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 examines contested ideas of regionalism in Asia with a particular focus on two competing ideas of pan-Asianism and Pacificism. It also ident..
This book comprehensively examines the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation, the regional organisation consisting of China, Russia and most of the Centr..
Barack Obama’s "rebalancing strategy" or "pivot strategy", intended to demonstrate continued US commitment to the Asia Pacific region in a variety of ..
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When Malaysian Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak Hussein, paid an official visit to China in May 1974, it secured Malaysia a place i..
Since 2004, Thailand’s southern border provinces have been plagued by violence. There are a wide array of explanations for this violence, from the rev..
The Arctic is an antithesis. Global temperature rise is being experienced earliest and most intensely in the Arctic region. The changes are worrying b..
In 2002 East Timor became an independent state following a long conflict with Indonesia. At independence, East Timor adopted a semi-presidential form ..
Drawing on an in-depth examination of the existing literature on social mobilization and extensive fieldwork conducted in India, Ashok Swain questions..
China's reforms are being hailed as a model of how to transform a centrally-planned economy. This book shows that reform is not a uniform process and ..
Marginalisation and Social Welfare in China provides a systematic analysis, underpinned by recent empirical research and strong comparative theory, th..
Rodan dissects the extent of political oppositions in Asia and analyzes the nature of new social movements outside institutional party politics which ..