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  • Market Cultures

    Society And Morality In The New Asian Capitalisms

    by Robert Hefner ...
    Market Cultures examines the spectacular growth of capitalist enterprise among overseas Chinese and Southeast Asians. It does so, not through formal models, but by way of the varied cultures and organizations in which Asian capitalism is embedded. Eschewing talk of a uniform Asian miracle, the book shows that there existed complex precedents for ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Indonesia

    Edited by Robert Hefner ...
    Few countries as culturally rich, politically pivotal, and naturally beautiful as Indonesia are as often misrepresented in global media and conversation. Stretching 3,400 miles east to west along the equator, Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world and home to more than four hundred ethnic groups and several major world religions. This sprawling Southeast Asian nation is also ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Democratic Civility

    The History and Cross Cultural Possibility of a Modern Political Ideal

    by Robert Hefner ...
    In the aftermath of the cold war, political commentators spoke ebulliently of the triumph of liberal democracy over its ideological rivals. Shortly thereafter, however, a surge of ethnic and religious violence raised doubts about whether democracy could survive outside Western culture. Similar concerns were soon raised even in Western nations by widespread citizen disengagement from the political ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Religions in Movement

    The Local and the Global in Contemporary Faith Traditions

    Edited by John Hutchinson, Sara Mels, Christiane Timmerman, Robert Hefner ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion
    There has long been a debate about implications of globalization for the survival of the world of sovereign nation-states, and the role of nationalism as both an agent of and a response to globalization. In contrast, until recently there has been much less debate about the fate of religion. ‘Globalization’ has been viewed as part of the rationalization process, which has already relegated religion ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • End of History and the Last Man

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    Ever since its first publication in 1992, the New York Times bestselling The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. "Profoundly realistic and important...supremely timely and cogent...the first book to fully fathom the depth and range of the changes now sweeping through the world." —The Washington Post Book WorldFrancis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Hate Spin

    The Manufacture of Religious Offense and Its Threat to Democracy

    by Cherian George ...
    Series series Information Policy
    How right-wing political entrepreneurs around the world use religious offense—both given and taken—to mobilize supporters and marginalize opponents.In the United States, elements of the religious right fuel fears of an existential Islamic threat, spreading anti-Muslim rhetoric into mainstream politics. In Indonesia, Muslim absolutists urge suppression of churches and minority sects, fostering a ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Islam in Indonesian Foreign Policy

    Domestic Weakness and the Dilemma of Dual Identity

    by Rizal Sukma ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    This companion volume to the highly successful Islam in Malaysian Foreign Policy explores the extent to which foreign policy in the world's largest Muslim nation has been influenced by Islamic considerations. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Ethnicization and Identity Construction in Malaysia

    by Frederik Holst ...
    Series series Routledge Malaysian Studies Series
    This book is the first monograph to provide an in-depth and multifaceted study of the processes of ethnicization and identity construction in Malaysia, from the colonial period until the present. In his analysis, the author takes multiple layers of ethnicization into account and shows how these have shaped Malaysia’s socio-political system and society in different ways. Moving beyond a center ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Great Regression

    Edited by Heinrich Geiselberger ...
    We are living through a period of dramatic political change – Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia and a concerted assault on the liberal values and ideals associated with cosmopolitanism and globalization. Suddenly we find ourselves in a world that few would have imagined possible just a few years ... Read more

    $14.00 USD

  • Indonesia

    The Great Transition

    by Annette Clear, Donald Emmerson, Robert W. Hefner, Ann Marie Murphy, John Bresnan ...
    Indonesia is in the midst of an epic transition as it moves from decades of authoritarian government to a new era of democratic opening, from years of secular government to a time of struggle over the role of Islam in public life, and from the breakdown of a "miracle" economy to a search for resilience in the face of global forces. In this timely work, leading scholars analyze the causes of the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Post-Disaster Reconstruction

    Lessons from Aceh

    Edited by Matthew Clarke, Ismet Fanany, Sue Kenny ...
    On Sunday 26 December 2004, a tsunami of up to 30 metres high hit the northern tip of Sumatera in Indonesia, causing immediate destruction and the deaths of at least 130,000 in Indonesia alone. The scale of the devastation and ensuing human suffering prompted the biggest response endeavour to any natural disaster in history.Post-Disaster Reconstruction will be the first major book that analyses ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Decline of American Power

    by Immanuel Wallerstein ...
    The internationally renowned theorist contends that the sun is setting on the American empire in this "lucid, informed, and insightful" account ( The New York Times).The United States currently finds itself [a] superpower that lacks true power, a world leader nobody follows and few respect, and a nation drifting dangerously amidst a global chaos it cannot control.The United States in decline? Its ... Read more

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