Asian Politics

Gender and Power in Affluent Asia is the first major study to analyse the relatioships between gender and power that have accompanied the rise of Asian affluence...

This book examines geopolitics in East Asia, focusing in particular on East Asia’s contentious maritime territorial disputes. It examines how important factors including territory, natural resources and power relations influence state behaviour and relations between important powers including the Un..

This book explores the play of international forces and international ideas about Shanghai, looking backward as far as its transformation into a subdivided treaty port in the 1840s, and looking forward to its upcoming hosting of China’s first World’s Fair, the 2010 Expo...

This is the first integrated account of citizen responses to the new global order.  Based on a comprehensive survey administered at the end of 2000 in nine European and nine Asian countries, it demonstrates the diverse responses to globalization, within, and between, two of the world's major – and m..

This is the first integrated account of citizen responses to the new global order.  Based on a comprehensive survey administered at the end of 2000 in nine European and nine Asian countries, it demonstrates the diverse responses to globalization, within, and between, two of the world's major – and m..

This volume discusses the current trend of globalization and the main characteristics of world order, focusing specifically on the destiny of the nation state, the threat against human rights, and conflicts between unilateral hegemony of the USA and Europe. Comparative in nature, it offers meaningfu..

This book seeks to place emphasis on the transnational dynamics of globalization. Whereas international processes occur across borders, transnational processes, in addition to this, occur through functional integration (to different degrees and through different ways). This can be seen most clearly ..

This book seeks to place emphasis on the transnational dynamics of globalization. Whereas international processes occur across borders, transnational processes, in addition to this, occur through functional integration (to different degrees and through different ways). This can be seen most clearly ..

By situating China within the broader context of East Asia and against the backdrop of globalization since the 1980s, this book examines the institutional origin and development of China’s new welfare system. Through doing this, it provides an understanding of the nature of the Chinese state in deal..

This book assesses the current state of governance and public sector reforms in eleven Asian countries and jurisdictions, especially in the wake of the recent regional financial crisis that seriously affected some of them...

In the context of increasingly multi-religious, multi-racial and multi-ethnic modern societies, the achievement of harmony is emerging as a major challenge. This book examines the idea of harmony, and its place in politics and governance, both in theory and practice, in Asia, the West and elsewhere...

A student-friendly textbook which examines the governance of nation states in this region, exploring the huge diversity and range of political values beliefs and governing styles in the Asia-Pacific...