Books in the Politics in Asia series

This volume analyses and explains the negotiations that have taken place between China and three of its neighbours - namely India, Japan and Russia, by using Robert Putnam's two-level game framework.

This book explores the theoretical and empirical relationship between democracy and governance in the Asia-Pacific region. Examining a variety of country cases and themes addressing the theoretical tension between governance and democracy, it illuminates how this impacts political and civil societies across the region.

This fully revised fourth edition of Michael Yahuda's successful textbook brings the region fully up-to-date, introducing students to the international politics of the Asia-Pacific region since 1945.

This edited volume proposes that an understanding of ASEAN - its development and institutionalisation ¿ is invaluable to our conception of International relations theory in the Asian context.

This edited volume argues that the rise of Islamic conservatism poses challenges to Indonesiäs continued existence as a secular state, with far-reaching implications for the social, cultural and political fortunes of the country.

This book scrutinizes the Senkaku / Diaoyu Dispute between Japan and China and the Tokdo/Takeshima Dispute between Japan and Korea and offer new perspectives and insights into the possible approaches towards amelioration and resolution of these conflicts.

Examines state making projects from an Asian perspective, highlighting the particular combination of institutions and ideologies embedded in the Asian state-making projects. This volume also demonstrates their distinctiveness from the Western experience.

Since 2001, Indonesia's military commitment to Aceh province resulted in one of Southeast Asia's largest wars for decades. This work presents the background and history of this war, investigating its domestic and international implications, at a time when the tsunami catastrophe has brought Aceh to world attention.

Explores the pressures influencing East Asian regionalist policy debates, analysing the trend towards deeper integration and the emergence of a governance model for managing regional processes. This book highlights the policy challenges confronting regionalism and governance in East Asia.

Secessionist movements are a fact of life and sometimes the interplay of demands becomes mutually exclusive and result in outbreaks of violence or indeed outright warfare. The contributors to this book provide a comparative survey of recent attempts at secession from across Europe and Asia and assesses the responses of the respective host governments. This volume will be an invaluable resource for those who wish to understand the dynamics of secessionist movements and as such will appeal to students and scholars of Asian and European politics, comparative politics, international relations and conflict studies. It will also be helpful to practioners and policy-makers who wish to understand and contribute to the resolution of such conflicts.

Korea is a nation that has addressed issues of both internal and external injustices from past wrongs that were committed in times of colonialism, war and dictatorship. Using examples of this injustice, this book focuses on Korea and looks towards reconciliation in the region.

Much writing on politics in Asia has been devoted to the discussion of democracy and democratisation generally, or on political parties. This book, on the other hand, focuses on parliaments, considering, for key countries of East, Southeast and South Asia, a wide range of questions, such as How representative are parliaments?

This book demonstrates how careful examinations of current developments in East Asia indicate a need for major expansion of our understandings of democracy and democratization, and challenges the traditional way in which political regimes are conceived and labelled. It shows from Asian experiences that democracy and its precursors come in more forms than most liberals have yet imagined. In reviewing the experiences of states across East Asia, this book shows that actual democracies and ostensible democratizations in Asia are less like those in the West than the surprisingly consensual standard political science of democratization suggests.

This book provides new arguments on China's rise and the transformation of East Asia and analyzes the foreign policy behavior of the regional states and relations among them. In doing so, the contributors show why and how China is rising, and in turn, the regional structures or institutions that are emerging as dominant in East Asia. Presenting strategic, political, economic and historical perspectives on China's changing role in the region and the development of regionalism, China's Rise and Regional Integration in East Asia will be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese politics, Asian politics, international relations and regionalism.

Focusing on the ASEAN plus three configuration of East Asian nations, this book considers the similar and different ways that East Asian states are institutionalizing their relations.

Describes the attitudes, aspirations and frustrations of the key players in Indonesian politics as they struggle to shape the future.

This newly revised third edition provides an informed and balances analysis of Suharto's New Order from its inception to the emergence of B.J. Habibie as President.

Including contributions from leading academics, this text focuses on the period from the 1980s to the onset of the 2000s, reviewing the experiences of Japan and China across the areas of development, trade, investment, finance and technology. It is useful for political scientists, political economists, business concerns, and policy analysts.

Presents an academic and personal volume devoted to Leifer's vast contributions to the discipline of international relations. This book is by one of the leading scholars of Southeast Asian international relations.

Presents an 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. This book utilizes International Relations theories systematically to analyze Chinese security perceptions of the United States, Japan and Russia.

This volume examines Mahathir's character, his ideas and policies and relates them to the social, economic and political setting outside Malaysia.

The creation of a national identity has been a central feature of political life in Singapore. A broad strategy of multiculturalism together with the creation of 'Asian values' has served the purpose of building a new national identity.