Asian Politics

UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and the South China Sea covers topics such as baselines, historic title and rights, due regard and abuse of rights, peaceful use of the ocean, navigation regimes, marine scientific research, intelligence gathering, the UNCLOS dispute settlement system and regional..

 Varieties of Secularism is an ethnographically rich, theoretically well-informed, and intellectually coherent volume which builds off the work of Talal Asad, Charles Taylor, and others who have engaged the issue of secularism(s) and in socio-political life. The volume seeks to examine theories of s..

This book presents and analyzes the oldest sub-national war of postcolonial South Asia, the one between the Indian state and the Nagas of Northeast India...

This book presents and analyzes the oldest sub-national war of postcolonial South Asia, the one between the Indian state and the Nagas of Northeast India...

Written by leading scholars, such as Joseph Nye, Eric Hobsbawm and Akira Iriye, this book focuses on how the US could adapt its foreign policy initiatives to fit in with the growing aspirations of a multipolar world for a more balanced international order...

An engaging collection of essays written on this exciting and often neglected episode in Chinese history. Drawing on archival and published sources , the authors show the great diversity of groups and communities that made up wartime Shanghai...

An engaging collection of essays written on this exciting and often neglected episode in Chinese history. Drawing on archival and published sources , the authors show the great diversity of groups and communities that made up wartime Shanghai...

Using contemporary case studies, Women, Ethnicity and Nationalism asks whether societies caught in political and social transition provide new opportunties for women or, instead, create new burdens and obstacles for them...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Xinjiang. It introduces Xinjiang's history, economy and society, and above all outlines the political and religious opposition by the Turkic peoples of Xinjiang to Chinese communist rule...