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.
Distributive Politics in Malaysia: Maintaining Authoritarian Party Dominance
1st Edition
By Hidekuni Washida
June 30, 2020
The election on 9 May 2018 ended six decades of rule by the ruling coalition in Malaysia (Barisan Nasional or BN, formerly the Alliance). Despite this result, the BN’s longevity and resilience to competition is remarkable. This book explores the mechanisms behind the emergence, endurance, fight for...
Japan’s Island Troubles with China and Korea: Prospects and Challenges for Resolution
1st Edition
Edited
By Victor Teo, Haruko Satoh
June 30, 2020
This book examines the Senkaku/Diaoyu dispute between Japan and China and the Dokdo/Takeshima dispute between Japan and Korea, in order to offer new perspectives on the possible approaches towards amelioration and resolution of these conflicts.Japan’s Island Troubles with China and Korea addresses ...
Regional Environmental Politics in Northeast Asia: Conflict and Cooperation
1st Edition
By Jeongwon Bourdais Park
June 30, 2020
The share of global CO2 emissions from the core Northeast Asian (NEA) countries in 2015 was estimated to be as high as 33.63 percent. Representing 28.21, 3.67, and 1.75 percent of total global emissions, China, Japan, and South Korea were ranked the first, fifth, and seventh largest ...
National Identity and Great-Power Status in Russia and Japan: Non-Western Challengers to the Liberal International Order
1st Edition
By Tadashi Anno
May 07, 2020
Having suffered military defeat at the hands of advanced Western powers in the 1850s, Russia and Japan embarked upon a program of catch-up and modernization in the late-19th Century. While the two states sought in the main to replicate the successes of the advanced great powers of the West, the ...
US-China Competition and the South China Sea Disputes
1st Edition
Edited
By Huiyun Feng, Kai He
May 07, 2020
Traditionally, the South China Sea (SCS) issue was not on the negotiation table between the United States and China. However, the tensions between the United States and China over the SCS have gradually simmered up to a strategic level. Why and how did the SCS become a flashpoint between the United...
Post-Politics and Civil Society in Asian Cities: Spaces of Depoliticisation
1st Edition
Edited
By Sonia Lam-Knott, Creighton Connolly, Kong Chong Ho
November 07, 2019
Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, Post-Politics and Civil Society in Asian Cities examines how the concept of ‘post-politics’ has manifested across a range of Asian cities, and the impact this has had on state-society relationships in processes of urban governance. This ...
China and Transboundary Water Politics in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Hongzhou Zhang, Mingjiang Li
October 10, 2019
Water-related conflicts have a long history and will continue to be a global and regional problem. Asia, with 1.5 billion of its people living in shared river basins, and with very few transboundary rivers governed by treaties, is especially prone to such conflicts. The key to mitigating ...
The Road to Federalism in Nepal, Myanmar and Sri Lanka: Finding the Middle Ground
1st Edition
By Michael Breen
October 10, 2019
Nations built on exclusion and assimilation, decades of civil war, widespread poverty, authoritarianism and the decline of democracy. Nepal, Myanmar and Sri Lanka are travelling a road to federalism. Institutions and ethnic identity have interacted to privilege some and marginalise others. But when...
Japan and the shaping of post-Vietnam War Southeast Asia: Japanese diplomacy and the Cambodian conflict, 1978-1993
1st Edition
By Andrea Pressello
March 21, 2019
The Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in 1978 and the consequent outbreak of the Cambodian conflict brought Southeast Asia into instability and deteriorated relations between Vietnam and the subsequently established Vietnam-backed government in Cambodia on the one hand and the Association of ...
Japan's International Democracy Assistance as Soft Power: Neoclassical Realist Analysis
1st Edition
By Maiko Ichihara
March 21, 2019
Japan has increasingly emphasized democracy assistance since the mid-2000s, such that it now constitutes a major part of Japan’s foreign policy. This approach is an ostensible departure from the country’s traditional foreign policy stance, which tries to avoid bringing values to the forefront of ...
Japan's Security and Economic Dependence on China and the United States: Cool Politics, Lukewarm Economics
1st Edition
By Keisuke Iida
March 21, 2019
With the rise of China, Japan and many East Asian countries are caught between maximizing profit from economic ties with her, and strengthening alliances with the United States to prevent China from overpowering them. Liberals and realists thus debate over the likelihood of either security tensions...
New Media Political Engagement And Participation in Malaysia
1st Edition
By Sara Chinnasamy
March 21, 2019
This book analyses the exponential growth of independent news portal (INPs) in Malaysia and discusses the extent of impacts generated from these portals in Malaysian electoral conduct especially during Malaysia's 12th and 13th general elections. The mainstream media in Malaysia has for decades been...