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The Pacific Century Second Edition Study Guide by Pauletta Otis 9780367294649
RRP: $182.68$152.63This book provides basic information and analysis concerning how the forces of change during the Pacific Century will provide a base for the future of the Pacific Asia. It presents a general chronological development of the civilizations and empires in... -
The New Pacific Community: U.s. Strategic Options In Asia by Martin L Lasater 9780367294373
RRP: $283.50$233.73As the political and economic landscape in the Asian Pacific continues to shift, the United States must re-evaluate its strategy toward the region. In his book, Martin Lasater explores U.S. interests in Asia, considering strategies for attaining U.S... -
The New China: Comparative Economic Development In Mainland China, Taiwan, And Hong Kong by Alvin Rabushka 9780367294311
RRP: $283.50$234.57In a thoroughly researched and clearly written account of the development experiences of mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, Alvin Rabushka examines three societies with similar populations but very different political and economic institutions.Book... -
Bangladesh: From A Nation To A State by Craig Baxter 9780367314644
RRP: $283.50$246.29In 1996, Bangladesh celebrates its 25th anniversary. When the country became independent from Pakistan in 1971, it proclaimed itself a parliamentary democracy with four goals?democracy, secularism, socialism, and nationalism. This comprehensive... -
The Modernizers: Overseas Students, Foreign Employees, And Meiji Japan by Ardath W. Burks 9780367294120
RRP: $283.50$235.83This volume of essays by Japanese and Western scholars sheds light on the process of modernization in nineteenth-century Japan, focusing on two significant aspects of Japan's transition to a modern society: the decision to live for a time with the... -
The Making Of A Premier: Zhao Ziyang's Provincial Career by David L Shambaugh 9780367293666
RRP: $283.50$233.73How did Zhao Ziyang rise through the provincial apparatus of the Chinese Communist Party to become premier in 1980? How did he develop the policies of economic reform in the provinces that have now become national policy? What does Zhao Ziyang's... -
The Economics Of Cooperation: East Asian Development And The Case For Promarket Intervention by James Roumasset 9780367291518
RRP: $283.50$234.57This book discusses the nature of institutional development as it promotes market growth. It is concerned with the nature of and the prospects for pro-market development planning, especially in East Asia, describing pro-market policies that enhance... -
The Changing Of The Guard: President Clinton And The Security Of Taiwan by Martin L Lasater 9780367290702
RRP: $283.50$234.57The increased military power of China since the close of the Cold War has forced the United States to reconsider its security policy toward Taiwan. In this volume, Martin Lasater explores the many new factors that are now influencing U.S. calculations of... -
The Cambodian Crisis And U.s. Policy Dilemmas by Robert G Sutter 9780367290504
RRP: $283.50$233.73This book introduces the current U.S. policy issues and interests concerning the crisis in Cambodia. It provides an overview of the impasse in the Cambodian conflict that prevailed throughout much of the 1980s and looks at U.S. policy concerns in both... -
The Armed Forces In Contemporary Asian Societies by Edward A Olsen 9780367290214
RRP: $273.00$226.04First published in 1986. This book integrates current knowledge about the military, political, economic, and cultural roles of the armed forces in sixteen Asian countries, examining the interplay of these factors and their bearing on each society's... -
The Agrarian Structure Of Bangladesh: An Impediment To Development by F. Tomasson Jannuzi 9780367290016
RRP: $283.50$233.73The relationship between the agrarian structure of Bangladesh and its problems of rural development is established in this study based on four years (1975-79) of field research. The authors suggest that the concentration of land in the hands of a rural... -
Technology, Politics, And Society In China by Rudi Volti 9780367289782
RRP: $283.50$234.57This study is the first to summarize the major technological policies implemented in China since 1949 and to place them in their social and historical context. Dr. Volti looks at technological change in China as part of a broader process of economic,... -
Technological Change In Japan's Beef Industry by James R Simpson 9780367289584
RRP: $283.50$234.57The Japanese Cattle industry has been undergoing major changes for the past three decades. During the 1950's and 1960's mechanized power rapidly. The process of beef industry structure change accelerated in the 1970's as medium scale feedlots came into... -
The Hope And The Reality: U.s.indian Relations From Roosevelt To Reagan by Harold A Gould 9780367292867
RRP: $283.50$234.57This book charts the relationship between the evolving governments of independent India and concurrent US presidential administrations. It provides an in-depth analysis of the motivations, external constraints and ideological agendas that characterized... -
The Economy Of India by V. N. Balasubramanyam 9780367291624
RRP: $283.50$234.57This book provides a succinct non-technical exposition of India's economic performance and policies. It is intended to help students who are trying to sift the vast literature with a view to gaining an understanding of India's economic problems and... -
Southeast Asia's Misunderstood Miracle: Industrial Policy And Economic Development In Thailand, Malaysia And Indonesia by Jomo K.S. 9780367288075
RRP: $182.68$152.63"The debate on the major factors contributing to Southeast Asian industrialization continues unabated. As might be expected, there is much at stake in this debate. The debate is largely ideological in nature and partly centers on the role and... -
Southeast Asia Divided: The Aseanindochina Crisis by Donald E Weatherbee 9780367288044
RRP: $283.50$233.73The central problem of international politics in Southeast Asia since December 1978 has been the Vietnamese armed presence in Kampuchea. The noncommunist nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have insisted that Vietnam withdraw... -
Science, Politics, And The Agricultural Revolution In Asia by Robert S Anderson 9780367286736
RRP: $283.50$235.83Agriculture in southern Asia has undergone a radical transformation in recent years, one that continues to alter the political economy of the area. Beyond the familiar elements of the green revolution, there has been an increase in resource exploitation... -
The Taiwan-china Connection: Democracy And Development Across The Taiwan Straits by Tse-Kang Leng 9780367319007
RRP: $283.50$246.29Exploring the transitional role of the state in Taiwan's economic development, this book focuses especially on the impact of trade with mainland China. Tse-Kang Leng argues that the basic structure of political forces within Taiwan and its pattern of... -
Public Knowledge And Environmental Politics In Japan And The United States by John C Pierce 9780367300166
RRP: $60.88$52.69This book grows out of the authors' conviction that as public policy issues become suffused with scientific and technical content, they become difficult for the democratic citizens to understand. It attempts to determine mass public capacity and their... -
Riots And Victims: Violence And The Construction Of Communal Identity Among Bengali Muslims, 19051947 by Patricia A. Gossman 9780367286095
RRP: $273.00$225.20In recent decades, the world has witnessed the emergence of several protracted violent conflicts and the eruption of ethnic and communal violence in countries such as Bosnia, Rwanda, and Sri Lanka. Riots and Victims challenges the popular academic... -
Reinventing Vietnamese Socialism: Doi Moi In Comparative Perspective by William S Turley 9780367285555
RRP: $283.50$234.57This book presents a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives on the problematic of reform in Vietnam. It explores the Vietnam's reforms in relation to those taking place in other countries of the socialist world, comparing doi moi with... -
Red Guard Factionalism And The Cultural Revolution In Guangzhou (canton) by Stanley Rosen 9780367285265
RRP: $283.50$234.57When the Chinese Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (GPCR) of the middle and late 1960s burst forth, the initial response both in China and the West seemed primarily to be one of mystification. The spectacle of severe splits among leaders long thought... -
Raising Cane: The Political Economy Of Sugar In Western India by Donald W. Attwood 9780367284978
RRP: $182.68$152.63Like any book, this one is part of a dialogue. Over the years, I have asked thousands of questions, of myself and others, and tried to answer some. Out of all this discussion, a written pattern has grown. It is certainly not a definitive pattern. Among... -
Protest In Democratic India: Authority's Response To Challenge by Leslie J Calman 9780367284558
RRP: $283.50$234.57"The concept of Westview Special Studies is a response to the continuing crisis in academic and informational publishing. Library budgets are being diverted from the purchase of books and used for data banks, computers, micromedia, and other methods... -
Power, Economics, And Security: The United States And Japan In Focus by Henry Bienen 9780367284084
RRP: $182.68$152.63This volume is dedicated to the memory of Klaus E. Knorr. Thisis fitting for a number of reasons. The collaborative work herewas done under the auspices of the Center of International Studiesat Princeton University, which Klaus Knorr directed from... -
Politics In Pakistan: The Struggle For Legitimacy by Louis D Hayes 9780367283681
RRP: $283.50$234.57Focusing on the problems associated with Pakistan's political development, this book identifies and evaluates the factors that have determined the effectiveness of the country's political institutions. Professor Hayes examines the relationship of Islamic... -
Transformations Of The Confucian Way by John Berthrong 9780367313708
RRP: $283.50$246.29From its beginnings, Confucianism has vibrantly taught that each person is able to find the Way individually in service to the community and the world. For over 2,600 years, Confucianism has sustained a continual process of transformation and growth. In... -
Siva And Her Sisters: Gender, Caste, And Class In Rural South India by Karin Kapadia 9780367317959
RRP: $262.50$226.51This book examines two subordinated groups??untouchables? and women?in a village in Tamilnadu, South India. The lives and work of ?untouchable? women in this village provide a unique analytical focus that clarifies the ways in which three axes of... -
Pacific Cooperation: Building Economic And Security Regimes In The Asiapacific Region by Andrew Mack 9780367282097
RRP: $283.50$234.57Long divided by cultural, economic, and political differences, the Asia-Pacific region has little history of multilateral cooperation. Alliances that once linked individual countries with one or the other superpower fostered deep mistrust among... -
Requiem For The Sudan: War, Drought, And Disaster Relief On The Nile by J. Millard Burr 9780367317690
RRP: $283.50$246.29After a decade of uneasy peace, the historic conflict between the Northern Sudanese, who identify with their Middle Eastern neighbors, and the Southern Sudanese, who are of African heritage, erupted into violent conflict in 1983. This ferocious civil... -
Global Justice in East Asia by Hugo El Kholi 9780367280987
RRP: $283.50$246.29As a fascinating study of global justice in Asia, this book presents a series of contributions reflecting upon the conditions of a greater involvement of East Asian traditions of thought in the debate on global justice. Including chapters on diverse... -
Public Participation and State Building in China: Case Studies from Zhejiang by agan Pavlicevic 9780367280925
RRP: $283.50$246.29This book explores non-electoral means of public participation in contemporary China, both as an outcome of and a key contributor to the party-state's efforts to improve its governing capacity. Examining consultative meetings, public hearings, and... -
Social Cohesion in Asia: Historical Origins, Contemporary Shapes and Future Dynamics by Aurel Croissant 9780367280789
RRP: $283.50$246.29This book explores the historical origins, contemporary dynamics and future challenges of social cohesion in South, Southeast and East Asia-one of the most dynamic and at the same time heterogeneous regions in the world, in terms of economic, political... -
Power Restructuring In China And Russia by Mark Lupher 9780367317393
RRP: $182.68$158.63The 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... -
Order By Accident: The Origins And Consequences Of Group Conformity In Contemporary Japan by Alan Miller 9780367317096
RRP: $283.50$246.29While the consequences of low social order are well understood, the consequences of high social order are not. Yet perhaps nowhere in the world is social order so well developed as in Japan, which is highly organized, economically successful, and enjoys... -
Advancing Gender Equality in Bangladesh: Twenty Years of BRAC's Gender Quality Action Learning Programme by Rieky Stuart 9780367248079
RRP: $83.98$73.63In 1994, BRAC, the world's largest NGO, made headlines by putting women's rights centre stage in Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world. The Gender Quality Action Learning (GQAL) Programme was one of the very first large-scale efforts to... -
Womanhood In The Making: Domestic Ritual And Public Culture In Urban South India by Mary Hancock 9780367314002
RRP: $283.50$247.13In this book, Mary Hancock challenges readers to rethink the notions of tradition and modernity that have figured centrally in anthropological discussions of social change in South Asia. She shows tradition and modernity to be categories created,... -
Perspectives On Kashmir: The Roots Of Conflict In South Asia by Raju Gc Thomas 9780367282738
RRP: $283.50$235.83This work examines the long-standing conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, exploring the issues from the perpsectives of all the actors involved. The contributors reevaluate the Kashmir problem in the context of the revival of the dispute in... -
Destinies Shared: U.s.-japanese Relations by Paul Gordon Lauren 9780367155490
RRP: $83.98$73.63As we approach what is often called the Age of the Pacific one fact is clearly before us: The next century will see the United States and Japan standing together at the dynamic center of a new global economic structure. Together, along with the other...