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  • Security Sector Reform in Southeast Asia

    From Policy to Practice

    Edited by F. Heiduk ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Successful reform of the security sector has been regarded as pivotal for a successful transition from authoritarianism to democracy by Western donors. A global cast of contributors examines SSR in a variety of policy fields in Southeast Asia, paying specific attention to the adaption of 'Western' reform concepts by local actors. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Dear Leader

    My Escape from North Korea

    by Jang Jin-sung ...
    THE STORY THEY COULDN'T HACK: In this international bestseller, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il and his breathtaking escape to freedom.As North Korea’s State Poet Laureate, Jang Jin-sung led a charmed life. With food provisions (even as the country suffered through its great famine), a travel pass, access to strictly censored ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Japanization

    What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades

    by William Pesek ...
    Series series Bloomberg
    An in-depth look at Japan's economic malaise and the steps it must take to compete globallyIn Japanization, Bloomberg columnist William Pesek—based in Tokyo—presents a detailed look at Japan's continuing twenty-year economic slow-down, the political and economic reasons behind it, and the policies it could and should undertake to return to growth and influence. Despite new Prime Minister Shinzo ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Governance, Domestic Change, and Social Policy in China

    100 Years after the Xinhai Revolution

    Edited by Jean-Marc Blanchard, Kun-Chin Lin ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book constitutes the first comprehensive retrospective on one hundred years of post-dynastic China and compares enduring challenges of governance in the period around the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1911 to those of contemporary China. The authors examine three key areas of domestic change and policy adaptation: social welfare provision, local political institutional reform, and social ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • China Buys the World

    Analyzing China's Overseas Investments

    by Andrew Collier ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book discusses the strategies that will define China’s overseas expansion in the coming years. China is spending billions of dollars acquiring overseas companies and assets, from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to the Hinkley Point nuclear station. Will this corporate buying binge continue? In this book, Collier argues that state control will occur only among certain strategically key ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • National Security, Statecentricity, and Governance in East Asia

    Edited by Brendan Howe ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book assesses the extent to which an emphasis on national security and prioritization of state interests has dominated governance policy-making in Northeast and Southeast Asia, at the expense of human security, human development, and human rights. The findings are that in many cases, there are embedded structural obstacles to achieving human-centered governance objectives in the region. These ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • China Engages Global Health Governance

    Responsible Stakeholder or System-Transformer?

    by L. Chan ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores public health in China in particular the management of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with the goal of understanding China's compliance with and resistance to the norms and rules embedded in the global health regime. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • North Korea’s New Diplomacy

    Challenging Political Isolation in the 21st Century

    by Virginie Grzelczyk ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines how North Korea has managed to weather an uncertain political future and catastrophic economic system since the end of the Cold War. Emerging as a state that has successfully developed and tested missiles and nuclear weapons, North Korea has consolidated the Kim family dynasty through the appointment of Kim Jong Un as Pyongyang’s latest strongman. The author provides an ... Read more

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  • Rebel Recruitment and Information Problems

    by Kazuhiro Obayashi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Politics of Disorder and Instability
    How do rebel groups decide how to recruit members? To answer this question, Obayashi classifies recruitment techniques of rebel groups into two types, coercion and inducement, and develops a theory of rebel recruitment that simultaneously addresses agency problems inside rebel groups and the rebel-state contest over information.Important themes such as desertion, counterinsurgency strategies ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Our Time Has Come

    How India is Making Its Place in the World

    by Alyssa Ayres ...
    Over the last 25 years, India's explosive economic growth has vaulted it into the ranks of the world's emerging major powers. India's middle class has grown by leaps and bounds, and the country's sheer scale-possessing what will very soon be the world's largest population and an economy of more than $2 trillion-means its actions will have a major global impact. While it is clearly on the path to ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Ask A North Korean

    Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation

    by Daniel Tudor ...
    "In his new book, Ask a North Korean, Daniel Tudor—a former Economist journalist and current Korean beer entrepreneur— wants people to understand the true lives of everyday North Koreans. Using translated essays written by defectors, the book covers topics from politics to pornography." — The Boston GlobeUnderstanding North Korean Through the Eyes of Defectors.The weekly column Ask A North Korean, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Guerilla Dynasty

    Politics And Leadership In North Korea

    by Adrian Buzo ...
    Throughout the 1990s, North Korea has operated under a skeptical international eye, due largely to the countrys rigorous self-imposed isolation, its on-going confrontation with South Korea, a controversial nuclear arms program, and the near-total collapse of its economy. North Koreas leaders have chosen to face the world with its Stalinist political culture and ideological framework intact, for ... Read more

    $72.99 USD