Asian Studies Catalog 2012

The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific

2nd Edition

By Michael K. Connors, Rémy Davison, Jörn Dosch

The new, fully updated second edition of The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific builds on its coherent framework for understanding the complex international and global politics of the Asia Pacific. The textbook provides an introductory guide for the main frameworks needed to understand the...

Published July 12th 2011 by Routledge

The International Politics of the Asia Pacific

Third and Revised Edition

By Michael Yahuda

Series: Politics in Asia

This fully revised third edition of Michael Yahuda's extremely successful textbook brings the region fully up-to-date, introducing students to the international politics of the Asia-Pacific region since 1945. As well as assessing the post-Cold War uncertainties that challenged the balance and power...

Published January 30th 2011 by Routledge

Strategic Partnerships in Asia

Balancing without alliances

By Vidya Nadkarni

This book examines the nature and implications of the increasing interaction among three secondary powers in the world: China, Russia and India. It provides an in-depth analysis of the complex and often contradictory goals underlying their emerging strategic partnerships along with an assessment of...

Published January 3rd 2010 by Routledge

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 August 23rd 2011 by Routledge

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

Asia’s Role in Governing Global Health

Edited by Kelley Lee, Tikki Pang, Yeling Tan

Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

In an era of rapid and extensive globalisation, the world faces a wide range of transboundary problems that require effective collective action. Key among these are threats to human health that do not recognise national borders, and include emerging and re-emerging infections, rising rates of...

Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge

Democracy or Alternative Political Systems in Asia

After the Strongmen

Edited by Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao

Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

This book tackles the important issue of what happened to Asia's political systems after the fall of various political strongmen. It is generally assumed that once strongmen who dictate a nations' politics with a dictatorial or authoritarian fashion fall, the political landscape ...

To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge

Eurasia’s Ascent in Energy and Geopolitics

Rivalry or Partnership for China, Russia, and Central Asia?

Edited by Robert Bedeski, Niklas Swanström

Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

The Sino-Russian relationship has experienced several permutations in recent decades as both states have undergone radical domestic changes, including the end of Soviet communism and the abandonment of Maoism. This volume brings together scholars to address the current status of Sino-Russian...

Published June 18th 2012 by Routledge

Diminishing Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific

Why Some Subside and Others Don’t

Edited by Edward Aspinall, Robin Jeffrey, Anthony Regan

Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

Since the publication of the 2005 Human Security Report, scholars and policy-makers have debated the causes, interpretation and implications of what the report described as a global decline in armed conflict since the end of the Cold War. Focusing on the Asia-Pacific region, this book analyses the...

Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge

Civilization, Nation and Modernity in East Asia

By Chih-Yu Shih

Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

This book explores the crisis of cultural identity which has assaulted Asian countries since Western countries began to have a profound impact on Asia in the nineteenth century. Confronted by Western 'civilization' and by 'modernity', Asian countries have been compelled to rethink their identity,...

Published June 17th 2012 by Routledge

Maritime Challenges and Priorities in Asia

Implications for Regional Security

Edited by Joshua Ho, Sam Bateman

Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

Maritime issues are particularly important for Asian countries, where there is a high reliance on shipping routes for international trade, many difficult disputes over maritime boundaries, and the prospect of increasing tensions where maritime power might play a significant role. This book uses...

Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge

Nuclear Power and Energy Security in Asia

Edited by Rajesh Basrur, Koh Swee Lean Collin

Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

The rising demand for energy, the higher costs of oil and gas, and the association of fossil fuels with adverse climate change have all brought a renewed interest in nuclear energy. Nuclear power, however, is itself controversial, because of its costs, its environmental effects and the security...

Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge

Labour Migration, Human Trafficking and Multinational Corporations

The Commodification of Illicit Flows

Edited by Ato Quayson, Antonela Arhin

Series: Routledge Transnational Crime and Corruption

Although much literature on human trafficking focuses on sex trafficking, a great deal of human trafficking results from migrant workers, compelled - by economic deprivation in their home countries - to seek better life opportunities abroad, especially in agriculture, construction and domestic work...

Published March 5th 2012 by Routledge

Votes, Party Systems and Democracy in Asia

By Jungug Choi

Series: Politics in Asia

This book looks at the link between voters and political party systems in Asian democracies, focusing on India, Indonesia, Korea and the Philippines. It discusses this link in terms of three distinct elements: the formation of voters preferences, the translation of preferences into votes, and the...

Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge

Secessionism and Separatism in Europe and Asia

To Have a State of One’s Own

Edited by Jean-Pierre Cabestan, Aleksandar Pavković

Series: Politics in Asia

The boundaries between secessionism and separatism are often blurred, and in many cases study of secessionism encompasses that of separatism and vice versa. Recognising this inherent relationship, this book provides a comparative survey of recent attempts at secession and separatist movements from...

Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge

Security Cooperation in Northeast Asia

Architecture and Beyond

Edited by T.J. Pempel, Chung-Min Lee

Series: Politics in Asia

Defining and conceptualizing Northeast Asia’s security complex poses unique quandaries. The security architecture in Northeast Asia to date has been predominately U.S.-dominated bilateral alliances, weak institutional structures and the current Six Party Talks dealing with the North Korean nuclear...

Published June 6th 2012 by Routledge

Health Care Systems in Europe and Asia

Edited by Christian Aspalter, Yasuo Uchida, Robin Gauld

Series: Routledge Studies in Social Welfare in Asia

This book addresses the global need for more comparative studies on health policy and health care systems, given the rise in recent decades of societal aging, modern mass diseases, economic globalization, and resulting permanent fiscal austerity of governments which have fundamentally altered the...

Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge

Routledge Handbook of Asian Regionalism

Edited by Mark Beeson, Richard Stubbs

The Routledge Handbook of Asian Regionalism is a definitive introduction to, and analysis of, the development of regionalism in Asia, including coverage of East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia. The contributors engage in a comprehensive exploration of what is arguably the most dynamic and...

Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge

Labor, Geopolitics and Development in East Asia

By Kevin Gray

Series: Rethinking Globalizations

The Chinese Communist Party’s response to the wave of factory strikes in the early summer of 2010 has raised important questions about the role that labour plays in the transformation of world orders. In contrast to previous policies of repression towards labour unrest, these recent disputes...

To Be Published April 29th 2014 by Routledge

Managing Regional Energy Vulnerabilities in East Asia

Case Studies

Edited by Daojiong Zha

Series: Routledge/Warwick Studies in Globalisation

This book examines East Asia’s inter-state collaborative energy projects to address energy vulnerability. It focuses on projects that have demonstrated effectiveness in addressing vulnerabilities faced by the ten states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and China, Japan, and South Korea...

Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge

Redefining Regional Power in International Relations

Indian and South African perspectives

By Miriam Prys

Series: Global Order Studies

This book examines the concept of regional power in international relations. Using the emerging powers of India and South Africa as the case studies, it explores how regional powers simultaneously differ and share common features. The book develops a method to classify and evaluate different types...

Published April 1st 2012 by Routledge

The Dao of World Politics

Towards a Post-Westphalian, Worldist International Relations

By L. H. M. Ling

Series: New International Relations

This book draws on Daoist yin/yang dialectics to move world politics from the current stasis of hegemony, hierarchy, and violence to a more balanced engagement with parity, fluidity, and ethics. The author theorizes that we may develop a richer, more representative approach towards sustainable and...

To Be Published September 16th 2013 by Routledge

International Conflict in the Asia-Pacific

Patterns, Consequences and Management

By Jacob Bercovitch, Mikio Oishi

Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

This book analyses four major long-standing and intractable conflicts in the Asia-Pacific region (the Korean Peninsula; the Taiwan Strait; the South China Sea (Spratly Islands); and India-Pakistan), and aims to identify the mechanisms used to manage these conflicts. International Conflict in the...

Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge

Asia’s Naval Expansion

An Arms Race in the Making

By Geoffrey Till

Series: Adelphi series

The navies of China, India and to a lesser extent Japan are expanding rapidly at present. This has the potential to alter the US-dominated naval balance in Asia-Pacific but it also raises a question: are the region’s powers involved in a naval arms race? Naval development is and always has been a...

Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge

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...

Published August 16th 2011 by Routledge

Max Weber

Collected Methodological Writings

Edited by Hans Henrik Bruun, Sam Whimster

Series: Weber in Translation

Weber’s methodological writings form the bedrock of key ideas across the social sciences. His discussion of value freedom and value commitment, causality, understanding and explanation, theory building and ideal types have been of fundamental importance, and their impact remains undiminished today....

Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge