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  • The Korean Economic Developmental Path

    Confucian Tradition, Affective Network

    by S. Lew ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book defines the Korean development as the moral economy of growth derived from a synergy between strong state and strong society and argues that Confucian cultural orientation has played a critical role in the process. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • In Spite of the Gods

    The Rise of Modern India

    by Edward Luce ...
    As the world's largest democracy and a rising international economic power, India has long been heralded for its great strides in technology and trade. Yet it is also plagued by poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, and a vast array of other social and economic issues. Here, noted journalist and former Financial Times South Asia bureau chief Edward Luce travels throughout India's many regions, ... Read more

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  • India

    A Portrait

    by Patrick French ...
    A monumental biography of the subcontinent from the award-winning author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul.Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the new century, India is fast undergoing one of the most momentous transformations the world has ever seen. In this dazzlingly panoramic book, ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $8.99 USD

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  • 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

    $28.99 USD

  • A State Built on Sand

    How Opium Undermined Afghanistan

    by David Mansfield ...
    Oscillations in opium poppy production in Afghanistan have long been associated with how the state was perceived, such as after the Taliban imposed a cultivation ban in 2000-1. The international community's subsequent attempts to regulate opium poppy became intimately linked with its own state-building project, and rising levels of cultivation were cited as evidence of failure by those ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The 2030 Spike

    Countdown to Global Catastrophe

    by Colin Mason ...
    The clock is relentlessly ticking!Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization.Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Localization

    A Global Manifesto

    by Colin Hines ...
    Localization is a manifesto to unite all those who recognize the importance of cultural, social and ecological diversity for our future - and who do not aspire to a monolithic global consumer culture. It is a passionate and persuasive polemic, challenging the claims that we have to be 'internationally competitive' to survive and describing the destructive consequences of globalization. This book ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • To End a Civil War

    Norway's Peace Engagement in Sri Lanka

    by Mark Salter ...
    Between 1983 and 2009 Sri Lanka was host to a bitter civil war fought between the Government and the Tamil Tigers, which sought the creation of an independent Tamil state. In May 2009 came the war's violent end with the crushing defeat of the Tamil Tigers at the hands of the Sri Lanka Army. But prior to this grim finale, for some time there had been hope for a peaceful end to the conflict. ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Case Against the Global Economy

    And for a Turn Towards Localization

    Edited by Jerry Mander ...
    The greatest political debate of our time is about the blind rush towards a single global economy, its consequences for jobs, democracy, human well-being and cultural diversity, and its impact on the natural world that sustains us. Its effects will be profound and irreversible, but globalization itself is not inevitable. In The Case Against the Global Economy, 24 leading economic, agricultural, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Human Rights and the Environment

    Conflicts and Norms in a Globalizing World

    Edited by Lyuba Zarsky ...
    The impact of environmental damage on human rights - civil, political or welfare and labour rights - is becoming ever-more widely appreciated and has direct bearing on the behaviour of companies and their norms of conduct. In this volume, contributors draw on the tools and insights of a range of disciplines, including law, anthropology, economics, geography and social science, to analyze the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Asia Pacific Countries and the US Rebalancing Strategy

    Edited by David W.F. Huang ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines the success of the US rebalancing (or pivot) strategy towards Asia, placing the US pivot in a historical context while highlighting its policy content and management dilemmas. Further, the contributors discuss the challenges and opportunities that each regional state confronts in responding to the US rebalancing strategy.In 2011, President Barack Obama laid out the framework for ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • China's Change: The Greatest Show On Earth

    by Hugh Peyman ...
    'Importantly, China's Change: The Greatest Show on Earth provides a welcome contrast to such fashionable pessimism … demolishes a series of popular urban myths … and a very convincing case he makes. This, to my mind, is a wholly original approach to understanding present-day China and the book is well worth reading for this alone. … readers are likely to end up considerably wiser about how the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD