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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032365770Author Hyungkee KimFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 453g

This book attempts to provide a comprehensive understanding of the circumstances which have shaped India’s approach towards its international borders and the framework it has developed to better manage its borders. The book argues that persistence of...

As its title ‘Xi Jinping: China’s Third New Era’ suggests, the book covers the period mid-June 2017 till the end of 2020—a period when, Xi Jinping’s acolytes claim, China had already embarked on a third thirty-year era under his leadership, like those of...

This book discusses how the United States has launched a New Cold War against China.

This book profiles Taiwan’s six key presidents - namely Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Ching-kuo, Lee Teng-hui, Chen Shui-bian, Ma Ying-jeou, and Tsai Ing-wen - focusing on politics, economics, elections, successes and failures in office, popularity and...

This book project was part of an annual series of Summer seminars held at Hong Kong's Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage and Arts, which brought the intellectual community together to debate the social issues of the day.

This book is about the trajectory of Indo-Afghanistan relations and its setting in the multilateral global order especially the interplay of the super-powers and the regional powers along with the emerging humanitarian crisis along with India’s concern...

Suffering and Smiling presents a glimpse inside everyday North Korea. Educator and hunger activist, Byung-ho Chung, illustrates his interactions with the citizenry both inside the border and as refugees in South Korea.

Kevin Lane discusses the tension existed between China's traditional claim to sovereignty over Hong Kong. He believes that on historical track record China has the capacity for flexibility on Hong Kong that would enable arrangements about its future to...

This book explores elite perceptions of the external threats facing the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), drawing on Dr. Tilman's interviews with senior political, military, and intellectual leaders in Indonesia, Malaysia,...

An array of case studies exploring evolving tax policy and economic development in Pacific Asian countries.Book InformationISBN 9780367304942Author Richard A MusgraveFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

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From the end of the Second World War to the early 1970s, new paradigms began to form in academic, scientific, and professional knowledge in various disciplines and fields—not only in the United States, but also in East Asia.Drawing on a wealth of...

Hong Kong Politics: A Comparative Introduction is a comprehensive and pioneering guide of this emerging field. It aims to advance scholarly understanding of Hong Kong’s political developments since the handover of sovereignty in 1997, using a comparative...

This book examines key concerns in South Asian security through a fine-grained history of the accidental firing of a missile and its aftermath between two nuclear-armed states—India and Pakistan—with tense relations in March 2022. It consolidates the...

This book presents a comprehensive overview of international attempts to engage North Korea diplomatically with the aim of avoiding a nuclear war.It highlights the difficulty of this task, concluding that the containment of North Korea currently depends...

In The Roots of Resilience Meredith L. Weiss examines governance from the ground up in the world's two most enduring electoral authoritarian or "hybrid" regimes—Singapore and Malaysia—where politically liberal and authoritarian features blend, evading...

In China, heritage projects are sprouting across the countryside carrying the promise of Xi Jinping’s “Chinese dream” as a call for the great revival and rejuvenation of the nation. This book unravels the workings behind these promises through the story...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962551205Author Ji Young ChoiFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Lynne Rienner Publishers IncPublisher Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc

Southeast Asia is rapidly becoming a competitive space for geopolitical rivalries. The growth in China-U.S. strategic competition is creating deep anxiety among Southeast Asia leaders, China's rising power is felt across every corner of Southeast Asia,...

China and India are emerging in terms of their economics, demographics and military forces. This has caused speculations to abound around how these two giants of Asia can get along, affecting not just the region but the world at large. The book develops...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962551182Author Ji Young ChoiFormat HardbackPage Count 277Imprint Lynne Rienner Publishers IncPublisher Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc

Four decades of economic reform have made China one of the most unequal countries in the world – but the impact of this inequality is not just socioeconomic. Love Troubles is the first book to examine the emotional cost of this inequality to the intimate...

North Korea’s Nuclear Cinema examines why and how North Korea has transitioned to an image-based nuclear power in the changing context of a post-Cold War world. What exactly is the North Korean nuclear threat? Why is North Korea engaging in hostilities...

The redistribution of political and economic rights is inherently unequal in autocratic societies. Autocrats routinely divide their populations into included and excluded groups, creating particularistic citizenship through granting some groups access to...

A primer on racism that offers an intersectional, anti-racist, coalition-building view of Asian American identity."This is and will be a necessary and useful tool for generations to come." —Jenny Wang, author of Permission to Come HomeWhat does it mean...

This book examines Punjab river waters controversy in South Asia, a major defining feature of Punjab politics. It also studies the waters imbroglio at the intersectionality of Punjab, the rural Sikh community, the neighboring state of Haryana and the...

This book examines key concerns in South Asian security through a fine-grained history of the accidental firing of a missile and its aftermath between two nuclear-armed states—India and Pakistan—with tense relations in March 2022. It consolidates the...

To many outside observers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there would appear to be one eminently sensible solution: in exchange for recognition and adequate security guarantees, Israel should return the West Bank and the Gaza strip, subject to minor...

This book provides a systematic study of the challenges of aging in China and of the measures being taken, planned and still needed to cope with the challenges. It highlights that the number of people aged 65 or above is growing and that the growth will...

While the processes of founding a new state or constructing a new political order after a transition have been well-studied, there has been much less attention to how regimes that survive major political crises purposefully reinvent a post-crisis state...

This book highlights how resource constraints and client agency impact China’s patronage policy in their pursuit of regional geopolitical power.By combining for the first time the limit of great-power patrons’ resources and the agency of client...

As India’s power and prominence rise on the international stage, its longstanding tradition of democracy is under threat. Since establishing a secular and democratic constitution in 1950, India has held elections at the local, state, and national levels...

In recent decades, neoliberalism has transformed South Korean society, going far beyond simply restructuring the economy. In response, a number of civic organizations that emerged from the democratization movement with a conscious emphasis on social...

On 1 February 2021, Myanmar experienced the third coup d’état in its modern history. Unprecedented strength was displayed by Myanmar civil society as it embarked on years-long waves of protest to fight back against these new authoritarian drives. Where...

Bottom-up voluntary associations, it is commonly thought, are among the fundamental building blocks of democracy, preparing people for engaged citizenship. A great deal of interest in Chinese civil society is premised on the idea that such groups might...

Bottom-up voluntary associations, it is commonly thought, are among the fundamental building blocks of democracy, preparing people for engaged citizenship. A great deal of interest in Chinese civil society is premised on the idea that such groups might...

This book offers a meticulous empirical examination of Chinese democracy and its myriad discourses. Delving into the intricate workings of Chinese democracy, the author explores how the Chinese Communist Party employs democratic principles, how...

The State of Asia (1951) examines the developments in Asia in the key post-war period of five years following 1945. Prewar and wartime background are provided for each country surveyed, as the international significance of the developments in the region,...

Yang examines the political process of the Occupy Movement spanning from January 2013, when the “Occupy Central with Love and Peace”(OCLP) campaign was initiated, to December 2014, when the Occupy Movement finally ended. This book adopts an...