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Japanese and Korean Politics
Alone and Apart from Each Other
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
This volume examines Japanese and Korean politics from both Japanese and Korean angles, exploring why the two countries do not cooperate bilaterally or consult one another, despite their geographical closeness and a number of common features that are central to both countries' domestic politics and foreign policies.
China’s Environmental Crisis
Domestic and Global Political Impacts and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
This path-breaking collection covers the significance of China's extreme environmental challenges for both Chinese society and the world, how these challenges are impacting domestic Chinese society and its political institutions, and how these institutions are responding in their efforts to address the environmental problems.
National Identity and Economic Interest
Taiwan's Competing Options and Their Implications for Regional Stability
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
The book covers the legal, economic, socio-political and international aspects of economic integration and the contending forces of national identity and economic interests after the economies between Taiwan and China are integrated and the trading bloc is emerging across the Taiwan Strait.
Rising Powers and Global Governance
Changes and Challenges for the World’s Nations
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
This book reinforces the need to understand the sources of global change that is taking place and to accommodate it in the world political, social, and economic systems. Linking the United States, China, India, and Russia along with Europe and the Middle East, the author addresses demographics, international...
Japan in Crisis
What Will It Take for Japan to Rise Again?
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
This volume, stemming from the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, observes that for Japan to 'rise again' would mean recovery not only from the triple disaster—the March, 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown—but from 20-plus years of economic stagnation, political fumbling, and deterioration in Japan's regional and global influence.
Egalitarianism and Global Justice
From a Relational Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
In this book, Kevin Ip articulates and defends an egalitarian conception of global distributive justice grounded on the value of equality as a normative ideal of how human relations should be conducted. Arguing that relationships of equality, rather than those characterized by domination or exploitation,...
The Sociology of Space
Materiality, Social Structures, and Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
In this book, the author develops a relational concept of space that encompasses social structure, the material world of objects and bodies, and the symbolic dimension of the social world. Löw’s guiding principle is the assumption that space emerges in the interplay between objects, structures...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Written by scholars from both inside and outside China, this wide-ranging collection of essays explores the complexity of the relationship between governance and civil society by combining theoretical exploration and empirical case studies based on the governance practice in China.
Navigating Iran
From Carter to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
This book provides the first full account of America's relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran from Jimmy Carter's presidency to Barack Obama's. It discusses all major facets of Iranian policy of interest to the United States: nuclear proliferation, revolutionary export and support for international...
The Making of Global Health Governance
China and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
A study of governance in the emerging global domain, this book traces the evolution of global public policy making by focusing on four entities: a globalizing sector (health); a global disease (HIV/AIDS); a global organization (the Global Fund); and a major sovereign state (China).
The Rise of Korean Leadership
Emerging Powers and Liberal International Order
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
South Korea has emerged as a new middle power playing a significant role in a wide range of important global issue areas and supporting liberal international order with its leadership diplomacy. The growing role played by new powers like Korea calls into question the prevailing view that global governance...
The Democratization of Albania
Democracy from Within
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
The Democratization of Albania describes a multi-year project designed to promote democracy in Albania through the country's entire educational system. Instructional materials were developed, including a basic manual, to introduce open and interactive teaching by a network of almost 3000 teachers...
Political Legitimacy in Asia
New Leadership Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
This book explores the challenges and obstacles faced by dissident leaders in Asia seeking to introduce reforms into regimes that are either imperfectly democratic or frankly hostile to democratic practices and institutions.
Japanese and Russian Politics
Polar Opposites or Something in Common?
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
This volume offers a comparative analysis of Japanese and Russian politics in the 2010s, examining both domestic dimensions and foreign policy. A bi-national collaborative effort, the volume is structured to offer perspectives on each country from both Russian and Japanese scholars. An introduction...