Available also in pdf – Download Pdf Joshua Eisenman, Red China’s Green Revolution. Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development Under the Commune, New York: Columbia University Press, 2018, pp. xxxii/436 In this new, incredibly well-researched book, Joshua Eisenman gives us a bold reappraisal of history of the organisation that more than any other embodied […]
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The Most Important Aspects of Contemporary Japanese Politics. Building a Bridge Between Academia and the General Public
Available also in pdf – Download Pdf Masaru Kohno, Is Science of Politics Possible?, Tokyo: Chuokoron-Shinsha, Inc., 2018, vii/224. In this global age, is it meaningless to write about Japanese politics in the Japanese language? Professor Masaru Kohno firmly answers «no». Being a leading Japanese political scientist, Kohno published many scholarly articles in top-ranked international […]
Reconsidering Japanese Diplomacy During the Cold War: the Case of the Cambodian Conflict
Available also in pdf – Download Pdf Andrea Pressello, Japan and the Post-Vietnam Southeast Asia: Japanese Di- plomacy and the Cambodian Conflict, 1978–1993, New York: Routledge, 2018, 264 pages. Based on thorough research of English and Japanese sources, Andrea Pressello’s Japan and the Post-Vietnam Southeast Asia: Japanese Diplomacy and the Cambodian Conflict, 1978–1993 provides a […]
India’s Self, Others, and World View: Explained Through Discourse Theory
Available also in pdf – Download Pdf Thorsten Wojczewski, India’s Foreign Policy Discourse and Its Conceptions of World Order: the Quest for Power and Identity, Abingdon: Routledge, 2018, 222 pp. (ISBN 9781138297180). The Republic of India celebrated the 70th anniversary of its independence in 2018, and its 70th Republic in January 2019, commemorating the coming […]
Escaping Thucydides’s Trap: the Fate of US-China Relations According to Graham Allison
Available also in pdf – Download Pdf Graham Allison, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucy- dides’s Trap?, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. Destined for War by Graham Allison, former dean of Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and advisor to various US administrations, has aroused a lively debate in the […]
A Different Perspective on Kashmir: a People’s Narrative
Available also in pdf – Download Pdf Haley Duschinski, Mona Bhan, Ather Zia, Cynthia Mahmood (eds.), Resisting Occupation in Kashmir, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018, 302 pp. (ISBN 9780812249781). The post-1947 history of Kashmir is often exclusively understood as a political and territorial dispute between India and Pakistan. Moreover, following the narrative of «clash […]
