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  • Political Corruption and Democratic Governance

    by Jongseok Woo, Eunjung Choi ...
    Political Corruption and Democratic Governance explores the effects of political corruption on important aspects of democratic governing. Jongseok Woo and Eunjung Choi use a cross-national lens to analyze how political corruption influences different areas of politics and economics, including electoral outcomes, citizens’ evaluations of democratic norms and values, economic development, ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Politics in North and South Korea

    Political Development, Economy, and Foreign Relations

    by Yangmo Ku, Inyeop Lee, Jongseok Woo ...
    Politics in North and South Korea provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the political dynamics of the two Koreas. Giving equal weight to North and South Korea, the authors trace the history of political and economic development and international relations of the Korean peninsula, showing how South Korea became democratized and how Juche ideology has affected the establishment and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    by I. F. Stone ...
    Series Book 10 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    "A great journalist" raises troubling questions about the forgotten war in this courageous, controversial book—with a new introduction by Bruce Cumings ( The Baltimore Sun)."Much about the Korean War is still hidden, and much will long remain hidden. I believe I have succeeded in throwing new light on its origins." —From the author's prefaceIn 1945 US troops arrived in Korea for what would become ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Friend the Fanatic

    Travels with a Radical Islamist

    by Sadanand Dhume ...
    A nation once synonymous with tolerance, Indonesia, the fourth-most populated country in the world and its most populous Muslim country, now finds itself in the midst of a profound shift toward radical Islam. Sadanand Dhume, a Princeton-educated Indian atheist with a fondness for literary fiction and an interest in economic development, travels across Indonesia to find out how a society goes from ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Tumultuous Decade

    Empire, Society, and Diplomacy in 1930s Japan

    by Tosh Minohara, Masato Kimura ...
    Series series Japan and Global Society
    The 1930s was a dark period in international affairs. The Great Depression affected the economic and social circumstances of the world’s major powers, contributing to armed conflicts such as the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War. This volume focuses exclusively on Japan, which witnessed a flurry of progressive activities in this period, activities which served both domestic and ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • China Today, China Tomorrow

    Domestic Politics, Economy, and Society

    Edited by Joseph Fewsmith ...
    In this timely book, a group of leading scholars provides a comprehensive assessment of China's polity, economy, and society. Taking the thirtieth anniversary of Beijing's adoption of reform and opening as an occasion to reflect on the course of development over the past three decades, the contributors consider where the country may be going in the future. Just as China has had enormous success in ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Deng Xiaoping

    A Revolutionary Life

    by Alexander V. Pantsov, Steven I. Levine ...
    Deng Xiaoping joined the Chinese Communist movement as a youth and rose in its ranks to become an important lieutenant of Mao's from the 1930s onward. Two years after Mao's death in 1976, Deng became the de facto leader of the Chinese Communist Party and the prime architect of China's post-Mao reforms. Abandoning the Maoist socio-economic policies he had long fervently supported, he set in motion ... Read more

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  • Asia-Pacific Security

    An Introduction

    by Joanne Wallis, Andrew Carr, Brad Glosserman, Lowell Dittmer, H.D.P. Envall, Ian Hall, Tim Huxley, Brendan Taylor, James Manicom0, Christopher Paul1, Nick Nelson2, Alistair D. Cook3, Rex Hughes4, Mathew Davies5, Sarah Teitt6, William Tow7 ...
    This new textbook gathers an international roster of top security studies scholars to provide an overview of Asia-Pacific’s international relations and pressing contemporary security issues. It is a suitable introduction for undergraduate and masters students' use in international relations and security studies courses. Merging a strong theoretical component with rich contemporary and historical ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Army and Democracy

    by Aqil Shah ...
    In sharp contrast to neighboring India, the Muslim nation of Pakistan has been ruled by its military for over three decades. The Army and Democracy identifies steps for reforming Pakistan's armed forces and reducing its interference in politics, and sees lessons for fragile democracies striving to bring the military under civilian control. ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Japan, South Korea, and the United States Nuclear Umbrella

    Deterrence After the Cold War

    by Terence Roehrig ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    For close to sixty years, the United States has maintained alliances with Japan and South Korea that have included a nuclear umbrella, guaranteeing their security as part of a strategy of extended deterrence. Yet questions about the credibility of deterrence commitments have always been an issue, especially when nuclear weapons are concerned. Would the United States truly be willing to use these ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • To Live or to Perish Forever

    Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan

    by Nicholas Schmidle ...
    A gritty, lively, and revelatory look inside the crucial and volatile nation of PakistanIn To Live or to Perish Forever, Nicholas Schmidle takes readers to Pakistan's rioting streets, to Taliban camps in the North-West Frontier Province, and on many surprising adventures as he provides a contemporary history of this country long riven by internal conflict. With the intimacy and good humor ... Read more

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  • The South Asia Papers

    A Critical Anthology of Writings by Stephen Philip Cohen

    by Stephen P. Cohen ...
    Covering the years 1962 to 2011, this volume includes the most provocative and important writings from Stephen Cohen's fifty-year career of observing South Asia-as a professor, as a government official, and, since 1998, as a scholar at the Brookings Institution. Several pieces have never been published in book form.The author begins with a critical look at his past writing-where he was right, and ... Read more

    $32.99 USD