Asian Politics

Capturing the current critical moment in US-Korean relations, expert contributors examine the relations through such prisms as nationalism, the media, regional relations and human rights issues...

This book takes a clear look at the course of the economic and political developments in Japan since the Second World War and in particular trends in government and politics since the peace treaty of 1952. ..

This fully revised third edition of Michael Yahuda's extremely successful textbook brings the region fully up-to-date, introducing students to the international politics of the Asia-Pacific region since 1945. As well as assessing the post-cold War uncertainties that challenged balance and power with..

This fully revised third edition of Michael Yahuda's extremely successful textbook brings the region fully up-to-date, introducing students to the international politics of the Asia-Pacific region since 1945. As well as assessing the post-cold War uncertainties that challenged balance and power with..

Questioning the connection between media, technology and democracy, this text examines the emergence of the internet in Indonesia and how the country is using and being changed by the web...

This book provides a highly reliable guide to the industrial economy and history and will be of interest to those involved in Asian studies, Japanese studies, economists and professionals in business and enterprise culture..

This is the first book to comprehensively examine the phenomenon of Japanese city planning. Japan is one of the world's most urbanized countries, with its own traditions of urban management that are remarkably little known in the rest of the world...

In this adventurous new study, Brian J. McVeigh demonstrates how nominally conflicting impressions of Japan can be reconciled by a greater understanding of the state - revealing flaws in current intellectual discourse...

Now in its new and fully updated 3rd edition, this book provide a compelling analysis of a region undergoing dramatic changes. Offering fresh interpretationProviding an introductory guide for the main frameworks needed to understand the region , this edition evaluates the prospects for continuing US..

Barack Obama’s "rebalancing strategy" or "pivot strategy", intended to demonstrate continued US commitment to the Asia Pacific region in a variety of military, economic and diplomatic contexts, was launched with much fanfare in 2011. Implicit in the new strategy is a focus on China and also a US rel..

Barack Obama’s "rebalancing strategy" or "pivot strategy", intended to demonstrate continued US commitment to the Asia Pacific region in a variety of military, economic and diplomatic contexts, was launched with much fanfare in 2011. Implicit in the new strategy is a focus on China and also a US rel..

Socialism first gained a major foothold in Japan after the revolution and the subsequent Meiji restoration of 1868. Against the background of the rapid development of capitalism in Japan after the revolution, and the accompanying emergence of the working class, this study shows how early Japanese so..