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  • Turning Land into Capital

    Development and Dispossession in the Mekong Region

    by K. Sivaramakrishnan ...
    Series series Culture, Place, and Nature
    In Southeast Asia reversals of earlier agrarian reforms have rolled back "land-to-the-tiller" policies created in the wake of Cold War–era revolutions. This trend, marked by increased land concentration and the promotion of export-oriented agribusiness at the expense of smallholder farmers, exposes the convergence of capitalist relations and state agendas that expand territorial control within and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Upland Geopolitics

    Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush

    by Michael B. Dwyer, K. Sivaramakrishnan ...
    Series series Culture, Place, and Nature
    **Winner of the 2024 EuroSEAS Social Science Book PrizeCold War legacies in Southeast Asia enable new geographies of enclosure**In the twenty-first century, land deals in the Global South have become increasingly prevalent and controversial. Transnational access to arable land in impoverished "land-rich" countries in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia highlights the link between ... Read more

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  • 50 Years Of Asean And Singapore

    by Tommy Koh, Sharon Li-lian Seah, Li Lin Chang ...
    On the 8th of August 2017, ASEAN will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its founding. ASEAN is of great importance to Singapore, the region and the world.In 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN in short, was founded by five countries in Southeast Asia which had just gained independence from their former colonial masters, united by a determination for the region to live in ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • International Relations in Southeast Asia

    The Struggle for Autonomy

    by Donald E. Weatherbee ...
    Series series Asia in World Politics
    This fully revised and updated edition of Donald E. Weatherbee’s widely praised text offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to international relations in contemporary Southeast Asia. The author analyzes the efforts of the Southeast Asian states to adapt collectively through the ASEAN Community-building process to the challenges of traditional intraregional security issues, the requirements ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • China's Policy towards the South China Sea

    When Geopolitics Meets the Law of the Sea

    by Lingqun Li ...
    Series series Contemporary Issues in the South China Sea
    This book provides an explanation of Chinese policy towards the South China Sea, and argues that this has been sculpted by the changing dynamics of the law of the sea in conjunction with regional geopolitical flux.The past few decades have witnessed a bifurcated trend in China’s management of territorial disputes. Over the years, while China gradually calmed and settled most land-border disputes ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Assessing Maritime Disputes in East Asia

    Political and Legal Perspectives

    Edited by Barthelemy Courmont, Frederic Lasserre, Eric Mottet ...
    Series series Contemporary Issues in the South China Sea
    Combining practical and theoretical approaches, this book addresses the political, legal and economic implications of maritime disputes in East Asia.The maritime disputes in East Asia have multiplied over the past few years, in parallel with the economic growth of the countries in the region, the rise of nationalist movements, fears and sometimes fantasies regarding the emergence of the People’s ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • China’s Hydro-politics in the Mekong

    Conflict and Cooperation in Light of Securitization Theory

    by Sebastian Biba ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    China’s Hydro-politics in the Mekong explores the intricate processes of conflict and cooperation over the use of water resources in the Mekong river basin between upstream China and the downstream countries of Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. The book tackles two gaps in the empirical literature: first, the neglect of international hydro-politics as one specific and increasingly important ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Ethnic Business

    Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia

    Edited by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Brian Folk ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
    The role of ethnic Chinese business in Southeast Asia in catalyzing economic development has been hotly debated - and often misunderstood - throughout cycles of boom and bust.This book critically examines some of the key features attributed to Chinese business: business-government relations, the family firm, trust and networks, and supposed 'Asian' values. The in-depth case studies that feature in ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Institutional Imperative

    The Politics of Equitable Development in Southeast Asia

    by Erik Kuhonta ...
    Series series Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
    Why do some countries in the developing world achieve growth with equity, while others do not? If democracy is the supposed panacea for the developing world, why have Southeast Asian democracies had such uneven results? In exploring these questions, political scientist Erik Martinez Kuhonta argues that the realization of equitable development hinges heavily on strong institutions, particularly ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Security and International Politics in the South China Sea

    Towards a co-operative management regime

    Edited by Sam Bateman, Ralf Emmers ...
    Series series Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series
    The South China Sea has long been regarded as a major source of tension and instability in East Asia. Managing the risk of possible conflict over disputed claims in the South China Sea has been a significant challenge for regional relations. This book explores international politics and security in the South China Sea. It outlines the history of the South China Sea disputes, and the efforts that ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Managing Great Power Politics

    ASEAN, Institutional Strategy, and the South China Sea

    by Kei Koga ...
    Series series Global Political Transitions
    This Open Access book explains ASEAN’s strategic role in managing great power politics in East Asia. Constructing a theory of institutional strategy, this book argues that the regional security institutions in Southeast Asia, ASEAN and ASEAN-led institutions have devised their own institutional strategies vis-à-vis the South China Sea and navigated the great-power politics since the 1990s. ASEAN ... Read more

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  • Contested Waterscapes in the Mekong Region

    Hydropower, Livelihoods and Governance

    Edited by Francois Molle, Tira Foran, Mira Kakonen ...
    The catchment area of the Mekong River and its tributaries extends from China, through Burma/Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and to Vietnam. The water resources of the Mekong region - from the Irrawaddy and Nu-Salween in the west, across the Chao Phraya to the Lancang-Mekong and Red River in the east- are increasingly contested. Governments, companies, and banks are driving new investments in ... Read more

    $76.99 USD