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1. On The Borders of State Power

   Frontiers in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region

   Edited by Martin Gainsborough

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   On The Borders of State Power explores the changing nature, meaning and significance of international borders over time in the area referred to today as the Greater Mekong Sub-region, incorporating Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and China’s Yunnan province. An international line up...

   Published June 13th 2012 by Routledge
2. Enterprise and Welfare Reform in Communist Asia

   Edited by Peter Ferdinand, Martin Gainsborough

   Featuring a wide geographical scope, this collection of essays surveys enterprise and welfare reforms in all the remaining four Asian communist states: China, Vietnam, Laos and North Korea. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union they can no longer place major reliance upon assistance from other '...

   Published April 7th 2004 by Routledge
3. Changing Political Economy of Vietnam

   The Case of Ho Chi Minh City

   By Martin Gainsborough

   Series: Rethinking Southeast Asia

   This book explores the way in which the state has become commercialised under reform as party and government officials have gone into business and considers the impact that this has had on politics within Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. The book charts the way in which power has been decentralised to...

   Published December 11th 2002 by Routledge