Routledge Studies on Think Asia
About the Book Series
This series addresses the current strategic complexities of Asia and forecasts how these current complexities will shape Asia’s future. Bringing together empirical and conceptual analysis, the series examines critical aspects of Asian politics, with a particular focus on the current security and strategic complexities. The series includes academic studies from universities, research institutes and think-tanks and policy oriented studies. Focusing on security and strategic analysis on Asia’s current and future trajectory, this series welcomes submissions on relationship patterns (bilateral, trilateral and multilateral) in Indo-Pacific, regional and sub-regional institutions and mechanisms, corridors and connectivity, maritime security, infrastructure politics, trade and economic models and critical frontiers (boundaries, borders, bordering provinces) that are crucial to Asia’s future.
Please submit your proposals to the series editor Jagannath P. Panda: [email protected]
Contemporary China in Anglo-American and Chinese Perspectives: Making Sense of a Rising China
1st Edition
By Emre Demir
December 29, 2022
This book identifies differing approaches to the issues of conceptualising hegemony, hegemony-building processes and the relationship between a hegemonic state and a rising power. It focuses on transformations of the Chinese state, society and political-economy, China’s rapidly ascending status in ...
Japan's Evolving Security Policy: Militarisation within a Pacifist Tradition
1st Edition
By Kyoko Hatakeyama
September 26, 2022
Japan has been expanding its military roles in the post-Cold War period. This book analyses the shift in Japan’s security policy by examining the collective ideas of political parties and the effect of an international norm. Starting with the analysis of the collective ideas held by political ...
Conflict and Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific: New Geopolitical Realities
1st Edition
Edited
By Ash Rossiter, Brendon J. Cannon
August 29, 2022
This book explores the most important strategic questions about the emerging Indo-Pacific region by offering an incisive analysis on the current and future patterns of competition and cooperation of key nations in the region.Examining emerging policies of cooperation and conflict adopted by ...
The Korean Peninsula and Indo-Pacific Power Politics: Status Security at Stake
1st Edition
Edited
By Jagannath P. Panda
August 29, 2022
This book assesses the strategic linkages that the Korean Peninsula shares with the Indo-Pacific and provides a succinct picture of issues which will shape the trajectory of the Korean Peninsula in the future.This book analyses how critical actors such as the United States, China, Russia and Japan ...
Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy under Xi Jinping: The Future Political Trajectory
1st Edition
Edited
By Arthur S. Ding, Jagannath P. Panda
August 01, 2022
This book focuses on China’s future under Xi Jinping’s authoritarian leadership by examining various facets of the political, economic, social and foreign policy trajectories of contemporary China. It assesses Xi Jinping’s power dynamic as the ‘core’ leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC) ...
Identity, Culture, and Chinese Foreign Policy: THAAD and China’s South Korea Policy
1st Edition
By Kangkyu Lee
August 01, 2022
This book assesses the role of identity and Chinese face culture in Chinese foreign policy by analyzing China’s political and economic retaliation against South Korea’s deployment of the THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) system on its soil.By examining the history and military action of ...
Northeast India and India's Act East Policy: Identifying the Priorities
1st Edition
Edited
By M. Amarjeet Singh
June 30, 2021
This book offers an understanding of the expectations and challenges of Northeast India in the context of India's Act East policy. It critically examines how the policy is being pursued by the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government and analyses its relevance from local perspectives...
India and China in Asia: Between Equilibrium and Equations
1st Edition
Edited
By Jagannath Panda
March 31, 2021
This book analyses the structure of the India–China relationship and the two prominent powers’ positions with and against each other, bilaterally and globally, in a complex Asian environment and beyond. India and China’s perceptions of one another are evaluated to reveal how the order of Asia is ...