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Hong Kong's Transition to Chinese Rule
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

Hong Kong's Transition to Chinese Rule

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-09-02
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Following the return of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty, it appears that the 'high degree of autonomy' promised to Hong Kong is limited in many ways. China's reservations about the development of democracy in Hong Kong lies at the heart of the problem. The conceptual inadequacies set out in the Basic Law, Hong Kong's mini-constitution, show a correlation between a lack of democracy and a loss of autonomy. This book argues that genuine autonomy from the central government in Beijing is impossible without a democratic system in Hong Kong. Developments since the handover have, however, demonstrated that democratic trends have been halted and even reversed and that democracy is not likely to be established in Hong Kong in the near future.

Die Globalisierung und ihre Kritik(er)
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 244

Die Globalisierung und ihre Kritik(er)

Der Band gibt einen Überblick zur aktuellen Debatte über Globalisierung.

Nationalism and Cultural Revival in Southeast Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284
The BRICS and Collective Financial Statecraft
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

The BRICS and Collective Financial Statecraft

Introduction: the BRICS as a club -- Global power shift: the BRICS, building capabilities for influence -- BRICS collective financial statecraft: four cases -- Motives for BRICS collaboration: views from the five capitals -- Conclusion: whither the BRICS?

Maoism at the Grassroots
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 477

Maoism at the Grassroots

Maoism at the Grassroots challenges state-centered views of China under Mao, providing insights into the lives of citizens across social strata, ethnicities, and regions. It reveals how ordinary people risked persecution and imprisonment in order to assert personal beliefs and identities, despite political repression and surveillance.

Michael Leifer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 776

Michael Leifer

Presents selected works of Michael Leifer, the doyen of Southeast Asian Studies, who died in 2001. This book includes works on the Southeast Asian region - ASEAN, regional order and conflict, great power policies towards the region, maritime security in Southeast Asia, and studies of the domestic policies of individual Southeast Asian countries.

The Impact of Asian Powers on Global Developments
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 210

The Impact of Asian Powers on Global Developments

The international political and military-strategic importance of the Asian continent has dramatically increased in recent years and it is conceivable that world affairs in this century will be significantly influenced by developments in Asia. This volume examines, on the one hand, the strategic goals of the most influential powers in the Eurasian region – in particular India, Pakistan, China, Russia and Japan, but also the USA that is strongly involved in the region, and on the other, the relations that these states have with each other. Special attention is paid to the subjective perceptions and thought patterns of the different players, for the perception that international political players have of the outside world is an important element that is frequently neglected in political and military analyses.

The Domestic Sources of China's Foreign Policy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 298

The Domestic Sources of China's Foreign Policy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-04-28
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  • Publisher: Routledge

As China’s political and economic influence in the world is rapidly increasing, it is essential to understand how China’s domestic politics affects its foreign political and economic policy. This book offers an accessible, informative and up-to-date systemic analysis of the foreign policy of China. Where mainstream literature on international relations usually suggests that China’s foreign policy is primarily determined by external factors, such as the international system and external settings, this book demonstrates instead that domestic factors profoundly shape China’s foreign policy from the late Mao’s era to the reform era. It demonstrates how China’s foreign policy is drive...

China At 60: Global-local Interactions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 350

China At 60: Global-local Interactions

China at 60 explores the interactions between China and the world, over the course of 60 years of Communist Party rule since 1949 and the impact of these interactions on China's domestic development. To understand China's development experience and its transformation, it is necessary to examine the trajectory of development from pre-reform to post-reform periods. While the book may concur with previous findings on the changing development of China under economic reform, more importantly, it demonstrates the areas of continuity of the PRC's existence over the entire six decades. To that end, a dual theme — change-and-continuity and global-local interactions on China's development — is ado...

China's Multilateral Co-operation in Asia and the Pacific
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 186

China's Multilateral Co-operation in Asia and the Pacific

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-06-24
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Explores the meaning, scope and repercussion in the drive that a rising China has for institutionalizing multilateral cooperative processes in the Asia-Pacific region, the extent to which its actions are motivated by concerns of politics, economics or security, and the obstacles it faces for so doing.