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  • Danger, Development and Legitimacy in East Asian Maritime Politics

    Securing the Seas, Securing the State

    by Christian Wirth ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    Grounded in extensive empirical research, Danger, Development and Legitimacy in East Asian Maritime Politics addresses the major issues of geopolitics in the region that have been and will continue to shape the international politics of the Asia-Pacific for years to come. Covering the nation-states of China, Japan and South Korea, it includes an examination of the key island disputes, as well as ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Old-Growth Forests

    Function, Fate and Value

    Edited by Christian Wirth, Gerd Gleixner, Martin Heimann ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Many terms often used to describe old-growth forests imply that these forests are less vigorous, less productive and less stable than younger forests. But research in the last two decades has yielded results that challenge the view of old-growth forests being in decline. Given the importance of forests in battling climate change and the fact that old-growth forests are shrinking at a rate of 0.5% ... Read more

    $371.99 CAD

  • Crisis Narratives, Institutional Change, and the Transformation of the Japanese State

    Edited by Sebastian Maslow, Christian Wirth ...
    Looking at Japan, traces crisis narratives across three decades and ten policy fields, with the aim of disentangling discursively manufactured crises from actual policy failures.Mired in national crises since the early 1990s, Japan has had to respond to a rapid population decline; the Asian and global financial crises; the 2011 triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami, and the Fukushima nuclear ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • Japan

    The Paradox of Harmony

    by Keiko Hirata, Mark Warschauer ...
    Following a crushing defeat in World War II, Japan rose like a phoenix from the literal ashes to become a model of modernity and success, for decades Asia’s premier economic giant. Yet it remains a nation hobbled by rigid gender roles, protectionist policies, and a defensive, inflexible corporate system that has helped bring about political and economic stagnation. The unique social cohesion that ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Japan's Subnational Governments in International Affairs

    by Purnendra Jain ...
    Series series The University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies Series
    This book moves away from the common belief that Japan’s international relations are firmly the preserve of the national government in Japan’s highly centralised political system. Examining examples of subnational governments (SNGs) across Japan the book uncovers a significant and generally unrecognised development in Japanese politics: SNGs are ever more dynamic international actors as national ... Read more

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  • Japan's Security Relations with China since 1989

    From Balancing to Bandwagoning?

    by Reinhard Drifte ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    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 assertive China and a US alliance partner with strong swings between engaging and containing China ... Read more

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  • 3.11

    Disaster and Change in Japan

    by Richard J. Samuels ...
    On March 11, 2011, Japan was struck by the shockwaves of a 9.0 magnitude undersea earthquake originating less than 50 miles off its eastern coastline. The most powerful earthquake to have hit Japan in recorded history, it produced a devastating tsunami with waves reaching heights of over 130 feet that in turn caused an unprecedented multireactor meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Japan in Transformation, 1945–2020

    by Jeff Kingston ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    This eBook+ version includes the following enhancements:• Colour images to support visual learning• Pop-up explanations of Who's Who and glossary terms to help readers refresh their knowledge and better understand Japan's history since 1945Japan in Transformation, 1945-2020 has been newly revised and updated to examine the 3.11 natural and nuclear disasters, Emperor Akihito’s abdication, Prime ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • Japan as a 'Normal Country'?

    A Nation in Search of Its Place in the World

    Edited by Masayaki Tadokoro, Yoshihide Soeya, David A. Welch ...
    Series series Japan and Global Society
    For decades, Japan's foreign policy has been seen by both internal and external observers as abnormal in relation to its size and level of sophistication. Japan as a 'Normal Country'? is a thematic and geographically comparative discussion of the unique limitations of Japanese foreign and defence policy. The contributors reappraise the definition of normality and ask whether Japan is indeed ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Japan

    The Precarious Future

    Edited by Frank Baldwin, Anne Allison ...
    Series Book 1 - Possible Futures
    On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake off Japan’s northeast coast triggered a tsunami that killed more than 20,000 people, displaced 600,000, and caused billions of dollars in damage as well as a nuclear meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Japan, the world’s third largest economy, was already grappling with recovery from both its own economic recession of the 1990s and ... Read more

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  • Engaging China

    Myth, Aspiration, and Strategy in Canadian Policy from Trudeau to Harper

    by Paul Evans ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    For more than four decades, engagement has been the bedrock of Canada’s policy toward China, as Ottawa has attempted to assist China’s entry into the international system and advance a commercial agenda. More than just high policy, engagement has also been a recurrent narrative that sees changing China as a moral enterprise as important as trade and diplomacy.As global China’s economic and ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Contested Governance in Japan

    Sites and Issues

    Edited by Glenn D. Hook ...
    Series series The University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies Series
    Contested Governance in Japan extends the analysis of governance in contemporary Japan by exploring both the sites and issues of governance above and below the state as well as within it. This volume discusses the contested nature of governance in Japan and the ways in which a range of actors are involved in different sites and issues of governance at home, in the region and the globe. It includes ... Read more

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