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Jeffrey reviews MEDIA AND POLITICS IN PACIFIC ASIA by Duncan McCargo.

'Ramayana in the Arts of Asia' by Garrett Kam is reviewed.

'Democratization in Southeast and East Asia' by Anek Laothamatas is reviewed.

This book looks at the link between voters and political party systems in Asian democracies, focusing on India, Indonesia, Korea and the Philippines. It discusses this link in terms of three distinct elements: the formation of voters preferences, the translation of preferences into votes, and the translation of votes into seats. The book goes on to discuss how far the general rules of political party systems and their underlying causal mechanisms such as strategic voting are apparent in these Asian democracies. In particular, it explores the extent to which electoral rules and social structural variables affect the process of transforming preferences into a political party system within the context of Asian politics. The extensive areas covered by the book overcome the traditional sub-regional division of Asia, namely, East, Southeast and South Asia.

'Australia and Asia: Cultural Transactions' edited by Maryanne Dever is reviewed.

Machado reviews 'Business and Government In Industrializing Asia' edited by Andrew MacIntyre.

To meet the growing demand for food in the Global South in a sustainable manner, current funding in innovation for sustainable agriculture intensification will need to be increased exponentially. New financing instruments will play an important role in increasing the overall funding for sustainable agriculture. Not only are current levels of funding inadequate, but also many existing investment instruments are not designed to cater to the high-risk potential and below market-rate return of agricultural funding and solve for market failures in specific sub-sectors or technologies. Thus, only large funders such as governments or institutional private investors make up the bulk of the funding towards agricultural innovation and SAI. While philanthropic funding from large multilaterals and bilaterals has the potential to fill the gap, grant and traditional debt finance does not provide a long-term sustainable solution to fund agricultural innovation. Hence, to fill the funding gap, new financing instruments are required that can attract mainstream investors at scale and fund a wider range of agricultural innovation enterprises and institutions.

This book investigates the impact of both real and financial integration to growth and to welfare, and to enquire whether increases in either or both forms build the linkage between the real and financial economy. It contributes to the following two areas: (1) Research of economic developments in East Asia, the most dynamic and populous region in the world, in itself is important for researchers, policy makers, journalists, business people and others. East Asia's economic developments influence peoples' lives not only in East Asia but also in other parts of the world. (2) Many aspects of East.

Hainsworth reviews 'The New Asia-Pacific Order' edited by Chan Heng Chee.

Since September 11, 2001, our newspapers have been filled with the 'war on terror'; our governments have mobilised their resources for 'homeland security'; and people everywhere are braced for more terrorist attacks. Yet while the new threat is genuine, we must not lose sight of the continuing security concerns in the Asia-Pacific. Tensions persist on the Korean peninsula, in the Taiwan Straits and the South China Sea, and in Kashmir. The region is well supplied with weapons of mass destruction and may face an arms race, and there are a range of pressing human security issues. Likewise, the strategic realities of the region remain linked with US power, and with the emergence of China as a key regional player.

The book examines the developing strategic relationships in the region, and clarifies the dilemmas for Australian policy-makers as they try to balance genuine engagement with the region against a long-standing and valued alliance with the United States.

Emerging from discussions between the Shanghai Institute for International Studies and the University of New South Wales at ADFA, Asia-Pacific Security has a particular relevance for foreign-policy professionals and scholars of the region.

Research into the phenomenon of regionalism has finally begun to take into account other experience or models than the large-scale European experiment. In the Asia-Pacific region, groups of states are active with efforts at regional coordination in which the ambitions and achievements reflect more the situation in this part of the world than any imitation of the EU model. Regional organisation here reflects the predominance of politics over economics. Thus, regional coordination targets political stability and is conditioned as well as restrained by the growing strength of China and India. Instead of closed and profound regionalism, as with the EU model, regional coordination in ASEAN and APEC display weak but open regionalism in keeping with the economic power of the region in the world economy. Adapted from the source document.

The concept of 'cultural heritage' has acquired increasing currency in culture, politics and societies in East Asia. However, in spite of a number of research projects in this field, our understanding of how the past and its material expressions have been perceived, conceptualised and experienced in this part of the world, and how these views affect contemporary local practices and notions of identity, particularly in a period of rapid economic development and increasing globalisation, is still very unclear. Preoccupation with cultural heritage - expressed in the rapid growth of national and private museums, the expansion of the antiquities' market, revitalisation of local traditions, focus on 'intangible cultural heritage' and the development of cultural tourism - is something that directly or indirectly affects national policies and international relations. An investigation of how the concept of 'cultural heritage' has been and continues to be constructed in East Asia, drawing on several case studies taken from China, Japan and Korea, is thus timely and worthwhile.