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Book The Evolution of Regionalism in Asia

Download or read book The Evolution of Regionalism in Asia written by Heribert Dieter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By combing the analysis of the three dimensions of integration, this book enables readers to gain a broad understanding of the theory and practice of integration processes in Asia.

Book The New Asian Renaissance

Download or read book The New Asian Renaissance written by Francois Godement and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Asian Renaissance provides the first comprehensive history of today's East Asia, tracing the essential stages in the rise of the region from its birth under colonial rule to the post Cold War era. Recounting the evolution of China, Japan, North and South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Burma, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Francois Godement outlines the major forces that have shaped East Asia into its present economic shape. Originally published in French, this work is an essential tool for understanding the past, present and future of a region that has become a significant actor in the international political economy.

Book Revolutionary Spirit

Download or read book Revolutionary Spirit written by John Nery and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2011 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Rizal, his works, and his influence in Southeast Asia; how his contemporaries saw him; the role Rizal played in inspiring Indonesian nationalists; how the Indonesians and Malaysians appropriated him in the movement for independence, and how he figures in the region's intellectual, political and literary discourse.

Book Shakespeare in Asia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dennis Kennedy
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2010-02-04
  • ISBN : 0521515521
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Shakespeare in Asia written by Dennis Kennedy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors from a wide variety of backgrounds debate how and why Shakespeare has been used and reinvented in contemporary Asia.

Book Culture and Privilege in Capitalist Asia

Download or read book Culture and Privilege in Capitalist Asia written by Michael Pinches and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-23 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture and Privilege in Capitalist Asia shows that the cultural reconfiguration of domestic and international relations around Asias new rich has often been characterised by tension and division.

Book Islamic Leviathan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2001-09-13
  • ISBN : 019803296X
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Islamic Leviathan written by Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islamization is commonly seen as the work of Islamist movements who have forced their ideology on ruling regimes and other hapless social actors. There is little doubt that ruling regimes and disparate social and political actors alike are pushed in the direction of Islamic politics by Islamist forces. However, Islamist activism and its revolutionary and utopian rhetoric only partly explain this trend. Here, Nasr argues that the state itself plays a key role in embedding Islam in the politics of Muslim countries. Focusing on Malaysia and Pakistan, Nasr argues that the turn to Islam is a facet of the state's drive to establish hegemony over society and expand its powers and control.

Book Conflict in Moro land  Prospects for Peace   Penerbit USM

Download or read book Conflict in Moro land Prospects for Peace Penerbit USM written by Arndt Graf and published by Penerbit USM. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The civil war in the Islamic Southern Philippines is one of the longest-lasting conflicts in Southeast Asia.This book dates back to a workshop on that conflict at the Department of Political Science of the University of Gottingen, Germany. The particular interest in the Moro conflict in Gottingen is due to the fact that a family from that city was among those tourists who were kidnapped in Sipadan (Malaysia) by the Abu Sayyaf group in spring 2000 and held hostage on the island of Jolo (Sulu) for almost half a year. Although the geographical and cultural backgrounds of most of the contributors to this volume differ from the parties involved in the conflict, the editors hope that this volume offers adequate views, theoretical approaches, and methodologies, which prove helpful in understanding and eventually ameliorating the conditions of the people living in "Moro land".

Book Proselytization Revisited

Download or read book Proselytization Revisited written by Rosalind I. J. Hackett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The act of converting people to certain beliefs or values is highly controversial in today's postcolonial, multicultural world. Proselytization has been viewed by some as an aggressive act of political domination. 'Proselytization Revisited' offers a comprehensive overview of the many arguments for and against proselytization in different regions and contexts. Proselytization is examined in the context of rights talk, globalisation and culture wars. The volume brings together essays demonstrating the global significance of proselytization, ranging from Christians in India to Turkish Islamic Movements and the Wiccan use of modern media technologies. The cross-cultural and multidisciplinary nature of this collection of essays provides a fresh perspective and the book will be of value to readers interested in the dynamic interaction of beliefs, ideas and cultures.

Book Asian Place  Filipino Nation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2020-07-14
  • ISBN : 0231549687
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book Asian Place Filipino Nation written by Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philippine Revolution of 1896–1905, which began against Spain and continued against the United States, took place in the context of imperial subjugation and local resistance across Southeast Asia. Yet scholarship on the revolution and the turn of the twentieth century in Asia more broadly has largely approached this pivotal moment in terms of relations with the West, at the expense of understanding the East-East and Global South connections that knit together the region’s experience. Asian Place, Filipino Nation reconnects the Philippine Revolution to the histories of Southeast and East Asia through an innovative consideration of its transnational political setting and regional intellectual foundations. Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz charts turn-of-the-twentieth-century Filipino thinkers’ and revolutionaries’ Asianist political organizing and proto-national thought, scrutinizing how their constructions of the place of Asia connected them to their regional neighbors. She details their material and affective engagement with Pan-Asianism, tracing how colonized peoples in the “periphery” of this imagined Asia—focusing on Filipinos, but with comparison to the Vietnamese—reformulated a political and intellectual project that envisioned anticolonial Asian solidarity with the Asian “center” of Japan. CuUnjieng Aboitiz argues that the revolutionary First Philippine Republic’s harnessing of transnational networks of support, activism, and association represents the crucial first instance of Pan-Asianists lending material aid toward anticolonial revolution against a Western power. Uncovering the Pan-Asianism of the periphery and its critical role in shaping modern Asia, Asian Place, Filipino Nation offers a vital new perspective on the Philippine Revolution’s global context and content.

Book Asian Studies

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Asian Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Queering Mestizaje

Download or read book Queering Mestizaje written by Alicia Arrizón and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking mestizaje and how it functions as an epistemology of colonialism in diverse sites from Aztlán to Manila, and across a range of cultural materials

Book Global International Relations in Southeast Asia

Download or read book Global International Relations in Southeast Asia written by Chanintira na Thalang and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume explores the contours of Global International Relations (IR) in terms of teaching and research in Southeast Asia and China with the purpose of revealing existing and “hidden” pre- theories, conceptual frameworks, and theoretical contributions to Global IR rooted in local histories, contemporary experiences, and indigenous thought. The exploration is conducted within a context where scholars across regions are progressively taking strides to reshape IR, which has long gravitated towards Western experiences, thought, and knowledge, into a more inclusive discipline. Otherwise known as the Global IR project, these efforts aim not only to amplify marginalized voices and experiences but also introduce new conceptual and theoretical tools derived from a diverse range of experiences. While some of these insights provide new understandings, others offer useful implications that transcend national and regional boundaries, fostering crossregional discussions about the diverse realities within our world. An essential read for scholars and students of IR with an interest in Global IR, IR theory in general, and the development of IR in parts of Southeast Asia.

Book Ungrounded Empires

Download or read book Ungrounded Empires written by Aihwa Ong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Chinese transnationalism as a distinctive domain within the new 'flexible' capitalism emerging in the Asia-Pacific region. It is based on new ethnographic research and interweaves anthropology, culture and politics.

Book Malaysia  State and Civil Society in Transition

Download or read book Malaysia State and Civil Society in Transition written by Vidhu Verma and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing historical and political dynamics underlying nearly 20 years of authoritarian rule, Verma addresses five issues: Islam, secular nationalism, citizenship, democracy and human rights, arguing that modernization has led to tensions in Malaysia.

Book The Filipino Phenomenon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bernardo M. Villegas
  • Publisher : University of Asia and Pacific Foundation
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book The Filipino Phenomenon written by Bernardo M. Villegas and published by University of Asia and Pacific Foundation. This book was released on 1998 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Melayu

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maznah Mohamad
  • Publisher : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
  • Release : 2013-07-01
  • ISBN : 9971697300
  • Pages : 546 pages

Download or read book Melayu written by Maznah Mohamad and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People within the Malay world hold strong but diverse opinions about the meaning of the word Melayu, which can be loosely translated as Malayness. Questions of whether the Filipinos are properly called "e;Malay"e;, or the Mon-Khmer speaking Orang Asli in Malaysia, can generate heated debates. So too can the question of whether it is appropriate to speak of a kebangsaan Melayu (Malay as nationality) as the basis of membership within an aspiring postcolonial nation-state, a political rather than a cultural community embracing all residents of the Malay states, including the immigrant Chinese and Indian population.In Melayu: The Politics, Poetics and Paradoxes of Malayness, the contributors examine the checkered, wavering and changeable understanding of the word Melayu by considering hitherto unexplored case studies dealing with use of the term in connection with origins, nations, minority-majority politics, Filipino Malays, Riau Malays, Orang Asli, Straits Chinese literature, women's veiling, vernacular television, social dissent, literary women, and modern Sufism. Taken as a whole, this volume offers a creative approach to the study of Malayness while providing new perspectives to the studies of identity formation and politics of ethnicity that have wider implications beyond the Southeast Asian region.

Book Civilizing Peace Building

Download or read book Civilizing Peace Building written by Wendy M. Sargent and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting the high price paid by the United Nations and international peace builders that under-utilize the reflexive new paradigm approach to international relations (IR), this study develops an overview of IR theory, relied on by governmental and diplomatic communities as a guide to peace building. Especially significant is the development of IR theory in relation to religious extremism and tendencies towards barbarism with modernities. It discusses outcomes such as the exponential growth of international enmity between diverse populations and public demonization of the religious or ethnic other, expressed most recently through the War on Terror. Central to this research is the emerging debate on the impact of religious and cultural identity on IR and peace building. While many IR books continue to research positivist approaches, Sargent looks at the concept of structural violence as identified using post-positive approaches. This book rethinks peace building outside the limits of ideological difference.