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  • South Asia's Nuclear Security Dilemma

    India, Pakistan, and China

    by Lowell Dittmer ...
    The nuclear test explosions in India and Pakistan in 1998, followed by the outbreak of hostilities over Kashmir in 1999, marked a frightening new turn in the ancient, bitter enmity between the two nations. Although the tension was eclipsed by the events of 9/11 and the subsequent American attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq, it has not disappeared, as evidenced by the 2001 attack in the Indian ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Burma Or Myanmar? The Struggle For National Identity

    by Lowell Dittmer ...
    Burma, also known as Myanmar, strategically located between China and India, is one of the largest and most richly endowed states in Southeast Asia. Yet it remains both economically and politically underdeveloped. Why is this so? We argue that much of the reason has to do with an ongoing struggle for national identity. This struggle involves not only whether the state should be authoritarian or ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • Liu Shaoqi and the Chinese Cultural Revolution

    by Lowell Dittmer ...
    By addressing the issues that decimated China's monolithic elite in the late 1960s, this text illuminates not only the life and fate of Liu Shaoqi, but also the policy-making process of a revolutionary state facing the diverting exigencies of economic modernization and political development. ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • China Under Reform

    by Lowell Dittmer ...
    This book is a study of the political consequences of economic reform in the People's Republic of China, considering the progress and pitfalls of Chinese reform socialism and focusing on the three central policy arenas of the reform era: political leadership, the mass public, and foreign policy. ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • Southeast Asia And China: A Contest In Mutual Socialization

    by Lowell Dittmer, Chow Bing Ngeow ...
    The recent uncertainties over the South China Sea have become one major issue in the relations between China and Southeast Asian countries. The South China Sea issue, however, is countered by the deepening economic integration between China and Southeast Asia, which is likely to continue should China's proposal for a 21st Century Maritime Silk Road is agreed and implemented. Yet the success or not ... Read more

    $85.79 CAD

  • China's Asia

    Triangular Dynamics since the Cold War

    by Lowell Dittmer ...
    Series series Asia in World Politics
    This balanced and deeply informed book provides a comprehensive account of China’s Asia policy since the Cold War. Lowell Dittmer traces the PRC’s policy toward its Asian neighbors in the context of the country’s move from a developing nation to a great power, capable of playing a role in world politics commensurate with its remarkable economic rise. The author considers China’s bilateral ... Read more

    $54.69 CAD

  • China's Political Economy In The Xi Jinping Epoch: Domestic And Global Dimensions

    by Lowell Dittmer ...
    Series Book 49 - Series On Contemporary China
    This book takes a fresh look at Chinese political economy at a key inflection point. Facing a more competitive international environment, Chinese reform has shifted from its earlier focus on economic liberalization and political decentralization to a more tightly organized, centralized form of state socialism. The Party-state's vigorous fiscal reaction to the Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009) ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • The International Relations of Northeast Asia

    by Thomas Berger, Kent E. Calder, William W. Grimes, Alastair Iain Johnston, C S. Eliot Kang, Taehwan Kim, Thomas G. Moore, Lynn T. White III, Lowell Dittmer, Chung-in Moon, Gilbert Rozman ...
    Series series Asia in World Politics
    Is Northeast Asia primed for peace or ripe for great-power rivalry? In this turbulent region, all the world-order challenges of arms control and disarmament, global North-South tensions, human rights and humanitarian intervention, environmental protection and eco-development, and democratization and humane governance are concentrated. More than any other part of the world, the divided Korean ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD

  • China's Deep Reform

    Domestic Politics in Transition

    Edited by Lowell Dittmer, Guoli Liu ...
    China's rapid and complex political and socioeconomic changes provide fertile ground for pioneering analysis, but they also present daunting theoretical and practical challenges. This reader takes up the challenge, offering the most comprehensive assessment of Chinese domestic politics available by bringing together the best recent scholarship in the field. The anthology focuses on the origin, ... Read more

    $84.19 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of Chinese Security

    Edited by Lowell Dittmer, Maochun Yu ...
    Located in the center of Asia with one of the largest land frontiers in the world and 14 neighbors whose dispositions could not easily be predicted, China has long been obsessed with security. In this handbook, an internationally renowned team of contributors provide a comprehensive and systematic analysis of contemporary thinking about Chinese national security. Chapters cover the PRC's ... Read more

    $147.02 CAD

  • New Asian Disorder

    Rivalries Embroiling the Pacific Century

    Edited by Lowell Dittmer ...
    Series series Studies of the Contemporary Asia Pacific
    In New Asian Disorder: Rivalries Embroiling the Pacific Century, Lowell Dittmer and his team explore the recent political disorder in East Asia resulting from growing Sino-American polarization. The rise of China in recent years is widely regarded as a momentous shift in the global balance of power. China is now extending sovereignty into the East China Sea and the South China Sea, constructing a ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Challenges to Chinese Foreign Policy

    Diplomacy, Globalization, and the Next World Power

    Edited by Yufan Hao, C.X. George Wei, Lowell Dittmer ...
    Series series Asia in the New Millennium
    When Beijing hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics, China symbolically asserted its role as an emerging world power—a position it is not likely to relinquish anytime soon. China's growing economy, military reforms, and staggering productivity have contributed to its ascendancy as a major player in international affairs. Western scholars have attempted to explain Chinese foreign policy using historical ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD