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  • Practical Wisdom and Resilience Overcoming Downside Risk

    Grassroots Voices in Africa Under COVID-19

    Edited by Kazuyo Hanai, Rangarirai Gavin Muchetu, Laban Kithinji Kinyua, Yoichi Mine ...
    Series Book 19 - Social Sciences (R0)
    This book classifies and assesses the real and perceived risks associated with both the Covid-19 pandemic and government responses to it in seven African countries — DR Congo, Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe — based on large scale quantitative and qualitative surveys conducted in 2022–2024. It also elucidates the people’s resilience in overcoming the risks within ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Migration and Agency in a Globalizing World

    Afro-Asian Encounters

    Edited by Scarlett Cornelissen, Yoichi Mine ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book – through a collection of case studies covering Southern and East Africa, China, India, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia – offers insights into the nature of social exchanges between Africa and Asia. In the age of the ‘Rise of the South’, it documents the entanglements and the lived experiences of African and Asian people on the move. Divided into three parts, the authors look at ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Human Security Norms in East Asia

    Edited by Yoichi Mine, Oscar A. Gómez, Ako Muto ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book reveals how the idea of human security, combined with other human-centric norms, has been embraced, criticized, modified and diffused in East Asia (ASEAN Plus Three). Once we zoom in to the regional space of East Asia, we can see a kaleidoscopic diversity of human security stakeholders and their values. Asian stakeholders are willing to engage in the cultural interpretation and ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Human Security and Cross-Border Cooperation in East Asia

    Edited by Carolina G. Hernandez, Eun Mee Kim, Yoichi Mine, Ren Xiao ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book takes up a wide variety of human security challenges beyond the dimension of human conflict, and looks at both natural and human disasters that the East Asian region faces or is attempting to resolve. While discussing various human security issues, the case studies offer practical lessons to address serious human security challenges in the framework of the ASEAN Plus Three and beyond. ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • An Oral History of Development Cooperation

    Experiences of Japan and its Partners

    by Yoichi Mine ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This Open Access book offers a comprehensive oral history of Japan’s development cooperation, based on nearly 300 interview narratives collected in Indonesia, Chile, Tanzania, Malaysia, Thailand, Costa Rica, Kenya, Ghana, Zambia, Jordan, Brazil, Cambodia, and Japan. Unlike most books on development cooperation, which are written from the perspective of aid providers, this book gives voice to local ... Read more

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  • Human Security and Empowerment in Asia

    Beyond the Pandemic

    Edited by Mely Caballero-Anthony, Yoichi Mine, Sachiko Ishikawa ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, this edited volume revisits the framework of human security and development. It examines the protection-empowerment nexus as applied to various vulnerable groups and populations affected by the pandemic.While the conventional human security literature has focused on top-down protection, this book offers new perspectives on human security by exploring bottom ... Read more

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  • Connecting Africa and Asia

    Afrasia as a Benign Community

    by Yoichi Mine ...
    Series series New Regionalisms Series
    By 2100, more than 80 per cent of the world’s population is expected to live in Afrasia (Africa and Asia). This book draws lessons from history, provides a new cognitive map of the world, and discusses multiple challenges global citizens will face in the age of Afrasia, an emerging macro-region.The centre of gravity of the world is shifting. Whether the world can manage a soft landing into ... Read more

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    Smart City, Smart State

    by Kent E. Calder ...
    How Singapore’s solutions to common problems can provide examples for other societies.Nearly everyone knows that Singapore has one of the most efficient governments and competitive, advanced economies in the world. But can this unique citystate of some 5.5 million residents also serve as a model for other advanced economies as well as for the emerging world? Respected East Asia expert Kent Calder ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Asian Business Systems

    Edited by Michael A. Witt, Gordon Redding ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Much of the existing literature within the "varieties of capitalism " (VOC) and "comparative business systems " fields of research is heavily focused on Europe, Japan, and the Anglo-Saxon nations. As a result, the field has yet to produce a detailed empirical picture of the institutional structures of most Asian nations and to explore to what extent existing theory applies to the Asian context. ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Disaster, Conflict and Society in Crises

    Everyday Politics of Crisis Response

    Edited by Dorothea Hilhorst ...
    Series series Routledge Humanitarian Studies
    Humanitarian crises - resulting from conflict, natural disaster or political collapse – are usually perceived as a complete break from normality, spurring special emergency policies and interventions. In reality, there are many continuities and discontinuities between crisis and normality. What does this mean for our understanding of politics, aid, and local institutions during crises? This book ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Democratic Governance and Social Entrepreneurship

    Civic Participation and the Future of Democracy

    by Denise M. Horn ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy
    This book explores the connection between strong democracy and neoliberal development schemes based on the concept of ‘social entrepreneurship’ in Thailand and Southern India.With an original approach, this book addresses the intersection between emerging approaches to development; namely microfinance, microenterprise, and social entrepreneurship, and the ability of societies to generate their own ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • International Development

    A Global Perspective on Theory and Practice

    Edited by Paul Battersby, Ravi K Roy ...
    How can we lay the foundation for a more just and peaceful world? How can we prevent communications from fracturing and societies from tearing themselves apart? How should we prioritise economic, social and cultural demands for resources and opportunities?This book answers these questions, and presents a view of development ‘in practice’. Written by experts in the field, the book covers a range of ... Read more

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