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Cambridge Asia-Pacific Studies Loggers and Degradation in the Asia-Pacific: Corporations and Environmental Management (Paperback)

Corporate loggers have irreparably damaged much of the tropical forest throughout the Asia-Pacific over the last four decades. Despite a steady rise in global and local concern few firms have changed their practices on the ground. This study examines... more

Studies in Asia Pacific Business (Hardco Human Resource Management in the Asia-Pacific Region: Convergence Revisited (Hardcover)

HRM (human resource management) suffers from a selective tendancy and ad hoc approach which misses the historical paradoxical often incoherent incompatible and inconsistent nature of the subject. This text reduces this myopia by adding to our knowledge... more

Political Economy of the Asia Pacific: Great Power Competition and Middle Power Strategies: Economic Statecraft in the Asia-Pacific Region (Hardcover)

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Routledge Security in Asia Pacific American Sanctions in the Asia-Pacific (Paperback)

Sanctions are a persistent - many would argue increasingly central - component of American efforts to shape foreign policy outcomes in the Asia-Pacific. The use of sanctions in the context of two of the most pressing regional security issues currently... more

World Bank East Asia and Pacific Regional Report: Toward Gender Equality in East Asia and the Pacific : A Companion to the World Development Report (Paperback)

Toward Gender Equality in East Asia and the Pacific examines the relationship between gender equality and development and outlines an agenda for public action to promote more effective and inclusive development in East Asian and Pacific countries.... more

Theory and the Asia-Pacific International Relations Theory and the Asia-Pacific (Paperback)

What will the Asia-Pacific rim look like in the years ahead? What tools will international relations theorists need to understand the complex relationship among China Japan and the United States as the three powers shape the economic and political... more

Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific: Fixing Fractured Nations: The Challenge of Ethnic Separatism in the Asia-Pacific (Paperback)

Asia s rising power and wealth offer its many oppressed ethnic minorities hope for greater political freedom and an end to violence. But the reality of this hope is cast into doubt by acute separatist conflict. This book provides fresh and factual... more

Prospects for regional stability : Asia and the Pacific : report submitted by a Special Study Mission to Asia and the Pacific January 2-22 1978 under the auspices of the Subcomm

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Medicinal Plants in the Asia Pacific for Medicinal Plants in the Asia Pacific for Zoonotic Pandemics Volume 1: Family Amborellaceae to Vitaceae Book 1 (Paperback)

Medicinal Plants in the Asia Pacific for Zoonotic Pandemics provides an unprecedented comprehensive overview of the phylogeny botany ethnopharmacology and pharmacology of more than 100 plants used in the traditional medical systems of Asia and Pacific.... more

Esrc Pacific Asia Programme Education and Training for Development in East Asia: The Political Economy of Skill Formation in Newly Industrialised Ec (Hardcover)

The East Asian miracle or its supposed demise is always news. The Four Tiger economies of Hong Kong Singapore Taiwan and South Korea have experienced some of the fastest rates of economic growth ever achieved. This book provides the first detailed... more

Countdown to Osaka : Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation or confrontation? : joint hearing before the Subcommittees on International Economic Policy and Trade and Asia and the Pacifi

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Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific: The Protection and Promotion of Human Security in East Asia (Hardcover)

Although many of the states of East Asia have achieved startling success not all have benefited from the region s development. Many of the most vulnerable sections of East Asian populations still face tremendous challenges in their daily lives have yet... more

Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific Financial Crisis and Institutional Change in East Asia (Hardcover)

In light of the Asian financial crisis of 1997 Lai examines whether East Asian economies converged onto the liberal market model by studying the evolution of the financial sectors of Korea Malaysia and Thailand. This includes sectoral diversification... more

Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Human Security in Southeast Asia (Paperback)

There is a growing interest in human security in Southeast Asia. This book firstly explores the theoretical and conceptual basis of human security before focusing on the region itself. It shows how human security has been taken up as a central part of... more

Politics in Asia Governance and Democracy in the Asia-Pacific: Political and Civil Society (Hardcover)

This book explores the theoretical and empirical relationship between democracy and governance in the Asia-Pacific region. Examining a variety of country cases and themes addressing the theoretical tension between governance and democracy it... more

Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific: Australian Foreign Policy in Asia: Middle Power or Awkward Partner? (Paperback)

Reconceptualises Australia s middle power statusDiscusses the history of the middle power conceptProposes a future for Australia s relations with the Asia-Pacific more

Asia & the Pacific (Paperback) Asia s Environmental Movements: Comparative Perspectives (Paperback)

Adopting a comparative perspective this book traces the social political economic and cultural conditions under which environmental movements have emerged and assesses the transformative capacities of these movements. more

Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Human Security in East Asia: Challenges for Collaborative Action (Paperback)

Since the end of the Cold War the number of interstate wars has remained relatively low although whilst states may be more secure than ever this does not mean that individual human beings are too. This has led to a growing recognition of the importance... more

Security in Northeast Asia: From Okinawa to the DMZ: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific Committee on International Relations House of Representatives One Hundred Fourth Congres

This official government document contains the transcript of a hearing on security issues in Northeast Asia. The hearing held by the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific covers a range of topics related to security and stability in the region including... more

The Brief History of World War 2 in Asia: The Asia-Pacific War the Eastern Fleet Pearl Harbor and the Atom Bomb that Shocked Japan (1941-1945) -- Academy Archives

World War II in Asia (also called Pacific War (and) Pacific War) was fought in East Asia and the Pacific Ocean between the Japanese Empire and a coalition of Allies the most important of which were the United States China and (from August 1945) the... more

Politics in Asia The International Politics of the Asia-Pacific (Hardcover)

This fully revised fourth edition of Michael Yahuda s successful textbook brings the subject up-to-date introducing students to the international politics of the Asia-Pacific region since 1945. As well as assessing the post-cold War uncertainties that... more

Routledge Contemporary Asia Disaster Relief in the Asia Pacific: Agency and Resilience (Hardcover)

A UN report recently found that the Asia Pacific is the world s most disaster-prone region. Indeed considering that the region accounts for more than half of the total number of disasters in the world building capacity and resilience to mitigate the... more

Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Geopolitics and Maritime Territorial Disputes in East Asia (Paperback)

Geopolitics is a crucial element in understanding international relations in East Asia with major and medium powers competing for influence. This book examines geopolitics in East Asia focusing in particular on its major contentious maritime... more

Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Energy Security in Asia (Paperback)

This book explores the various dimensions of energy security in Asia - which has become an increasingly important geopolitical issue. Reputable international contributors look at the roles played by each of the major energy importers: the United States... more

Europe-Asia-Pacific Studies in Economy and Technology: The Newly Industrializing Economies of Asia (Paperback)

This volume deals with the newly industrializing economies (NIEs) of Asia namely Hong Kong Korea Singa- pore and Taiwan. Based on an international conference held in Berlin in September 1989 the book contains contributions by active economists... more

Pre-Owned Understanding Strategic Cultures in the Asia-Pacific (Strategic Asia 2016-17) Paperback

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The Archaeology of Asia-Pacific Navigation: Maritime Prehistory of Northeast Asia: With a Foreword by Dr. William W. Fitzhugh (Hardcover)

1. The Origins of Watercraft in the North Pacific and its role in Northeast Asian Prehistory.- 2. Synthetic perspective on prehistoric hunter-gatherer adaptation and landscape change in northern Japan.- 3. Over the Water into and out of the Japanese... more

Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Regional Co-operation and Its Enemies in Northeast Asia: The Impact of Domestic Forces (Paperback)

Examining the prospects for building a regional community in Northeast Asia this book considers the foreign policies of the individual states as well as the impact of domestic politics on the regionalist agenda. It outlines the emerging Northeast Asian... more

Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific: Comparing Institution-Building in East Asia: Power Politics Governance and Critical Junctures (Paperback)

Yoshimatsu explores the causes and implications of the diverse degree of institution-building in East Asia by examining two processes of initiating and developing multilateral institutions in five policy areas: trade finance food security energy... more

Asia/Pacific/Perspectives: The Korean War in Asia : A Hidden History (Paperback)

This groundbreaking book takes a fresh look at the Korean War by considering the conflict from a Northeast Asian perspective. It highlights the connections of the war to earlier conflicts and examines its human impact on neighboring countries It also... more

Politics in Asia Media and Politics in Pacific Asia (Hardcover)

Media and Politics in Pacific Asia is the first book to provide a detailed account of the political influences exerted by both domestic and international media in Pacific Asia. Duncan McCargo argues that the media are political actors and institutions... more

Asia-Pacific Business: Catalyst for Change: Chinese Business in Asia (Hardcover)

This book serves as a textbook for courses on Asian studies with a focus on ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs and business management in Asia. It provides a comprehensive Asian perspective on the organizational peculiarities and changing business practices... more

Paftad (Pacific Trade and Development Co Reshaping the Asia Pacific Economic Order (Paperback)

Relationships and alignments among the nations of the world s most populous and productive region the Asia Pacific are in flux. Current global political economic and security uncertainty heightened by 9/11 and the subsequent War on Terror has fuelled a... more

Pacific: Civil Society and Transitional Justice in Asia and the Pacific (Paperback)

Over the last two decades civil society has helped catalyse responses to the legacies of violent conflicts and oppressive political regimes in Asia and the Pacific. Civil society has advocated for the establishment of criminal trials and truth... more

Pacific Century: The Emergence of Modern Pacific Asia (Paperback)

This book examines the role of the international financial system in the development of Pacific Asia and conversely the region s growing influence on North America and the world economy. It looks at the distant future being devoted primarily to... more

Routledge Studies on the Asia-Pacific Re Climate Change and Conflict in the Pacific: Challenges and Responses (Hardcover)

Shibata Carroll and Boege address the various dimensions of the climate change-conflict nexus and shed light on the overwhelming challenges of climate change in the Pacific Islands region. This book highlights the multidimensionality of the problems:... more

Paftad (Pacific Trade and Development Co Financial Development and Cooperation in Asia and the Pacific (Hardcover)

The 1997-8 Asian financial crisis exposed weaknesses in the region s national financial systems but since then East Asia has become the world s most dynamic economic region. Domestic financial systems have developed cross-border financial flows within... more

Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Indonesia and the Indo-Pacific (Hardcover)

This book examines Indonesia s strategies and policies to influence regional cooperation in the Indo-Pacific focusing especially on Indonesia s efforts to be the maritime fulcrum in the Indo-Pacific during President Joko Widodo s (Jokowi)... more