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  • Dynamics of Change in East Asia

    Historical Trajectories and Contemporary Development

    by P.W. Preston ...
    Over the past forty years, East Asia has been radically transformed from a war-damaged sub-continent to a region of global pre-eminence. With new, highly developed scientific resources, great economic strengths, significant global trading links and equally powerful financial resources, East Asia is now one of the most dynamic regions in the global system.This book illuminates the historical ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Britain After the Five Crises

    Financial Collapse, Migration, Brexit, Covid and the Ukraine

    by P. W. Preston ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The period 2008–2022 has seen the British state/government embroiled in a number of full-blown crises, each impacting the fundamental operations of the state and demanding, therefore, urgent responses from the government of the day. In the first case, the 2008 near-collapse and partial nationalization of the banking system consequent upon decades of irresponsible credit creation coupled to ... Read more

    $128.09 CAD

  • Political Cultural Developments in East Asia

    Interpreting Logics of Change

    by P. W. Preston ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers an interpretive and critical comparative politics analysis of the post-1945 development trajectory of the broad East Asian region and its component countries. The discussion considers the region and its countries in terms of their historical legacies (colonialism, war and the preoccupation with development) and argues that each country has constructed their own way of ordering ... Read more

    $143.69 CAD

  • England after the Great Recession

    Tracking the Political and Cultural Consequences of the Crisis

    by P. W. Preston ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    An exploration of the recent financial crisis which argues that the hitherto dominant intellectual and policy paradigm of neo-liberalism has been fatally weakened and will in due course be replaced. The implications of the crisis for politico-cultural identities and our sense of ourselves as members of an ordered society are explored. ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Singapore after Lee Kuan Yew

    by S. C. Y. Luk, P. W. Preston ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    This book addresses key questions about how Singapore is likely to develop going forward, what are the key challenges facing the state, and how is the government going to deal with these matters. The book shows how important Lee Kuan Yew and subsequent individual leaders have been in shaping Singapore, and goes on to consider specific new challenges, including rapid population growth, migration ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

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  • Singapore

    Smart City, Smart State

    by Kent E. Calder ...
    How Singapore’s solutions to common problems can provide examples for other societies.Nearly everyone knows that Singapore has one of the most efficient governments and competitive, advanced economies in the world. But can this unique citystate of some 5.5 million residents also serve as a model for other advanced economies as well as for the emerging world? Respected East Asia expert Kent Calder ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • 50 Years Of Asean And Singapore

    by Tommy Koh, Sharon Li-lian Seah, Li Lin Chang ...
    On the 8th of August 2017, ASEAN will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its founding. ASEAN is of great importance to Singapore, the region and the world.In 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN in short, was founded by five countries in Southeast Asia which had just gained independence from their former colonial masters, united by a determination for the region to live in ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Capacity-building and Pandemics

    Singapore’s Response to Covid-19

    by Jun Jie Woo ...
    Series Book 19 - Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book focuses on the policy capacities, built up since the 2003 SARS crisis, that have contributed to Singapore’s Covid-19 response efforts. In doing so, the book discusses the fiscal, operational, analytical and political capacities that have driven Singapore's policy response to the pandemic, and proposes a broad policy capacity framework that will be applicable to the analysis of other ... Read more

    $70.49 CAD

  • 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

    $79.69 CAD

  • Singapore's First Year of COVID-19

    Public Health, Immigration, the Neoliberal State, and Authoritarian Populism

    Edited by Kenneth Paul Tan ...
    This book addresses the question of what Singapore's COVID-19 pandemic response in the first year can tell us about the strengths and weaknesses of the Singapore model and what its prospects might be in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous post-pandemic world. As a concise, holistic, and critical documentation of the first year of COVID-19 in Singapore, the multi ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • The Management of Human Resources in the Asia Pacific Region

    Convergence Revisited

    Edited by Chris Rowley, John Benson ...
    These papers focus upon the need to update knowledge and understanding of Asian human resource management. A model is included that can be used to make a comparative analysis of HRM in the region and to establish the various levels of change that need to be assessed. ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • Emerging States and Economies

    Their Origins, Drivers, and Challenges Ahead

    Edited by Takashi Shiraishi, Tetsushi Sonobe ...
    Series series Emerging-Economy State and International Policy Studies
    This open access book asks why and how some of the developing countries have “emerged” under a set of similar global conditions, what led individual countries to choose the particular paths that led to their “emergence,” and what challenges confront them. If we are to understand the nature of major risks and uncertainties in the world, we must look squarely at the political and economic dynamics ... Read more

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