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.
India’s Southeast Asia Policy during the Cold War: Identity, Inclination and Pragmatism 1947-1989
1st Edition
By Tridib Chakraborti, Mohor Chakraborty
February 10, 2023
Over the course of four decades of the Cold War, Chakraborti and Chakraborty analyse India’s path from nonalignment towards realism and self-assertion, and finally to confidence-building and interdependence with respect to their neighbours in Southeast Asia. What were the reasons for India’s ...
The United States’ Subnational Relations with Divided China: A Constructivist Approach to Paradiplomacy
1st Edition
By Czeslaw Tubilewicz, Natalie Omond
January 09, 2023
This book examines US subnational engagement in foreign relations, or paradiplomacy, with China and Taiwan from 1949 to 2020. As an alternative diplomatic history of the United States’ relations with divided China, it offers an in-depth chronological and thematic discussion of state and local ...
Japan's Security Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Keiji Nakatsuji
January 06, 2023
This book analyses Japan’s security policy after the Cold War and engages with the question of whether, since the Cold War ended, Japan has again become a global security player. The contributions to the book explore Japan’s security policy by providing a detailed overview of the evolution of ...
Substantive Representation of Women in Asian Parliaments
1st Edition
Edited
By Devin K. Joshi, Christian Echle
August 03, 2022
Combining data from nearly 100 interviews with national parliamentarians from ten Asian countries, the contributors to this book analyze and evaluate the advancement of gender equality in Asia. As of the year 2022, no country in Asia has gender parity in its parliament. Meanwhile, the proportion of...
Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Southeast Asia
5th Edition
By Joseph Chinyong Liow
July 21, 2022
The past three decades since the end of the Cold War have been a time of remarkable change for Southeast Asia. Long seen as an arena for superpower rivalry, Southeast Asia is increasingly coming into its own by locating itself at the forefront of regional integration initiatives that involve not ...
Strategic Triangles Reshaping International Relations in East Asia
1st Edition
By Gilbert Rozman
June 21, 2022
Rozman shows how East Asia’s international relations over three decades can be best understood through the lens of triangles, analyzing relations between the key nations through a series of trilateral relationships. He argues that triangles present a convincing answer to the question of whether we ...
Chinese People’s Diplomacy and Developmental Relations with East Asia: Trends in the Xi Jinping Era
1st Edition
Edited
By Lai To Lee
May 06, 2022
As China takes up the mantle of a global power, its diplomatic policy has changed significantly as it assumes a role of regional leadership.Until recently, China has not tended to talk about its developmental strategy as a model for others to follow. Since the rise of Xi Jinping this has changed, ...
Rising Islamic Conservatism in Indonesia: Islamic Groups and Identity Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Leonard C. Sebastian, Syafiq Hasyim, Alexander R. Arifianto
May 06, 2022
This edited volume argues that the rise of Islamic conservatism poses challenges to Indonesia’s continued existence as a secular state, with far-reaching implications for the social, cultural and political fortunes of the country. It contributes a model of analysis in the field of Indonesian and ...
ASEAN as a Method: Re-centering Processes and Institutions in Contemporary Southeast Asian Regionalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Ceren Ergenç
April 29, 2022
This edited volume proposes that an understanding of ASEAN – its development and institutionalization – is invaluable to our conception of international relations theory in the Asian context. Southeast Asia and ASEAN host peoples, ideas, institutions, and relations that contribute to a ...
State Reconstitution in China, Japan and East Africa
1st Edition
By Graham F. Odell
April 29, 2022
Presented through an investigation of Sengoku Japan and Republican China, this book proposes an innovative explanation of state formation that focuses on ideational and geographic factors. This study addresses the question; why are some collapsed states able to reconstitute themselves where others ...
Governance and Democracy in the Asia-Pacific: Political and Civil Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen McCarthy, Mark R. Thompson
December 13, 2021
This book explores the theoretical and empirical relationship between democracy and governance in the Asia-Pacific region. Examining a variety of country cases and themes addressing the theoretical tension between governance and democracy, it illuminates how this impacts political and civil ...
Japanese Democracy and Lessons for the United States: Eight Counterintuitive Lessons
1st Edition
By Ray Christensen
December 13, 2021
This book presents a collection of lessons on how best to run elections and politics, using examples from the Japanese experience and showing how elections operate in a non-Western democracy. Featuring extensive data and evidence from both Japan and the United States, the themes covered include ...