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Forthcoming Books

  1. Business in Post-Communist Russia

    Privatisation and the Limits of Transformation

    By Mikhail Glazunov

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

    It is a widely held idea that Russia has completed its revolution which brought down the Soviet economy, and that many companies after privatisation work as typical western companies. Another belief is that Russia has adopted a market economy but then reverted to authoritarianism. With these two...

    To Be Published June 27th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Human Trafficking in Asia

    Forcing Issues

    Edited by Sallie Yea, Pattana Kitiarsa

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

    Human Trafficking in Asia analyses the complex issues surrounding internal and cross-border human trafficking in Asia by asserting critical perspectives and methodologies. It extends the range of sites for discussion and sectors in which human trafficking takes place. The book re-centres human...

    To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge

  3. Indian Foreign and Security Policy in South Asia

    Regional Power Strategies

    By Sandra Destradi

    Series: Asian Security Studies

    This book examines Indian foreign policy and security relations in its eastern regional neighbourhood. Indian Foreign and Security Policy in South Asia conducts an in-depth analysis into India’s foreign policy towards the three main countries in India’s Eastern neighbourhood – Sri Lanka, Nepal, and...

    To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Pakistan's War on Terrorism

    Strategies for Combating Jihadist Armed Groups since 9/11

    By Samir Puri

    Series: Asian Security Studies

    This book examines Pakistan's strategies in the war against Islamist armed groups that began late 2001, following the 9/11 attacks. The significance of the war inside Pakistan can hardly be understated. Starting in the tribal territories adjacent to Afghanistan, Pakistan’s war has come to engulf...

    To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Sri Lanka and the Responsibility to Protect

    Politics, Ethnicity and Genocide

    By Damien Kingsbury

    Series: Asian Security Studies

    This book provides a study of the war by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to create a separate state in Sri Lanka. It examines the ways in which this war should, in principle, have invoked ‘Responsibility to Protect’ principles, as well as the political, legal and practical problems involved...

    To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge

  6. Sea Power and the Asia-Pacific

    The Triumph of Neptune?

    Edited by Geoffrey Till, Patrick Bratton

    Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

    With particular focus on the Asia-Pacific region, this book examines the rise and fall of sea powers. In the Asia-Pacific region there has been significant expansion of sea-based economies together with burgeoning naval power. Many claim that these processes will transform the world’s future...

    To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge

  7. Human Security as Statecraft

    Structural Conditions, Articulations and Unintended Consequences

    By Nik Hynek

    Series: Routledge Critical Security Studies

    This book critically investigates the discourses and practices of human security and aims to delve below the stereotypical imageries representing them. Drawing on Foucault and Deleuze, the author approaches human security from a new perspective, with the aim of ascertaining what has...

    To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge

  8. US-Japan-North Korea Security Relations

    Irrepressible Interests

    By Anthony DiFilippo

    Series: Asian Security Studies

    This book examines the major security and related issues between the United States, Japan and North Korea (officially, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea - DPRK). Although focusing mainly on current issues, this book also provides sufficient historical background to enable readers...

    To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge

  9. Crime-Terror Nexus in South Asia

    States, Security and Non-State Actors

    By Ryan Clarke

    Series: Asian Security Studies

    This book examines the crime-terror nexus in South Asia, focusing in particular on the activities of non-state actors that operate out of Pakistan, and challenges the conventional wisdom that the Pakistan Taleban (TTP) and Al-Qaeda are Pakistan’s most serious security threats. Much research has...

    To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge

  10. China Engages Global Governance

    A New World Order in the Making?

    By Gerald Chan, Pak K. Lee, Lai-Ha Chan

    Series: China Policy Series

    This book focuses on China’s increasing involvement in global governance as a result of the phenomenal rise of its economy and global power. It examines whether and in what ways China is capable of participating in multilateral interactions; if it is willing and able to provide global public goods...

    To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge