Asian Politics Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. The Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora

   Revisiting the boat people

   Edited by Yuk Wah Chan

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   Over three decades have passed since the first wave of Indochinese refugees left their homelands. These refugees, mainly the Vietnamese, fled from war and strife in search of a better life elsewhere. By investigating the Vietnamese diaspora in Asia, this book sheds new light on the Asian refugee...

   Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
5. Democracy, Corruption and the Politics of Spirits in Contemporary Indonesia

   By Nils Bubandt

   Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia

   Indonesia has been an electoral democracy for more than a decade, and yet the political landscape of the world’s third-largest democracy is as complex and enigmatic as ever. Indonesia is simultaneous a country that has achieved a successful transition to democracy and a flawed, illiberal, and...

   Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
6. ASEAN Regionalism

   Cooperation, Values and Institutionalisation

   By Christopher B. Roberts

   Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

   This book examines the key motivations for and challenges to greater regional integration in Southeast Asia. It demonstrates how security and economic concerns -domestic, regional and international - have either contributed to, or detracted from, an increased level of unity and cooperation in ASEAN...

   Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
7. Transitional Justice in South Asia

   A Study of Afghanistan and Nepal

   By Tazreena Sajjad

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   Offering a comparative case study of transitional justice processes in Afghanistan and Nepal, this book critically evaluates the way the "local" is consulted in post-conflict efforts toward peace and reconciliation. It argues that there is a tendency in transitional justice efforts to contain the...

   Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge
8. Asia and Latin America

   Political, Economic and Multilateral Relations

   Edited by Jörn Dosch, Olaf Jacob

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   Until the late 1980s, Japan was the only country in Asia with notable political and economic relations. Since then, however, several Asian nations have perceived growing links with the Latin American region as a means of diversifying their political and particularly economic relations while...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. Overseas Chinese, Ethnic Minorities and Nationalism

   De-Centering China

   By Elena Barabantseva

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   Elena Barabantseva looks at the close relationship between state-led nationalism and modernisation, with specific reference to discourses on the overseas Chinese and minority nationalities. The interplay between modernisation programmes and nationalist discourses has shaped China’s national project...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
10. Islamic Law and the Law of Armed Conflict

    The Conflict in Pakistan

    By Niaz A Shah

    Series: Routledge Research in the Law of Armed Conflicts

    Islamic Law and the Law of Armed Conflict: The Conflict in Pakistan demonstrates how international law can be applied in Muslim states in a way that is compatible with Islamic law. Within this broader framework of compatible application, Niaz A. Shah argues that the Islamic law of qital (i.e. armed...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge