Political science and theory

This book is the first of its kind to offer an understanding, analysis, and prediction of the state of civil society in Bangladesh in relation to development and democracy.

In alignment with Indigenous Politics, an emerging sub-field of Politics and IR, this book  considers West Papuan Indigenous nationhood.

This book explains how recognition theory contributes to non-colonial and enduring political relationships between Indigenous nations and the state.

Small and developing states make up the majority of participants in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations (UNPKO), and Malaysia is one of these.

Compulsory voting has operated in Australia for a century, and remains the best known and arguably the most successful example of the practice globally.

This book re-visits the history of the Korean War of 1950-1953 from a Chinese perspective, examining Chinese strategy and exploring why China sent three million troops to Korea, in Mao's words, to "e;defend the homeland and safeguard the country"e;-giving rise to what became the war's common name in China.

This book provides a comparative analysis of the regional development strategies of east, west, northeast and central China and the development of important economic regions including the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region, the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, Chengdu-Chongqing and central-southern areas of Liaoning Province.

This book pursues a Marxist approach with an emphasis on class to reflect on Marx's Capital in the context of the East.

This book is the first systematic scientific study of global quasi-legislation.

Modern civilization faces a broad spectrum of daunting problems, but rational solutions are available for them all.

In 2015, Singapore celebrated 50 years of independence.

Lee Kuan Yew through the Eyes of Chinese Scholars is a compilation of essays by highly-respected Chinese scholars in which they evaluate the life, work and philosophy of Lee Kuan Yew, founding Prime Minister of Singapore.

One of Singapore's top diplomats, Bilahari Kausikan was the Institute of Policy Studies' (IPS) 2015/16 S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore.

China watching is anything but being boring because Chinese politics is filled with dramas almost on a daily basis.

China's momentous socioeconomic transformation is not taking place in an intellectual vacuum: Chinese scholars and public intellectuals are actively engaged in fervent discussions about the country's domestic and foreign policies, demographic constraints, and ever-growing integration into the world community.

Qualifying post-Westphalian sovereign statehood as a 'power' as argued for in Hendrik Berkhoff's political theology, this book addresses the decades-long theological-spiritual debate between Christian realism and Christian pacifism in U.

This book offers a novel and parsimonious framework to help understand Hong Kong's lengthy democratic transition by analyzing the electoral dynamics of the city's competitive authoritarian political system, where pro-Beijing and pro-democracy parties have struggled to keep each other in check.

This book and associated collection of visual data and sociological observations examine how the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) has been visually re-imagined, transformed, and utilized by its subalterns in the post-Handover period to reproduce their aspirations and demands for greater democracy and social justice while simultaneously contesting the hegemonic pressure exerted by China under the "e;One Country, Two Systems"e; ideology.

Drawing upon insights from the natural and social sciences, this book puts forth a provocative new argument that the violent Islamist threat in Indonesia today derives its stubborn resilience from being in essence a complex, adaptive and self-organizing system - or what some specialists might even call a super-organism.

This book examines a selection of themes that have become salient in contemporary debates on constitutional democracies.

This multidisciplinary book introduces readers to original perspectives on crimmigration that foster holistic, contextual, and critical appreciation of the concept in Australia and its individual consequences and broader effects.

This book is the first English translation of the original text Atjeh Sepintas Lalu published in 1950 in Bahasa Indonesia by one of Indonesia's leading lawyers,  writers, and political figures, examining the history of the continuously turbulent Aceh.

The book aims to build a political theory of interest politics by adopting an interest-analyzing approach of Marxism to explore the dual characteristics of social interests.

Since the dawn of civilisation philosophers and sages alike have been concerned about the potential for government to become a Leviathan-like monster.

The book examines the dynamic processes of the various social, political, and cultural negotiations that representatives of Christian groups engage in within authoritarian societies in Greater China, where Christianity is deemed a foreign religious system brought to China by colonial rulers.

This book explores the transformation of the political organization of the world as manifest in different spheres of world politics, in particular, in world politics, regional studies, interaction of MNCs and government agencies, and state responses to biogenic challenges.

The book presents debates around the concept of representation and how these ideas apply to representation for selected disadvantaged groups in India.

This book defines Russophobia as the irrational fear of Russia, a key theme in the study of propaganda in the West as Russia has throughout history been assigned a diametrically opposite identity as the "e;Other.

Reappraising Modern Indian Thought: Themes and Thinkers is a lucid and comprehensive account of the thread of socio-political thought of major Indian thinkers over the decades.

This book puts forward a new perspective, the historical dynamics of Chinese politics, for better understanding China's politics, which is from the vertical history of China and the dimension of horizontal world politics, combining the historical analysis of how Chinese politics has come along the way and the comparative analysis of China's governance achievements in world politics.

This book scrutinizes the frequently ignored agency of Global South sub-national actors in their interactions with China, using a multidisciplinary approach and eleven case studies.

This book explores how taxation is related to the role of the state and its relationship with its constituents, the concept of private property rights, the concepts of societal fairness and justice, and the battle between the individual and the collective.

The book is a response to the dominant discourse of South Africa as unwelcoming to African immigrants.

The book presents aspects of cross-currents of theorizing of self, culture and society in the contemporary Taiwan.

This book focuses on relatively neglected areas of simulation and gaming (S&G), i.

This book contains the history of China-U.

This edited book is written by six authors from Asia and Africa.

This book engages a multidisciplinary approach to understand Gandhi in addressing specific contemporary societal issues.

This book acquaints the reader to the often invisible-ized practices and policies under the rhetoric of 'inclusion', through theoretical and empirical analysis.

This book highlights the gains that a citizenship approach offers to the study of democracy in Indonesia, demonstrating that the struggle for citizenship and the historical development of democracy in the country are closely interwoven.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the close cultural links between India and Vietnam.

This book focuses on the current internal and external situation China is facing both from a macro perspective and a theoretical height, and puts forward practical development strategies and diplomatic ideas.

This book explores the multifaceted obstacles to social change that India, Myanmar and Thailand face, and ways to overcome them.

This book offers the assessment of Myanmar's societal changes, development aspects, and political situation over the course of the nation's short lived democratic transition disrupted by the coup d'etat on 1 February 2021.

This book is framed by four over-arching narratives of inquiry.

This book examines the structures and processes of political decision-making and governance in Nigeria.

This book aims to propose a unique analytical framework to find out the general successful experience for large developing countries, which are defined with two main physical characters of large population and vast land.

The Emergence of Bangladesh analyses and celebrates the first 50 years of Bangladesh as a nation, bringing insights from key scholars in Bangladeshi studies to an international audience, as well as 'bringing home' to a domestic audience the work of some of the nation's greatest intellectual exports, the Bangladeshi scholars who have made a mark in their field of study in academia.

This book is a systematic analysis of the trade interconnectivity, logistics, urbanization, and economic development among countries along the Silk Road.