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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- The Structure of the Book -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Existing Approaches to Economic Regionalism and Their Limitations -- The Politics of Regional Governance Evolution -- Competing Theorization for Economic Regionalism -- Liberal Approach -- Realist Approach -- Political Economy Approach -- Regional Governance and the Internationalization of Capital: A Social Relations Approach -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Regional Economic Governance and the Internationalization of Capital -- The Internationalization of Capital and Regional Economic Governance -- Regional Economic Governance, Internationalized Bourgeoisie, and the State -- Fractions of Capital and the Internationalization of the State -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: State Restructuring and the Internationalization of Capital in Southeast Asia -- State Restructuring, International Fractions of Capital, and Foreign Economic Policy -- Singapore -- Malaysia -- Thailand -- Internationalization of Capital and Contestation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: ASEAN Regional Economic Integration and the Internationalization of Capital -- ASEAN Economic Cooperation: Historical Legacy -- The Post-Cold War, Class Formation, and AFTA -- The AEC and Internationalization of Capital -- Regionalization of Capital: Integration, Alliances, and Joint Ventures -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: The Rise of Indonesian Conglomerates: Capital Expansion and Regional Alliance -- The Emergence of Internationalized Capital in the Post-Asian Crisis -- The Internationalized Big Business: Regional Expansion and Global Ambition -- Conglomerates and the State: Economic Projects and Internationalized Fractions of Capital -- From Bureaucrats to Politico-Business.

"No external observer knows more about Myanmar's security and intelligence apparatus than Andrew Selth. In this book he presents an account of the structure and functions of Myanmar's deep state, along with a tale of personal ambition, rivalry and ruthless power politics worthy of John Le Carre. A thoroughly educative, entertaining and intriguing read." — Professor Michael Wesley, Dean, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University "Andrew Selth has once again amply illustrated the depth and penetration of his study of Myanmar/Burma and its institutions. This work on the more recent aspects of the country's intelligence apparatus goes beyond a masterful and comprehensive analysis of the Burmese intelligence community, and probes the social and institutional bases of the attitudes giving rise to that critical aspect of power. We are once again in Dr Selth's debt. This is required reading for serious observers of the Burmese scene." — David I. Steinberg, Distinguished Professor of Asian Studies Emeritus, Georgetown University "By lifting the lid on a pervasive yet secretive intelligence apparatus, Andrew Selth makes an outstanding contribution to Myanmar Studies. For scholars and practitioners alike, this book provides an essential history of a security state that remains powerful even during the transition away from overt authoritarian rule." — Professor Ian Holliday, Vice-President (Teaching and Learning), The University of Hong Kong

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- PART I Europe -- 1 Degrees of abstraction in development economics -- 2 Debates on development in the Spanish economy, 1848-1960 -- 3 Development economics in Portugal -- 4 Italian economists, paradigmatic revolutions and development issues in Italy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century -- 5 Soviet development model: a history of interpretations -- 6 Development issues in the economic thought of the European periphery: the case of Bulgaria from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century -- PART II Asia -- 7 Chinese debates on economic development in the 1920s-1940s -- 8 'Old' Chinese debates on economic development: not only Chinese, and not so old -- 9 Indian nationalism: Asian context, interwar years and Nehruvian state-building -- 10 Economic development and economics in Japan, 1870-1940 -- PART III Latin America -- 11 From developmentalism to neoliberalism in Latin America -- 12 Redistribution, growth, structural change, and dollarization: understanding Ecuadorian perspectives -- 13 The politics of economic development: Latin America through the eyes of Albert O. Hirschman -- 14 An alternative demand-led, structuralist interpretation of the economic 'golden era' in Argentina (1870-1930) -- 15 The rise and fall of economic development preoccupations in Argentina and the turn toward neoliberalism in the 1970s -- 16 The place of institutions in Latin American development: from Prebisch to dependency theory and beyond -- Index.

"Relations between the EU and East Asia have consistently expanded in recent years, particularly between the EU and Japan. Against the background of negotiations on an economic and strategic partnership agreement, the EU-Japan relationship is set to become the single most comprehensive 'region-to-state' relationship the world has known today, accounting for more than a third of world GDP and a combined population of more than 600 million people.This book addresses the potential role of the EU, in cooperation with Japan, to craft a stable and prosperous mode of governance in the Asian region. In today's globalized world seemingly defined by waxing Chinese power and waning American power, the book reflects the lack of appreciation for an EU-Japan concert in maintaining and developing multilateral principles. It aims towards fortifying this relationship by acknowledging that in order to enhance the credibility and capabilities of such an alliance, it is necessary to take stock of where the partnership stands today, what kind of obstacles still need to be overcome and which options have been left untouched.By introducing state-of-the-art empirical research in multiple fields, this book will be of key interest to students and scholars of international relations, comparative regionalism, the European Union and Japanese politics."--Provided by publisher.

Dynamism in Sino-Japanese relations, of which the Diaoyu/Diaoyutai Islands dispute constitutes a major part, has greatly overshadowed not only prospects of positive collaboration between China and Japan, but also regional order in East Asia. On the surface, the essence of the dispute focused on sovereignty, which entails competition for maritime resources development and strategic access to the adjacent waters as a critical transportation and military route. What lies at the crux, however, is the conflict between different sets of values, which lead and shape their interpretations of international treaties, changes of governments, and impacts of this upon these Asian states' attitudes toward how "sovereignty" and "territory" should be understood in contemporary Asia.The Diaoyu/Diaoyutai Islands dispute has lapsed into dormancy, since intense discussions in the period from 2010 to 2012. However, the disagreement is far from being resolved. This book draws on structural issues underlying the on-going dispute, along with the concomitant, multifaceted challenges that need to be investigated. At a juncture when the prospect of the Sino-Japanese relations remains gloomy, this book provides conceptual and practical insights invaluable to the field of law, history and politics, shedding light on the refinement of relevant international law and rules of engagement in a normative sense.

"This book offers a relational theory of International Relations (IR). To show the ways in which the relationality is foreshadowed in IR conversations it makes the following three points: i) it recovers a mode of IR theorizing as itinerant translation;ii) it deploys the concept and practices of guanxi (employed here as a heuristic device revealing the infinite capacity of international interactions to create and construct multiple worlds) to uncover the outlines of a relational IR theorizing; and iii) it demonstrates that relational theorizing is at the core of projects for worlding IR.By engaging with the phenomenon of relationality, Emilian Kavalski invokes the complexity of possible worlds and demonstrates new possibilities for powerful ethical-political innovations in IR theorizing. Thus, relational IR theorizing emerges as an optic which both acknowledges the agency of 'others' in the context of myriad interpretative intersections of people, powers, and environments (as well as their complex histories, cultures, and agency) and stimulates awareness of the dynamically-intertwined contingencies through which meanings are generated contingently through interactions in communities of practice.The book will have a strong appeal to the broad academic readership in Asian Studies, Political Science, Comparative Politics, International Relations theory and students and scholars of non-/post-Western International Relations and non-/post-Western Political Thought."--Provided by publisher.

Foreword / Claire Chambers -- Introduction / Esra Mirze Santesso -- History of the Muslim Other. Saracens in Middle English romance / Janice Hawes -- The two faced Muslim in the early modern imagination: the cultural genealogy of a modern political dialectic / Imtiaz Habib -- Secularism and Islamopolitics. Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo trilogy: mediating secularism in postcolonial Egypt? / Rehnuma Sazzad -- Unmasking Allah: the violence of religious theater in Nawal El Saadawi's God dies by the Nile? / Rajesh Reddy -- The terror of symbols: colonialism, secularism, and Islam in Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous adventure and Amitav Ghosh's in An antique land / Vincent van Bever Donker -- Female agency and subversion. Untranslatable acts: veiling and the aporias of transnational feminism / Munia Bhaumik -- Sex and the city of Riyadh: postfeminist fabrication / Jean Kane -- Islamophobia. Islamophobia and its discontents / Tahir Abbas -- British Asian Muslim radicalization: narratives of travelling justice/injustice / Chloe A. Gill-Khan -- Mistaken identities: performances of post 9/11 scenarios of fear and terror in the US / Ketu H. Katrak -- From nawab to jihadi: the transformation of Muslim identity in popular Indian cinema / Alpana Sharma -- Postsecular re-thinking. Politics of privacy: distinguishing religion in poststructuralist discourse / K. Merinda Simmons -- Baghdad, Beirut, and Brooklyn: communal and transnational visions in Muslim and Arab American poetry after September 11 / Levin Arnsperger -- Coming out for Islam: critical Muslim responses to postcolonialism in theory and writing / Nath Aldalala'a and Geoffrey P. Nash

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface: Competing Representations and Conflicting Perceptions of China's Engagement in Africa -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 A World of Shared Influence -- Section I Theoretical, Historical, and Global -- 2 Reflections of a Soft Power Agnostic -- 3 The Scramble for Asian Soft Power in Africa -- 4 Evolving Media Interactions between China and Africa -- Section II China's Promotion -- 5 How Much Soft Power Does China Have in Africa? -- 6 Why Are Chinese Media in Africa? Evidence from Three Decades of Xinhua's News Coverage of Africa -- 7 Constructive Journalism: A New Journalistic Paradigm of Chinese Media in Africa -- 8 Chinese Perception of Soft Power: The Role of the Media in Shaping Chinese Views and Discourses on Foreign Aid to Africa -- Section III Perceptions in Africa -- 9 Journalists' and Public Perceptions of the Politics of China's Soft Power in Kenya under the "Look East" Foreign Policy -- 10 Building Blocks and Themes in Chinese Soft Power toward Africa -- 11 Positive Portrayal of Sino-African Relations in the Ethiopian Press -- 12 Engaging with China's Soft Power in Zimbabwe: Harare Citizens' Perceptions of China-Zimbabwe Relations -- 13 China's Soft Power in Sudan: Increasing Activity but How Effective? -- Conclusion -- 14 Chinese Soft Power in Africa: Findings, Perspectives, and More Questions -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

Since the attacks of 9/11, the banner of national security has led to intense monitoring of the politics of Muslim and Arab Americans. Young people from these communities have come of age in a time when the question of political engagement is both urgent and fraught. In The 9/11 Generation, Sunaina Marr Maira uses extensive ethnography to understand the meaning of political subjecthood and mobilization for Arab, South Asian, and Afghan American youth. Maira explores how young people from communities targeted in the War on Terror engage with the "political," forging coalitions based on new racial and ethnic categories, even while under constant scrutiny and surveillance, and organizing around notions of civil rights and human rights. The 9/11 Generation explores the possibilities and pitfalls of rights-based organizing at a moment when the vocabulary of rights and democracy has been used to justify imperial interventions, such as the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Maira further reconsiders political solidarity in cross-racial and interfaith alliances at a time when US, nationalism is understood as not just multicultural but also post-racial. Throughout, she weaves stories of post-9/11 youth activism through key debates about neoliberal democracy, the "radicalization" of Muslim youth, gender, and humanitarianism

Preface / Hahm Chaibong --. - Introduction / Clement Henry, Jang Hi-Hyang, and Robert P. Parks --. - Part 1. Domestic political transition and regional spillover --. - "Early adopters" and "Neighborhood effects" / Lisa Anderson --. - A modest transformation : political change in the Arab world after the "Arab Spring" / Eva Bellin --. - Part 2. Economic correlates of political mobilization --. - Political economies of transition / Clement Henry --. - Part 3. Social networks and civil society --. - New actors of the revolution and the political transition in Tunisia / Mohamed Kerrou --. - Algeria and the Arab uprisings / Robert P. Parks --. - The plurality of politics in post-revolutionary Iran / Arang Keshavarzian --. - Part 4. Varieties of political Islam --. - The evolution of Islamist movements / Fawaz Gerges --. - Islamic capital and democratic deepening / Jang Ji-Hyang --. - Is the Turkish model relevant for the Middle East / Kemal Kirisci --. - Part 5. Protracted violence in Syria and Libya --. - Libya after the civil war : the legacy of the past and economic reconstruction / Diederik Vandewalle --. - Syria, the Arab uprisings, and the political economy of authoritarian resilience / Bassam Haddad --. - Part 6. Dilemmas of the United States --. - US Middle East policy and the "Arab Spring" / Michael C. Hudson --. - The Obama administration's Middle East policy : changing priorities / Uzi Rabi --. - Epilogue / Clement Henry, Jang Ji-Hyang, and Peter lee --. - Appendix : 2011 Asian Middle East Conference : question and answer sections --

Introduction / Lillian Ashcraft-Eason, Darnise Martin, and Oyeronke Olademo -- Women, family, environment -- "That girl is poison" : white supremacy, anxiety, and the conflation of women and food in the nation of Islam / Stephen C. Finley and Margarita L. Simon -- Receiving, embodying, and sharing "divine wisdom" : women in the nation of gods and earths / Felicia M. Miyakawa -- The living shrine : life and meaning in Oyotunji / Yeyefini Efunbolade -- Socioeconomics, politics, authority -- Vodou : a heritage of power / Susheel Bibbs -- Mind, body, spirit -- Serving the spirits, healing the person : women in Afro-Brazilian religions / Kelly E. Hayes -- Dance attributes of female Orishas in Yoruba-derived religions in the diaspora / Halifu Osumare -- Sexuality, power, vulnerability -- To have and to hold : possession performance in Afro-Cuban Regla de Ocha / Katherine Hagedorn -- African descendent women and religion : diaspora in Oriente Cuba / Jualynne E. Dodson -- Religion and women's sexuality in Africa : the intersection of power and vulnerability / Oyeronke Olademo -- Women, worldview, religious practice -- A religion of the interstices : Asian Pacific American women and multiple religious practices / Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier -- Diana's grove : an emergent, integrative spiritual movement / John K. Simmons, Susan E. Hill, and Cynthea Jones -- The good wife : the religious experience of women in scientology / Dawn L. Hutchinson -- Senses of place : women greening communities / Kimberly Whitney -- African women in traditional religions : illustrations from Kenya / Mary Nyangweso Wangila

chapter Introduction: Inescapable solutions: Japanese aid and the construction of global development -- part Part I Japanese ODA and modes of representation -- chapter 1 Japan's ODA—naiatsu and gaiatsu: domestic sources and transnational influences -- chapter 2 Old visions and new actors in foreign aid politics: Explaining changes in Japanese ODA policy to China -- part Part II The changing contexts for practicing Japanese Aid -- chapter 3 Japan's ODA to Vietnam and new growth support to Africa: Projecting the East Asian development vision into the global aid debate -- chapter 4 Japan's ODA to Bolivia: Struggling to be visible and audible in the new context of international cooperation -- chapter 5 Education aid for Afghanistan: A case study in new issues and challenges for Japanese foreign aid -- part Part III Human security and the proliferation of transnationalisms -- chapter 6 Japanese foreign aid and the spread of HIV/AIDS to women in Asia -- chapter 7 Japanese lessons and transnational forces: ODA and the environment -- chapter 8 Promoting gender equality in Japanese ODA: the challenge of assistance to women in Afghanistan -- part Part IV Inescapable crises -- chapter 9 Trafficking in persons: a multi-sited view of international norms and local responses -- chapter 10 Crossing borders: Transnationalism, civil society, and post-9/11 refugee policy in Japan -- chapter 11 Remaking counterterrorism: Japan's preparations for unconventional attacks.

For well over two hundred years we have lived in a western-made world, one where the very notion of being modern is inextricably bound up with being western. The twenty-first century will be different. The rise of China, India and the Asian tigers means that, for the first time, modernity will no longer be exclusively western. The west will be confronted with the fact that its systems, institutions and values are no longer the only ones on offer. The key idea of Martin Jacques's ground-breaking new book is that we are moving into an era of contested modernity. The central player in this new world will be China. Continental in size and mentality, China is a 'civilisation-state' whose characteristics, attitudes and values long predate its existence as a nation-state. Although clearly influenced by the west, its extraordinary size and history mean that it will remain highly distinct, and as it exercises its rapidly growing power it will change much more than the world's geo-politics. The nation-state as we understand it will no longer be globally dominant, and the Westphalian state-system will be transformed; ideas of race will be redrawn. This profound and far-sighted book explains for the first time the deeper meaning of the rise of China

Globalization and its counter-forces in Southeast Asia -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- The contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Counter-forces: the politics of uneven power -- Part I: The political contradictions of globalization -- 2. Authoritarian states in Southeast Asia in times of globalization: Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar -- 3. From plural society to political pluralism in Malaysia -- 4. Indonesia's role in the long-term prospects of ASEAN -- 5. Civil society, accountability and governance in Thailand: a dim case of participatory democracy -- Part II: Economic regionalism and global influences -- 6. Globalization and the role of the state in the Asia-pacific -- 7. Economic nationalism and the limits of globalization -- 8. Southeast Asian perspectives on the economic rise of China -- Part III: Local security, global insecurity -- 9. Maritime piracy and raiding in Southeast Asia: local and global perspectives -- 10. Competing globalization: the case of European cooperation with Indonesia against international terrorism -- 11. Radical Islam and political terrorism in Southeast Asia -- Part IV: Social processes: arrested development -- 12. Reluctant tigers: economic growth, erratic democratization processes and continuing political gender inequality in Southeast Asia -- 13. Women's emancipation in the Philippines: a legacy of western feminism? -- 14. Moving story: transnational mobility and Chinese education in Malaysia -- Part V: Cultural production in the global matrix -- 15. Measuring cultural globalization in Southeast Asia -- 16. The Singaporean creative suburb of Perth: rethinking cultural globalization -- 17. Thai magical realism and globalization -- Index.

Despite predictions of the "death of the past" and the "end of history," the past refuses to go away. In fact, the start of the twenty-first century has seen an upsurge of interest in popular representations of history on the large and small screen, and of impassioned political conflicts over rival understandings of the past. Historical responsibility and apology have become contentious topics of domestic politics and of international diplomatic relations, and memory a profitable commodity for sale to mass markets. Against this background, how do historians deal with the problems of the search for "historical truth"? The Past Within Us approaches these issues by examining the problems of representing history in the popular media. Drawing on examples from East Asian and American as well as European history, it poses the question: What happens when accounts of history are transferred from one medium to another? How far does the medium shape the message? How can historians deploy contemporary media in ways which evoke and develop the historical imagination? From the romances of Walter Scott to Steven Spielberg blockbusters, from online Irish nationalism to Japanese revisionist comic books, The Past Within Us explores some of the more dramatic modern popular representations and reflects on the key challenges and possibilities for the communication of history in a multimedia age.