Asian Research

New Titles and Key Backlist

Contacts

Editorial Inquiries

  1. Dorothea Schaefter
    Senior Editor, Central, South and Southeast Asia

  2. Stephanie Rogers
    Publisher, East Asia

  3. Peter Sowden
    Editor, Asia

Other Inquiries

Routledge Studies on Modern Korea

  1. Democratization and Social Movements in Korea

    Defiant Institutionalization

    By Sun-Chul Kim

    Series: Routledge Studies on Modern Korea

    This book examines how social movements in previously authoritarian contexts evolve after a democratic transition. It looks into how democratic change shapes the trajectory of social movements, and how social movements affect the pace and direction of democracy in turn, using South Korea as a...

    To Be Published February 28th 2014 by Routledge

  2. State-centric to Contested Social Governance in Korea

    Shifting Power

    By Hyuk-Rae Kim

    Series: Routledge Studies on Modern Korea

    In this interdisciplinary study of governance, Hyuk-Rae Kim traces how civil society and NGOs have evolved over time, how they differ in motivation from their Western counterparts, and the role civil society NGOs have played in consolidating democracy as the governance system in Korea changes from...

    Published January 3rd 2013 by Routledge