Volume 86 – No. 2

June 2013 Special Issue Global Perspectives on Chinese Investment Guest Editors: Graeme Smith and Paul D’Arcy Book Reviews NO FULL TEXT ASEAN AND THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF EAST ASIA. Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series, 17. Edited by Ralf Emmers. London; New York: Routledge, 2011. xiii, 230 pp. (Illus.) US$140.00, cloth. ISBN 978- 0-415-61434-4. Reviewed by […]

Volume 86 – No. 1

March 2013 Book Reviews NO FULL TEXT CROSS-BORDER GOVERNANCE IN ASIA: Regional Issues and Mechanisms. Edited by G. Shabbir Cheema, Christopher A. McNally and Vesselin Popovski. Tokyo; New York: United Nations University Press, 2011. xvii, 322 pp. (Tables, figures.) US$35.00, paper. ISBN 978-92-808-1193-3. Reviewed by Richard Kyle Paisley. ASIAN MARITIME POWER IN THE 21ST CENTURY: […]

Volume 85 – No. 4

December 2012 Book Reviews NO FULL TEXT CHINA AND INDIA: Great Power Rivals. By Mohan Malik. Boulder, CO: FirstForumPress, 2011. xiii, 468 pp. (Tables, figures, maps.) US$79.95, cloth. ISBN 978-1-935049-41-8. Reviewed by S D Muni BEYOND OUR MEANS: Why America Spends While the World Saves. By Sheldon Garon. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2012. […]

Volume 85 – No. 3

September 2012 Special Issue Celling South Asia: The Mobile Phone’s Impact on a Region Guest Editors: Robin Jeffrey and Assa Doron Book Reviews NO FULL TEXT APEC: New Agenda in Its Third Decade. By Ippei Yamazawa. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2012. xv, 149 pp. (Tables, figures.) US$35.90, paper. ISBN 978-981-4311-63-2. Reviewed by Robert Curry. […]

Volume 85 – No. 2

June 2012 Book Reviews NO FULL TEXT Worse Than a Monolith: Alliance Politics and Problems of Coercive Diplomacy in Asia. By Thomas J. Christensen.Reviewed by Nicholas Hamisevicz Immigrants to the Pure Land: The Modernization, Acculturation, and Globalization of Shin Buddhism, 1898-1941. By Michihiro Ama.Reviewed by Hwansoo Kim NO FULL TEXT Governing Educational Desire: Culture, Politics, […]

Volume 84 – No. 4

December 2011 Book Reviews NO FULL TEXT STATE, SOCIETY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN ASIA: Reality and Challenges. Edited by M. Parvizi Amineh.Reviewed by John D. Ciorciari TRADE AND POVERTY REDUCTION IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION: Case Studies and Lessons from Low-Income Communities. Edited by Andrew Stoler, Jim Redden, and Lee Ann Jackson.Reviewed by Saman Kelegama NO […]

Volume 84 – No. 3

September 2011 Special Issue Becoming Urban: Periurban Dynamics in Vietnam and China Guest Editors: John Friedmann Book Reviews NO FULL TEXT STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN ASIA: Balancing Without Alliances. By Vidya Nadkarni. Reviewed by Mel Gurtov FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS IN THE ASIA PACIFIC. Edited by Christopher Findlay and Shujiro Urata. Reviewed by Rahul Sen CHINA AND […]

Volume 84 – No. 2

June 2011 Book Reviews NO FULL TEXT Building Asia’s Security. By Nick Bisley.Reviewed by Denny Roy Peace and Security in the Asia-Pacific: Theory and Practice. By Sorpong Peou.Reviewed by David Envall Multination States in Asia: Accommodation or Resistance. Edited by Jacques Bertrand, André Laliberté.Reviewed by Susan J. Henders Globalizing in Hard Times: The Politics of […]

Volume 84 – No. 1

March 2011 Special Issue Experiencing the State: Marginalized People and the Politics of Development in Contemporary India Guest Editors: Philippa Williams, Bhaskar Vira, and Deepta Chopra Book Reviews NO FULL TEXT From Asian To Global Financial Crisis: An Asian Regulator’s View of Unfettered Finance in the 1990s and 2000s. By Andrew Sheng. Reviewed by Cyn-Young […]

Volume 83 – No. 4

December 2010 Book Reviews NO FULL TEXT ASIA’S NEW MULTILATERALISM: Cooperation, Competition, and the Search for Community. Edited by Michael J. Green and Bates Gill.Reviewed by Narayanan Ganesan PREVENTING CORRUPTION IN ASIA: Institutional Design and Policy Capacity. Edited by Ting Gong and Stephen K. Ma. Reviewed by Howard W. Dick PRESCHOOL IN THREE CULTURES REVISITED: […]