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.
Parliaments in Asia: Institution Building and Political Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Zheng Yongnian, Lye Liang Fook, Wilhelm Hofmeister
October 13, 2017
Much writing on politics in Asia revolves around the themes of democracy and democratisation with a particular focus on political systems and political parties. This book, on the other hand, examines the role that parliaments – a key institution of democracy – play in East, Southeast and South Asia...
Secessionism and Separatism in Europe and Asia: To Have a State of One’s Own
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean-Pierre Cabestan, Aleksandar Pavković
May 31, 2017
The boundaries between secessionism and separatism are often blurred, and in many cases study of secessionism encompasses that of separatism and vice versa. Recognising this inherent relationship, this book provides a comparative survey of recent attempts at secession and separatist movements from ...
China's Power and Asian Security
1st Edition
Edited
By Mingjiang Li, Kalyan M. Kemburi
May 25, 2017
One of the most significant factors for contemporary international relations is the growth of China’s economic, military, and political power. Indeed, few analysts would dispute the observation that China’s power has strongly influenced the structure of the international system, major-power ...
China’s Rise and Regional Integration in East Asia: Hegemony or community?
1st Edition
Edited
By Yong Wook Lee, Key-young Son
April 27, 2017
With featuring far-reaching diversities and disparities among the regional states in their political, economic and social systems and cultural and religious orientations, East Asia is a microcosm of international society at large. Nevertheless, there are unique dynamics unfolding in East Asia at ...
Democratization in China, Korea and Southeast Asia?: Local and National Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Kate Xiao Zhou, Shelley Rigger, Lynn T. White III
April 27, 2017
Rapid economic pluralization in East Asia has empowered local and medial groups, and with this change comes the need to rethink usual notions regarding ways in which "democracies" emerge or "citizens" gain more power. Careful examination of current developments in China, Korea, and Southeast Asia ...
Japan’s Civil-Military Diplomacy: The Banks of the Rubicon
1st Edition
By Dennis T. Yasutomo
December 20, 2016
Since the early 1990s, there has been a clear evolution in the military dimension of Japanese diplomacy. From Gulf War I in 1991 to the present day, an incremental but unmistakable acceptance of, and resort to, military dispatches has taken place, and yet crucially, Japan has not morphed into a ...
Sino-U.S. Energy Triangles: Resource Diplomacy Under Hegemony
1st Edition
Edited
By David Zweig, Yufan Hao
December 20, 2016
The remarkable performance of the Chinese economy in the last three decades has placed China at the centre of the world stage. In 1993, China became a net importer of energy, although it was not until the early 2000s that the world began to pay more attention to China’s energy needs and its ...
Illiberal Democracy in Indonesia: The Ideology of the Family State
1st Edition
By David Bourchier
November 10, 2016
Illiberal Democracy in Indonesia charts the origins and development of organicist ideologies in Indonesia from the early 20th century to the present. In doing so, it provides a background to the theories and ideology that informed organicist thought, traces key themes in Indonesian history, ...
Votes, Party Systems and Democracy in Asia
1st Edition
By Jungug Choi
June 28, 2016
This book looks at the link between voters and political party systems in Asian democracies, focusing on India, Indonesia, Korea and the Philippines. It discusses this link in terms of three distinct elements: the formation of voters preferences, the translation of preferences into votes, and the ...
The Politics of Nation Building and Citizenship in Singapore
1st Edition
By Michael Hill, Kwen Fee Lian
May 31, 2016
Since independence in 1965 Singapore has strengthened its own national identity through a conscious process of nation-building and promoting the active role of the citizen within society. Singapore is a state that has firmly rejected welfarism but whose political leaders have maintained that ...
Rethinking Historical Injustice and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia: The Korean Experience
1st Edition
Edited
By Gi-Wook Shin, Soon-Won Park, Daqing Yang
October 01, 2015
Despite witnessing phenomenal economic growth and the spread of democratization in recent decades, as well as impressive intra-regional exchanges and interactions in the economic and cultural spheres, the Northeast Asian region still experience wounds from past wrongs that were committed in times ...
Democratic Development in East Asia
1st Edition
By Becky Shelley
September 08, 2015
Democratic Development in East Asia explores an important but neglected topic in the literature on democratization in East Asia: the international dimension of democratization. It presents a coherent and comprehensive analysis of the impact of external political, economic and cultural factors on ...