Asian Politics and Policy
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China and the Global Energy Crisis
Tatsu Kambara, Christopher Howe
This book examines China’s record of oil and gas development, its refining capacity, and energy prospects. The authors conclude that there are no fundamental reasons for anxiety about China’s demands on the world energy economy, but they...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Deregulation and its Discontents
Edited by M Ramesh, Michael Howlett
Deregulation and its Discontents examines the different ways in which the issues related to deregulation and reregulation have been addressed in Asia. The role of government in business has gone through distinct, if overlapping, cycles:...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Globalisation and the New Terror
Edited by David M. Jones
This rigorously analytical yet readable book examines trends in new terror – understood here to be the capacity of sub-state actors to secure religious or politically motivated objectives by violent means. The contributors argue that whi...eBook:Find out more$46.36
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Environmental Policy in Japan
Edited by Hidefumi Imura, Miranda A. Schreurs
The book introduces Japan’s environmental history, its key environmental regulations and the forces that have driven Japan to introduce these environmental regulations and programs. It also examines the various formal and informal instit...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Globalization in the Asian Region]()
Globalization in the Asian Region
Edited by Gloria Davies, Chris Nyland
Bringing together contributors from both the university sector and business-centered research institutions, this comprehensive volume offers diverse perspectives on the impacts and consequences of globalization in different parts of the ...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Regionalism in the New Asia-Pacific Order
Joseph A. Camilleri
Regionalism in the Asia-Pacific is a complex, diverse, highly contested and still rapidly evolving phenomenon. Crucial to an understanding of this phenomenon is the relationship between globalization and regionalization, between states, ...eBook:Find out more$71.96
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![Malaysian Economics and Politics in the New Century]()
Malaysian Economics and Politics in the New Century
Edited by Colin Barrow, Francis K.W. Loh
Malaysia is one of the fastest growing economies in the world today, and this book reflects current debates about the future directions of the national economy, polity and society in light of the late 1900s watershed period of financial ... -
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Welfare, Environment and Changing US–Chinese Relations
Edited by Maria Weber
By adopting a wide-ranging perspective, this book addresses the key issues relevant to contemporary China, providing a valuable tool with which to understand the challenges and opportunities facing political and economic actors, both dom...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Political Competition, Innovation and Growth in the History of Asian Civilizations]()
Political Competition, Innovation and Growth in the History of Asian Civilizations
Edited by Peter Bernholz, Roland Vaubel
Do political decentralisation and inter state competition favour innovation and growth? There has long been a lively debate surrounding this question, going back to David Hume and Immanuel Kant. This book is a new attempt to test its ver...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Human Capital, Trade and Public Policy in Rapidly Growing Economies]()
Human Capital, Trade and Public Policy in Rapidly Growing Economies
Edited by Michele Boldrin, Been-Lon Chen, Ping Wang
Human Capital, Trade and Public Policy in Rapidly Growing Economies argues that only two centuries ago, no society had ever enjoyed sustained growth in living standards. The contributors to this book aim to discover why the world today e...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Security Perspectives of the Malay Archipelago
Andrew T.H. Tan
The Malay Archipelago – namely Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines – has recently risen in prominence as the ‘second front’ in the war on terrorism. This study argues that the Malay Archipelago constitutes a distin... -
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Electricity Reform in China, India and Russia
Xu Yi-Chong
Examining the reform and restructuring of the electricity industry in China, India and Russia, this book explores the way that local conditions and institutions shape the commitment, direction and speed of public utility reform in the th...
