State Society dynamics is a much-needed addition to works about our political life. It provides a seldom-seen picture of the policy-making process as it thoughtfully studies the wealth of experience generated during the Aquino administration for greater political learning, especially with regard to democratization.
The fourth edition of Southeast Asia in the New International Era updates the region at a time of critical change. In the 1990s, Southeast Asia was known as an area of stability and movement toward development and democracy. At the beginning of the millennium, many of the region's nations are undergoing rapid change that belies the standard perception of stability. Since January 2000, Indonesia…
India Unbound is the riveting story of a nation’s rise from poverty to prosperity and the clash of ideas that occurred along the way. Gurcharan Das examines the highs and lows of independent India through the prism of history, his own experiences and those of numerous others he has met-from young people in sleepy UP villages to chiefs of software companies in Bangalore. Defining and exploring…
Japan's failed revolution: Koizumi and the politics of economic reform asks why, despite all the high expectation's, the Japanese public's desire for economic reform, and leadership of a majority coalition in a parliamentary democracy, the reformer prime minister Koizumi has not achieved the economic reforms expected of him since he surprisingly attained power over a year ago. this book expl…
This collection of papers is only a subset of a much larger body of papers, the result of a collaboration among about 50 scholars from the Asia Pacific region, which have been commissioned under the so-called "Quadrilateral Project." That project was jointly sponsored by the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley; the University of Tokyo, the Centre for Strategic an…
While dozens of recent books and articles have predicted the near-certainty of China's rise to global supremacy, this book boldly counters such widely-held assumptions. Timothy Beardson brings to light the daunting array of challenges that today confront China, as well as the inadequacy of leadership's responses. Threats to China come from many fronts, Beardson shows, and by their number and sh…
China is hot. The world sees a glorious future for this sleeping giant, three times larger than the United States, predicting it will blossom into the world's biggest economy by 2010. According to Chang, however, a Chinese-American lawyer and China specialist, the People's Republic is a paper dragon. Peer beneath the veneer of modernization since Mao's death, and the symptoms of decay are every…
Another illusion-shattering piece from the man "The New York Times" called "arguably the most important intellectual alive". In 1970, about 90 per cent of international capital was used for trade and long-term investment - more or less productive things - and 10 per cent for speculation. By 1990, these figures had reversed. Haiti, a starving island, is exporting food to the US - about 35 times …
In this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order. Based on a s…
For the first time in seven decades, there is no single power or alliance of powers ready to take on the challenges of global leadership. A generation ago, the United States, Europe, and Japan were the world’s powerhouses, the free-market democracies that propelled the global economy forward. Today, they struggle just to find their footing. Acclaimed geopolitical analyst Ian Bremmer argues…