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.
Regional Community Building in East Asia: Countries in Focus
1st Edition
Edited
By Lee Lai To, Zarina Othman
May 11, 2018
This volume is a collection of papers written by nationals or former nationals of the respective country in ASEAN and Northeast Asia. Unlike other works written by scholars outside ASEAN or East Asia, it offers an insider’s point of view of the 10 ASEAN states, China, Japan and South Korea on ...
Political Survival and Yasukuni in Japan's Relations with China
1st Edition
By Mong Cheung
January 03, 2018
What role does the political survival of prime ministers play in Japan’s relations with China over the Yasukuni issue? Three Japanese prime ministers, including Nakasone Yasuhiro, Hashimoto Ryutaro and Abe Shinzo, complied with China’s demands and stopped visiting the controversial Shrine in 1986, ...
The US Versus the North Korean Nuclear Threat: Mitigating the Nuclear Security Dilemma
1st Edition
By Er-Win Tan
October 26, 2017
Although the current world order is still dominated by the US, there is increasing international concern over the possibility of regional security dilemmas arising from smaller powers’ attempts to develop Weapons of Mass Destruction. A study of US-North Korean interaction using the security dilemma...
Advancing the Regional Commons in the New East Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Siriporn Wajjwalku, K.C. Ho, Osamu Yoshida
October 13, 2017
Advancing the Regional Commons in the New East Asia highlights a number of interests which members of ASEAN and Plus Three countries collectively recognize. This set of common interests includes not only economic development but also social development. Written by nationals in their respective ...
Institutionalizing East Asia: Mapping and Reconfiguring Regional Cooperation
1st Edition
Edited
By Alice D. Ba, Cheng-Chwee Kuik, Sueo Sudo
October 13, 2017
Institutional activities have remarkably transformed East Asia, a region once known for the absence of regionalism and regime-building efforts. Yet the dynamics of this Asian institutionalization have remained an understudied area of research. This book offers one of the first scholarly attempts to...
Parliaments in Asia: Institution Building and Political Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Zheng Yongnian, Lye Liang Fook, Wilhelm Hofmeister
October 13, 2017
Much writing on politics in Asia revolves around the themes of democracy and democratisation with a particular focus on political systems and political parties. This book, on the other hand, examines the role that parliaments – a key institution of democracy – play in East, Southeast and South Asia...
Secessionism and Separatism in Europe and Asia: To Have a State of One’s Own
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean-Pierre Cabestan, Aleksandar Pavković
May 31, 2017
The boundaries between secessionism and separatism are often blurred, and in many cases study of secessionism encompasses that of separatism and vice versa. Recognising this inherent relationship, this book provides a comparative survey of recent attempts at secession and separatist movements from ...
China's Power and Asian Security
1st Edition
Edited
By Mingjiang Li, Kalyan M. Kemburi
May 25, 2017
One of the most significant factors for contemporary international relations is the growth of China’s economic, military, and political power. Indeed, few analysts would dispute the observation that China’s power has strongly influenced the structure of the international system, major-power ...
China’s Rise and Regional Integration in East Asia: Hegemony or community?
1st Edition
Edited
By Yong Wook Lee, Key-young Son
April 27, 2017
With featuring far-reaching diversities and disparities among the regional states in their political, economic and social systems and cultural and religious orientations, East Asia is a microcosm of international society at large. Nevertheless, there are unique dynamics unfolding in East Asia at ...
Democratization in China, Korea and Southeast Asia?: Local and National Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Kate Xiao Zhou, Shelley Rigger, Lynn T. White III
April 27, 2017
Rapid economic pluralization in East Asia has empowered local and medial groups, and with this change comes the need to rethink usual notions regarding ways in which "democracies" emerge or "citizens" gain more power. Careful examination of current developments in China, Korea, and Southeast Asia ...
Japan’s Civil-Military Diplomacy: The Banks of the Rubicon
1st Edition
By Dennis T. Yasutomo
December 20, 2016
Since the early 1990s, there has been a clear evolution in the military dimension of Japanese diplomacy. From Gulf War I in 1991 to the present day, an incremental but unmistakable acceptance of, and resort to, military dispatches has taken place, and yet crucially, Japan has not morphed into a ...
Sino-U.S. Energy Triangles: Resource Diplomacy Under Hegemony
1st Edition
Edited
By David Zweig, Yufan Hao
December 20, 2016
The remarkable performance of the Chinese economy in the last three decades has placed China at the centre of the world stage. In 1993, China became a net importer of energy, although it was not until the early 2000s that the world began to pay more attention to China’s energy needs and its ...