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This volume adopts a multidisciplinary and comparative approach to development that brings together issues that are characteristic of the lifelong scholarship of Professor Gordon White. These include a focus on the state, civil society, welfare and globalization.

"The Nature of Asian Politics is a broad and thematic treatment of the fundamental factors that characterize politics in the fourteen key countries of Southeast and Northeast Asia. Bruce Gilley begins with an overview of state-society relations, then moves on to the fundamental questions of development and democracy, and finally shifts to an exploration of governance and public policy in the region. This book proposes an Asian governance model that is useful for understanding politics from Japan to Indonesia. By reviving an earlier paradigm known as oriental despotism and applying it to political theories on the Asian region, this book is likely to attract wide debate among students of Asian politics and among Western policy makers seeking to engage the region"--

"This introductory textbook provides students with a fundamental understanding of the social, political, and economic institutions of six South Asian countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. It adopts a broad theoretical framework and evaluates the opportunities and constraints facing South Asia's states within the context of democracy. Key features include: - An introduction to the region. - The history and political development of these South Asian states, including evaluations of their democratic trajectories. - The management of conflict, economic development, and extremist threats. - A comparative analysis of the states. - Projections concerning democracy taking into consideration the opportunities and constraints facing these countries. This textbook will be an indispensable teaching tool for courses on South Asia. It includes pedagogical features such as political chronologies, political party descriptions, textboxes, a glossary and suggestions for further reading. Written in an accessible style and by experts on South Asian politics, it offers students of South Asian politics a valuable introduction to an exceedingly diverse region. Neil DeVotta is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Wake Forest University. His research interests include South Asian security and politics, ethnicity and nationalism, and democratic transition and consolidation. He is the author of Blowback: Linguistic Nationalism, Institutional Decay, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka (2004) and the editor of Understanding Contemporary India, 2nd edition (2010)"--

1. An overview / Neil DeVotta -- 2. India / Jason Kirk -- 3. Pakistan / Anas Malik -- 4. Bangladesh / Ali Riaz -- 5. Sri Lanka / Neil DeVotta -- 6. Nepal / Prakash Adhikari and Mahendra Lawoti -- 7. Afghanistan / Vikash Yadav -- 8. Trends and prospects / Neil DeVotta.

Conjunctures and continuities in Southeast Asian politics -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Conributors -- 1. Conjunctures and Continuities in Southeast Asian Politics -- 2. (Re)Assessing the EDSA "People Power" (1986) as a Critical Conjuncture -- 3. The Road to Doi Moi in 1986: Domestic Dimensions -- 4. The 1988 Uprising in Myanmar: Historical Conjuncture or Praetorian Redux? -- 5. Cambodia's Historical Conjunctures and Their Significance -- 6. Changing the Rules: Historical Conjunture and Transition in Indonesia -- 7. The Resistible Rise of Thaksin Shinawatra: Crisis, Change and the Collapse of Thailand's Democracy -- 8. The March 2008 General Elections in Malaysia as a Historical Conjuncture -- 9. Conclusion: Conjuntures and Continuities in Southeast Asia -- Index.

"This handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the major themes that have defined the politics of Southeast Asia. It provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge examination of this important subject. The introductory chapter provides an overview of the theoretical and ideological themes that have dominated the study of the region's politics and presents the different ways the complex politics of the region have been understood. The contributions by leading scholars in the field cover a range of broad questions about the dynamics of politics. The handbook analyses how the dominant political and social coalitions of the region were forged in the Cold War era, and assesses the complex processes of transition towards various forms of democratic politics. How institutions and systems of governance are being forged in an increasingly global environment is discussed and whether civil society in Southeast Asia has really evolved as an independent sphere of social and political activity. The handbook examines how national governments are dealing with growing tensions within the region as matters such as labour, human rights and the environment spill beyond national boundaries, and how they are establishing a place in the new global framework. By engaging the Southeast Asian experience more firmly with larger debates about modern political systems, the handbook is an essential reference tool for students and scholars of political science and Southeast Asian studies."--Publisher's description.

List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations and Acronyms Acknowledgements Contributors 1. Contentious Emotions: An Introduction Amélie Blom and Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal PART I: Bringing Emotions Back into South Asian Political Mobilisations: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives 2. The Processes and Contexts of Emotional Involvement Christophe Traïni 3. Participatory and Adversarial Politics: Representing Speech Action, Collective Action and Emotion Lisa Mitchell 4. Remembering and Accessing the 'Emotion of Things': A Methodological Journey with a Jihadist Militant in Pakistan Amélie Blom PART II: Major Historical Shifts in the Public Expression of Emotions 5. Anger, Hurt and Enthusiasm: Mobilising for Violence, 1870-1920 Margrit Pernau 6. From Court to Public Sphere: How Urdu Poetry's Language of Romance Shaped the Language of Protest Carla Petievich PART III: Subverting and Cementing Power Relations with Emotions 7. Emotions as Fuel: The Passage of Anti-Sexual Harassment Legislation in Pakistan Sadaf Ahmad 8. It's Effective Because It's Affective: The Dynamics and Significance of Emotions in a Delhi Jan Sunwai Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal 9. The Deployment of Resentment in Counterinsurgency: The Case of Chhattisgarh Nandini Sundar PART IV: Directing Affects Across the Elusive Boundaries of the Political 10. Mobilising Anger in Andhra Pradesh: The Emotional Politics of the Angry Young Man and Popular Telugu Cinema Imke Rajamani 11. Hope and Nostalgia in Bengal: The Longing for Netaji in a Contemporary Millennial Movement Raphaël Voix 12. Dialectics of (De)Mobilisation: Humour in Islamic Sermons of Contemporary Bangladesh Max Stille PART V: The Emotional Dynamics of Public Controversies 13. Hurt and Censorship in India Today: On Communities of Sentiments, Competing Vulnerabilities and Cultural Wars Laetitia Zecchini 14. Death, Despair, and Democracy in Bangladesh Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury Glossary Index

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Women and Politics, held at Islamabad during 24-25 November 2005

"Comparing Asian Politics presents an invaluable comparative examination of politics and government in three Asian nations: India, China, and Japan. The author elucidates the links between politics and each nation's distinctive cultural and historical contexts and demonstrates the intermingling and grafting of Asian traditions with the influence of Western values and institutions. National identity, political cohesion, and socioeconomic change emerge as central to how politics has developed in each nation-state. Also included are focus boxes on political and social issues in other important countries in Asia. The book provides insight into topics such as the significance of constitutions in the political process; the parliamentary system in Asia; the regionalization of politics and the importance of levels of government; the decay of one-party rule; the links between development and democratization; and the impact of globalization. This essential text not only illuminates the politics of India, China, and Japan in relation to one another, it also suggests to readers how their own experience of politics can be informed by understanding the politics and government of these three Asian nations. In this new edition, the author includes a discussion on the recent political changes in China and the election of Xi Jinping in early 2013, the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in 2011, and the recent elections in India"--