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  • Changing Constellations of Southeast Asia

    From Northeast Asia to China

    Edited by Siew Yean Tham, Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Abdul Embong ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Emerging Societies
    Southeast Asia is among emerging economies that have become important drivers of the world economy. ASEAN has furthered the region’s economic integration. Yet, growth remains dependent on foreign investment. Inequality has grown or remained high. Democracy, instead of consolidating, has stalled or regressed.Changing Constellations of Southeast Asia seeks to:Shed light on the gap between Northeast ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Singapore

    Smart City, Smart State

    by Kent E. Calder ...
    How Singapore’s solutions to common problems can provide examples for other societies.Nearly everyone knows that Singapore has one of the most efficient governments and competitive, advanced economies in the world. But can this unique citystate of some 5.5 million residents also serve as a model for other advanced economies as well as for the emerging world? Respected East Asia expert Kent Calder ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Land

    by Derek Hall ...
    Series series Resources
    Land is one of the world's most emotionally resonant resources, and control over it is fundamental to almost all human activity. From the local level to the global, we are often in conflict over the ground beneath our feet. But because human relationships to land are so complex, it can be difficult to think them through in a unified way. This path-breaking book aims to change that by combining ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • 50 Years Of Asean And Singapore

    by Tommy Koh, Sharon Li-lian Seah, Li Lin Chang ...
    On the 8th of August 2017, ASEAN will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its founding. ASEAN is of great importance to Singapore, the region and the world.In 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN in short, was founded by five countries in Southeast Asia which had just gained independence from their former colonial masters, united by a determination for the region to live in ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Asia Alone

    The Dangerous Post-Crisis Divide from America

    by Simon S. C. Tay ...
    An insightful examination of the changing relationship between Asia and the United StatesIn this lucidly written and thought-provoking book, author Simon Tay highlights the accelerating trends that point to Asia increasingly forging its own path, independent of the United States. He also describes the fundamental changes and new policy directions needed to maintain and strengthen the bonds between ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Corruption and Good Governance in Asia

    Edited by Nicholas Tarling ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    Bringing together contributions on the nature of corruption in East and Southeast Asia, this edited volume examines the means of limiting and ultimately eliminating corruption at a national and international level. Taking a country by country approach the text explores:the concept of corruption, now and in the pastrecent experiences of Asian countries at the macro- and micro-levelspractical local ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Imperial Nature

    The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization

    by Michael Goldman ...
    Series series Yale Agrarian Studies Series
    Why is the World Bank so successful? How has it gained power even at moments in history when it seemed likely to fall? This pathbreaking book is the first close examination of the inner workings of the Bank, the foundations of its achievements, its propensity for intensifying the problems it intends to cure, and its remarkable ability to tame criticism and extend its own reach.Michael Goldman ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Reshaping Economic Geography In East Asia

    by Huang Yukon; Magnoli Bocchi Alessandro ...
    Reshaping Economic Geography in East Asia, a companion volume to the World Development Report 2009, brings together noted scholars to address the spatial distribution of economic growth in Asia. It reveals how the new economic geography is reshaping development objectives: from initiatives to foster growth via enhanced agglomeration and connectivity to the world economy, to programs that channel ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Asian Geopolitics and the US–China Rivalry

    Edited by Felix Heiduk ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on Think Asia
    This book analyses the ways in which foreign policy actors in Asia have responded to the emerging great power conflict between the US and the People's Republic of China focusing on medium and small states across the Indo-Pacific.The book offers a much-needed counterpoint to existing analyses on the Indo-Pacific and China’s BRI and presents a new perspective by examining how great power politics ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Participation without Democracy

    Containing Conflict in Southeast Asia

    by Garry Rodan ...
    Over the past quarter century new ideologies of participation and representation have proliferated across democratic and non-democratic regimes. In Participation without Democracy, Garry Rodan breaks new conceptual ground in examining the social forces that underpin the emergence of these innovations in Southeast Asia. Rodan explains that there is, however, a central paradox in this recalibration ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Emerging States and Economies

    Their Origins, Drivers, and Challenges Ahead

    Edited by Takashi Shiraishi, Tetsushi Sonobe ...
    Series series Emerging-Economy State and International Policy Studies
    This open access book asks why and how some of the developing countries have “emerged” under a set of similar global conditions, what led individual countries to choose the particular paths that led to their “emergence,” and what challenges confront them. If we are to understand the nature of major risks and uncertainties in the world, we must look squarely at the political and economic dynamics ... Read more

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  • Disasters Without Borders

    The International Politics of Natural Disasters

    by John Hannigan ...
    Dramatic scenes of devastation and suffering caused by disasters such as the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, are viewed with shock and horror by millions of us across the world. What we rarely see, however, are the international politics of disaster aid, mitigation and prevention that condition the collective response to natural catastrophes around the world. In this book, respected Canadian ... Read more

    $21.00 USD