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Book SynopsisThis book explores the immigration policies and practices of the Trump administration, with a specific focus on Trump’s travel ban and the wall along the southern border with Mexico. Both were enacted shortly after Trump was elected President. It examines how the Trump administration defined and represented immigration as an issue of national security and why it sought to address the perceived security challenges posed by immigration through the specific forms of a travel ban and a wall along the southern border. The main argument advanced is that a logic of risk underpinned the Trump administration’s approach to immigration and national security. Employing the framework of riskisation, this book explores the embodied, racialised, and gendered construction and representation of risk, political and popular resistance to Trump’s wall and travel ban, and the social and political consequences of both.Table of Contents1 Introduction2 Risk and Security 3 Risk and Security in the Bush, Obama, and Trump Administrations 4 Trump’s Travel Ban 5 A Big, Beautiful Wall 6 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis Open Access book explains ASEAN’s strategic role in managing great power politics in East Asia. Constructing a theory of institutional strategy, this book argues that the regional security institutions in Southeast Asia, ASEAN and ASEAN-led institutions have devised their own institutional strategies vis-à-vis the South China Sea and navigated the great-power politics since the 1990s. ASEAN proliferated new security institutions in the 1990s and 2000s that assumed a different functionality, a different geopolitical scope, and thus a different institutional strategy. In so doing, ASEAN formed a “strategic institutional web” that nurtured a quasi-division of labor among the institutions to maintain relative stability in the South China Sea. Unlike the conventional analysis on ASEAN, this study disaggregates “ASEAN” as a collective regional actor into specific individual institutions—ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, ASEAN Summit, ASEAN-China dialogues, ASEAN Regional Forum, East Asia Summit, and ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting and ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting-Plus—and explains how each of these institutions has devised and/or shifted its institutional strategy to curb great powers’ ambition in dominating the South China Sea while navigating great power competition. The book sheds light on the strategic potential and limitations of ASEAN and ASEAN-led security institutions, offers implications for the future role of ASEAN in the Indo-Pacific region, and provides an alternative understanding of the strategic utilities of regional security institutions. Trade Review“Managing Great Power Politics: ASEAN, Institutional Strategy, and the South China Sea is a useful reminder that one can find power in weakness, as well as strategy. … Koga’s book is a careful, empirically rich, nuanced overview of ASEAN’s long-standing, thankless efforts to preserve relative stability in the South China Sea.” (Stéphanie Martel, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 96 (3), September, 2023)Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction—ASEAN’s Strategic Utility Redefined.- Chapter 2: The Concept of Institutional Strategy and Change.- Chapter 3: Four Phases of South China Sea Disputes 1990–2020.- Chapter 4: Institutional Strategies of ASEAN/ASEAN-led Institutions.- Chapter 5: Conclusion—Future Implications of ASEAN’s Institutional Strategies.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has sought to legitimise its counter-terrorism strategy in the eyes of its domestic and international audiences. An important element of CCP policy in Xinjiang has been the deployment of ordinary Chinese citizens, or the 'mass line,’ to create new realities on the ground. This book explores how the history of ideological struggle in the PRC has taken on new characteristics, as well as offering insight into how the CCP has maintained legitimacy in the eyes of its population, even as it pursues policies which are internationally controversial, shedding light on the past and future of the behaviour of the Chinese state, a subject of interest to China scholars, scholars of the Belt and Road, and counter-terrorism experts.Trade Review“Legitimacy of China’s Counter-Terrorism Approach remains a noteworthy contribution to the field. It is concisely written and contains both insight and provocative arguments relevant to not only specialists in Xinjiang and Uyghur studies but also those with an interest in Chinese security policy and terrorism and counter-terrorism studies.” (Michael Clarke, The China Quarterly, July 31, 2023)Table of ContentsTablesFiguresAcknowledgementDisclaimerChapter 1 IntroductionThe PuzzleTerrorismTerrorism threats in XinjiangTerrorism ResearchChinaMass LineA Note on Sources and MethodologyChapter OutlineChapter 2 From ‘Class Enemies’ to ‘Three Forces’Hostile ForcesMao Era: Peaceful Evolution and Two Types of ContradictionsDeng Era: Peaceful Development and Bourgeois LiberalisationJiang and Hu Era: Submerged Friend/Enemy TensionsXi Era: Revival of the Mass LineConclusionChapter 3 The Mass Line Ethos and People’s War on TerrorFengqiao ExperienceCommunity Policing‘Re-centralisation’ of security policy under Xi JinpingPeople’s War on Terror‘Hard’ and ‘soft’ approachesConclusionChapter 4 Mass Mobilisation Tactics for Countering TerrorismCo-optation of Local ActorsPatriotic believersCultural workersGrassroots propagandistsPopularisation of the state narrativesBetween Education and PropagandaConclusionChapter 5 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book aims to help readers make sense of our changing world by sharing the views of global thought leaders on some of the most important issues of our time, from US-China relations and global governance to climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. The ten dialogues in this book were part of the “China and the World” series of online discussions hosted by the Center for China and Globalization (CCG). The series features CCG President Huiyao Wang in conversation with experts from a range of fields, from renowned scholars of international relations, economics, and history, to journalists, policymakers, and business leaders. The speakers featured in this book are Graham Allison, David Blair, Kerry Brown, Anne Case, Li Chen, Wendy Cutler, Angus Deaton, Thomas L. Friedman, Valerie Hansen, Pascal Lamy, Kishore Mahbubani, Joseph S. Nye Jr., Adam Posen, J. Stapleton Roy, John L. Thornton, Huiyao Wang, Martin Wolf, and Zhu Guangyao. These wide-ranging discussions offer unique insights and perspectives on key trends shaping our world in the 21st century. These include the rise of China and shifts in geopolitics, as well as the evolving nature of globalization, transnational threats, and multilateralism.This is an open access book.This is an open access book.Table of ContentsChapter 1: China and the World in an Era of Crisis and Renewal - Dialogue with Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator at FTChapter 2: The World is Faster, Deeper, More Fused and Open, also Fragile - Dialogue with Thomas L. Friedman, bestselling author, reporter, New York Times columnist, and three-time Pulitzer Prize winnerChapter 3: US-China Balance of Power - Dialogue with Joseph S. Nye Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor and former Dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, coiner of the concept of “soft power”.Chapter 4: China and the World in an Era of Crisis and Renewal - Dialogue with Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator and Associate Editor at the Financial TimesChapter 5: Understanding inequality in a globalizing world: lessons for the 21st century - Dialogue with Nobel Laureate Sir Angus Deaton, Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University and Prof. Anne Case, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University.Chapter 6: The World a Thousand Years Ago: How Globalization Has Changed Human Society - Dialogue with Valerie Hansen, Historian, Sinologist and the Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University.

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Book SynopsisThis is an open access book. Relations between Brazil and Japan progressed dynamically in the 1960s and 1970s, centering on the substantial complementarity between Japan’s needing primary goods to sustain high economic growth and Brazil’s seeking non-hegemonic investment to invigorate its resource potential. Now that this complementarity has lost significance, the two countries are restructuring their relations to protect shared values of democracy, freedom, the rule of law, and the need for maintaining good relations with both China and the United States. Analyzed here is the development of this renewed bilateral relationship in multiple directions: productivity, global environment and health, migration, and triangular cooperation in third countries’ development. Facing the prospect of a declining population, Japan may become more open to international migration, but the experience with Japanese-descent Brazilian workers since the amendment of the migration control law in 1990 presents many lessons and challenges for the symbiosis of multicultural groups. Brazil, for its part, needs to address social inequality. To this end, it is fundamental to improve the quality of work.This book argues that Brazil and Japan can benefit from cooperation in managing those country-specific issues. It also discusses ways that Brazil and Japan can profit from coordinating action on global problems such as greenhouse gas reduction, mitigation of tropical diseases, healthy community building, and high-quality infrastructure for poverty reduction.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Nobuaki Hamaguchi and Danielly Ramos) Part I: Brazil-Japan Cooperation from Global Perspective Chapter 1 Brazil - Japan Relationship: A Partnership? (Henrique Altemani de Oliveira and Antonio Carlos Lessa) 1. Introduction 2. From an economic standpoint to a political perspective: basis for a strategic partnership? 3. Phases of the bilateral relationship during the Cold War 4. First attempts to resume the relationship and the importance of the Asian Crisis 5. Conclusion Chapter 2 Global Environmental Governance and ODA from Japan to Brazil (Shuichiro Masukata, Cristina Y. A. Inoue, and Nanahira de Rabelo e Sant’Anna) 1. Introduction 2. Multilateral-global dimension/level 3. Japan’s cooperation trajectory and “green” ODA to Brazil 4. Subnational-local: Prodecer in Paracatu and Agroforestry Systems in Tomé-Açu 5. Conclusion Lessons learned from cooperation in environmental sustainability Chapter 3 Global Health (Rodrigo Pires de Campos and Saori Kawai) Contents to be added Chapter 4 Trilateral Cooperation for Infrastructure (Akiko Koyasu and Danielly Ramos) Contents to be added Part II: Brazil-Japan Cooperation from Bilateral Perspective Chapter 5 Brazilian Workers in Japan and Public Policies for Promoting their Social Integration with a Focus on Basic Education to the Children (Mauricio Bugarin and Keiichi Yamazaki) 1. Recent trends of the Brazilian workers and their families in Japan 2. Challenges faced by the children 3. Public intervention 4. Formal modeling: Schooling choices and government intervention 5. Conclusions Chapter 6 Dissemination of Japanese Quality Control in Brazil (Nobuaki Hamaguchi and Silvio Miyazaki) 1. Introduction 2. Japanese TQC transfer to Brazil until the 1980s 3. Japanese-style TQC in Brazil since the 1990s 4. Contemporary cases of TQC in Brazil 5. Final remarks: TQC in Japan-Brazil relation in the next stage Conclusion: Structuring Brazil-Japan Cooperation from Complementarity to Shared Value (Nobuaki Hamaguchi and Danielly Ramos)

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Book SynopsisThe world order is evolving toward polycentricity, producing its winners and losers, and driving up the global and regional demand for governance, security, justice, and ethics.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides new insights into the development of integrated approaches to peace and sustainability in the era of global change. Since the late 1980s, and in order to regulate the increasingly detrimental impacts of humans on the environment, the transition towards sustainability has been high on the agenda of researchers and policymakers alike. Meanwhile, peace considerations have expanded in recent decades to include the varied types and sources of conflict, from inter-state to intra-state conflicts due to various social, political, economic, and environmental factors. Through providing theoretical and empirical insights, this book demonstrates that sustainability and peace as intrinsically interrelated. The book elaborates on the multi-dimensional and constantly evolving concepts of sustainability and peace. In addition, the book contributes to a better understanding of the complex and dynamic interlinkages between peace and sustainability by presenting examples of pathways where sustainability and peace interact considering the different factors and contexts that are constantly shaping and reshaping the conditions for sustainable and peaceful societies. Table of Contents1- Introduction: the need for integrated approaches to peace and sustainability 2- A state of art review of the peace-sustainability nexus 3- Women’s Movement towards Building Sustainable Peace in Cross-Cultural Society: the Case of Peace Agenda of Women in the Deep South of Thailand 4- Boko Haram Insurgency on North-Eastern Nigeria, how has this influenced food insecurity in the region? 5- Exploring the need for an Integrated Conflict Sensitivity Framework in development assistance that contributes to peaceful and sustainable post-conflict societies 6- The Components of Peace Agreements and FDI Inflows in 7- Post-Civil War Economies: a cross country analysis over the period 1990 to 2019 8- Peace through Community Building Efforts of the Rohingya in Bangladesh 9- The Humane yet Ambivalent Attitude Towards Refugees: A Potential Threat to Peace 10- The Role of Media and Social Cohesion between Host and the Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar 11- Human rights, social security and Ghana's response to the COVID-19 pandemic 12- Non-adherence to principles of international law: The bane of environmental insecurity 13- Peace, justice and security in Ghana: the need for peace education 14- Co-benefits and synergies between food security and eight positive peace pillars 15- Concluding remarks

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Book SynopsisThis book delves into the Australia-China relationship, which is currently at its worst since 1972, when the two countries first established a diplomatic relationship. Australia is seen by the US as its front-line ally in its fight in containing China. Derived from an international symposium organized by the editorial team and held in Adelaide, South Australia in September 2021, these essays are an attempt to offer some understanding and explanations for the deterioration of Sino-Australian ties. It is also an attempt to explore the ways by which the two countries can reach some common ground for the future. Despite our very different pasts, can we seek out a shared future together, a future that avoids a war, hot or cold, between a rising power of China and the incumbent US hegemon?Table of ContentsPart I: Knowing the Other. - Chapter 1. The CCP, the PRC and Modernity (Mobo Gao). - Chapter 2. Othering China in Australia: Bilateral Relations, Mutual Learning, and International Sociability (Yingjie Guo). - Chapter 3. Knowledge, Power, and Dialogue After and About the Rise of China: A View from Hong Kong (Daniel F. Vukovich). - Chapter 4. Australia Higher Education and the Future of the Common Good (Greg McCarthy). - Chapter 5. Australia’s China Literacy and China’s Australia Literacy: misassumptions on both sides and implications for bilateral relations (Dan Hu). - Chapter 6. The Poverty of China Literacy in Australia and the False Promise of Ontological Security (Chengxin Pan). - Part II: Legitimacy and State Capacity. - Chapter 7. Different Histories, Shared Futures (Justin O’Connor). - Chapter 8. Reflections: Notes from afar (Michael Dutton). - Chapter 9. Explaining the CPC’s legitimacy: A State-centred perspective (Tao Xie). - Chapter 10. Minzhu: What Does Democracy Mean to the People’s Republic? (Baohui Xie). - Chapter 11. The ideological nature and political character of Chinese politics (Axel Dessein). - Part III: Soft Power and Cultural Exchange. - Chapter 12. Soft power, cultural diplomacy and foreign interference (Jocelyn Chey). - Chapter 13. China Threat, Australian Challenge: Recognizing differences, building futures (David Goodman). - Chapter 14. Contemporary Chinese perspectives of Australia: A thematic analysis of Chinese “we-media” (Jack Butcher). - Part IV: Trade and Geopolitics. - Chapter 15. The Role of National Security in Australia-China Relations (Colin Mackerras). - Chapter 16. Australian interdependence versus dependence (David Morris). - Chapter 17. Australia’s trade exposure to China: a critical assessment of the threat (James Laurenceson). - Chapter 18. The unit-systemic dynamics and China-Australia Strategic Partnership (Lei Yu). - Chapter 19. The Role of National Security in Australia-China Relations (Colin Mackerras). - Chapter 20. What Are the External Perspectives on Australia-China Relationships (Kerry Brown)

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Book SynopsisThis book reviews the antinomy of rationality and selfishness raised from egoism, though rationality and selfishness are understood as basic evolutionary dynamics of humans and other organisms in both classical economics and evolutionary biology. Based on the research and a comparison with human’s social cooperative behavior, the author presents his belief that the social cooperative system, in its essence, cooperation and conflict are of uncertain stochasticity resulting from their intrinsic asymmetric interaction between cooperative partners. The book then discusses limitations of Newton’s methodology of monism in both biology and social science. The understanding of the asymmetric and uncertain characteristics found in cooperation system needs perspective of quantum physics of pluralism. At the end of the book, the author undertakes a review of consistency of Newtonian and monism philosophy and the links between quantum physics and pluralism philosophy.Table of ContentsThe Paradox of Rationality and Selfishness.- Two Asymmetric and Uncertain Selection---Start Thinking by a Hammer.- Inheritance of Acquired Character and Outbreak of Mass Incidents ---Increasing Pressure Accelerates the Evolution of Altruistic Behavior.- Social Cooperation: Drive Toward Choice of Sex.- Cooperation & Slavery---Free Competition to Social Division of Labor.- The Significance of Our Survival.

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Book SynopsisMaritime piracy continues to persist as a significant phenomenon manifesting a range of social, historical, geo-political, security and economic issues. Today, the waters of Southeast Asia serve as the dominant region for the occurrence of piracy and the challenges it poses to regional security and Malacca Straits security. As a second installment within the Series on Maritime Issues and Piracy in Asia by the International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden University, and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, the authors of this volume add fresh perspectives to the ongoing debate about piracy, the threat of maritime terrorism, and the challenge of securing the Malacca Straits today.Table of ContentsPreliminary pages with Introduction by Graham Gerard Ong-Webb; 1. Piracy, Armed Robbery and Terrorism at Sea: A Global and Regional Outlook by Jayant Abhyankar; 2. Transnational Threats and the Maritime Domain by Brian Fort; 3. Piracy and Armed Robbery Against Ships in the Philippines by Eduardo Ma R Santos; 4. Political Piracy and Maritime Terrorism: A Comparison between the Straits of Malacca and the Philippines by Stefan Eklf Amirell; 5. Piracy and Armed Robbery at Sea in Southeast Asia: Initial Impressions from the Field by Eric Frecon; 6. The Politics of Anti-Piracy and Anti-Terrorism Responses in Southeast Asia by Mark J Valencia; 7. Piracy Military and Security Companies in the Fight against Piracy in Southeast Asia by Carolin Liss; 8. Unilateralism and Regionalism: Working Together and Alone in the Malacca Straits by J N Mak; 9. Maritime Piracy in Southeast Asia: The Evolution and Progress of Intra-ASEAN Cooperation by Tamara Renee Shie; 10. The Rhine Navigation Regime: A Model for the Straits of Malacca? by Ahmad Ghazali Bin Abu Hassan; 11. Whither the Malacca Straits? The Rise of new Hub Ports in Asia by Jose L Tongzon; 12. Piracy, Seaborne Trade and the Rivalries of Foreign Sea Powers in East and Southeast Asia, 1511 to 1839: A Chinese Perspective by Xu Ke; 13. Conclusion: Building Upon the Research Agenda by Graham Gerard Ong-Webb.

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Book SynopsisThis book considers Malaysia-Singapore relations from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Geographical proximity, historical linkages, material flows, and movements have long connected the peoples and territories of Malaysia and Singapore in various ways and with varying degrees of intensity. Relations between the two countries have been shaped not only by competing visions of the nation and the different trajectories taken by these countries' nation-building projects, but also by the reality of economic interdependence and competition, security cooperation, and increasing embeddedness in the market-created East Asian region. The thirteen essays on history, politics, regional security, law, and economy collectively aim at a multi-dimensional study that seeks to convey the density and complexity of connections 'across the Causeway'.Table of ContentsAcross the Causeway: A Multi-dimensional Study of Malaysia-Singapore Relations; Preliminary pages; 1. Introduction, by Takashi Shiraishi; 2. British Policy Across the Causeway, 1942-71: Territorial Merger as a Strategy of Imperial Disengagement, by A J Stockwell; 3. Politics Divided: Malaysia-Singapore Relations, by Ooi Keat Gin; 4. Seeds of Separation, by Mohamad Abu Bakar; 5. Political Relations, by Carlyle A. Thayer; 6. The Politics of Becoming "Malaysian" and "Singaporean", by Albert Lau; 7. Johor in Malaysia-Singapore Relations, by Kamarulnizam Abdullah; 8. Politics and International Relations: The Singapore Perspective, by N Ganesan; 9. Malaysian Constitutional Perspectives on the Admission and Separation of Singapore, by Abdul Aziz Bari; 10. Security Relations, by Carlyle A. Thayer; 11. Regional Security: The Singapore Perspective, by N Ganesan; 12. Managing the Threats of Muslim Radicalism in Post-September 11 Incidents, by Kamarulnizam Abdullah; 13. Economic Relations: Competing or Complementary?, by Teofilo C Daquila; 14. Malaysia-Singapore Economic Relations: Once Partners, Now Rivals. What Next?, by Mahani Zainal Abidin; 15. Singapore's Perspective on Economic Relations with Malaysia, by Linda Low Lee Poh Onn.

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Book SynopsisIndia's emergence of a great power has sensitized its regional neighbours to its growing role as a key security actor in an increasingly interdependent world. Both Australia and ASEAN now view India as a major player in the formulation and application of their own broad security agendas. This emerging trilateral compendium is particularly evident in such policy areas as maritime security, climate change, energy security, law enforcement, 'good governance' and the politics of security institutions or 'architectures'. This book represents one of the first systematic efforts to consolidate these diverse but important concerns into an overarching framework for ascertaining and cross-comparing how these three entities are approaching these policy challenges, individually and collectively. It argues that the dynamics underlying their intensifying security relations are sufficiently important to conceptualize them as a distinct analytical framework that needs to be understood in the larger context of Asia-Pacific security politics.

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Book SynopsisInternational politics in Southeast Asia since end of the Cold War in 1990 can be understood within the frames of order and an emerging regionalism embodied in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). But order and regionalism are now under seige, with a new global strategic rebalancing under way. The region is now forced to contemplate new risks, even the emergence of new sorts of cold war, rivalry and conflict.Ang Cheng Guan, author of Southeast Asia's Cold War, writes here in the mode of contemporary history, presenting a complete, analytically informed narrative that covers the region, highlighting change, continuity and context.Crucial as a tool to make sense of the dynamics of the region, this account of Southeast Asia's international relations will also be of immediate relevance to those in China, the USA and elsewhere who engage with the region, with its young, dynamic population, and its strategic position across the world's key choke-points of trade. This is essential reading for decisionmakers who wish to understand our current situation, looking back to the end of the Cold War thirty years ago, and forward to an uncertain future.Trade ReviewNo other author has matched the width and depth of analysis as has Ang Cheng Guan. His histories of Southeast Asian international politics, from the perspective of a Singaporean, the centre of a diverse and dynamic region, provides a prospective not achieved by any other authority. Southeast Asia After the Cold War brings his penetrating account up to date.|Deft and imaginative sourcing gives Southeast Asia After the Cold War a clear and compelling perspective from within the region—one that renders alternative perspectives trivial. In linking the evolution of Southeast Asian regionalism to the uncertain search for a new order, Ang Cheng Guan has written a brilliantly conceived book.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines how the interaction between political and economic factors under Doi Moi has shaped Vietnam's China policy and bilateral relations since the late 1980s. After providing a historical background, the book examines the conflicting effects that Doi Moi has generated on bilateral relations. It demonstrates that Vietnam's economic considerations following the adoption of Doi Moi contributed decidedly to the Sino-Vietnamese normalization in 1991 as well as the continuous improvements in bilateral ties ever since. At the same time, Vietnam's economic activities in the South China Sea and China's responses have intensified bilateral rivalry and put their ties under considerable strains. The book goes on to argue that Doi Moi has indeed brought Vietnam newfound opportunities to develop a multi-level omni-directional hedging strategy against China. Finally, the book concludes by looking at the prospects of democratization in both countries and assessing the future trajectory of their relations under such circumstances. As the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Vietnam's relations with China over the past thirty years, the book is a useful reference source for academics, policymakers, students, and anyone interested in contemporary Vietnam foreign policy in general and Vietnam–China relations in particular.

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Book SynopsisThe story of Penang would be incomplete without the Big Five Hokkien families (the Khoo, the Cheah, the Yeoh, the Lim, and the Tan). It was the Big Five who played a preponderant role not only in transforming Penang into a regional entrepot and a business and financial base, but also in reconfiguring maritime trading patterns and the business orientation of the region in the nineteenth century. Departing from the colonial vantage point, this book examines a web of transnational, hybrid and fluid networks of the Big Five comprising of family relationship, sworn brotherhood, political alliance and business partnerships, which linked Penang and its surrounding states (western Malay states, southwestern Siam, southern Burma, and the north and eastern coasts of Sumatra) together to form one economically unified geographical region, having inextricable links to China and India. With these intertwining networks, the Big Five succeeded in establishing their dominance in all the major enterprises (trade, shipping, cash crop planting, tin mining, opium revenue farms), which constituted the linchpin of Penang's and its region's economy. By disentangling and dissecting this intricate web of networks, this book reveals the rise and decline of the Hokkien mercantile families' nearly century-long economic ascendancy in Penang and its region.

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Book SynopsisThe central puzzle in the study of Japanese foreign policy has been why Japan has continued to play a passive role in international affairs, despite its impressive economic and political power. Challenging this central puzzle, the core argument of this study is to present an alternative path for the study of Japanese foreign policy. In fact, in recent years Japanese foreign policy has become less dependent on the United States, more strategic towards Asia, and more energetic towards international and regional institutions.One of the main features is multilateralism in Japanese foreign policy, as shown by Japan's active participation in the regional institutions. In pursuing multilateralism, Japan cooperated closely with the only durable regional body in Southeast Asia, to wit, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Given the fact that East Asian regionalism has been driven by ASEAN, it is of utmost urgency to investigate the emerging partnership between Japan and ASEAN. The central thesis of this study is thus to put Japan's ASEAN policy into a proper perspective by asserting that Japan's new policy initiatives towards ASEAN are not reactive, nor are they exceptions in a broader framework of merely reactive foreign policy.

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Book SynopsisAt the height of the Cold War in Southeast Asia, the foreign relations between the United States and Singapore demonstrated the interplay between America’s strategy of containment and Singapore’s efforts at a non-aligned foreign policy. But there is a deeper story. American involvement in the Vietnam War not only held back the spread of communism in Southeast Asia, but also catalysed economic and strategic cooperation between the United States and Singapore. The author argues that Singapore might not have achieved its success so rapidly without the support of the US.As the war in Vietnam raged on, Singapore became a critical refueling point, also providing ship and aircraft repair for the US military. Commercial and strategic support from the United States lifted Singapore out of the economic doom predicted for the city-state after secession from Malaysia, cessation of Indonesian trade during Konfrontasi and Britain’s military withdrawal. By considering the importance of the US’s role in Singapore’s nation-building, this book provides an important supplement to the well-trodden narrative that attributes Singapore’s success to good governance.Trade Review"Daniel Chua deftly guides the reader through the complexities and nuances of this emerging relationship and in so doing, sheds new light on Singapore’s relations with the U.S. during the former’s first decade of independence. [...] In addition, his study provides fascinating insights into the twists and turns of Singaporean foreign policy at a crucial juncture in Asia’s regional politics. [...] a solid work of international history which makes a welcome contribution to the growing literature on the role of small regional powers in the unfolding of the Cold War in Southeast Asia." — H-Diplo Roundtable Review, Vol. XX.5

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Book SynopsisWith the rise of China and massive new migrations, China has adjusted its policy towards the Chinese overseas in Southeast Asia and beyond. This book deals with Beijing's policy which has been a response to the external events involving the Chinese overseas as well as the internal needs of China. It appears that a rising China considers the Chinese overseas as a source of socio-political and economic capital and would extend its protection to them whenever this is not in conflict with its core national interest. The impacts on and the responses of the relevant countries, especially those in Southeast Asia, are also examined.Trade Review"Dr Leo Suryadinata has been tracking Beijing's shifts in policy towards non-mainland Chinese since the 1970s, so he has the long view on the subject. Better yet, he is adept in Chinese, Bahasa Indonesia and English, the three languages which enable him to note and decode the nuances and niceties of political shadow play between China and its neighbours. His book is required reading if one wants to grasp these fraught ties firmly."-Chong Suk-Wai, The Straits Times, Lifestyle Section, "China Blowing Hot and Cold," 28 March 2017

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Book SynopsisThis article traces China’s foreign policy transformation from 2013 to the present. It also examines Deng Xiaoping’s doctrinal response to the political crises of 1989–91 and compares it to current Chinese foreign policy doctrines. From the early 1980s until the 2010s, China’s foreign policy has generally focused on keeping a low profile. Deng’s Tao Guang Yang Hui foreign policy doctrine is characterized by its “No’s”, while Xi Jinping’s Xin Xing is marked by its “New’s”. The move from Tao Guang Yang Hui to Xin Xing is a major doctrinal shift in China’s foreign policy. Since the 19th Party Congress in 2017, Xi’s “new” narratives have seemingly dominated Chinese foreign policy. However, old principles, particularly that of “non-interference” or “no hegemony”, are still alive, albeit in a different form.This transformation is driven by three forces, which this paper describes in the 3As framework: China’s Ambition to be a “great country” and a “non-hegemon” in a changing world; its provision of Alternatives to fill the gaps in regional and global governance structures; and its Adaptation to what it deems as “unprecedented major changes in a century” (Da Bian Ju). As China undergoes this foreign policy transformation, contradictions and dilemmas inevitably emerge. While China’s foreign policy transformation is currently being disrupted by the coronavirus crisis, there have been adjustments which were already apparent before the crisis. The ambitious “One Belt and One Road” strategy, for instance, was replaced by the “Belt and Road Initiative”; “constructive intervention” was replaced by “constructive role”; and “common destiny” was replaced by “shared future”. Looking ahead, China’s foreign policy transformation could include more strategic or, at least, tactical adjustments.

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Book Synopsis“In this annual review of the region, renowned academics provide comprehensive and stimulating commentary that furthers understanding of not only the region's dynamism but also of its tensions and conflicts.” — Suchit Bunbongkarn, Emeritus Professor at Chulalongkorn UniversityTrade ReviewSoutheast Asian Affairs, first published in 1974, continues today to be required reading for not only scholars but the general public interested in in-depth analysis of critical cultural, economic and political issues in Southeast Asia. In this annual review of the region, renowned academics provide comprehensive and stimulating commentary that furthers understanding of not only the region's dynamism but also of its tensions and conflicts. It is a must read." —Suchit Bunbongkarn, Emeritus Professor, Chulalongkorn University"Now in its forty-eighth edition, Southeast Asian Affairs offers an indispensable guide to this fascinating region. Lively, analytical, authoritative, and accessible, there is nothing comparable in quality or range to this series. It is a must read for academics, government officials, the business community, the media, and anybody with an interest in contemporary Southeast Asia. Drawing on its unparalleled network of researchers and commentators, ISEAS is to be congratulated for producing this major contribution to our understanding of this diverse and fast-changing region, to a consistently high standard and in a timely manner." —Hal Hill, H.W. Arndt Professor of Southeast Asian Economies, Australian National University

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWe live in paradoxical times. Traditionally, the West has led the world in theory and practice. Yet, recent developments, from COVID-19 to the storming of the US Capitol, show how lost the West has become. This loss of direction has deep roots. In their usual thoughtful and incisive fashion, Lim Mah-Hui and Michael Heng Siam-Heng draw out the deeper origins of our current crises and show us a new way forward. A must-read for anyone who wants to understand our strange times." —Kishore Mahbubani, founding Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, is the author of Has China Won?""This book provides plenty of food for thought for many pondering if the COVID-19 crisis could lead to a major transformation of the global economic system shaped by unfettered market forces and policies of governments in their service."" —Yilmaz Akyuz, former Director, UNCTAD, Geneva

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Book SynopsisAmid China-US geopolitical competition in the Asia-Pacific, it is imperative for both China and Singapore to adapt and respond to evolving circumstances for mutual benefit.The enduring trust and solid foundation between China and Singapore in economic and trade cooperation are validated through their active involvement in each other's initiatives. This proved true even when the recent COVID-19 pandemic strained political interactions.The political-security dimensions of the relationship between China and Singapore are complex and constantly evolving, influenced as they are by factors such as Singapore's military training in Taiwan, the contentious South China Sea disputes, and US foreign policy in the region.However, Singapore's longstanding hedging strategy between the two superpowers may face increasingly severe tests as China-US rivalry escalates.If carefully managed, Singapore's successful track record of facilitating dialogue between conflicting parties can continue to make it a valuable player in easing tensions between China and the US.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction: Connectivity, Sustainability & Development Partnerships: What’s the Connect?.- Chapter 2: The European Union’s ‘Development’ Tryst with the Connectivity Agenda.- Chapter 3: The European Union’s Development Partnerships & the Financing Agenda.- Chapter 4: The European Union’s Coherence Concerns, Geopolitical Gameplay & Agenda 2030.- Chapter 5: Enhancing North-South Cooperation for Connectivity: India, European Union and the Global South.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisLearning International Relations.- Basic Principles of International Relations.- Formation of International Society.- Imperialism and Democratization of International Society.- Nationalism and Globalization Todays International Relations.- International Political Economy Trade and Globalization.- International Political Economy Currency and Finance.- International Political Economy Poverty and Development Aid Human Movement and Refugees.- Security Interstate War and Alliances Coalitions of the Willing.- Security Civil War and Terrorism.- Security System Stability and Reconciliation Relationship Repair Between Nations.- Global Issues Transboundary Environmental Issues and Global Warming.- Global Issues The Spread of Human Rights Norms and Domestic Interference.- Global Issues Technology Innovation and the International Politics of Legitimacy.- Research Methods of International Relations.

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Book SynopsisPart I: The foundation of International Order and philosophical debate.- Chapter 1. Nature and International Order.- Chapter 2. The Nature of International Order.- Chapter 3. International Order and Struggle for Power Versus struggle for Liberation from Subjugation: realities and myths.- Chapter 4. The Phycological analysis of Hegemony and Subjugation: from Man to Sate and International Order.- Chapter 5. Non-Western philosophical contributions to International Order theory.- Part II: History and Evolution of the International Order.- Chapter 6. The Big Bang of the International Order.- Chapter 7. Expansion of the Order.- Chapter 8. The shift in the balance of powers.- Chapter 9. The further Expansion of the international order Eastward and Westward.- Chapter 10. New World Order.- Chapter 11. International war and balance of power.- Part III: Evolution in Modern and Contemporary International Order.- Chapter 12. The Evolution and the Fallacy of Westphalia.- Chapter 13. The Evolution and the position of the global south and rising powers.- Chapter 14. New International Order in the Post-World Wars: Structure of Core-periphery and Superior-Inferior Relationship among states.- Chapter 15. The Rise of the Global South and Shift in the structure of the international order.- Part IV: Post-Hegemonic International Order: Climate Change, Competition, rise of the global south, and Evolution.- Chapter 16. Climate Change in the 21st century and Evolution of International Order.- Chapter 17. The Competition and the Myth of Thucydides Trap.- Chapter 18. The Rise of China and the Competition with the West.- Chapter 19. The Rise of the global south as a balancer in international Order in the post-Hegemonic Order.- Part V: Philosophical and Historical Analysis of the order, Prediction of the Evolution of International Order, and Universal law.- Chapter 20. Inefficiency and Injustice of the Order and collapse.- Chapter 21.The Evolution towards New International Order of Justice and Peace: From struggle for power to struggle for liberation from Subjugation.- Chapter 22. The Rise of China and the global south: Threat to Order or threat to Hegemony?.- Chapter 23. The rise of the global south and a Paradigm shift of IR theory.- Chapter 24. Universal Law of the Evolution of International Order.

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Book SynopsisThis Open Access book carefully examines the legal and historical bases of the territory of Japan as a modern State from the Meiji period to 2002. A new preface summarizes key developments in the situation up through 2022.Japan’s current territory is stipulated by the Potsdam Declaration (1945) and the Treaty of Peace with Japan (1951); it includes the Northern Territories, the Senkaku Islands, and Takeshima. Japan has demanded the return of the Northern Territories, comprising the islands of Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan and Habomai, which are occupied by Russia. China has claimed sovereignty over the Senkaku Islands, which are validly controlled by Japan; Japan has claimed sovereignty over Takeshima, which is occupied by the Republic of Korea.This book analyzes the current status of these territorial topics, drawing on historical documents and international legal precedent, and it suggests peaceful methods to address them. In discussing territorial land, sea, and air space, this work touches upon postwar concepts defining modern international law and relevant rules on these subjects—exclusive economic zones (EEZs), continental shelves, and air defense identification zones (ADIZs)—found in international treaties, such as the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), and related domestic laws.Table of ContentsChapter 1.Development of Japan’s Territory.- Chapter 2.The Northern Territories (Kunashiri Island, Etorofu Island, Habomai Islands, and Shikotan Island).- Chapter 3.The Senkaku Islands.- Chapter 4. Takeshima.- Chapter 5. Territorial Sea and Exclusive Economic Zone.- Chapter 6. Exclusive Economic Zones between Japan and the Republic of Korea, and Japan and China.- Chapter 7.A Proposal for Stability and Coexistence in East Asia.- Chapter 8.Territorial Air Space and Air Defense Identification Zones.

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Book SynopsisSince the 1960s, overseas migration has become a major factor in the economy of the Philippines. It has also profoundly influenced the sense of nationhood of both migrants and nonmigrants. Migrant workers learned to view their home country as part of a plural world of nations, and they shaped a new sort of Filipino identity while appropriating the modernity of the outside world, where at least for a while they operated as insiders.The global nomadism of Filipino workers brought about some fundamental reorientations. It revolutionized Philippine society, reignited a sense of nationhood, imposed new demands on the state, reconfigured the class structure, and transnationalized class and other social relations, even as it deterritorialized the state and impacted the destinations of migrant workers.Philippine foreign policy now takes surprising turns in consideration of migrant workers and Filipinos living abroad. Many tertiary education institutions aim deliberately at the overseas employability of local graduates. And the ""Fil-foreign"" offspring of unions with partners from other nationalities add a new inflection to Filipino Identity.

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Book SynopsisGlobal Politics Reader: Themes, Actors, and Issues is a timely and enlightening anthology that addresses major challenges facing global governance. Students are challenged to analyze sources of peace and conflict within the complex web of interactions among contending global actors. The central role of power politics, international institutions, and law in global governance is emphasized.The anthology is organized into four distinct sections that discuss and analyze perennial issues and areas of concern in global affairs. In Part I, students read about major paradigms and global powers with emphasis on the U.S., China, and Russia, and their influence on other countries worldwide. Part II discusses global conflicts, including ethnic warfare, the ongoing tension between Israel and Palestine, and the nuclear arms race. Part III examines sources of peace with readings that explore the future of the United Nations, development and issues of security, and Iran's efforts at cultural diplomacy and cooperation in Uganda. The final part addresses global challenges, including international trade, economic development, global warming, and global equality.The second edition features new readings to ensure the anthology is as current as possible. New topical areas addressed include American imperialism, U.S. military intervention and public opinion, and cultural diplomacy between Iran and Uganda.An engaging supplementary text, Global Politics Reader is ideal for foundational and upper-division undergraduate courses in world politics.

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Book SynopsisFrancis Fukuyama famously predicted "the end of history" with the ascendancy of liberal democracy and global capitalism. The topic of his latest book is, therefore, surprising: the building of new nation-states.Trade ReviewFukuyama asserts that the lack of 'organizational tradition' in 'failed or weak' nations such as Afghanistan and Haiti represents the greatest threat to an orderly world. He argues that the United States, and the West in general, after rightly intervening in such states either militarily or economically (most often through the IMF or World Bank), have failed to transfer institutional and public- and private-sector know-how to needy countries.... Since he sees the 'international community' represented by the United Nations as a myth because it lacks a military, the mantle of leadership must be worn by the U.S., at great risk to itself.... Fukuyama's ideas will no doubt be much discussed. * Publishers Weekly *Fukuyama is a wonderful synthesizer of grand subjects, an adventurer who doesn't mind summing up the history of development theory in one chapter and the history of organizational theory in the next. He pulls this off with minimal resort to jargon, and he pulls the reader along with him. * Washington Post Book World *Fukuyama persuasively argues that the great problems of our day—'from poverty to AIDS to drugs to terrorism'—result not from excesses of the state but from its persistent weakness or utter failure in many countries....' State collapse or weakness had already created major humanitarian and human rights disasters during the 1990s in Somalia, Haiti, Cambodia, Bosnia, Kosovo, and East Timor.' Americans once could believe that such disasters would affect us only to the degree that we chose to help out by sending cash or peacekeepers. But 9/11, of course, showed that even a rich and powerful country remains vulnerable to catastrophes brewed in distant, troubled lands. * Baltimore Sun *This is a very useful, intelligent, and short book by Francis Fukuyama, a leading political thinker. It examines a central issue in the age of terrorism: the perils (and sometimes necessities) of 'state-building' in weakened failed states. One hopes it will become a must-read for State Department policymakers. * National Review *Table of Contents1. The Missing Dimensions of Stateness The Contested Role of the State Scope versus Strength Scope, Strength, and Economic Development The New Conventional Wisdom The Supply of Institutions The Demand for Institutions Making Things Worse2. Weak States and the Black Hole of Public Administration Institutional Economics and the Theory of Organizations The Ambiguity of Goals Principals, Agents, and Incentives Decentralization and Discretion Losing, and Reinventing, the Wheel Capacity-Building under Conditions of Organizational Ambiguity: Policy Implications3. Weak States and International Legitimacy The New Empire The Erosion of Sovereignty Nation-Building Democratic Legitimacy at an International Level Beyond the Nation-State4. Smaller but StrongerBibliography Index

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