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  • Freedom Undone

    The Assault on Liberal Values and Institutions in Hong Kong

    by Michael C. Davis ...
    Series series Asia Shorts
    What happens when liberal constitutional institutions are undone? Can Freedom survive the loss of separation of powers with the associated legal and political accountability? The Chinese Communist Party has been at the forefront in its disdain for liberal institutions and promoting illiberal alternatives. This disdain placed Hong Kong people on the frontlines of the global struggle for freedom. ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Making Hong Kong China

    The Rollback of Human Rights and the Rule of Law

    by Michael C. Davis ...
    Series series Asia Shorts
    How can one of the world’s most free-wheeling cities transition from a vibrant global center of culture and finance into a subject of authoritarian control? As Beijing's anxious interference has grown, the “one country, two systems” model China promised Hong Kong has slowly drained away in the years since the 1997 handover. As “one country” seemed set to gobble up “two systems," the people of Hong ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Making Hong Kong China

    The Rollback of Human Rights and the Rule of Law

    by Michael C. Davis ...
    Series series Asia Shorts
    How can one of the world’s most free-wheeling cities transition from a vibrant global center of culture and finance into a subject of authoritarian control? As Beijing's anxious interference has grown, the “one country, two systems” model China promised Hong Kong has slowly drained away in the years since the 1997 handover. As “one country” seemed set to gobble up “two systems," the people of Hong ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • International Intervention in the Post-Cold War World

    Moral Responsibility and Power Politics

    by Michael C. Davis, Wolfgang Dietrich, Bettina Scholdan ...
    International intervention on humanitarian grounds has been a contentious issue for decades. First, it pits the principle of state sovereignty against claims of universal human rights. Second, the motivations of intervening states may be open to question when avowals of moral action are arguably the fig leaf covering an assertion of power for political advantage. These questions have been salient ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • Party of One

    The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future

    by Chun Han Wong ...
    From one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the life and political vision of Xi Jinping, the authoritarian leader of the People’s Republic whose hard-edged tactics have set the rising superpower on a collision with Western liberal democracies.Party of One shatters the many myths that shroud one of the world’s most secretive political organizations and its ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • Overreach

    How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise

    by Susan L. Shirk ...
    Winner, The Lionel Gelber Prize Silver Medal, Arthur Ross Book Award For decades, China's rise to power was characterized by its reassurance that this rise would be peaceful. Then, as Susan L. Shirk, shows in this sobering, clear-eyed account of China today, something changed. For three decades after Mao's death in 1976, China's leaders adopted a restrained approach to foreign policy. They ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Comparative Politics

    Principles of Democracy and Democratization

    by John T. Ishiyama ...
    Series Book 8 - Principles of Political Science
    By revealing the contextual conditions which promote or hinder democratic development, Comparative Politics shows how democracy may not be the best institutional arrangement given a country's unique set of historical, economic, social, cultural and international circumstances.Addresses the contextual conditions which promote or hinder democratic developmentReveals that democracy may not be the ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Why Taiwan Matters

    A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate Our Future

    by Kerry Brown ...
    Taiwan expert Kerry Brown sums up the history of Taiwan and the danger of a Chinese takeover in this succinct and authoritative book.When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949, two Chinas were born. Mao’s Communists won and took China’s mainland; Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists fled to Taiwan island. Since then, China and Taiwan have drifted into being separate political and cultural ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Refugees in International Relations

    Edited by Alexander Betts, Gil Loescher ...
    Refugees lie at the heart of world politics. The causes and consequences of, and responses to, human displacement are intertwined with many of the core concerns of International Relations. Yet, scholars of International Relations have generally bypassed the study of refugees, and Forced Migration Studies has generally bypassed insights from International Relations. This volume therefore represents ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

  • Bringing the State Back In

    Edited by Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Theda Skocpol ...
    Until recently, dominant theoretical paradigms in the comparative social sciences did not highlight states as organizational structures or as potentially autonomous actors. Indeed, the term 'state' was rarely used. Current work, however, increasingly views the state as an agent which, although influenced by the society that surrounds it, also shapes social and political processes. The contributors ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • City of Protest

    A Recent History of Dissent in Hong Kong: Penguin Specials

    by Antony Dapiran ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    From the turbulent 1960s until today, Hong Kong has been a city shaped by civil disobedience. The latest wave of protests in Hong Kong’s long history of public dissent culminated in the Occupy Central movement of 2014. What emerges from these grassroots movements is a unique Hong Kong identity, one shaped neither by Britain nor China. An insightful exploration of the historical and social stimuli ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Ethnic Conflict

    Edited by Karl Cordell, Stefan Wolff ...
    A definitive global survey of the interaction of ethnicity, nationalism and politics, this handbook blends rigorous theoretically grounded analysis with empirically rich illustrations to provide a state-of-the-art overview of the contemporary debates on one of the most pervasive international security challenges today. Fully updated for the second edition, the book includes a new section which ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD