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Jamsheed Marker's lifetime in the diplomatic service of Pakistan gave him a unique vintage point. In cricket terms, he was at cover point, near enough to the wicket to follow the action around the stumps...yet sufficiently distant for a general overview...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684512997Author Steven W MosherFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Regnery PublishingPublisher Regnery PublishingWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 213mm...

A Region of Regimes traces the relationship between politics and economics-power and prosperity-in the Asia-Pacific in the decades since the Second World War. This book complicates familiar and incomplete narratives of the "Asian economic miracle" to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952636424Author Sharifah Munirah AlatasFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian Studies

The concept of Greater Tibet has surfaced in the political and academic worlds in recent years. It is based in the inadequacies of other definitions of what constitutes the historical and modern worlds in which Tibetan people, ideas, and culture occupy...

Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the Chinese-Speaking World: Reorienting the Political examines the reception of Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in China and Taiwan. The legacies of both Schmitt, the German legal theorist and thinker who joined the Nazi...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345804037Author Joshua PartlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

India is becoming an increasingly visible, powerful and influential state within the global system. As this rise to prominence continues, better appreciating the interests and principles that structure the international interactions of South Asia's...

This book explores the party politics and political system of Japan, which since 1955 has been dominated by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), with a particular focus on the evolution of LDP governments between the 1990s and 2010s.Through its evaluation...

Gender in Modern East Asia explores the history of women and gender in China, Korea, and Japan from the seventeenth century to the present. This unique volume treats the three countries separately within each time period while also placing them in global...

By the early 21st century with the rise of China economies of East Asia and India, the prognosis of a strong Asia showed promise. The Indo - Pacific Region (essentially Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean) deservedly came to be recognised as the new...

This overview of Chinese politics, economy, and society by a leading scholar offers a deeply informed assessment of China's last decade-its debates and political infighting, its rising and assertive international profile, and the forceful initiatives...

The stakes for control over the means of communication in China have never been so high as the country struggles with breathtaking social change. This authoritative book analyzes the key dimensions of the transformation in China's communication system...

This successor volume to China beyond the Headlines takes the reader even farther beyond the "front stage" to explore a China few Westerners have seen. The contributors argue that the great gap between what specialists understand and the...

Faced with the usual list of paradoxes that plague our views of China: it is a communist regime with a capitalist economy; an authoritarian state with an entrepreneurial spirit; a unified nation with tendencies toward fragmentation, the contributions to...

Explores the growing water supply crisis through an ethnographic study of a rural minority community in China threatened by climate change.China is experiencing climate whiplash—extreme fluctuations between drought and flooding—that threatens the health...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505887853Author Strategic Studies InstituteFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace...

The four countries represented in this volume are East Asian middle powers with strategic constraints upon their traditional security policymaking. These middle powers have pursued diplomatic activities raising their international profile or footprint,...

Click here to hear Anne-Marie Brady's BBC World Service radio documentary titled "The Message from China" China's government is no longer a Stalinist-Maoist dictatorship, yet it does not seem to be moving significantly closer to democracy as it...

This book examines the origins and consequences of Burma's current policies from military, political, social, and economic perspectives. It analyzes the Asian decision to "constructively engage" Burma, especially in economic affairs, versus the...

The massive economic transformations and political upheavals that have been sweeping China and the Soviet Union in the final decades of the twentieth century are among the great dramas of our time. Yet the origins of these revolutionary changes are murky...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781687207180Author Ioannis VasileiouFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 140g

Since 1988, when Burma's military rulers crushed a popular uprising, Western governments have promoted democracy as a panacea for the country's manifold development problems, from ethnic conflict to weak governance, human rights abuses, and deep-rooted,...

This successor volume to China beyond the Headlines takes the reader even farther beyond the "front stage" to explore a China few Westerners have seen. The contributors argue that the great gap between what specialists understand and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798649293822Author Stefan PiechFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 390g

Bringing together a wide range of distinguished scholars, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of Kim Jong Un's foreign policy strategy and its global impact, following a decade under Kim Jong Un's rule.Book InformationISBN 9781538160305Author...

This unique book, now fully updated, provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of life in North Korea today. Drawing on decades of experience, noted experts Ralph Hassig and Kongdan Oh explore a world few outsiders can imagine. In vivid detail,...

This compelling book analyzes the rise of civil society and legal contentiousness in contemporary China. Scott Wilson examines how Chinese AIDS carriers and pollution victims, relying on weak laws and judicial institutions, pursue justice and protection...

Why does North Korea want to possess nuclear capabilities? In order to find the answer to this question, we must have an accurate understanding of the history and structure of the North Korean regime. So far, we have only formed conjectures and...

This comprehensive book explores contemporary Taiwan from the perspective of the Taiwanese themselves. In a unique set of original essays, leading Taiwanese figures consider the country's history, politics, society, economy, identity, and future...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781500780005Author U S Army Command and General Staff CollFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781539317388Author Committee on Foreign Affairs House of ReFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538163238Author Carol Ann BoshierFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

"I first sailed the Yangtze in 1983 on the Kun Lun, a foreign-leased cruise ship that went back and forth in seedy glamour between Shanghai and Chongqing. Over the next years, I made many trips along China's longest river, most often on its upper...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781502841865Author Congressional Research ServiceFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace...

In October 2022, the 20th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) concluded, extending Xi Jinping's leadership indefinitely, which many view as a one-party dictatorship. Exploring Confucian and socialist principles, this book examines the...

This clear and nuanced introduction explores the Philippines' ongoing and deeply charged dilemma of state-society relations through a historical treatment of state formation and the corresponding conflicts and collaboration between government leaders and...

September 2001 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the San Francisco Treaty, formally ending the Second World War. In signing this treaty, Japan fundamentally transformed its position on the world stage. It established itself in the...

China has become an undisputed global phenomenon, yet twenty-five years ago, its remarkable accomplishments were largely unforeseen. In an ambitious effort to predict China's coming decades, this book explores not only the economic development that has...

In recent years the narrative surrounding China's "peaceful rise" has given way to a more ominous story of friction, ambition, and great-power rivalry. As Chinese foreign policy has grown more nationalist and assertive, its intensifying...