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  • Statelessness in Asia

    Edited by Michelle Foster, Jaclyn Neo, Christoph Sperfeldt ...
    This interdisciplinary collection, edited by leading scholars, provides the first book-length treatment of statelessness in the region in which most stateless persons reside. This book fills a critical gap in understanding statelessness in Asia, offering a unique interdisciplinary and comprehensive set of perspectives. This book brings case studies and expertise together to explore statelessness ... Read more

    $123.99 CAD

  • Pathways to Constitutional Legitimacy in Asia Pacific

    Edited by Bryan Dennis G. Tiojanco, Jaclyn Neo, Benjamin Lawrence, Kentaro Matsubara ...
    This book explores the origins, successes, and threats to revolutionary constitutionalism around the world. Contributing authors evaluate typologies of revolutionary, elitist and establishmentarian constitutional orders to answer the question: what does it mean for a constitution to be borne out of a revolution?Drawing on case studies from nine jurisdictions in the Asia-Pacific region, the ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Constitutional Change in Singapore

    Reforming the Elected Presidency

    Edited by Swati Jhaveri, Jaclyn Neo ...
    Series series Routledge Law in Asia
    Once a ceremonial position modelled after the constitutional monarchy in the United Kingdom, the office of the President of Singapore was transformed from an appointed to an elected one in 1991. As the head of state, but not the head of government, the elected President was to have additional discretionary powers involving the spending of financial reserves, appointment of high-ranking public ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Regulating Religion in Asia

    Norms, Modes, and Challenges

    Edited by Jaclyn L. Neo, Arif A. Jamal, Daniel P. S. Goh ...
    In recent years, law and religion scholarship has increasingly emphasized the need to study the interaction of legal and religious ideas and institutions, norms and practices. The overall question that this scholarship explores may be stated as follows: how do legal and religious ideas and institutions, methods and mechanisms, beliefs and believers influence each other, for better and for worse, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Pluralist Constitutions in Southeast Asia

    Edited by Dr Jaclyn L Neo, Dr Ngoc Son Bui ...
    Series series Constitutionalism in Asia
    This book examines the presence of ethnic, religious, political, and ideational pluralities in Southeast Asian societies and how their respective constitutions respond to these pluralities. Countries covered in this book are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The chapters examine: first, the range of pluralist constitutional ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Religious Offences in Common Law Asia

    Colonial Legacies, Constitutional Rights and Contemporary Practice

    Edited by Professor Li-ann Thio, Dr Jaclyn L Neo ...
    Series series Constitutionalism in Asia
    This book provides in-depth comparative analysis of how religious penal clauses have been developed and employed within Asian common law states, and the impact of such developments on constitutional rights. By examining the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of religious offences as well as interrogating the nature and impact of religious penal clauses within the region, it contributes to ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Constitutional Interpretation in Singapore

    Theory and Practice

    Edited by Jaclyn L Neo ...
    Series series Routledge Law in Asia
    At the heart of constitutional interpretation is the struggle between, on the one hand, fidelity to founding meanings, and, on the other hand, creative interpretation to suit the context and needs of an evolving society. This book considers the recent growth of constitutional cases in Singapore in the last ten years. It examines the underpinnings of Singapore’s constitutional system, explores how ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

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  • Political Change in Southeast Asia

    by Jacques Bertrand ...
    Southeast Asia is a vast and complex region, comprising countries with remarkably diverse histories and cultures. Jacques Bertrand provides a fresh and highly original survey of politics and political change in this area of the world. Against the backdrop of rapid economic development and social transformation in several countries, he explores why some countries have adopted democratic ... Read more

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  • What's So Great About America

    by Dinesh D'Souza ...
    With What's So Great About America, Dinesh D'Souza is not asking a question, but making a statement. The former White House policy analyst and bestselling author argues that in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, American ideals and patriotism should not be things we shy away from. Instead he offers the grounds for a solid, well-considered pride in the Western pillars of "science, democracy and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Asian Geopolitics and the US–China Rivalry

    Edited by Felix Heiduk ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on Think Asia
    This book analyses the ways in which foreign policy actors in Asia have responded to the emerging great power conflict between the US and the People's Republic of China focusing on medium and small states across the Indo-Pacific.The book offers a much-needed counterpoint to existing analyses on the Indo-Pacific and China’s BRI and presents a new perspective by examining how great power politics ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Secularism

    Politics, Religion, and Freedom

    by Andrew Copson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Until the modern period the integration of church (or other religion) and state (or political life) had been taken for granted. The political order was always tied to an official religion in Christian Europe, pre-Christian Europe, and in the Arabic world. But from the eighteenth century onwards, some European states began to set up their political order on a different basis. Not religion, but the ... Read more

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