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Download this eBook Islamist Militancy in Bangladesh
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Islamist Militancy in Bangladesh


Shafi Md Mostofa


This book seeks to investigate not only the causes of radicalization but also how radicalization has unfolded since 2009 based on an exhaustive review of the relevant literature and two stints of fieldwork in Bangladesh involving 71 in depth interviews of highly...

Publication date: 2021-09-01
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Slogan Politics


Jinghan Zeng


This book studies the three most important Chinese foreign policy concepts under Xi Jinping’s leadership – “New Type of Great Power Relations”, “Belt and Road Initiative” and “Community of Shared Future for Mankind”. Those signature concepts are often considered as...

Publication date: 2020-07-20
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Download this eBook Islamic Revivalism and Politics in Malaysia
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Islamic Revivalism and Politics in Malaysia


Bob Olivier


This book describes the Islamisation process that has unfolded in Malaysia over the last fifty years and provides feedback from in-depth interviews with 100 individuals from Malaysia’s “educated classes”, or the “elite”, regarding their reactions to the changes that...

Publication date: 2019-11-21
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Download this eBook Understanding ASEAN's Role in Asia-Pacific Order
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Understanding ASEAN's Role in Asia-Pacific Order


Robert Yates


This book assesses the important role of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the management of regional political, security and economic relations. The author argues that ASEAN’s prominent role in the region, spanning 50 years, is largely due to the...

Publication date: 2019-03-25
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Download this eBook The Rise of International Capital
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The Rise of International Capital


Faris Al-Fadhat


This book analyzes the social forces and political coalitions driving regional integration projects in Asia with a focus on ASEAN and Indonesian conglomerates. It asks which social forces, within the domestic political economy of Asian states, are driving governments to...

Publication date: 2019-01-09
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Download this eBook Workplace Justice
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Workplace Justice


Tu Phuong Nguyen


This book develops an understanding of workplace justice and labour rights in Vietnam from factory workers’ voices and their resistance against abuse and exploitation. Through interviews with workers and a close analysis of their letters and petitions to the unions and...

Publication date: 2018-12-11
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Download this eBook The End of China's Non-Intervention Policy in Africa
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The End of China's Non-Intervention Policy in Africa


Obert Hodzi


This book gives a compelling analysis and explanation of shifts in China’s non-intervention policy in Africa. Systematically connecting the neoclassical realist theoretical logic with an empirical analysis of China’s intervention in African civil wars, the volume...

Publication date: 2018-10-22
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Download this eBook The Modernisation of the Republic of Korea Navy
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The Modernisation of the Republic of Korea Navy


Ian Bowers


This book sheds light on one of the most under-studied but powerful navies in the world. Using a multifaceted approach, it examines how the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) has sought to transform itself from a coastal naval force focused solely on deterring North Korea to...

Publication date: 2018-08-11
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Download this eBook Food Security and the Modernisation Pathway in China
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Food Security and the Modernisation Pathway in China


Marie-Hélène Schwoob


This book aims at providing students, experts and practitioners with a detailed overview of agricultural and food security issues in China, analyzed through the lenses of a multidisciplinary approach that enables to fully grasp the current socio-political challenges and...

Publication date: 2018-01-26
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Download this eBook Australian Foreign Policy in Asia
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Australian Foreign Policy in Asia


Allan Patience


This book sets out to discuss what kind of ‘middle power’ Australia is, and whether its identity as a middle power negatively influences its relationship with Asia. It looks at the history of the middle power concept, develops three concepts of middle power status and...

Publication date: 2017-12-12
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Download this eBook Enterprises, Localities, People, and Policy in the South China Sea
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Enterprises, Localities, People, and Policy in the South China Sea


Dean Karalekas , Moises Lopes De Souza , Jonathan Spangler


This volume takes readers beneath the surface of the South China Sea by exploring critical but under-researched issues related to the maritime territorial disputes. It draws attention to the importance of private sector, civil society, and subnational actors’ roles in...

Publication date: 2017-11-16
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Download this eBook The Quality of Democracy in Korea
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The Quality of Democracy in Korea


Hak-Jae Kim , Eun-Jeung Lee , Hannes B. Mosler


This edited volume assesses the quality of democracy in the Republic of Korea three decades after its formal democratization in 1987. It has been argued that Korea’s two subsequent power turnovers prove that its democracy has been successfully consolidated, despite its...

Publication date: 2017-11-15
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Download this eBook A Post State-Centric Analysis of China-Africa Relations
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A Post State-Centric Analysis of China-Africa Relations


Edson Ziso


This book offers a new alternative to understanding the relationship between China and Africa. Here, the author not only explores the changing nature of Ethiopia’s internal politics as a result of Chinese investment and commercial links, but also compellingly questions...

Publication date: 2017-11-03
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Download this eBook Asylum, Work, and Precarity
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Asylum, Work, and Precarity


Nicholas Henry


This book explores the regional coordination and impact of state responses to irregular migration in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. The main argument is that regional and international trends of securitisation and criminalisation of irregular migration, often...

Publication date: 2017-10-27
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Download this eBook Korea-China Relations in History and Contemporary Implications
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Korea-China Relations in History and Contemporary Implications


Robert Kong Chan


This book examines the complex relations between Joseon Korea (1392–1910) and Ming/Qing China in history, and reveals their contemporary implications for the nature of a China-dominated order in East Asia and the relations between China and the middle powers in the...

Publication date: 2017-08-28
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Download this eBook Varieties of Capitalism in Asia
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Varieties of Capitalism in Asia


David Hundt , Jitendra Uttam


This book devises an innovative new way of explaining how socioeconomic orders shape capitalism in Asia. Hundt and Uttam go beyond both the ‘varieties of capitalism’ approach, which is mainly used to analyse Western capitalism, and the 'developmental state' thesis,...

Publication date: 2017-08-02
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Download this eBook Changing Security Dynamics in East Asia
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Changing Security Dynamics in East Asia


Elena Atanassova-Cornelis , Frans-Paul Van Der Putten


This original and detailed collection explores how regional actors deal with uncertainties that are inherent to the current geopolitical situation in East Asia. The contributors collectively demonstrate that strategic uncertainty has become a major factor in the shaping...

Publication date: 2016-04-30
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Download this eBook Think Tanks and Non-Traditional Security
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Think Tanks and Non-Traditional Security


Erin Zimmerman


Asian security institutions have struggled to adapt to the so-called 'non-traditional' security issues that characterise the strategic landscape of the 21st century. The resulting gaps in governance have increasingly been filled by think tanks, which have arguably begun...

Publication date: 2016-02-09
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Download this eBook Political Economy and the Aid Industry in Asia
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Political Economy and the Aid Industry in Asia


W. Hout , C. Hughes , J. Hutchison , R. Robison


Adopting a distinctive structural political economy approach, this book uniquely explains the blind spots of alternative political economy approaches to international aid, and presents an original framework for evaluating likely reformers' strength of commitment and...

Publication date: 2015-12-25
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Eurasian Regionalism


S. Aris


The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is attracting significant attention from governments and scholars. This study examines the evolution of the SCO as a regional security provider and a framework for cooperation, drawing on fieldwork interviews with officials...

Publication date: 2015-12-11
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