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The Arab Spring
Zed Books 2012; US$ 19.95This pioneering explanation of the Arab Spring will define a new era of thinking about the Middle East. In this landmark book, Hamid Dabashi argues that the uprisings occurring from Morocco to Iran and from Syria to Yemen have been driven by a delayed defiance that signifies no less than the end of postcolonialism. As he brilliantly explains, the permanent... more...
My Revision Notes: Edexcel A2 US Government & Politics
Hodder Education 2012; US$ 17.58Planned revision for your very best grades more...
Corporate Political Strategies of Private Chinese Firms
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 170.00This book is about how Chinese entrepreneurs deal with China?s most important institution-the government-in their struggle to survive and even prosper in China?s transitional economy. It takes an "inside look" at several private firms in China and provides a first-hand account, as well as the underlying rationale and decision considerations, of their... more...
China's Thought Management
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 125.00China's Thought Management argues that by re-emphasizing and modernizing propaganda and thought work since 1989, the CCP has managed to overcome a succession of local and national level crises - the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, the impact of the collapse Socialism in the Eastern bloc, SARS, ethnic clashes in Tibet and Xinjiang, to name but... more...
Government and Politics in Taiwan
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 42.95Written by an experienced teacher and scholar this new textbook introduces the reader to the big questions that concern change and continuity in how politics operates and how Taiwan is governed. Taking a critical approach, Dafydd Fell provides students with the essential background to the history and development of the political system as well as... more...
Contested Citizenship in East Asia
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 130.00Theories of citizenship from the West ? pre-eminently those by T.H. Marshall ? provide only a limited insight into East Asian political history. The Marshallian trajectory ? juridical, political and social rights ? was not repeated in Asia and the late nineteenth-century debate about liberalism and citizenship among intellectuals in Japan and China... more...
Regime Stability in Saudi Arabia
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 128.00This book examines the structure of political power amongst elites inside Saudi Arabia and how they might cope with the very serious challenge posed by succession. Presenting a new and refreshing theoretical approach that links elite integration with regime stability, the author shows that the kingdom?s royal elite is far more integrated than it has... more...
Preventing Corruption in Asia
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95Despite intensified governmental and public efforts at corruption control in recent years, official transgression continues to surface in various ways of abusing the unique power and trust that a government holds. Preventing Corruption in Asia addresses a number of crucial questions: -What institutional arrangements are necessary to ensure... more...
Chinese Politics and Government
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 48.95Over the past two decades, China?s political reforms, open-door policy, dramatic economic growth, and increasingly assertive foreign policy have had an unprecedented regional and global impact. This introductory textbook provides students with a fundamental understanding of government and politics in China as well as the conceptual ability to explore... more...
The Policy-Making Process in Contemporary Japan
Palgrave Macmillan 1996; US$ 168.00This book deals with the public policy-making process in contemporary Japan testifying a new dictum: 'The various phases of the policy process cause politics'. The analytical focus is threefold: encompassing the policy-making process on the national level; elections and the policy-making process; and the regional policy and decision-making. These... more...









