Politics in Asia
About the Book Series
Politics in Asia has long been established as a source of distinctive and authoritative studies on the political life of Asia. The series covers a broad range of countries and aspects of politics, and includes volumes from some of the leading scholars working in the field.
The Balance of Power in Asia-Pacific Security: US-China Policies on Regional Order
1st Edition
By Liselotte Odgaard
April 29, 2009
Investigating the dynamics of balancing patterns in the Asia-Pacific, this book focuses particularly on the contribution of great powers and middle powers to regional stability. Taking the US and China as great powers, and using ASEAN, Russia, Australia and South Korea as example of middle powers, ...
US-China Relations in the 21st Century: Power Transition and Peace
1st Edition
By Zhiqun Zhu
March 10, 2009
US-China Relations in the 21st Century addresses the bilateral relations of these two nations on international, domestic, societal and individual levels between 1990 and 2005. Peaceful power shifts remain a central dilemma in world politics, since historically power transition from a dominant ...
A Rising China and Security in East Asia: Identity Construction and Security Discourse
1st Edition
By Rex Li
December 29, 2008
This volume provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the security discourse of Chinese policy elites on the major powers in East Asia in relation to China’s self-perception as a rising power. It is the first book-length study that utilizes International Relations theories systematically to...
Islam in Indonesian Foreign Policy
1st Edition
By Rizal Sukma
July 25, 2008
This companion volume to the highly successful Islam in Malaysian Foreign Policy explores the extent to which foreign policy in the world's largest Muslim nation has been influenced by Islamic considerations....
Civil Life, Globalization and Political Change in Asia: Organizing between Family and State
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert P. Weller
September 01, 2007
Academics and policy makers have grown increasingly interested in the ways that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) may encourage better governance, democratic politics, and perhaps ultimately a global civil society. In Civil Life, Globalization and Political Change in Asia, Robert Weller ...
East Timor, Australia and Regional Order: Intervention and its Aftermath in Southeast Asia
1st Edition
By James S Cotton
December 01, 2006
This book explains the exceptional nature of the East Timor intervention of 1999, and deals with the background to the trusteeship role of the UN in building the new polity. All of these developments had an important impact on regional order, not least testing the ASEAN norm of 'non-interference'....
Empire and Neoliberalism in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Vedi R. Hadiz
May 30, 2006
This book analyzes the overall effect of American primacy on social and political conflicts in Asia, discussing how the post-Cold War American agenda does not promote democratization in the region, in contradiction to one of the major proclaimed aims of the proponents of the Pax Americana. This ...
Chinese Nationalism in the Global Era
1st Edition
By Christopher R. Hughes
April 18, 2006
Presenting an analysis of the tension between nationalism and globalization in China since the beginning of the ‘reform and opening’ period in the late 1970s to the present day, this book makes a unique contribution to the on-going debate on the nature of Chinese nationalism. It shows how ...
Order and Security in Southeast Asia: Essays in Memory of Michael Leifer
1st Edition
Edited
By Ralf Emmers, Joseph Liow
January 13, 2006
Michael Leifer, who died in 2001, was one of the leading scholars of Southeast Asian international relations. He was hugely influential through his extensive writings and his contacts with people in government and business in the region. In this book, many of Leifer’s students, colleagues and ...
China's Rise, Taiwan's Dilemma's and International Peace
1st Edition
Edited
By Edward Friedman
December 20, 2005
If we are to believe the media then a war between China and Taiwan is inevitable. Incorporating interviews, archives and original research, this book examines the troubled relationship between China, Taiwan and the United States, bringing Taiwanese views on identity politics to the forefront of the...
State Terrorism and Political Identity in Indonesia: Fatally Belonging
1st Edition
By Ariel Heryanto
December 16, 2005
Approximately one million innocent Indonesians were killed by their fellow nationals, neighbours and kin at the height of an anti-communist campaign in the mid-1960s. This book investigates the profound political consequences of these mass killings in Indonesia upon public life, highlighting the ...
Realism and Interdependence in Singapore's Foreign Policy
1st Edition
By Narayanan Ganesan
October 18, 2005
Singapore’s existence and success derive in part from its achievements in the domestic political arena and in part from the skilful management of a well-defined foreign policy with clearly identifiable goals and issues. A visible core of realist self-reliance is layered with the demands ...