The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia, Paperback - Bill Hayton

DescriptionA discerning account of simmering conflict in the South China Sea and why the world can't afford to be indifferent China's rise has upse...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Aaron L. FriedbergThere may be no denying China's growing economic strength, but its impact on the global balance of power ...

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A major new investigation into the Bhutto family, examining their influence in Pakistan from the colonial era to the present dayPublisher: Yale Uni...

Reducere. Packed with more than a hundred color illustrations, maps, and timelines, this enlightening and provocative book on the South China Sea conflict is...

A provocative account showing that "China"-and its 5, 000 years of unified history-is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political ...

In the midst of turmoil in the Middle East, and in the face of protests and demonstrations from Homs to Damascus and other places all over Syria, t...

Incorporating insights from ten authors from six countries (Brunei, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam), this book provides a ...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Jack Meng-Tat (Assistant Professor of History and Religious Studies, Assistant Professor of Histor...

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Cycling Home from Siberia author Rob Lilwall's unique adventure through freezing China from Mongolia to Hong Kong - this time on foot.Publisher: Ho...

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A stunning and forensic look at the wrecks of two of the most famous British capital ships lost during WWII Provides details of the construction an...

Bringing together international experts, this collection provides fresh perspectives on geopolitical concerns in the South China Sea. It is an acce...

The key question at the heart of this book is to what extent political activists in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong have made progress in thei...

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A first look at how the world's rising powers began international oil empires amidst one of Africa's longest and deadliest civil war.

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Historian M. B. Synge narrates how naval power grew in importance from the 1700s onward, playing a decisive role in the victories of several nation...

This book critically examines the role and politics of humour and the performance of power in South Asia. The volume explores the impact of humour ...

The South China Sea (SCS) has emerged as a theatre of political, economic, and security concerns not only for the countries in the region but also ...

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One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China's rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that...

Reducere. James Lilley's life and family have been entwined with China's fate since his father moved to the country to work for Standard Oil in 1916. Lilley ...

Reducere. An authority on Asia and globalization identifies the challenges China's growing power poses and how it must be confronted "Timely and thought-prov...

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Reducere. The downfall of Bo Xilai in China was more than a darkly thrilling mystery. It revealed a cataclysmic internal power struggle between Communist Par...

Reducere. Anne McCarty Braden (1924-2006) rejected her segregationist, privileged past to become one of the civil rights movement's staunchest white allies. ...

Offers a look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia. This book looks at how social and natural landscapes are c...

Publisher: RANDAuthor(s): Michael S ChaseNumber of pages: 44Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 215 x 279 x 9Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescop...

Reducere. Now in paperback, an intimate, elegant account of a society in turmoil: the most important book in a generation about the Chinese people and their ...

One Belt One Road argues that the largest global infrastructure development program in history is not the centralized and systematic project that m...

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Offers new insights into the struggle against Apartheid, and the poverty and inequality that instigated political resistance.Illustrations: 3 Line ...

A narrative of early capitalism's most famous scandal, a speculative frenzy that nearly bankrupted the British state during the hot summer of 1720 ...

For much of recorded history, China was a leading science and technology power. But just as the West rose, China turned in on itself, and missed th...

A thrilling and incisive examination of the post-Reconstruction era struggle for and suppression of African American voting rights in the United St...

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Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Rita (Assisstant Professor, University of Iowa) ZajaczIllustration(s): 4 b 8 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of...