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“robert k schaeffer”

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  • Red Inc.

    Dictatorship and the Development of Capitalism in China, 1949-2009

    by Robert K. Schaeffer ...
    Red Inc. takes issue with the view that economic development will eventually promote democracy. It outlines in detail the enormous social costs of the rapid rise of China's economy. Although many observers argue that Deng Xiaoping introduced capitalism to China in the late 1970s, Schaeffer believes that capitalist development really began during the 1950s under Mao Zedong. But although Mao made ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Social Movements and Global Social Change

    The Rising Tide

    by Robert K. Schaeffer ...
    Social Movements and Global Social Change teaches students not only about how social change occurs but also how social movements can contribute to this change. The book links two concepts in sociology that are often related in real life, but that can seem disconnected in traditional approaches to teaching these courses.The book examines different types of social movements, including those often ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • China's Future

    by David Shambaugh ...
    China's future is arguably the most consequential question in global affairs. Having enjoyed unprecedented levels of growth, China is at a critical juncture in the development of its economy, society, polity, national security, and international relations. The direction the nation takes at this turning point will determine whether it stalls or continues to develop and prosper.Will China be ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • The Perfect Dictatorship

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    The Chinese system is like no other known to man, now or in history. This book explains how the system works and where it may be moving. Drawing on Chinese and international sources, on extensive collaboration with Chinese scholars, and on the political science of state analysis, the author concludes that under the new leadership of Xi Jinping, the system of government has been transformed into a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • How China Escaped Shock Therapy

    The Market Reform Debate

    by Isabella M. Weber ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
    China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitated the country’s rise without leading to its wholesale assimilation to global neoliberalism. This book uncovers the fierce contest about economic reforms that shaped China’s path. In the first post-Mao decade, China’s reformers were sharply divided. They agreed that China had to reform its economic ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • The China Boom

    Why China Will Not Rule the World

    by Ho-fung Hung ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    Many thought China's rise would fundamentally remake the global order. Yet, much like other developing nations, the Chinese state now finds itself in a status quo characterized by free trade and American domination. Through a cutting-edge historical, sociological, and political analysis, Ho-fung Hung details the competing interests and economic realities that temper the dream of Chinese supremacy ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Getting China Wrong

    by Aaron L. Friedberg ...
    The West’s strategy of engagement with China has failed. More than three decades of trade and investment with the advanced democracies have left that country far richer and stronger than it would otherwise have been. But growth and development have not caused China’s rulers to relax their grip on political power, abandon their mercantilist economic policies, or accept the rules and norms of the ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Writing on the Wall

    Why We Must Embrace China as a Partner or Face It as an Enemy

    by Will Hutton ...
    Evaluating China’s economic and military presence in the twenty first century, critically acclaimed author of The World We’re In Will Hutton discusses why it is crucial for the United States to embrace the powerful country as a partner or face it as an enemy.In this provocative and stimulating book, critically acclaimed author Will Hutton warns that China is running up against a set of daunting ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • How Capitalism Was Built

    The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia

    by Anders Aslund ...
    Anders Aslund is known to make bold predictions that initially arouse controversy but soon become common wisdom. In Gorbachev's Struggle for Economic Reform (1989), he foresaw the collapse of the Soviet political and economic system. After Russia's financial crisis of 1998, observers declared the market economic experiment a failure, Aslund foresaw market economic success (Building Capitalism, ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • China-Europe Relations

    Perceptions, Policies and Prospects

    Edited by David Shambaugh, Eberhard Sandschneider, Zhou Hong ...
    The fast-developing relationship between China and Europe has become one of the most important in international affairs. China-Europe Relations takes an innovative and insightful look at this phenomenon, examining:the state of Chinese studies in Europe and European studies in Chinathe decision-making behind the EU’s China policy, and what the Chinese perceptions and assessments are of Europe that ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Transition Economics

    Two Decades On

    by Peter Luke, Gerard Turley ...
    Celebrating twenty years of transition from socialism to capitalism, this book is designed to be the core textbook for undergraduate courses in transition economics and comparative economic systems. Given the passage of time, Transition Economics: Two Decades On reviews and accounts for the outcomes in the so-called transition economies and, from an academic perspective, takes the reader through ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Tax Politics in Eastern Europe

    Globalization, Regional Integration, and the Democratic Compromise

    by Hilary Appel ...
    “This is the first book to systematically examine the variation in policies of Eastern European countries. There is a theoretical contribution to understandings of variation in tax policies, but just as impressive is the in-depth empirical analysis and in particular the data from interviews with key players in the process.”—Yoshiko Herrera, University of Wisconsin-MadisonPost-Communist tax reform, ... Read more

    $43.19 USD