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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]

28 Series Titles


Contemporary China in Anglo-American and Chinese Perspectives Making Sense of a Rising China

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

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 ...

Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy under Xi Jinping The Future Political Trajectory

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

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 ...

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