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The Politics of Economic Restructuring in India
Economic Governance and State Spatial Rescaling
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
State re-scaling is the central concept mobilized in this book to interpret the political processes that are producing new economic spaces in India. In the quarter century since economic reforms were introduced, the Indian economy has experienced strong growth accompanied by extensive sectoral and...
Japan's Security Relations with China since 1989
From Balancing to Bandwagoning?
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2005
Japan's Security Relations with China since 1989 raises the crucial question of whether Japan's political leadership which is still preoccupied with finding a new political constellation and with overcoming a deep economic crisis is able to handle such a complex policy in the face of an increasingly...
China and International Relations
The Chinese View and the Contribution of Wang Gungwu
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Despite Beijing’s repeated assurance that China’s rise will be "peaceful", the United States, Japan and the European Union as well as many of China's Asian neighbours feel uneasy about the rise of China. Although China’s rise could be seen as inevitable, it remains uncertain as to...
Responsible Development
Vulnerable Democracies, Hunger and Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Until the dramatic economic collapse of 1997, East Asia was the symbol of a successful market-led development strategy for Western governments, aid agencies and academics, despite underlying concerns about a lack of rights and freedoms. The crisis changed Asia and the world; currency depreciations,...
by Thomas F. Millard
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
In 1899, the U.S.’s Hay Doctrine, more commonly referred to as the Open Door Policy, required that China’s trading ports remain open to all countries on an equal basis. Originally published in 1924, in the wake of World War I, this book looks at the variety of different policies between Western...
by James Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Buddhism is widely known to advocate a stance of total pacifism towards all sentient beings, and because of this, it is often thought that Buddhist doctrine would stipulate that non-violent food practices, such as vegetarianism, be mandatory. However, the Pāli source materials do not encourage vegetarianism...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
This book explores the multifaceted aspects of India’s energy security concerns. Bringing together a set of opinions and analysis from experts and policymakers, it sheds light on the context of India’s energy insecurity and explores its various dimensions, its nature and extent. Contributors examine...
China's Education and the Industrialised World
Studies in Cultural Transfer
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
This book, first published in 1987, studies the practical and intellectual import of China's educational relations with the industrialised West, the Soviet Union and Japan. On the practical level, it provides a broad historical and philosophical context within which the possibilities and dangers inherent...
Development and Social Policy
The Win-Win Strategies of Developmental Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
In recent years, government and policymakers around the world have shifted their attention away from money-oriented, supply-side economics to institutional economics and people-oriented social and economic development. Issues such as poverty reduction, win-win solutions and strategies in social policy...
Women's Movements in Asia
Feminisms and Transnational Activism
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Women's Movements in Asia is a comprehensive study of women’s activism across Asia. With chapters written by leading international experts, it provides a full overview of the history of feminism, as well as the current context of the women’s movement in 12 countries: the Philippines, China, Indonesia,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This book brings together extensive recent innovative research on the study of men and masculinities in Southeast Asia. Drawing on rich ethnographic fieldwork from Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia and Timor-Leste, the book examines both dominant and marginal constructions...
Mixed Race Identities in Asia and the Pacific
Experiences from Singapore and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
"Mixed race" is becoming an important area for research, and there is a growing body of work in the North American and British contexts. However, understandings and experiences of "mixed race" across different countries and regions are not often explored in significant depth. New...
The Ethics of Japan's Global Environmental Policy
The conflict between principles and practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
This book examines the Japanese government policies that impact on the environment in order to determine whether they incorporate a sufficient ethical substance. Through the three case studies on whaling, nuclear energy, and forestry, the author explores how Western philosophers combined their theories...
Consumption and Everyday Life
2nd edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
With an emphasis on everyday life, this respected text offers a lively and perceptive account of the key theories and ideas which dominate the field of consumption and consumer culture. Engaging case studies describe forms of consumption familiar to the student, provide some historical context, and...