New Books April, May, June, 2013 (US) - Routledge

74 AsiAn stUdies
Asianism and the politics of
regional consciousness in
singapore
Yew leong
Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
How is Asia conceived, imagined, and represented in
Singapore? This book examines how as a result of
different internal and external conditions, such as the
changes to the nature of global and regional capital
and attempts by the state to bolster its legitimacy and
regime survival, Asia has come to be flexibly
configured, deployed, and signified. This book adopts
an interdisciplinary approach, crossing over history,
cultural studies, postcolonialism, and cultural
geography to inquire how Asia has been used in
narrating Singapore’s beginnings, revalidating
Singaporean ethnic culture and consolidating its
practices of consumption and commodification.
Routledge
Market: Asian Cultural Studies / Postcolonialism / Southeast
Asian Studies
August 2013: 6-1/4x9-1/4: 240pp
Hb: 978-0-415-82148-3: $135.00/V
eBook: 978-0-203-56188-1: $135.00/V
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Bilateralism, Multilateralism
and Asia-pacific security *
Contending Cooperation
Edited by william t. tow, Australian National
University and Brendan taylor, Australian
National University
Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series
Many scholars of international relations in Asia regard
bilateralism and multilateralism as alternative and
mutually exclusive approaches to security co-operation
in the region, arguing that eventually multilateral
associations such as ASEAN will in time replace the
system of bilateral alliances which were the
predominant form of security co-operation in Cold
War times and which continue as the primary means
of the United States’ engagement with the region.
This book contends that bilateralism and
multilateralism are not mutually exclusive, and that
bilateralism is likely to continue strong even as
multilateralism strengthens.
Routledge
Market: Asian Studies / Security Studies
May 2013: 6-1/4x9-1/4: 208pp: 1 illus
Hb: 978-0-415-62580-7: $155.00/V
eBook: 978-0-203-36708-7: $155.00/V
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Brezhnev and the decline of
the soviet Union
thomas crump, University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia
and Eastern Europe
Leonid Brezhnev was leader of the Soviet Union from
1964 to 1982. During Brezhnev’s time Soviet power
seemed at its height and increasing: space missions,
rising living standards at home, a strong foreign policy
reach into all parts of the world including Southeast
Asia, South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, the
equal of the United States as a nuclear power. Yet, as
this book, which provides a comprehensive overview
and reassessment of Brezhnev’s life, early political
career and career as leader, shows, the seeds of Soviet
decline were sown in Brezhnev’s time.
Routledge
Market: Russian Studies / Russian Politics
August 2013: 6-1/4x9-1/4: 256pp
Hb: 978-0-415-69073-7: $155.00/V
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www.routledge.com/9780415690737
Business in post-communist
russia *
Privatization and the Limits of
Transformation
Mikhail Glazunov, University of Hertfordshire,
UK
Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and
Eastern Europe Series
It is a widely held idea that Russia has completed its
revolution which brought down the Soviet economy,
and that many companies after privatisation work as
typical western companies. Another belief is that
Russia has adopted a market economy but then
reverted to authoritarianism. With these two ideas in
mind, this book discusses the suggestion that the key
element of post-Soviet economic and political reforms
in the last two decades was the redistribution of
assets from the state to oligarchs and the new elite.
Routledge
Market: Russian Studies / Business
August 2013: 6-1/4x9-1/4: 240pp
Hb: 978-0-415-63661-2: $145.00/V
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capitalist development in
india’s informal economy
elisabetta Basile, University of Rome, Italy
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
This book explores the ‘quality’ of capitalist
development in provincial India in the post-Green
Revolution period. It argues that the low quality of
capitalist development (India’s non-farm economy
made of villages and small towns) is the joint outcome
of the informal economic organisation that is strongly
biased in favour of capital and of the complex
stratification of the workforce along class, caste and
gender lines.
Routledge
Market: South Asian Studies / Development Studies /
Development Economics
June 2013: 6-1/4x9-1/4: 256pp
Hb: 978-0-415-64268-2: $145.00/V
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china’s social development
and policy
Edited by litao Zhao, National University of
Singapore
Series: China Policy Series
In China, social development has fallen far behind
economic development. This book looks at why this is
the case, and poses the question of whether the
conditions, structures and institutions that have
locked China into unbalanced development are
changing to pave the way for the next stage of
development.
Routledge
Market: Chinese Studies / Development Studies
July 2013: 6-1/4x9-1/4: 256pp
Hb: 978-0-415-64283-5: $155.00/V
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chinese and indian warfare
– From the classical Age to
1870
Edited by peter lorge, Vanderbilt University, USA
and Kaushik roy, Jadavpur University, India
Series: Asian States and Empires
This book examines the differences and similarities
between warfare in China and India before 1870,
both conceptually and on the battlefield. By focusing
on Chinese and Indian warfare, the book breaks the
intellectual paradigm requiring non-Western histories
and cultures to be compared to the West, and allows
scholarship on two of the oldest civilizations to be
brought together. An international group of scholars
compare and contrast the modes and conceptions of
warfare in China and India, providing important
original contributions to the growing study of Asian
military history.
Routledge
Market: Asian History / Military Studies
July 2013: 6-1/4x9-1/4: 352pp
Hb: 978-0-415-50244-3: $160.00/V
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www.routledge.com/9780415502443
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