Asian Studies Books

New and Published Books – Page 3

21. Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and Practice in Asia

    Edited by Vivienne Bath, Luke Nottage

    Series: Routledge Research in International Economic Law

    This book considers foreign investment flows in major Asian economies. It critically assesses the patterns and issues involved in the substantive law and policy environment which impact on investment flows, as well as the related dispute resolution law and practice. The book combines insights from...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
22. Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region

    Towards Institution Building

    Edited by Hitoshi Nasu, Ben Saul

    Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

    The Asia-Pacific is known for having the least developed regional mechanisms for protecting human rights. This edited collection makes a timely and distinctive contribution to contemporary debates about building institutions for human rights protection in the Asia-Pacific region, in the wake of...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
23. Miraculous Growth and Stagnation in Post-War Japan

    Edited by Koichi Hamada, Keijiro Otsuka, Gustav Ranis, Ken Togo

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

    This volume examines different aspects of the Japanese experience in a comparative context. There is much here of relevance to contemporary developing countries anxious to initiate the experience of miraculous growth and anxious to avoid the subsequent stagnation. Such issues of the role of...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
24. Foreign Direct Investment in China

    Spillover Effects on Domestic Enterprises

    By Ziliang Deng

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

    This book provides an insightful exploration of whether foreign direct investment (FDI) can promote the productivity of domestic enterprises. The book is based on a series of dedicated research conducted in the context of the Chinese economy, which has been the largest FDI host among the developing...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
25. Pension Systems and Old-Age Income Support in East and Southeast Asia

    Overview and Reform Directions

    Edited by Donghyun Park

    Old age income support will be one of the biggest social and economic challenges facing Asia in the twenty-first century. The growing spotlight on old age income support is largely due to exceptionally rapid population aging which is fundamentally reshaping Asia’s demographic profile. A young...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
26. Exchange Rates and Foreign Direct Investment in Emerging Asia

    Selected Issues and Policy Options

    By Ramkishen Rajan

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

    With the rapid growth of China and India and the resurgence of Southeast Asia post-1997–8, emerging Asia has once again become one of the most dynamic regions in the world. This dynamism has in turn been fuelled largely by a carefully calibrated embracement of economic openness to international...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
27. Islamic Revival in Nepal

    Religion and a New Nation

    By Megan Adamson Sijapati

    Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

    This book draws on extensive fieldwork among Muslims in Nepal to examine the local and global factors that shape contemporary Muslim identity and the emerging Islamic revival movement based in the Kathmandu valley. Nepal's Muslims are active participants in the larger global movement of Sunni...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
28. Nationbuilding, Gender and War Crimes in South Asia

    By Bina D’Costa

    Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

    This book gives a detailed political analysis of nationbuilding processes and how these are closely linked to statebuilding and to issues of war crime, gender and sexuality, and marginalization of minority groups. With a focus on the Indian subcontinent, the author demonstrates how the state...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
29. Dealing with Disaster in Japan

    Responses to the Flight JL123 Crash

    By Christopher Hood

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

    Just as the sinking of the Titanic is embedded in the public consciousness in the English-speaking world, so the crash of JAL flight JL123 is part of the Japanese collective memory. The 1985 crash involved the largest loss of life for any single air crash in the world. 520 people, many of whom had...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
30. Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature

    Edited by James Fairhead, Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones

    Series: Critical Agrarian Studies

    Across the world, ecosystems are for sale. ‘Green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. A vigorous debate on ‘land grabbing’ already highlights instances where ‘green’ credentials are called...

    Published May 2nd 2013 by Routledge