Bücher der Reihe Politics in Asia

Secessionist movements are a fact of life and sometimes the interplay of demands becomes mutually exclusive and result in outbreaks of violence or indeed outright warfare. The contributors to this book provide a comparative survey of recent attempts at secession from across Europe and Asia and assesses the responses of the respective host governments. This volume will be an invaluable resource for those who wish to understand the dynamics of secessionist movements and as such will appeal to students and scholars of Asian and European politics, comparative politics, international relations and conflict studies. It will also be helpful to practioners and policy-makers who wish to understand and contribute to the resolution of such conflicts.

Explores the pressures influencing East Asian regionalist policy debates, analysing the trend towards deeper integration and the emergence of a governance model for managing regional processes. This book highlights the policy challenges confronting regionalism and governance in East Asia.

Since 2001, Indonesia's military commitment to Aceh province resulted in one of Southeast Asia's largest wars for decades. This work presents the background and history of this war, investigating its domestic and international implications, at a time when the tsunami catastrophe has brought Aceh to world attention.

Examines state making projects from an Asian perspective, highlighting the particular combination of institutions and ideologies embedded in the Asian state-making projects. This volume also demonstrates their distinctiveness from the Western experience.

This edited volume argues that the rise of Islamic conservatism poses challenges to Indonesiäs continued existence as a secular state, with far-reaching implications for the social, cultural and political fortunes of the country.

This fully revised fourth edition of Michael Yahuda's successful textbook brings the region fully up-to-date, introducing students to the international politics of the Asia-Pacific region since 1945.

This fully revised fourth edition of Michael Yahuda's successful textbook brings the region fully up-to-date, introducing students to the international politics of the Asia-Pacific region since 1945.

A study by scholars of comparative politics who examine the internal transformations of dominant parties in both authoritarian and democratic settings. Using country-specific case studies, it examines the question: What happens to dominant political parties when they lose or face the very real prospect of losing?

Following President Chen Sui-bian's victory in the controversial 2004 presidential election, this book provides an analysis of the dynamics of Taiwan's foreign policy.

This book examines instances in Southeast and East Asian countries where communitarianism is both articulated as national ideology and embedded as the ethos of social life.

In this multi-disciplinary study leading scholars in law, history, politics and economics examine political change in Singapore.

The only book length study to cover the Philippines after downfall, this key title thematically explores issues affecting this fascinating country, throughout the last century.

This work gives a complete overview of Japanese foreign policy and Japan-Sout East Asian relations and will be invaluable to students and scholars of Japanese foreign policy, asian studies and international relations.

This interdisciplinary book gathers contributions from experts in political science, economics, law and Japanese studies to give a deeper understanding of how Japan's political economy and policymaking processes are working today.

This volume offers the first systematic comparison of political change, leadership style and stability in Central Asia.

'The Politics of NGOs in Southeast Asia' traces the emergence of NGOs in the Philippines and southeast Asia and the political factors which encouraged this, including the complex relations between NGOs and other factors.

While torture has a short-term use value for perpetrators, it also creates a devastating legacy for victims, their families and communities. This book addresses the questions: 'What might torture victims need to move forward from their violation?' and 'How can official responses provide truth or justice for torture victims?'

Examines various aspects of Beijing's strategies, ranging from political, economic and social challenges, to the Taiwan and Hong Kong issues, to the implications of these strategies in terms of China's place within the Asia Pacific, and indeed within the world system. This book is suitable for students and scholars of Chinese politics.

This book explores the theoretical and empirical relationship between democracy and governance in the Asia-Pacific region. Examining a variety of country cases and themes addressing the theoretical tension between governance and democracy, it illuminates how this impacts political and civil societies across the region.

Explores how various forms of unregulated and illegal forms of human movement within Asia and beyond the region have come to be treated as 'security' issues, and whether and how a 'securitization' framework enables a more effective response to them.

Examines party change in the Asian third wave democracy of Taiwan during its critical period of democratic consolidation, right up to the Presidential elections held in March 2004. This book looks at how Taiwan's parties have adjusted to their new multi party election environment.

In an interesting mix of the empirical and theoretical, case studies from the US, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia and Indonesia illustrate China's developing position in the Asia-Pacific.

This study traces the historic course of diplomatic competition between the rival Koreas within the context of a changing international system.

Documenting China's participation in international arms control and non-proliferation regimes from 1985 to 2001, this book focuses on the distinction between US expectations of Chinese compliance and international standards.

A history of Nepal from the Medieval/Early Modern period through to the present day with particular attention to contemporary Nepal, and the prospects for democracy.

Written by a team of international experts in the field, the chapters in this book question whether, and how NGOs actually lead to democratisation, and discuss the ways NGOs relate to broader global forces.

This book is the first to provide a detailed account of the political influence exerted by both domestic and international media in the Asia Pacific region.

Analyzes the overall effect of American primacy on social and political conflicts in Asia, discussing how the post-Cold War American agenda does not promote democratization in the region, in contradiction to one of the major proclaimed aims of the proponents of the Pax Americana.