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  • Writing Local History Today

    A Guide to Researching, Publishing, and Marketing Your Book

    by Thomas A. Mason, J. Kent Calder ...
    Series series American Association for State and Local History
    Writing Local History Today guides local historians through the process of researching, writing, and publishing their work. Thomas A. Mason and J. Kent Calder present step-by-step advice to guide aspiring authors to a successful publication and focus not only on how to write well but also how to market and sell their work. Highlights include:Discussion of how to identify an audience for your ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Making of Northeast Asia

    by Kent Calder, Min Ye ...
    Series series Studies in Asian Security
    Northeast Asia, where the interests of three major nuclear powers and the world's two largest economies converge around the unstable pivot of the Korean peninsula, is a region rife with political-economic paradox. It ranks today among the most dangerous areas on earth, plagued by security problems of global importance, including nuclear and missile proliferation. Yet, despite its insecurity, the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Strategic Capitalism

    Private Business and Public Purpose in Japanese Industrial Finance

    by Kent E. Calder ...
    Was Japan's economic miracle generated primarily by the Japanese state or by the nation's dynamic private sector? In addressing this question, Kent Calder's richly detailed study offers a distinctive reinterpretation of Japanese government-business relations. Calder challenges popular opinion to demonstrate how Japanese private enterprise has complemented the state in achieving the national ... Read more

    $56.89 USD

  • Crisis and Compensation

    Public Policy and Political Stability in Japan

    by Kent E. Calder ...
    Why does Japan, with its efficiency-oriented technocracy, periodically adopt welfare-oriented, economically inefficient domestic policies? In answering this question Kent Calder shows that Japanese policymakers respond to threats to the ruling party's preeminence by extending income compensation, entitlements, and subsidies, with market-oriented retrenchment coming as crisis subsides. "Quite ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • Global Political Cities

    Actors and Arenas of Influence in International Affairs

    by Kent E. Calder ...
    Why cities often cope better than nations with today's lightning-fast changesThe British Empire declined decades ago, but London remains one of the world's preeminent centers of finance, commerce, and political discourse. London is just one of the global cities assuming greater importance in the post-cold war world-even as many national governments struggle to meet the needs of their citizens. ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Eurasian Maritime Geopolitics

    The United States and China in an Age of Indo-Pacific Transformation

    by Kent E. Calder ...
    Eurasian Maritime Geopolitics by Kent E. Calder examines the strategic geography of the sea lanes from Northeast Asia through the Indian Ocean to Europe, through which much of the world's energy and information flow. Calder shows how changing technology and economic patterns have profoundly transformed the global significance of those passageways since the end of the Cold War, with fateful ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Singapore

    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

    $28.19 USD

  • Super Continent

    The Logic of Eurasian Integration

    by Kent E. Calder ...
    A Eurasian transformation is underway, and it flows from China. With a geopolitically central location, the country's domestic and international policies are poised to change the face of global affairs. The Belt and Road Initiative has called attention to a deepening Eurasian continentalism that has, argues Kent Calder, much more significant implications than have yet been recognized. In Super ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The New Continentalism: Energy and Twenty-First-Century Eurasian Geopolitics

    by Kent E. Calder, PhD - History ...
    In this groundbreaking book Kent E. Calder argues that a new transnational configuration is emerging in Asia, driven by economic growth, rising energy demand, and the erosion of longstanding geopolitical divisions. What Calder calls the New Silk Road—with a strengthening multi-faceted relationship between East Asia and the Middle East at its core—could eventually emerge as one of the world's most ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The International Relations of Northeast Asia

    by Thomas Berger, Kent E. Calder, William W. Grimes, Alastair Iain Johnston, C S. Eliot Kang, Taehwan Kim, Thomas G. Moore, Lynn T. White III, Lowell Dittmer, Chung-in Moon, Gilbert Rozman ...
    Series series Asia in World Politics
    Is Northeast Asia primed for peace or ripe for great-power rivalry? In this turbulent region, all the world-order challenges of arms control and disarmament, global North-South tensions, human rights and humanitarian intervention, environmental protection and eco-development, and democratization and humane governance are concentrated. More than any other part of the world, the divided Korean ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Embattled Garrisons

    Comparative Base Politics and American Globalism

    by Kent E. Calder ...
    The overseas basing of troops has been a central pillar of American military strategy since World War II--and a controversial one. Are these bases truly essential to protecting the United States at home and securing its interests abroad--for example in the Middle East-or do they needlessly provoke anti-Americanism and entangle us in the domestic woes of host countries? Embattled Garrisons takes up ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Circles of Compensation

    Economic Growth and the Globalization of Japan

    by Kent E. Calder ...
    Japan grew explosively and consistently for more than a century, from the Meiji Restoration until the collapse of the economic bubble in the early 1990s. Since then, it has been unable to restart its economic engine and respond to globalization. How could the same political–economic system produce such strongly contrasting outcomes?This book identifies the crucial variables as classic Japanese ... Read more

    $28.79 USD