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Factionalism in Chinese Communist Politics
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 50.00Jing Huang examines factionalism's role in leadership relations and policy-making in Chinese communist politics. more...
New Challenges of North Korean Foreign Policy
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00North Korea's foreign policy behavior has long intrigued scholars, puzzled laymen, frustrated negotiators, and aggravated policy-makers. This book brings together the work of ten of the world's foremost scholars on North Korea to critically analyze the key factors that are shaping North Korea's foreign policy behavior and its future direction. more...
Security Challenges and Military Politics in East Asia
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 90.00The work brings together theory and empirical study, analyzing how security threats have shaped the military’s organization, doctrine, and domestic political role at various stages of political development, from the state-building period to today’s post-democratization era. Using four representative case studies, Woo sets to answer: What... more...
Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 35.00The rise of China could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. What will China look like in the future? What should it look like? And what will China's rise mean for the rest of world? This book, written by China's most influential foreign policy thinker, sets out a vision for the coming decades from China's point... more...
China's New Confucianism
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 19.95What is it like to be a Westerner teaching political philosophy in an officially Marxist state? Why do Chinese sex workers sing karaoke with their customers? And why do some Communist Party cadres get promoted if they care for their elderly parents? In this entertaining and illuminating book, one of the few Westerners to teach at a Chinese university... more...
Constitutional Documents of Portugal and Spain 1808?1845 / Textos constitucionais de Portugal e Espanha 1808?1845 / Textos constitucionales de Portugal y España 1808?1845 / Verfassungsdokumente Portugals und Spaniens 1808?1845
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 307.00This volume includes31 constitutions, constitutional drafts and amendments illustrating the checkered political history of Spain in the first half of the 19th century. It begins with the "Estatuto de Bayona" (Bayonne Statute) imposed by the French in 1808 and continues with the"Constitucion politica de la Monarquia Española" (Political Constitution... more...
Building Democracy
Hong Kong University Press 2003; US$ 24.00This book offers an analysis of Hong Kong's current political situation within the larger context of its political history and its relationship to Beijing. more...
A Documentary History of Hong Kong
Hong Kong University Press 1995; US$ 56.00This volume analyses the evolution of a unique brand of politics in Hong Kong. It examines how a Crown Colony system responded to the demands made of it by its Chinese and British residents in the shadow of the often volatile politics of modern China. more...
Northeast Asian Critical Security
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 132.00This book explores non-traditional, 'critical' security issues in Northeast Asia. This exploration adopts an approach to critical security that emphasizes the play of identity and culture in the apprehension of insecurity understood primarily in existential terms. The study thus focuses upon the apprehension of insecurity derived from demographic pressures,... more...
Social Networks and Japanese Democracy
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 130.00Many who critique democracy as practiced in East Asia suggest that the Confucian political culture of these nations prevents democracy from being the robust participatory type, and limits it to a spectacle designed to create obedience from the public. Certainly some East Asian nations have had elections for decades, but for democracy to be meaningful,... more...









