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.
The Asia-Europe Meeting: The Theory and Practice of Interregionalism
1st Edition
By Alfredo C. Robles
March 13, 2012
Focusing on the economic, developmental, political and cultural issues of its member states, this book offers a critical assessment of the ASEM process since its inception in 1996, which now brings together all 27 EU members, the European Commission, and 16 East Asian states. The underlying theme ...
Business Innovation in Asia: Knowledge and Technology Networks from Japan
1st Edition
By Dennis McNamara
October 11, 2011
Industrial competition with rising economies, new regional investment from the West, and trade pacts among competitors threaten Japan’s long postwar prominence. Global market dynamics and regional competition prompted the shift from offshore factories to local networks in the last decade. Similar ...
Trade and Contemporary Society along the Silk Road: An ethno-history of Ladakh
1st Edition
By Jacqueline H. Fewkes
July 12, 2011
This book provides an ethno-historical study of the trade system in Ladakh (India), a busy entrepôt for Silk Route trade between Central and South Asia. Previously a part of global networks, Ladakh became an isolated border area as national boundaries were defined and enforced in the mid-20th ...
Expansion of Trade and FDI in Asia: Strategic and Policy Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Julien Chaisse, Philippe Gugler
July 11, 2011
Foreign direct investment flows have increased dramatically in recent decades and continue to be a driving factor of economic globalisation. As a growth pole in the world economy, large parts of Asia have particularly become an attractive place for market-seeking FDI. In a high number of Asian ...
Japan and Africa: Globalization and Foreign Aid in the 21st Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Howard P. Lehman
July 08, 2011
Since the early 1990s, Japan has played an increasingly important and influential role in Africa. A primary mechanism that has furthered its influence has been through its foreign aid policies. Japan’s primacy, however, has been challenged by changing global conditions related to aid to Africa, ...
East Asian Regionalism from a Legal Perspective: Current features and a vision for the future
1st Edition
Edited
By Tamio Nakamura
June 20, 2011
Plenty has been written about the political and economical aspects of regionalism, but the legal perspective has been neglected. East Asian Regionalism From a Legal Perspective is unique in synthesizing legal, economic and political analyses. In the first part, the book ...
Lessons from the Asian Financial Crisis
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Carney
March 17, 2011
Nearly ten years after the Asian Financial Crisis, financial turmoil has reappeared – this time it is ravaging the world's wealthiest countries and dragging the global economy along for the ride. It forces one to reflect on the last major financial crisis to afflict the global economy, and to ...
Preventing Corruption in Asia: Institutional Design and Policy Capacity
1st Edition
Edited
By Ting Gong, Stephen K. Ma
March 17, 2011
Despite intensified governmental and public efforts at corruption control in recent years, official transgression continues to surface in various ways of abusing the unique power and trust that a government holds. Preventing Corruption in Asia addresses a number of crucial questions: -What ...
From Orientalism to Postcolonialism: Asia, Europe and the Lineages of Difference
1st Edition
Edited
By Sucheta Mazumdar, Vasant Kaiwar, Thierry Labica
March 15, 2011
This book uses a historical and theoretical focus to examine the key of issues of the Enlightenment, Orientalism, concepts of identity and difference, and the contours of different modernities in relation to both local and global shaping forces, including the spread of capitalism. The contributors...
Kim Jong-il's Leadership of North Korea
1st Edition
By Jae-Cheon Lim
March 15, 2011
Kim Jong Il came to power after the death of his father Kim Il Sung in 1994. Contrary to expectations, he has succeeded in maintaining enough political stability to remain in power. Kim Jong Il's Leadership of North Korea is an examination of how political power has been developed, transmitted from...
Taiwan's Relations with Mainland China: A Tail Wagging Two Dogs
1st Edition
By Chi Su
July 06, 2010
Taiwan's Relations with Mainland China is the first book to deal with the role of Taiwan’s leadership politics, including the personal political styles of Lee Teng-hui and Chen Shui-bian, in the development of Taiwan’s mainland policy and the consequences for U.S.-Taiwan relations. Including ...
Education as a Political Tool in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Marie Lall, Edward Vickers
June 30, 2010
This book offers a fresh and comparative approach in questioning what education is being used for and what the effects of the politicisation of education are on Asian societies in the era of globalisation. Education has been used as a political tool throughout the ages and across the whole world to...