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  • Rethinking Parties in Democratizing Asia

    Edited by Julio C. Teehankee, Christian Echle ...
    Looking at eight case studies of Asian democracies, the contributors to this volume analyze the role of political parties in stabilizing and institutionalizing democracies.How have democracies such as Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines survived against the odds, despite struggling economic performance and highly unequal distribution of income? How have formerly authoritarian regimes in ... Read more

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  • Substantive Representation of Women in Asian Parliaments

    Edited by Devin K. Joshi, Christian Echle ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    Combining data from nearly 100 interviews with national parliamentarians from ten Asian countries, the contributors to this book analyze and evaluate the advancement of gender equality in Asia.As of the year 2022, no country in Asia has gender parity in its parliament. Meanwhile, the proportion of national-level women parliamentarians in Asia averages a mere 20%. What is more important than simple ... Read more

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    A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Political Culture

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    "A clearheaded, multidimensional tour of China's political, economic, and social landscapes." — Current History"Packed with facts and figures, but enlivened with firsthand observations. . . . An excellent introduction to China for anyone in search of solid but concise information about that complicated country." — The New York Times Book ReviewFor more than a decade, John Bryan Starr's ... Read more

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  • The Beijing Consensus

    Legitimizing Authoritarianism in Our Time

    by Stefan Halper ...
    Beijing presents a clear and gathering threat to Washington -- but not for the reasons you think. China's challenge to the West stems from its transformative brand of capitalism and an entirely different conception of the international community. In The Beijing Consensus, a leading expert in international relations presents a coherent integration of the many sides of U.S.-China relations. ... Read more

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  • From Development to Democracy

    The Transformations of Modern Asia

    by Dan Slater, Joseph Wong ...
    Why some of Asia’s authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer—and why others haven’tOver the past century, Asia has been transformed by rapid economic growth, industrialization, and urbanization—a spectacular record of development that has turned one of the world’s poorest regions into one of its richest. Yet Asia’s record of democratization has been much more uneven, ... Read more

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  • Democracy in Retreat

    The Revolt of the Middle Class and the Worldwide Decline of Representative Government

    by Joshua Kurlantzick ...
    Since the end of the Cold War, the assumption among most political theorists has been that as nations develop economically, they will also become more democratic—especially if a vibrant middle class takes root. This assumption underlies the expansion of the European Union and much of American foreign policy, bolstered by such examples as South Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, and even to some ... Read more

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  • The Politics of China's Accession to the World Trade Organization

    The Dragon Goes Global

    by Hui Feng ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Grounded on a series of first-hand interviews with Chinese government officials, this book examines China’s accession to the World Trade Organization, providing an ‘inside’ look at Chinese WTO accession negotiations. Presenting a systematic political economy model in analyzing Beijing’s decision-making mechanisms, the book argues that China’s WTO policy making is a state-led, leadership driven, ... Read more

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  • The EU's Human Rights Dialogue with China

    Quiet Diplomacy and its Limits

    by Katrin Kinzelbach ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Human Rights
    The European Union uses a confidential, institutionalized Dialogue to raise human rights concerns with China, but little is publicly known about its set-up, its substance, its development over time and its impact.This book provides the first detailed reconstruction and assessment of the EU’s responses to human rights violations in China from 1995 to the present day. Using classified documents in ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Kosovo between War and Peace

    Nationalism, Peacebuilding and International Trusteeship

    Edited by Tonny Brems Knudsen, Carsten Bagge Laustsen ...
    Series series Cass Series on Peacekeeping
    A major contribution to the debate about the reconstruction of Kosovo, and to the general discussion surrounding the revived 'trusteeship institution' model in the context of the UN internationalism of the 1990s and the War on Terror following 9/11.Bringing together leading international scholars, this book presents the latest empirical research alongside detailed theoretical analysis. Examining ... Read more

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  • Costly Democracy

    Peacebuilding and Democratization After War

    by Christoph Zürcher, Carrie Manning, Kristie D. Evenson, Rachel Hayman, Nora Roehner, Sarah Riese ...
    Peacebuilding is an interactive process that involves collaboration between peacebuilders and the victorious elites of a postwar society. While one of the most prominent assumptions of the peacebuilding literature asserts that the interests of domestic elites and peacebuilders coincide, Costly Democracy contends that they rarely align.It reveals that, while domestic elites in postwar societies may ... Read more

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  • China and Africa

    A Century of Engagement

    by David H. Shinn, Joshua Eisenman ...
    The People's Republic of China once limited its involvement in African affairs to building an occasional railroad or port, supporting African liberation movements, and loudly proclaiming socialist solidarity with the downtrodden of the continent. Now Chinese diplomats and Chinese companies, both state-owned and private, along with an influx of Chinese workers, have spread throughout Africa. This ... Read more

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  • Winning by Process

    The State and Neutralization of Ethnic Minorities in Myanmar

    by Jacques Bertrand, Alexandre Pelletier, Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung ...
    Winning by Process asks why the peace process stalled in the decade from 2011 to 2021 despite a liberalizing regime, a national ceasefire agreement, and a multilateral peace dialogue between the state and ethnic minorities.Winning by Process argues that stalled conflicts are more than pauses or stalemates. "Winning by process," as opposed to winning by war or agreement, represents the state's ... Read more

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