Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
About the Book Series
The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of contemporary Asia.
New Regional Geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific: Drivers, Dynamics and Consequences
1st Edition
Edited
By Priya Chacko
December 12, 2019
During the last twenty years, burgeoning transnational trade, investment and production linkages have emerged in the area between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The appearance of this area of interdependence and interaction and its potential impact on global order has captured the attention of ...
Political Participation in Asia: Defining and Deploying Political Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Eva Hansson, Meredith L. Weiss
December 12, 2019
A combination of economic transformation, political transitions and changes in media have substantially, if incrementally, altered the terrain for political participation globally, particularly in Asia, home to several of the most dramatic such shifts over the past two decades.This book explores ...
Middle Class, Civil Society and Democracy in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao
November 28, 2019
This book offers a timely analysis of the tripartite links between the middle class, civil society and democratic experiences in Northeast and Southeast Asia. It aims to go beyond the two popular theoretical propositions in current democratic theory, which emphasise the bilateral connections ...
Energy Transition in East Asia: A Social Science Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Kuei-Tien Chou
September 05, 2019
The Fukushima disaster of 2011 shook the globe, arousing warm debate and new research within the academic fields of countries in both the West and the East on issues related to nuclear security, public trust, government governance, risk governance and risk perception along with technological and ...
Faces of Homelessness in the Asia Pacific
1st Edition
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By Carole Zufferey, Nilan Yu
January 17, 2019
Across the Asia Pacific, there are a vast range of experiences of homelessness and an equally diverse range of responses from state systems. Since understandings of homelessness are also heavily dependent on geographical, cultural, and historical contexts, attitudes towards it as a ‘social problem’...
Populist Threats and Democracy’s Fate in Southeast Asia: Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia
1st Edition
By William Case
August 14, 2018
Democracy in Southeast Asia has been explained using a number of factors including historical legacies, social structures, developmental levels, transitional processes, and institutional designs while other elements, such as elite-level relations and social coalitions, have been overlooked. This ...
Enhancing Asia-Europe Co-operation through Educational Exchange
1st Edition
By Georg Wiessala
August 10, 2018
This book examines the ideas of knowledge-transfer and higher education exchange in the relationship between the European Union and countries, regions, universities and think-tanks across Asia. It critically investigates some discourses of particular relevance to the cognitive framework of the ...
Asia Struggles with Democracy: Evidence from Indonesia, Korea and Thailand
1st Edition
By Giovanna Dore
June 28, 2018
Since 1974, when the current wave of democratisation began, the movement towards democracy in Asia has remained limited. Many countries in Asia, in fact, are not making a decisive move towards democracy, and find themselves struggling with the challenges of democratic consolidation and governance. ...
China-Malaysia Relations and Foreign Policy
1st Edition
By Razak Abdullah
January 22, 2018
When Malaysian Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak Hussein, paid an official visit to China in May 1974, it secured Malaysia a place in the annals of regional diplomatic history as the first ASEAN country to establish full diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China. This book analyses the...
Disaster Relief in the Asia Pacific: Agency and Resilience
1st Edition
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By Minako Sakai, Edwin Jurriëns, Jian Zhang, Alec Thornton
October 26, 2017
A UN report recently found that the Asia Pacific is the world’s most disaster-prone region. Indeed, considering that the region accounts for more than half of the total number of disasters in the world, building capacity and resilience to mitigate the devastating impact of disasters is a pressing ...
China–India Relations: Cooperation and conflict
1st Edition
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By Kanti Bajpai, Jing Huang, Kishore Mahbubani
October 13, 2017
The question of whether China and India can cooperate is at the core of global geopolitics. As the two countries grow their economies, the potential for conflict is no longer simply a geopolitical one based on relative power, influence and traditional quarrels over land boundaries. This book ...
Asianism and the Politics of Regional Consciousness in Singapore
1st Edition
By Leong Yew
October 12, 2017
Over the last two decades, Singapore has undergone a substantial degree of ‘Asianization’. Apart from participating in the Asian values debate of the 1990s, re-visioning itself as ‘New Asia’ and a global-Asian hub, and establishing Asian identities for the commodities it consumes and produces, ...