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REGIONAL POLITICS ASIA
Brookings Institution Press
Focusing on millennials, this book examines the status, lifestyles, attitudes, values, and behaviours of this key segment of the country's population. The book also explores how their distinct characteristics and views will shape the country's trajectory. For the outside world, developing a better understanding of this unique generation is an urgent task, given that China now has more influence on the global economy and regional security than at any other point in modern history.
Oct 2021 399pp 9780815739364 Hardback £29.95 / €36.00
University of Hawai'i Press
Yoonkyung Lee Hawai‘i Studies on Korea
Korean citizens are known as seasoned protestors, charting the course of national politics. Between the Streets and the Assembly explores how protest movements have become the prominent mode of democratic politics in Korea, in contrast to political parties in the National Assembly that have lagged behind in partisan representation and accountability.
Mar 2022 244pp 9780824890179 Hardback £63.95 / €74.00
University of Michigan Press
GOVERNING AND RULING The Political Logic of Taxation in China
Changdong Zhang China Understandings Today
Rapid social economic changes, the transition from a planned economy to a market economy, or even economic liberalisation can lead to political instability and the collapse of authoritarian regimes. This work studies how the Chinese Communist Party uses and reforms its taxation institution to promote economic growth and governance quality while limits the emerging capitalists' political demand.
Oct 2021 344pp 9780472055012 Paperback £32.50 / €38.00 9780472075010 Hardback £68.95 / €80.00
Academica Press
Awal Hossain Examines the contemporary politics and governance of Bangladesh and their crises and challenges. As an independent state, Bangladesh started its journey as a constitutional, secular, democratic, multiparty, parliamentary republic.
Apr 2022 200pp 9781680538007 Hardback £142.00 / €162.00
Brookings Institution Press
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Oct 2021 399pp 9780815739364 Hardback £29.95 / €36.00
DRIVERS OF INNOVATION Entrepreneurship, Education, and Finance in Asia
Edited by Yong Suk Lee & Fei Yan Brings together scholars from the US and Asia to explore education and finance policies that might be conducive to accelerating innovation and developing a more entrepreneurial workforce in East Asia. This volume will serve as a valuable reference for scholars and policymakers working to develop human capital for innovation in Asia.
Jan 2022 250pp 9781931368643 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00 Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
ENDURING AND EMERGING ISSUES IN SOUTH ASIAN SECURITY Essays in Honor of Stephen Philip Cohen
Edited by Sumit Ganguly & Dinshaw Mistry Long-time Brookings senior fellow Stephen Philip Cohen was the first American scholar to work in the field of South Asian security studies. This book of essays is an intellectual homage to Cohen. It is also an impressive overview of a number of the vital questions facing the nations of that region as well as their neighbours both near and far.
Feb 2022 220pp 9780815738848 Paperback £29.95 / €35.00
ENERGY INSECURITY IN ASIA Challenges, Solutions, and Renewable Energy
Edited by Naoyuki Yoshino et al Unlike energy security, energy insecurity has not been extensively studied. Energy insecurity is not merely a mirror image of energy security, given the diverse consequences and impacts of the unavailability of energy for households. This book identifies the challenges, and explores potential solutions in the context of energy insecurity in Asia.
Jul 2021 349pp 9784899741114 Paperback £24.95 / €29.00 Asian Development Bank Institute
THE NORTH KOREAN CONUNDRUM Balancing Human Rights and Nuclear Security
Edited by Robert R. King & Gi-Wook Shin The contributors explore how dealing with the issue of human rights is shaped and affected by the political issues with which it is so entwined. Sections discuss the role of the UN; how North Koreans' limited access to information is part of the problem; and North Korean human rights in comparative perspective.
Jan 2022 250pp 9781931368650 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00 Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
THE PARTY LEADS ALL The Evolving Role of the Chinese Communist Party
Edited by Jacques deLisle & Guobin Yang Addresses important questions about the current and future roles of the Chinese Communist Party. This book offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the party's roles in China's economy, government, civil society, legal system, military affairs, and foreign policy.
Jun 2022 365pp 9780815739517 Paperback £39.95 / €47.00
XI JINPING'S CHINA AND THE INTERNATIONAL NONPROFIT COMMUNITY China and Overseas Nongovernmental Organizations, Foundations and Think Tanks in a New Era
Mark Sidel Charts the history of China's relationship with a wide array of independent organisations, and analyses the current trend towards government restrictions on their work. Mark Sidel also addresses the future of these organisations in China, given the current government's largely negative attitude toward them.
Jun 2022 224pp 9780815739203 Paperback £39.95 / €47.00
University of Hawai'i Press
Yoonkyung Lee Hawai‘i Studies on Korea
For further details, please see page 51.
Mar 2022 244pp 9780824890179 Hardback £63.95 / €74.00
CITIZEN DESIGNS City-Making and Democracy in Northeastern Thailand
Eli Elinoff What does it mean to design democratic cities and democratic citizens in a time of mass urbanisation and volatile political transformation? This work addresses this question by exploring the ways that democratic urban planning projects intersect with emerging political aspirations among squatters in the Thai city of Khon Kaen.
Jan 2022 310pp 9780824888268 Paperback £26.50 / €31.00
DISUNION Anticommunist Nationalism and the Making of the Republic of Vietnam
Nu-Anh Tran Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Since the 1950s, the domestic politics of the Republic of Vietnam has puzzled outside observers. Here, the author shows how factional struggles in the Saigon-based republic reflected serious disagreements about political ideas at a pivotal moment in the lead-up to the Vietnam War.
Feb 2022 304pp 9780824887865 Hardback £63.95 / €74.00
POLITICS OF CONTROL Creating Red Culture in the Early People's Republic of China
Chang-tai Hung Using a unique interdisciplinary, cultural-institutional analysis, this work is the first comprehensive study of how, in the early decades of the People's Republic of China, the Chinese Communist Party reshaped people's minds using multiple methods of control.
Nov 2021 288pp 9780824892609 Paperback £26.50 / €30.00
PROJECTLAND Life in a Lao Socialist Model Village
Holly High New Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory
Provides a unique and timely assessment of the Lao Party-state’s resettlement politics, and recounts with skilful nuance the stories that are often cast into shadows by the usual focus on New Kandon as a success.
Jan 2022 264pp 9780824888688 Paperback £26.50 / €30.00
SURVIVING IMPERIAL INTRIGUES Korea's Struggle for Neutrality Amid Empires, 1882-1907
Sangpil Jin Hawai‘i Studies on Korea
Serves as a guide for both specialists and policymakers who require a nuanced grasp of the new era of geopolitical shift, likely dominated by the two powers (China and the US) that possess a distinct understanding of the norms and structure of the international order.
Apr 2022 280pp 9780824889142 Paperback £26.50 / €30.00
ISEAS Publishing
30 YEARS ON A Reflection on Southeast Asia's Fight Against Communism During the Cold War Years
Daljit Singh & Lye Liang Fook Trends in Southeast Asia
2021 marked the thirtieth anniversary of the signing of the Cambodian Peace Agreements which ended the Cambodian conflict and the Cold War in Southeast Asia. The CPM waged a guerrilla war in Malaya. They were defeated by 1960 but tried to revive the insurgency in the 1970s.
Oct 2021 16pp 9789814951951 Paperback £6.95 / €8.00
INDONESIA'S FOREIGN POLICY UNDER SUHARTO Aspiring to International Leadership, Second Edition
Leo Suryadinata Examines Indonesia's foreign policy under Suharto. The book not only details Indonesia's foreign policy behaviour vis-a-vis Indonesia's neighbours and major powers, but also places it in the context of foreign policy analysis.
Feb 2022 239pp 9789814951616 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00
SOUTHEAST ASIAN AFFAIRS 2021
Edited by Daljit Singh & Malcolm Cook “In this annual review of the region, renowned academics provide comprehensive and stimulating commentary that furthers understanding of not only the region's dynamism but also of its tensions and conflicts.” — Suchit Bunbongkarn,
Emeritus Professor at Chulalongkorn University
Jul 2021 427pp 9789814951180 Hardback £39.95 / €47.00
Lynne Rienner Publishers
UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY INDIA Third Edition
Edited by Neil DeVotta & Sumit Ganguly Even stronger than its outstanding predecessor, the third edition of Understanding Contemporary India provides context for and evaluates more than a decade of challenges and changes in India. This is an indispensable volume that describes and analyses the paradoxical nature of the world's largest and most diverse democracy.
Jul 2021 340pp 9781626379404 Paperback £24.50 / €28.00
McFarland
FREEDOM ON THE FRONTLINES Afghan Women and the Fallacy of Liberation
Lina AbiRafeh Women's rights in Afghanistan have been chipped away, and any gains - however tenuous - now appear lost. This book measures the rhetoric of liberation and details the crises and interventions that Afghani women have experienced over the twenty-year period from 2001 to 2021.
Jun 2022 277pp 9781476689425 Paperback £37.95 / €44.00
University of Michigan Press
CHINESE NETIZENS' OPINIONS ON DEATH SENTENCES An Empirical Examination
Bin Liang & Jianhong Liu China Understandings Today
Provides the first in-depth examination of what Chinese netizens think about various death sentences and executions in China.
Nov 2021 344pp 9780472038732 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00 9780472132690 Hardback £64.95 / €75.00
HIGHLIGHT GOVERNING AND RULING The Political Logic of Taxation in China
Changdong Zhang China Understandings Today
For further details, please see page 51.
Oct 2021 344pp 9780472055012 Paperback £32.50 / €38.00 9780472075010 Hardback £68.95 / €80.00
OPPOSING POWER Building Opposition Alliances in Electoral Autocracies
Elvin Ong Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies
When do opposition party leaders build pre-electoral alliances to compete against electoral autocrats? Through two pairs of case study comparisons in East and Southeast Asia, Opposing Power argues that opposition elites' perceptions of regime vulnerability and mutual dependency shape their efforts to construct alliances.
May 2022 320pp 9780472038886 Paperback £32.50 / €38.00 9780472133000 Hardback £68.95 / €80.00
PEOPLE’S WARS IN CHINA, MALAYA, AND VIETNAM
Marc Opper Explains why some insurgencies collapse after a military defeat while under other circumstances insurgents are able to maintain influence, rebuild strength, and ultimately defeat the government. The author argues that ultimate victory in civil wars rests on the size of the coalition of social groups established by each side during the conflict.
Dec 2021 402pp 9780472038749 Paperback £28.50 / €33.00
PRIDE, NOT PREJUDICE National Identity as a Pacifying Force in East Asia
Eunbin Chung Numerous studies have suggested that more peaceful relations are likely only if countries submerge or paper over existing national identities by promoting universalism. Pride, Not Prejudice argues, to the contrary, that affirmation of national identities may be a more effective way to build international cooperation.
Feb 2022 320pp 9780472039050 Paperback £32.50 / €38.00 9780472132942 Hardback £68.95 / €80.00
Paths International Ltd
CHINA'S FIGHT AGAINST THE COVID-19 EPIDEMIC Its International Contribution and Significance in the Eyes of the World
Edited by Jiang Hui et al A collection of interviews with over 20 former politicians, Communist Party leaders and scholars from countries including Germany, the US and Hungary, by the Xi Jinping Research Center for Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era, the World Socialism Research Center and the Institute of Marxism.
Oct 2021 400pp 9781844646760 Hardback £75.00 / €92.00
THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF CHINA'S ECONOMY
Chen Jiangsheng The Chinese Paths Series
Offers an analysis and summary of the process of China's economic internationalisation, and an investigation and consideration of one aspect of Chinese national path. The book follows two main lines, outlining the overall picture of China's economic internationalisation.
Jan 2022 308pp 9781844645879 Hardback £80.00 / €98.00
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CHINA INC. Between State Capitalism and Economic Statecraft
Aravind Yelery Examines the reforms of China's state-owned enterprises in the 1990s, which resulted in mass closures of firms, tens of millions of lay-offs and stock market listings for many of the biggest state firms.
Feb 2022 378pp 9789390095353 Hardback £57.50 / €67.00
CHINESE GEOPOLITICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY A Post Pandemic Perspective
Anand Tewari Employs an ‘inside-out' approach to examine China's geopolitics. To successfully address this issue as an outsider, the book searches for the roots of today’s China through its evolution of geospatial, human geographical, metaphysical and economic spheres.
Feb 2022 327pp 9789390095407 Hardback £57.50 / €67.00
Vijay Khare Focuses on the influence of social media on India's foreign policymaking, demonstrating that the role of social media is not only as an information provider, but also as a platform of interaction between the government and public.
Feb 2022 328pp 9789390095209 Hardback £29.50 / €34.00
XI'S CHINA
Edel Secondat A seminal piece of work by Edel Secondat, which takes stock of 2010-2020 from a sociologist's viewpoint to show a society in flux.
Feb 2022 176pp 9789390095315 Paperback £11.95 / €14.00
Rutgers University Press
VILLAGE TIES Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh
Nayma Qayum Takes the reader to Bangladesh, a country that has risen from the ashes of war, natural disaster, and decades of resource drain to become a development miracle. The book argues that grassroots women's mobilisation programmes can empower women to challenge informal institutions when such programmes are anti-oppression and embedded in their communities.
Nov 2021 230pp 9781978816442 Paperback £24.50 / €28.00 9781978816459 Hardback £97.50 / €113.00
United Nations Publications
ASIA-PACIFIC DISASTER REPORT 2021 Resilience in a Riskier World: Managing Systemic Risks from Biological and Other Natural Hazards
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Presents an extended analysis of the regional risk-scape based on multidisciplinary research conducted. The publication defines risk hotspots where disasters and biological hazards, climate and health emergencies - including COVID-19 - collide. It further presents the emergence of new systemic risks and cascading hazards, alongside their impacts.
Jan 2022 112pp 9789211208283 Paperback £51.95 / €60.00
University of Wisconsin Press
HUMAN RIGHTS AND JEWISH IDENTITY IN PINOCHET’S CHILE
Maxine Lowy Generations of marginalised Jewish immigrants and refugees migrated to Chile during the first half of the twentieth century, only to live through persecution during Pinochet's military coup. Maxine Lowy asks how individuals and institutions may overcome fear, indifference, and convenience to take a stand even under intense political duress.
Jan 2022 304pp 9780299335809 Hardback £74.95 / €87.00
BESTSELLERS
Brookings Institution Press
CHINESE POLITICS IN THE XI JINPING ERA Reassessing Collective Leadership
Cheng Li Examines how the structure and dynamics of Chinese party leadership have evolved since the late 1990s and argues that ‘inner-party democracy’ - the concept of collective leadership that emphasises deal making based on accepted rules and norms - may pave the way for greater transformation within China's political system.
2016 512pp 9780815726920 Paperback £24.50 / €29.00
DIFFICULT CHOICES Taiwan's Quest for Security and the Good Life
Richard C. Bush How can Taiwan overcome internal stresses and the threat from China? This book explores the broad range of issues and policy choices Taiwan confronts and offers suggestions both for what Taiwan can do to help itself and what the United States should do to improve Taiwan's chances of success.
2021 400pp 9780815738336 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00
Edited by Tarun Chhabra et al To better address the implications of China's rise, Brookings scholars conducted research over two years, culminating in Global China: Assessing China's Growing Role in the World. It will furnish policy makers and the public with hard facts and deep insights for understanding China's ambitions.
2021 428pp 9780815739166 Paperback £29.95 / €36.00
INDIA AND ASIAN GEOPOLITICS The Past, Present
Shivshankar Menon One of India's most distinguished foreign policy thinkers addresses the many questions facing India as it seeks to find its way in the complex world of Asian geopolitics. A former Indian foreign secretary and national security adviser, Shivshankar Menon, traces India's approach to the shifting regional landscape since its independence in 1947.
2021 416pp 9780815737230 Paperback £32.50 / €38.00
Lynne Rienner Publishers
UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY CHINA Fifth Edition
Edited by Robert E. Gamer & Stanley W. Toops Explores the impact of new domestic policies; China's role as a behemoth in the world economy; its modernising infrastructure; its expanding military presence in the region; and much more.
