalization. Approaching the subject from a constructivist perspective, the book contributes to ...
Comparative Federalism in Asia: Democracy, Ethnicity and Religion
1st Edition
By Baogang He, Michael G. Breen, Laura Allison-Reumann
November 28, 2024
He, Breen, and Allison-Reumann combine qualitative and quantitative research to compare the successes and failures of attempts at federalism in Asian countries. Federalism is an increasingly common approach to improving governance and resolving ethnic conflict in Asia. However, Asian federalism ...
Taiwan and Southeast Asia: Soft Power and Hard Truths Facing China's Ascendancy
1st Edition
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By Karl Chee Leong Lee, Ying-kit Chan
November 28, 2024
Lee, Chan and their contributors analyse the different kinds of soft power deployed by Taiwan in its bid to strengthen its relations with its neighbours in Southeast Asia. Despite not having formal diplomatic relations with Southeast Asian countries after their diplomatic recognition of the People...
Geopolitics and China's Patronage Strategy: The Wary Patron, the Autonomous Client, and the Vietnam War
1st Edition
By Dalton Lin
September 30, 2024
This book highlights how resource constraints and client agency impact China’s patronage policy in their pursuit of regional geopolitical power. By combining for the first time the limit of great power patrons’ resources and the agency of client countries, this book accentuates that the costs and ...
Contemporary Japanese Politics and Anxiety Over Governance
1st Edition
By Ken'ichi Ikeda
August 26, 2024
This book is an integrated examination of Japanese politics in the first two decades of the 21st century, as viewed from the perspective of "anxiety over governance." By empirically highlighting the social-environmental, political environmental, and sociocultural changes that have underlined the ...
Globalization and Civil Society in East Asian Space
1st Edition
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By Khatharya Um, Chiharu Takenaka
August 26, 2024
This book critically examines the impact of globalization, changing power dynamics, migration, and evolving rights regimes on regional order, discourse of national governance, state and society relations, and the development of civil society in East Asia. Providing a textured, critical reading of ...
Two-Track Democracy in South Korea: The Interplay Between Institutional Politics and Contentious Politics
1st Edition
By Seongyi Yun
August 26, 2024
This book examines three ironic phenomena of South Korean democracy that have developed after its democratic transition in 1987. While the evaluation of South Korea’s political system by external institutions has steadily improved, people’s trust in the nation’s political system continues to ...
Activism and Authoritarian Governance in Asia
1st Edition
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By Amy Barrow, Sara Fuller
May 27, 2024
This interdisciplinary book offers a new analysis of the concepts, spaces, and practices of activism that emerge under diverse authoritarian modes of governance in Asia. Demonstrating the limitations of existing conceptual approaches in accounting for activism in Asia, the book also offers new ...
Geo-Politics in Northeast Asia
1st Edition
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By Akihiro Iwashita, Yong-Chool Ha, Edward Boyle
May 27, 2024
Geo-Politics in Northeast Asia focuses on the dynamics of Northeast Asia as a region. The chapters in this book offer a nuanced approach for understanding the geo-politics of this strategically critical area of the world. Focusing on China, Japan, Russia, and the Koreas, as well as the involvement...
Nuclear Governance in the Asia-Pacific
1st Edition
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By Mely Caballero-Anthony, Julius Cesar I. Trajano
January 29, 2024
The contributors to this book explore approaches to building a framework for nuclear governance in the Asia-Pacific – encompassing nuclear safety, security, and safeguards/non-proliferation. Nuclear governance collaboration offers an avenue for states in the Asia-Pacific to tackle the emerging ...
Taiwan, the United States, and the Hidden History of the Cold War in Asia: Divided Allies
1st Edition
By Hsiao-Ting Lin
January 29, 2024
This book explores the challenges which faced the United States and Taiwanese alliance during the Cold War, addressing a wide range of events and influences of the period between the 1950s and 1970s. Tackling seven main topics to outline the fluctuations of the U.S.–Taiwan relationship, this volume...