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 – 2015-08-21
Routledge
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 – 2015-07-23
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 – 2015-07-06
Routledge
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 – 2015-07-02
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 – 2015-06-29
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 – 2015-06-25
Willan

Edited by Arnold Kettle

First published in 1951, the two volumes of An Introduction to the English Novel discuss how and why the novel developed in England in the eighteenth century. The books look at the function and background of prose fiction, focusing its arguments around the study of carefully selected books that…

Hardback – 2015-10-01
Routledge
Routledge Revivals: An Introduction to the English Novel

Edited by Shigeru Otsubo

Globalization and Development is a "cross-national study" on the "interstate dispersion" of the impacts (on growth, inequality and poverty) that international economic integration provides to the economies of the developing countries. In order to present the "Leading Issues in Development with…

Paperback – 2015-09-30
Routledge

Edited by Shigeru Thomas Otsubo

Globalization and Development is a "cross-national study" on the "interstate dispersion" of the impacts (on growth, inequality and poverty) that international economic integration provides to the economies of the developing countries. In order to present the "Leading Issues in Development with…

Paperback – 2015-09-30
Routledge