Asian Studies

Edited by Robert Bedeski, Niklas Swanström

The Sino-Russian relationship has experienced several permutations in recent decades as both states have undergone radical domestic changes, including the end of Soviet communism and the abandonment of Maoism. This volume brings together scholars to address the current status of Sino-Russian…

Paperback – 2015-08-16 
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Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

By Eugene F. Irschick

Providing a different approach to the history of India than previously advocated, this textbook argues that there was constant interaction between peoples and cultures. This interactive, dialogic approach provides a clear understanding of how power and social relations operated in South Asia.…

Hardback – 2015-07-22
Routledge

By Stephanie Phetsamay Stobbe

Using the case study of Laos, a small landlocked country in Southeast Asia that has seen some of the world’s most brutal forms of poverty and violence, this book examines the power of traditional and indigenous conflict resolution systems as a tool for social justice. It explores how the conflict…

Hardback – 2015-07-05
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Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

By Yoram Evron

The decisions that shape the policy of weapons procurement are an important area of national security policy. This is all the more true for China, which during recent decades has vacillated between different sources and directions of military build-up. This book explores the politics of military…

Hardback – 2015-07-01
Routledge
Routledge Contemporary China Series

Edited by Shigeru Matsumoto

A typical consumer underestimates the benefits of future energy savings and underinvests in energy efficiency, relative to a description of the socially optimal level of energy efficiency. To alleviate this energy-efficiency gap problem, various programs have been implemented. In recent years, many…

Hardback – 2015-06-28
Routledge

This book explores the theoretical and empirical dimensions of community crime prevention in China, examining in particular the role of social capital in a rapidly modernizing economic, social and political context. In doing so it provides a vivid picture of contemporary crime and crime control in…

Paperback – 2015-06-24
Willan

Edited by Hongyi Lai, Malcolm Warner

Since China has now become the world’s largest energy consumer, its energy sector has understandably huge implications for the global economy. This book examines the transformation of China’s conventional and renewable energy sectors, with special attention to state-business relations. Two studies…

Hardback – 2015-07-23
Routledge

Edited by Marc Edelman

This volume is a pioneering contribution to the study of food politics and critical agrarian studies, where food sovereignty has emerged as a pivotal concept over the past few decades, with a wide variety of social movements, on-the-ground experiments, and policy innovations flying under its broad…

Hardback – 2015-07-23
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Critical Agrarian Studies

Edited by Rajah Rasiah, Bruce McFarlane, Sarosh Kuruvilla

Among the key debates fought in developing economies is whether globalization through liberalization is the means by which economies can industrialize and provide their labour forces with tangible improvements in the material conditions of living. This book addresses this issue head on, using…

Hardback – 2015-07-23
Routledge