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Kent E Calder
Reviews the strategic geography of the sea lanes from Northeast Asia through the Indian Ocean to Europe since the Middle Ages, noting how changing technology and economic patterns have transformed…
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Nearly everyone knows that Singapore has one of the most efficient governments and competitive advanced economies in the world. But can this unique city-state serve as a model for other…
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Kent E. Calder
For several centuries, international relations has been primarily the purview of nation-states. But in a world growing smaller, with a globalizing system increasing in complexity by the day, the nation-state…
Shows how and why cities are re-asserting their historic role at the forefront of international economic and political life. The book focuses on fifteen major cities across Europe, Asia, and…
Why does Japan, with its efficiency-oriented technocracy, periodically adopt welfare-oriented, economically inefficient domestic policies? This book shows that Japanese policymakers respond to threats to the ruling party’s preeminence by extending…
Was Japan’s economic miracle generated primarily by the Japanese state or by the nation’s dynamic private sector? In addressing this question, the book offers a reinterpretation of Japanese government-business relations…
The overseas basing of troops has been a central pillar of American military strategy since World War II - and a controversial one. This book provides a historical and comparative…
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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…
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…
Despite the enduring importance of the US-Japan security alliance, the broader relationship between the two countries is today beset by sobering new difficulties. The author asserts that bilateral relations between…
Argues that a transnational configuration develops in Asia, driven by economic growth, rising energy demand, and the collapse of longstanding geopolitical boundaries.
While the Iraq war and Middle East conflicts command the attention of the United States and most of the rest of the developed world, fundamental changes are occurring in East…
Examines the range of implications of shifting alignments in East Asia. This title assesses economic conditions and policies within individual East Asian states. It also examines the challenge of regional…
Written by a team of leading scholars, this volume presents a variety of theoretical perspectives and case studies to offer a comprehensive analysis of the pressures that shape the policy…
This work explores the complex and evolving interplay among national, regional, and global forces influencing Northeast Asia’s security, economy, and identity.
