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  • What Is in a Rim?

    Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea

    by Glenn Alcalay, Gary Gereffi, Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Donald M. Nonini, Neferti Xina M. Tadiar, Rob Wilson, Meredith Woo-Cumings, Alexander Woodside, Arif Dirlik, Xiangming Chen, Bruce Cumings ...
    Series series Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives
    This pathbreaking, multidisciplinary work challenges our unthinking acceptance of such terms as 'Asia Pacific' and 'Pacific Rim.' Clarifying the hidden power relationships and hegemonic struggles that are disguised by ideological constructions of the region, the contributors uncover fundamental contradictions_including the human costs and consequences_that underlie the much-celebrated economic ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

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  • Activists beyond Borders

    Advocacy Networks in International Politics

    by Margaret E. Keck, Kathryn A. Sikkink ...
    Valuable reading for anyone concerned with contemporary dynamics of social change. â• International AffairsMargaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Asian American History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Madeline Y. Hsu ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    A 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center reported that Asian Americans are the best-educated, highest-income, and best-assimilated racial group in the United States. Before reaching this level of economic success and social assimilation, however, Asian immigrants' path was full of difficult, even demeaning, moments. This book provides a sweeping and nuanced history of Asian Americans, revealing ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • Post-Western World

    How Emerging Powers Are Remaking Global Order

    by Oliver Stuenkel ...
    With the United States' superpower status rivalled by a rising China and emerging powers like India and Brazil playing a growing role in international affairs, the global balance of power is shifting. But what does this mean for the future of the international order? Will China dominate the 21st Century? Will the so-called BRICS prove to be a disruptive force in global affairs? Are we headed ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Good Governance in the Era of Global Neoliberalism

    Conflict and Depolitization in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa

    Edited by Jolle Demmers, Alex E. Fernández Jilberto, Barbara Hogenboom ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    This new collection critically examines the new global policy of 'good governance'. This catchphrase of aid policy and development thinking has been the subject of too little analysis to date. This book redresses the balance. It places the prefix 'good', and exactly what that means, under the microscope and examines the impact of neoliberal governance in a wide range of countries and territories, ... Read more

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  • Ordering Power

    Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia

    by Dan Slater ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Like the postcolonial world more generally, Southeast Asia exhibits tremendous variation in state capacity and authoritarian durability. Ordering Power draws on theoretical insights dating back to Thomas Hobbes to develop a unified framework for explaining both of these political outcomes. States are especially strong and dictatorships especially durable when they have their origins in 'protection ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Sinicization and the Rise of China

    Civilizational Processes Beyond East and West

    Edited by Peter J. Katzenstein ...
    China’s rise and processes of Sinicization suggest that recombination of new and old elements rather than a total rupture with or return to the past is China’s likely future. In both space and time, civilizational politics offers the broadest social context. It is of particular salience in China. Reification of civilizations into simple categories such as East and West is widespread in everyday ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Global Multiculturalism

    Comparative Perspectives on Ethnicity, Race, and Nation

    by Grant H. Cornwell, Eve Walsh Stoddard, Henley Adams, Patricia Alden, Anne Csete, Judith De Groat, Edimilson de Almeida Pereira, Louis Dupont, Kirk Fuoss, Randall T. H. Hill, William Hunt, Joseph Kling, Nathalie LeMarchand, John Makumbe, Celia Nyamweru, Laura Nuzzi O’Shaughnessy, Ansil Ramsay, Steven F. White ...
    Global Multiculturalism offers a rich collection of case studies on ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity drawn from thirteen countries-each unique in the way it understands, negotiates, and represents its diversity. A multi-disciplinary group of authors shows how, in different nations, identity groups are included, or made invisible by forced assimilation, or reviled even to the point of ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • International Governance, Regimes, and Globalization

    Case Studies from Beijing and Taipei

    by W Emily Chow, Chiang Chun-chi, Rosita Dellios, James C. Hsiung, Shawn S. F. Kao, Richard W. Mansbach, Samuel S. Zhao ...
    In the this collection, International Governance, Regimes, and Globalization, the writers explore international relations and globalization by using specific examples from Beijing and Taipei. In December 1949, when China was politically divided the People's Republic of China (PRC) central government was in control of most resources, tangible and intangible. For that reason, our unit of analysis ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Geopolitics and Maritime Territorial Disputes in East Asia

    by Ralf Emmers ...
    Series series Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series
    Geopolitics is a crucial element in understanding international relations in East Asia, with major and medium powers competing for influence. This book examines geopolitics in East Asia, focusing in particular on its major, contentious maritime territorial disputes. It looks in particular detail at the overlapping claims between Japan, China and Taiwan over the Senkaku/Diao yu Islands in the East ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • State-Directed Development

    Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery

    by Atul Kohli ...
    Why have some developing country states been more successful at facilitating industrialization than others? An answer to this question is developed by focusing both on patterns of state construction and intervention aimed at promoting industrialization. Four countries are analyzed in detail - South Korea, Brazil, India, and Nigeria - over the twentieth century. The states in these countries varied ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Global Migration and Development

    Edited by Ton van Naerssen, Ernst Spaan, Annelies Zoomers ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development and Society
    The debate on international migration and development currently focuses on South-North migration, transnationalism, remittances and knowledge transfer. The potential positive role of migration for countries and regions the emigrants originate from has recently been acknowledged by, among others, the World Bank, United Nations Commissions and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). This ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD