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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. The Japanese Occupation of Borneo, 1941-45

    By Ooi Keat Gin

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

    The Japanese occupation of both British Borneo – Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo – and Dutch Borneo in 1941 to 1945 is a much understudied subject. Of particular interest is the occupation of Dutch Borneo, governed by the Imperial Japanese Navy that had long-term plans for ‘permanent possession’....

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge

  9. Racial Attitudes and Asian Pacific Americans

    Demystifying the Model Minority

    By Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas

    Series: Studies in Asian Americans

    This study examines the complex sources and implications of the racial attitudes of Asian Pacific American (APA) college students, who, as one of the fastest growing demographics in higher education enrollments, play an increasingly significant role in campus race relations....

    Published January 10th 2013 by Routledge

  10. Migration, Ethnic Relations and Chinese Business

    By Kwok-bun Chan

    Series: Chinese Worlds

    Incorporating research carried out over the last twenty years, this book documents the personal and collective responses of Chinese migrants and refugees to the prejudice and discrimination they have experienced. Using case studies of Chinese communities in Canada, Chan explores the different...

    Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge

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