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1. The Vietnam Reader

   Edited by Lair Meredith

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-88210-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Classical Vaisesika in Indian Philosophy: On Knowing and What is to Be Known

   By ShashiPrabha Kumar

   Vaisesika is one of the six systems of Hindu philosophy. It represents a pluralistic realism and is usually held to be an atomistic, metaphysical theory. This book explors the basic tenets of the Vaisesika classical school of Indian philosophy from a new perspective. The author argues that it...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-54918-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. The Making of Terrorism in Pakistan: Historical and Social Roots of Extremism

   By Eamon Murphy

   This book aims to explain the rise of Pakistan as a centre of Islamic extremism by going back to the roots of the state and the nature of Islam in Pakistan. The broad aim therefore is to examine the social, and political and economic factors that have...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-56526-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Transnational Islamic Actors and Indonesia’s Foreign Policy: Transcending the State

   By Rizal Sukma, Delphine Alles

   This book examines the growing role of transnational Islamic Non-State Actors (NSAs) in post-authoritarian Indonesia and how it has affected the making and the conduct of Indonesia’s foreign policy since the country embarked on democratization process in 1998. After the end of the New Order...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-56026-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. The Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia: An Introduction, 2nd Edition

   By Victor King

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-58057-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. Incentives for Innovation in China

   By Jun Li, Xuedong Ding

   There is concern in China that the strategy which has delivered massive economic growth is unsustainable in the long run, that China’s economy is too dependent on low value added manufacturing and not enough based on high value technological innovation. This book assesses the policies implemented...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-60394-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Diversity and Transformations of Asian Capitalisms: A De Facto Regional Integration

   Edited by Robert Boyer, Hiroyasu Uemura

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-60440-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Routledge Handbook of the South Asian Diaspora

   Edited by Joya Chatterji, David Washbrook

   South Asia’s diaspora is among the world’s largest and most widespread, and it is growing exponentially. In 2001, the government of India estimated that 20 million persons of Indian descent live abroad; and many more millions have roots to other countries of the subcontinent, in Pakistan,...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-48010-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. China-India Economics: A Tale of Two "C"

   By Palit Amitendu

   A review of the existing literature on the China-India comparative theme conveys the distinct impression that the literature largely projects China and India as intrinsically competitive entities. While much has been written on where and why China and India are contesting, particularly from a...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-59831-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Chicago Korean-Americans: Identity and Politics in a Transnational Community

    By Jung-Sun Park

    Based on a Chicago Korean-American case, this dissertation examines the transformation of identity and politics in a transnational immigrant community in the late 1980s and early 1990s....

    July 2011 | 978-0-415-94881-4 | Hardback (Routledge)