Asian Politics

We usually portray the United States and the European Union as having mostly benign motivations and as spreading democracy and human rights over the world. At the same time, we tend to view illiberal regimes such as Putin’s Russia, as increasingly promoting autocracy, if not on a global scale, then ..

This book presents a coherent and comprehensive analysis of the international dimension of democratization in East Asia...

This book examines how social movements in previously authoritarian contexts evolve after democratic transition, using South Korea as a case study. It explores how democratic change influences the form of social movements, and how social movements affect the pace and direction of democracy in turn...

This book demonstrates how careful examinations of current developments in East Asia indicate a need for major expansion of our understandings of democracy and democratization, and challenges the traditional way in which political regimes are conceived and labelled. It shows from Asian experiences t..

This book demonstrates how careful examinations of current developments in East Asia indicate a need for major expansion of our understandings of democracy and democratization, and challenges the traditional way in which political regimes are conceived and labelled. It shows from Asian experiences t..

This book demonstrates how careful examinations of current developments in East Asia indicate a need for major expansion of our understandings of democracy and democratization, and challenges the traditional way in which political regimes are conceived and labelled. It shows from Asian experiences t..

Title first published in 2003. Chowdhury looks at the problems of democratization and development as it relates to building democratic institutions in the newly democratizing countries such as Bangladesh, India and Pakistan...

In the post-Cold War era when America's foreign policy is focusing on how best to foster democratic transition throughout the world, the lessons that can be learned from Taiwan's democratization impart valuable lessons to students and scholars. This volume examines in particular questions concerning..

Case-study rich, this volume provides an interesting look at Asian politics and Asian globalization based on the insights of Amartya Sen, giving particular focus to Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, China and India, and the ways in which Senism has affected each of them...

Encompassing China's political (and also social, economic and cultural) development since 1949, the dictionary is an up-to-date and comprehensive survey that will be of use to asian studies and politics students and teachers alike...

This book brings together the thoughts of leading experts on the Asian economy and provides a broad and thorough analysis of the economic situation. It provides case studies from fourteen countries in the region, how the crisis developed and affected them, and the response from governments...

Since the turn of the century there have been major changes across the economies of East Asia, as Japan has experienced two decades of economic slow-down, while China has become the second largest economy in the world. Bearing this in mind, is it even possible to formulate an East Asian development ..