Asia Pacific Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Genocide and Mass Atrocities in Asia

   Legacies and Prevention

   Edited by Deborah Mayersen, Annie Pohlman

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   The twentieth century has been labelled the ‘century of genocide’, and according to estimates, more than 250 million civilians were victims of genocide and mass atrocities during this period. This book provides one of the first regional perspectives on mass atrocities in Asia, by exploring the...

   Published May 19th 2013 by Routledge
2. Reshaping the Asia Pacific Economic Order

   Edited by Christopher Findlay, Hadi Soesastro

   Series: PAFTAD (Pacific Trade and Development Conference Series)

   Relationships and alignments among the nations of the world’s most populous and productive region, the Asia Pacific, are in flux. Current global political, economic and security uncertainty, heightened by 9/11 and the subsequent War on Terror, has fuelled a reassessment by many Asia Pacific nations...

   Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge
3. 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
4. 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
5. Statecraft and Spectacle in East Asia

   Studies in Taiwan-Japan Relations

   Edited by Adam Clulow

   Statecraft and Spectacle in East Asia is a multidisciplinary collection of essays that explores the intertwined histories of Taiwan and Japan across the long sweep of the early modern and modern periods. Drawing on new research by scholars from Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, it moves...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
6. 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
7. Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaces

   Edited by Tai-Chee Wong, Jonathan Rigg

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the 1990s following the end of the Cold War which marked the advent of a renewed phase...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
8. Mediation in the Asia-Pacific Region

   Transforming Conflicts and Building Peace

   Edited by Dale Bagshaw, Elisabeth Porter

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   This book examines mediation in connection with peacebuilding in the Asia-Pacific region, providing practical examples which either highlight the weaknesses within certain mediation approaches or demonstrate best-practice. The authors explore the extent to which current ideas and practices of...

   Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
9. Maritime Issues in the South China Sea

   Troubled Waters or A Sea of Opportunity

   Edited by Nien-Tsu Alfred Hu, Ted L. McDorman

   South China Sea (SCS) issues are complex and dynamic, ranging from historic claims to present day military occupation, from military security to regional stability, from rhetorical appeasements to national interests, from intraregional competition to extraregional involvement. The submissions...

   Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
10. Bilateralism, Multilateralism and Asia-Pacific Security

    Contending Cooperation

    Edited by William Tow, Brendan Taylor

    Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

    Many scholars of international relations in Asia regard bilateralism and multilateralism as alternative and mutually exclusive approaches to security co-operation. They argue that multilateral associations such as ASEAN will eventually replace the system of bilateral alliances which were the...

    Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge