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  • Japan's Peace-Building Diplomacy in Asia

    Seeking a More Active Political Role

    by Peng Er Lam ...
    Series series Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series
    The conventional portrayal of Japan’s role in international affairs is of a passive political player which – despite its position as the world’s second largest economic power – punches below its weight on the world stage: its foreign policy driven by Washington, mercantilism and constrained by domestic pacifism. This book examines Japan’s emerging identity as an important participant in conflict ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Politics, Culture And Identities In East Asia: Integration And Division

    by Peng Er Lam, Tai Wei Lim ...
    Series series Eai Series On East Asia
    This edited book reflects the 'yin-yang' of East Asia — the analogy of co-existing 'hot and cold' trends in that region. To concentrate only on geopolitical competition and regional 'hot spots' will exaggerate, if not misrepresent East Asia as a Hobbesian world. Nevertheless, geopolitical competition cannot be ignored because a failure of the balance of power and deterrence between China and the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Japan's Strategic Challenges In A Changing Regional Environment

    by Purnendra Jain, Peng Er Lam ...
    Japan faces significant challenges in both traditional and non-traditional areas of national security policy as the economic resurgence of China and the loss of US hegemonic clout significantly transform the strategic landscape of the Asia-Pacific region. How is Japan coping with this new global and regional politico-security environment? What strategic moves has it taken to best position itself ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • China And East Asia: After The Wall Street Crisis

    by Yaqing Qin, Peng Er Lam, Mu Yang ...
    Series Book 33 - Series On Contemporary China
    This book examines the need for greater East Asian cooperation and the challenges to this grand endeavor. With differing national outlooks, how can East Asia preserve peace, prosperity and stability amidst geopolitical competition? To answer this question, the volume examines the political and economic relations between Beijing and its neighbors against the backdrop of two trends: the power shift ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Green Politics in Japan

    by Lam Peng-Er ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    An important comparative study of Japanese politics that reveals that green issues have yet to displace the traditional urban politics of post-industrial Japan. This is unlike the rise of green parties and politics in Europe. Unlike Europe, it seems that political values in Japan are still informed by the conservative values of hierarchy and deference. ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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    Lee's Lieutenants: Singapore's Old Guard

    by Kevin YL Tan and Lam Peng Er (editors), Kevin YL Tan and Lam Peng Er (editors) ...
    Narrated by Chris Alexander ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 44 min

    Most books exploring the political and socioeconomic landscape of modern Singapore focus on the role played by longtime Prime Minister and now Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew. But by Lee's own admission, Singapore would not be what it is without his gifted and capable team of loyal lieutenants. These talented men were brought together in the most extraordinary of circumstances, and were no mere ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • South Korea’s New Southern Policy

    A Middle Power’s International Relations with Southeast Asia and India

    Edited by Lam Peng Er ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Korea Series
    This book examines the first regional strategy of South Korea toward Southeast Asia and India. At issue is how a middle power (a G20 country with the tenth largest economy in the world) seeks to play a larger and more comprehensive role in regions beyond the Korean peninsula. Hitherto, South Korean foreign policy has focused on nuclearizing North Korea, alliance maintenance with the United States, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Contemporary Korea-Southeast Asian Relations

    Bilateral and Multilateral

    Edited by Lam Peng Er ...
    Series series Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series
    This book presents a comprehensive overview of the relations between the two Koreas and the different ASEAN states, including their relations with ASEAN as an organization. It outlines a complex picture with both bilateral and multilateral relations in play at the same time. It charts for each relationship how the present situation has arisen, discusses current difficulties and strains, and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Engaging North Korea

    Edited by Lam Peng Er ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Korea Series
    This book presents a comprehensive overview of international attempts to engage North Korea diplomatically with the aim of avoiding a nuclear war.It highlights the difficulty of this task, concluding that the containment of North Korea currently depends more on military deterrence than on diplomatic restraint. It considers the various multilateral attempts at diplomatic engagement over recent ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Japan's Relations With China

    Facing a Rising Power

    Edited by Peng Er Lam ...
    Series series The University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies Series
    The essays in this collection examine Sino-Japanese political relations given the phenomenon of ‘a rising China and a stagnating Japan’. Questioning whether their relationship is one of cooperation or conflict, the book reviews China and Japan’s bilateral ties to see whether they have deepened and broadened despite differences in outlook, national interest and political systems.Adding a new ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Japan's Relations with Southeast Asia

    The Fukuda Doctrine and Beyond

    Edited by Peng Er Lam ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    The Fukuda Doctrine has been the official blueprint to Japan’s foreign policy towards Southeast Asia since 1977. This book examines the Fukuda Doctrine in the context of Japan-Southeast Asia relations, and discusses the possibility of a non-realist approach in the imagining and conduct of international relations in East Asia.The collapse of 54 years of Liberal Democratic Party rule and the advent ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Managing Political Change in Singapore

    The Elected Presidency

    Edited by Lam Peng Er, Kevin Tan ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    The Singapore parliament's creation of an elected presidency in 1991 was the biggest constitutional and political change in Singapore's modern era. This multi-disciplinary study gathers papers from leading scholars in law, history, political science and economics to examine how political change is managed in Singapore. It is an authoritative addition to debates surrounding the management of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD