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  • Dancing in Shadows

    Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge, and the United Nations in Cambodia

    by Benny Widyono ...
    Series series Asian Voices
    This fascinating book recounts the remarkable tale of a career UN official from Indonesia caught in the turmoil of international and domestic politics swirling around Cambodia during the tumultuous period after the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Writing from his experience first as a member of the UN transitional authority and then as a personal envoy to the UN secretary-general, Benny Widyono re ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • First They Killed My Father

    A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

    by Loung Ung ...
    “A riveting memoir. . . an important, moving work that those who have suffered cannot afford to forget and those who have been spared cannot afford to ignore.” — San Francisco ChronicleFrom a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting narrative of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her family, and their ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fire in the Lake

    The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

    by Frances FitzGerald ...
    A "compassionate and penetrating" landmark history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War ( New York Times Book Review)."Fitzgerald's Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning study of the Vietnam War remains essential reading thirty years after its initial publication." — Library JournalThis magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years of research and travels, takes us inside the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Ruling Elite of Singapore

    Networks of Power and Influence

    by Michael D. Barr ...
    Michael Barr explores the complex and covert networks of power at work in one of the world's most prosperous countries - the city-state of Singapore. He argues that the contemporary networks of power are a deliberate project initiated and managed by Lee Kuan Yew - former prime minister and Singapore's 'founding father' - designed to empower himself and his family. Barr identifies the crucial ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

  • Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun

    Sino-Japanese Relations, Past and Present

    by June Teufel Dreyer ...
    Japan and China have been rivals for more than a millennium. In more recent times, China was the more powerful until the late nineteenth century, while Japan took the upper hand in the twentieth. Now, China's resurgence has emboldened it even as Japan perceives itself falling behind, exacerbating long-standing historical frictions. June Teufel Dreyer's Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • China on Strike

    Narratives of Workers' Resistance

    Edited by Zhongjin Li, Eli Friedman, Hao Ren ...
    China has been the fastest growing major economy in the world for three decades. It is also home to some of the largest, most incendiary, and most underreported labor struggles of our time. China on Strike, the first English-language book of its kind, provides an intimate and revealing window into the lives of workers organizing in some of China’s most profitable factories, which supply Apple, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Universal Periodic Review of Southeast Asia

    Civil Society Perspectives

    Edited by James Gomez, Robin Ramcharan ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The research presented in this book provides a stakeholder analysis of human rights protection at a time when the region appears to be regressing into an insidious and deep authoritarianism. As political space shrinks in Southeast Asia, the book provides an insight into how civil society engaged with the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United Nations Human Rights Council during the first ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Rise of Political Intellectuals in Modern China

    May Fourth Societies and the Roots of Mass-Party Politics

    by Shakhar Rahav ...
    The May Fourth movement (1915-1923) is widely considered a watershed in the history of modern China. This book is a social history of cultural and political radicals based in China's most important hinterland city at this pivotal time, Wuhan. Current narratives of May Fourth focus on the ideological development of intellectuals in the seaboard metropoles of Beijing and Shanghai. And although ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Obama and China's Rise

    An Insider's Account of America's Asia Strategy

    by Jeffrey A. Bader ...
    ""Future presidents will need to find the right balance in China policy, so as to maintain America's strength and watchfulness but not fall into the classic security dilemma, wherein each side believes that growing capabilities reflect hostile intent and responds by producing that reality. I believe that President Obama struck that balance."" -From Obama and China's RiseIn 2005, veteran diplomat ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations

    Patching Together a Global Script

    by Tanja A. Börzel ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume explores the conditions under which regional organizations engage in governance transfer in and to areas of limited statehood. The authors argue that a global script of governance transfer by regional organizations is emerging, where regional and national actors are adapting governance standards and instruments to their local context. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Political Economy of China’s Systemic Transformation

    1979 to the Present

    by V. Mantzopoulos, R. Shen ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The future success of China's rapidly growing economy remains uncertain. This book analyzes official documents, data and current writings of recognized academicians investigating China's experience with systemic restructuring. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Interpreting China as a Regional and Global Power

    Nationalism and Historical Consciousness in World Politics

    Edited by B. Dessein ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This collection discusses China's contemporary national and international identity as evidenced in its geopolitical impact on the countries in its direct periphery and its functioning in organizations of global governance. This contemporary identity is assessed against the background of the country's Confucian and nationalist history. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD