Palgrave Macmillan imprint: 14111 books
by F. Daviter
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Explores how the framing of issues on the EU agenda affects policy-making. In a study that traces the highly contested developments in biotechnology policy over twenty years, the book introduces the conceptual and theoretical tenets of policy framing and shows how this analytical lens offers a unique perspective on issues in EU policy-making.
The Pacific Islands in China's Grand Strategy
Small States, Big Games
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
This book looks at Chinese policy towards the South Pacific in the context of China's grand strategy. Analysts are divided on the implications of China's deepening involvement in the region and the study of Chinese involvement in the South Pacific is a part of the great debate on the rise of China.
Southeast Asia and the English School of International Relations
A Region-Theory Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
This book examines the interface between the theoretical framework known as the English School and the international and transnational politics of Southeast Asia. The region-theory dialogue it proposes signals productive ways forward for the theory.
Mao's Forgotten Successor
The Political Career of Hua Guofeng
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
Hua Guofeng succeeded Mao in 1976, emerging almost out of nowhere following an unexceptional career in Shanxi and Hunan. In just over two years, Hua had been eclipsed by Deng Xiaoping, a more politically shrewd, progressive and charismatic figure. If Hua's rise to power was remarkable, then this fall was even more so.
by Sabrina Zajak
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
This book explores rising labor unrest in China as it integrates into the global political economy. The book highlights the tensions present between China’s efforts to internationalize and accept claims to respect freedom of association rights, and its continuing insistence on a restrictive, and...
Explaining Collective Violence in Contemporary Indonesia
From Conflict to Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Tadjoeddin uniquely explores four types of violent conflicts pertinent to contemporary Indonesia (secessionist, ethnic, routine-everyday and electoral violence), and seeks to discover what socio-economic development can do to overcome conflict and make the country's transition to democracy safe for its constituencies.
Indonesia's Ascent
Power, Leadership, and the Regional Order
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
This volume explores the domestic and transnational considerations associated with Indonesia's ascent, referring to its rise in terms of hard and soft power and its likely trajectory in the future. The range of contributors analyse economic resources, religious harmony, security, regional relations, leadership and foreign policy.
The Vitality of Taiwan
Politics, Economics, Society and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
As a country, Taiwan is one of the most vibrant, exciting, colourful and entrepreneurial on earth. The contributors reveal what underpins the vitality of Taiwan, examining the relevance of its democratic politics, civil society and the presence of an existential threat from China, as well as the importance of its international business nexus.
Beyond the Western Liberal Order
Yanaihara Tadao and Empire as Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
This book introduces the political thought of Yanaihara Tadao (1893-1961), the most prominent Japanese social scientist working on empire, population migration and colonial policy, and uses it as a platform which to examine the global challenges faced by the U.S. hegemonic world order today, or what is often described as the Western liberal order.
Constructing China's Capitalism
Shanghai and the Nexus of Urban-Rural Industries
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
By investigating the nexus of relationships between urban and rural factories in the Shanghai region of China, this book shines light on an overlooked part of China's massive industrial growth since the 1980s.
Transforming Global Governance with Middle Power Diplomacy
South Korea's Role in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This book examines South Korea’s recent strategic turn to middle power diplomacy, evaluating its performance so far in key areas of security, maritime governance, trade, finance, development assistance, climate change, and cyber space. In particular, the authors pay special attention to how South...
Chinese Village, Global Market
New Collectives and Rural Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
The story of one village, Yantian, and its remarkable economic and social transformation, this book shows how outcomes are shaped by a number of factors such as path dependence, social structures, economic resources and local entrepreneurship.
Social versus Corporate Welfare
Competing Needs and Interests within the Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
The greatest myth of modern times is the suggestion that capitalism and corporations do better with less government. The global economic crisis has certainly put paid to this idea. But the massive emergency state bailouts and interventions put in place from 2008 were unique only in their size and...
by R. Kiely
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The author examines the rise of the BRICs and the supposed decline of the United States. Focusing on the boom years from 1992 to 2007, and the crisis years after 2008, he argues that there are limits to the rise of the former and that the extent of US decline has been greatly exaggerated.