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Environmental Governance in China
This is the first examination of how China is currently dealing with environmental problems and challenges, and of its successes, failures and dilemmas.
This new...
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Published December 24th 2007 by Routledge.
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Asia’s Position in the New Global Demography
The volume takes four key themes related to ageing – the experience of old age; intergenerational relations; economics of and social policy for ageing; longevity...
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Published December 24th 2007 by Routledge.
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The People's Republic of China (PRC) is a newly emerging world power, and yet is still a developing state that must deal with the liabilities...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-46417-8
Published December 4th 2007 by Routledge.
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Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia
Disrupting Violence
A major new contribution to comparative and multidisciplinary scholarship on the alignment of religion and violence in the contemporary world, with a special focus on South...
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Published September 21st 2007 by Routledge.
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Alternate Paths to Global Power
China has shifted its foreign policy from one that avoided engagement in international organizations to one that is now embracing them. These moves present a...
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Published September 21st 2007 by Routledge.
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Civil Life, Globalization and Political Change in Asia
Organizing between Family and State
Academics and policy makers have grown increasingly interested in the ways that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) may encourage better governance, democratic politics, and perhaps ultimately a...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-45706-4
Published September 1st 2007 by Routledge.
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State Terrorism and Political Identity in Indonesia
Fatally Belonging
Approximately one million innocent Indonesians were killed by their fellow nationals, neighbours and kin at the height of an anti-communist campaign in the mid-1960s. This...
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Published September 1st 2007 by Routledge.
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Structural Equilibrium and Capitalist Sterility
Covering the time span from the Shang to the Qing Periods (1520BC - 1911AD), Gang Deng examines important factors in the decline of the Chinese...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-45864-1
Published September 1st 2007 by Routledge.
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Shinkansen
From Bullet Train to Symbol of Modern Japan
The image of the shinkansen – or ‘bullet train’ – passing Mount Fuji is one of the most renowned images of modern Japan. Yet, despite...
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Published June 13th 2007 by Routledge.
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Single Women, Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Contemporary Indonesia
In popular debates about reproductive and sexual rights, formal religions, especially Islam, are seen as barriers providing institutional and ideological resistance to women's realization of...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-44803-1
Published June 13th 2007 by Routledge.
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The Japanese High School
Silence and Resistance
For large numbers of school students in Japan school has become a battle field. Recent violent events in schools, together with increasing drop-out rates and...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-43829-2
Published May 25th 2007 by Routledge.
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Islamic Nationhood and Colonial Indonesia
The Umma Below the Winds
Drawing on previously unavailable archival material, this book argues that Indonesian nationalism rested on Islamic ecumenism heightened by colonial rule and the pilgrimage. The award winning author...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-44435-4
Published May 18th 2007 by Routledge.
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From the Nineteenth Century to the Pacific War
In the historical literature on Japan, rural people have tended to be regarded as the exploited victims of the industrialisation process. This book provides an...
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Published May 17th 2007 by Routledge.
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This book examines the rise of India to the status of a world power capable of dealing with the full spectrum of international and regional...
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Published May 14th 2007 by Routledge.
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Japan's China Policy
A Relational Power Analysis
Japan's China Policy understands Japan's foreign policy in terms of power - one of the most central concepts of political analysis. It contributes a fresh understanding...
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Published March 22nd 2007 by Routledge.
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Japanese Tea Culture
Art, History and Practice
From its origins as a distinct set of ritualised practices in the sixteenth century to its international expansion in the twentieth, tea culture has had...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-43827-8
Published March 22nd 2007 by Routledge.
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Competition Policy in East Asia clarifies the key issues and provides a framework for understanding competition policy, looking in-depth at a number of regulated sectors...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-43599-4
Published March 20th 2007 by Routledge.
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The New Economy in East Asia and the Pacific
This book sets out the problems of measuring the effects of technological change on economic progress by using the internet in the Asia-Pacific region as...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-43603-8
Published March 6th 2007 by Routledge.
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East Timor, Australia and Regional Order
Intervention and its Aftermath in Southeast Asia
This book explains the exceptional nature of the East Timor intervention of 1999, and deals with the background to the trusteeship role of the UN...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-42984-9
Published December 1st 2006 by Routledge.
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Copyright, Piracy and Cinema
This is a succint and well-written book introducing a truly interdisciplinary approach to the study of copyright and related issues in contemporary popular culture in...
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Published October 17th 2006 by Routledge.
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Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong
Community, nation and the global city
Hong Kong has been undergoing considerable changes since its postcolonial independence. This book provides a detailed comparative account of the development of citizenship and civil...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-39672-1
Published August 10th 2006 by Routledge.
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The Post-Soviet Decline of Central Asia
Sustainable Development and Comprehensive Capital
Sievers draws on his experience of Central Asia to take on the task of explaining the remarkable economic declines of the post-Soviet Central Asian states...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40606-2
Published June 14th 2006 by Routledge.
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Daghestan
Tradition and Survival
Daghestan is home to more than 30 distinct peoples. Each has their own language yet they share a surprisingly homogeneous culture that has both withstood...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40608-6
Published May 4th 2006 by Routledge.
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The Legal and Business Environment after China's WTO Accession
The Chinese market is appealing, but the Chinese legal system is very complicated. A basic understanding of Chinese law is absolutely crucial for companies investing...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40615-4
Published April 18th 2006 by Routledge.
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The main theme of this book is that security is not just about defence from external attack, but embraces the protection of identity and values...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40616-1
Published April 18th 2006 by Routledge.
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The Compound Crisis of 1990
This book provides a detailed examination of the compound crisis between India and Pakistan that brought the region to the brink of a nuclear war...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40603-1
Published April 18th 2006 by Routledge.
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Indian Buddhist Theories of Persons
Vasubandhu's Refutation of the Theory of a Self
In this book, Vasubandhu's classic work Refutation of the Theory of a Self is translated and provided with an introduction and commentary. The translation, the...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40611-6
Published April 18th 2006 by Routledge.
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Old Continuities and New Directions
Filling a gap in the existing literature, this book analyzes the distinctive features of Japan’s development aid, especially technical co-operation, in comparison with other donors’...
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Published April 18th 2006 by Routledge.
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China's Ethnic Minorities and Globalisation
China's fifty-five officially recognised ethnic minorities form about 8% of the Chinese population, with over 100 million people, and occupy over 60% of China's territory....Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40622-2
Published April 12th 2006 by Routledge.
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Islam in Post-Soviet Russia
This book, based on extensive original research in the field, analyses the political, social and cultural implications of the rise of Islam in post-Soviet Russia....Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40624-6
Published April 12th 2006 by Routledge.
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Chinese Women - Living and Working
This book presents significant new findings on new domains of employment for women in China's burgeoning market economy of the 1990s and the twenty-first century....Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40618-5
Published April 12th 2006 by Routledge.
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The Vietnamese Communists' Perspective
Existing studies of the Vietnam War have been written mostly from an American perspective, using western sources, and viewing the conflict through western eyes. This...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40619-2
Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.
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Existing studies of the Vietnam War have been written mostly from an American perspective, using western sources, and viewing the conflict through western eyes. This...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40620-8
Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.
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Japanese Religions at Home and Abroad
Anthropological Perspectives
In this important book, a leading authority on Japanese religions brings together for the first time in English his extensive work on the subject. The...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40621-5
Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.
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Britain, The Netherlands and the Indonesian Revolution
This is the first work to systematically examine the British occupation of Indonesia after the Second World War. The occupation by British-Indian forces between 1945...
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Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.
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Buddhist Phenomenology
A Philosophical Investigation of Yogacara Buddhism and the Ch'eng Wei-shih Lun
A richly complex study of the Yogacara tradition of Buddhism, divided into five parts: the first on Buddhism and phenomenology, the second on the four...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40610-9
Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.
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The Buddhist Unconscious
The Alaya-vijñana in the context of Indian Buddhist Thought
This is the story of fifth century CE India, when the Yogacarin Buddhists tested the awareness of unawareness, and became aware of human unawareness to...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40607-9
Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.
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Muslims in India Since 1947
Islamic Perspectives on Inter-Faith Relations
Muslims in India today are responding to the challenge of religious pluralism in a variety of ways. This book explores the attempts being made by...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40604-8
Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.
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Labour in Southeast Asia
Local Processes in a Globalised World
In seeking to provoke debate, the book reveals the variety of experiences evident in countries and regions marked by capitalist and (post) socialist regulatory frameworks,...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40599-7
Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.
more information about Labour in Southeast AsiaCoalition Politics and Hindu Nationalism
This new collection examines the emergence of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India and the ways in which its Hindu nationalist agenda has been...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40600-0
Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.
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Samkara's Advaita Vedanta
A Way of Teaching
Samkara (c.700 CE) has been regarded by many as the most authoritative Hindu thinker of all time. A great Indian Vedantin brahmin, Samkara was primarily...
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Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.
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An Anthropological Study of the Culture of Aesthetic Form in Japan
The tea ceremony and the martial arts are intimately linked in the popular and historical imagination with Zen Buddhism, and Japanese culture. They are commonly...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40602-4
Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.
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The United Nations and the Indonesian Takeover of West Papua, 1962-1969
The Anatomy of Betrayal
This book examines the role of the international community in the handover of the Dutch colony of West Papua/Irian Jaya to Indonesia in the 1960s...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40625-3
Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.
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The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin
A Study in Twentieth Century Revolutionary Patriotism
This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the political thought of Joseph Stalin. Making full use of the documentation that has recently become available, including...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40626-0
Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.
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Media in China
Consumption, Content and Crisis
Multinational media companies increasingly look to China as a highly important market for the future, but with what degree of confidence should they do so?...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40627-7
Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.
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Japanese Army Stragglers and Memories of the War in Japan, 1950-75
This book charts comprehensively the various discoveries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific of Japanese soldiers still fighting the Second World War many years after...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40628-4
Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.
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Political Communications in Greater China
The Construction and Reflection of Identity
This book examines the role played by political communications, including media of all kinds - journalism, television, and film - in defining and shaping identity...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-41134-9
Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.
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Farmers and Village Life in Japan
Rural Japan during the twentieth century has been portrayed as a vast reservoir of conservatism in much of the literature on Japan's modern development, and...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40623-9
Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.
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China Along the Yellow River
Reflections on Rural Society
This text had a major impact in its original Chinese version. Reviewed in the Far East Economic Review as 'one of the richest portraits of...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40614-7
Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.
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The Caspian
Politics, Energy and Security
The Caspian redefines a Caspian debate long characterized by one-sided and politically motivated analyses and, at times, fantastic reporting. Bringing together a range of influential...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40574-4
Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.
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Energy, Wealth and Governance in the Caucasus and Central Asia
Lessons not learned
Drawing upon recent progress in development economics and political science, the book provides fresh analysis of the Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA) countries transition to...
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Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.
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Place, Power and Memory in Kyoto, Edo and Tokyo
Japan's ability to develop its own brand of modernity has often been attributed in part to the sophistication of its cities. Concentrating on Kyoto, Edo...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40581-2
Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.
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Japanese Modernisation and Mingei Theory
Cultural Nationalism and Oriental Orientalism
Conceptualised in 1920s Japan by Yanagi Sôetsu, the Mingei movement has spread world wide since the 1950s, creating phenomena as diverse as Mingei museums, Mingei...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40582-9
Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.
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Grassroots Pacifism in Post-War Japan
The Rebirth of a Nation
Grassroots Pacifism in Post-War Japan presents new material on grassroots peace activism and pacifism in two major groups active in the post-World War 2 peace...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40583-6
Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.
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Japonisme in Britain
Whistler, Menpes, Henry, Hornel and nineteenth-century Japan
Japan held a profound fascination for western artists in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the influence of Japonisme on western art was...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40584-3
Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.
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Bringing together a group of international scholars, Directors of Urban Change in Asia examines who the 'directors' for urban change are in an eclectic mix...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40587-4
Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.
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There is a deepening debate in East Asia about the prospects for common exchange rate arrangements, even including the formation of a common currency in...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40589-8
Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.
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Translating Traditions
In an age of globalization, performance is increasingly drawn from intercultural creativity and located in multicultural settings. This volume is the first to focus on...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40591-1
Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.
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Nationalism and Internationalism in Imperial Japan
Autonomy, Asian Brotherhood, or World Citizenship?
Throughout the history of modern Japan there has been a continuous struggle to create an integrated conception of how a politically and/or culturally autonomous Japan...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40596-6
Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.
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The Chinese Journalist
Mediating Information in the World's Most Populous Country
The Chinese Journalist provides an intriguing introduction to Chinese journalists and their roles within society for both students of Media and Asian Studies. The...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40597-3
Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.
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China's Rise, Taiwan's Dilemma's and International Peace
If we are to believe the media then a war between China and Taiwan is inevitable. Incorporating interviews, archives and original research, this book examines...
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Published September 19th 2005 by Routledge.
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Incorporating Japanese language materials and field-based research, this compelling collection of essays takes a comparative look at the changing notions of gender and sexual diversity...
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Published August 30th 2005 by Routledge.
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Japan at Play
This book explores the myth, so abused by the mass media, that the Japanese are a grey, anonymous mass of efficient, obedient workers. The articles...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-37937-3
Published August 23rd 2005 by Routledge.
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Space, Place, and Popular Culture
Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this volume examines the relationship between space and the production of local popular culture in contemporary China. The international team of...
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Published June 24th 2005 by Routledge.
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Koreans in Japan
Critical Voices from the Margin
Koreans in Japan are a barely known minority, not only in the West but also within Japan itself. This pioneering study analyses these relations in...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-37939-7
Published April 28th 2005 by Routledge.
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Thailand Beyond the Crisis includes recent research to give an accurate and up to date picture of the status of Thailand's economic recovery. The Asian...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40595-9
Published September 9th 2004 by Routledge.
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Japan and National Anthropology: A Critique
Japan and National Anthropology: A Critique is an empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated study which challenges the conventional view of Japanese studies in general and...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40579-9
Published May 27th 2004 by Routledge.
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East Timor, Australia and Regional Order
Intervention and its Aftermath in Southeast Asia
This book explains the exceptional nature of the East Timor intervention of 1999, and deals with the background to the trusteeship role of the UN...Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-33580-5
Published May 20th 2004 by Routledge.
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Media, War and Terrorism
Responses from the Middle East and Asia
This collection of essays covers the media and public debate dimension of the events of 9/11, and beyond, from the point of view of Middle...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40594-2
Published February 5th 2004 by Routledge.
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Crisis and Change
Jayasuriya looks at the changing global and domestic political economies shaping the new regionalism in Asia, and examines the relationship between regional domestic, political and economic...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40586-7
Published January 8th 2004 by Routledge.
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Policy Dialogue, Surveillance and Cooperation
The focus of international financial reform in recent years has largely been at the global level, in terms of improving the international financial architecture, and...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40590-4
Published December 11th 2003 by Routledge.
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The Rise of the Private Economy
This book discusses the key issues in private sector development in China and includes:· An overview of the development of private enterprises in China
· Analysis...
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Published November 27th 2003 by Routledge.
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Sexual Cultures in East Asia
The Social Construction of Sexuality and Sexual Risk in a Time of AIDS
Using case-studies from East and Southeast Asia, this book examines sexuality and AIDS-related sexual risk in the context of Asian cultures. It offers a complementary...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40592-8
Published November 13th 2003 by Routledge.
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This book provides new data and perspectives on the development of 'world religion' in post-colonial societies through an analysis of the development of 'Hinduism' in...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40598-0
Published November 6th 2003 by Routledge.
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Japan's Security Relations with China since 1989
From balancing to bandwagoning?
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...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-40593-5
Published December 12th 2002 by Routledge.
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