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  • The Everyday Politics of Resources

    Lives and Landscapes in Northwest Vietnam

    by Nga Dao ...
    Series series Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment
    The Everyday Politics of Resources explores the impact of development processes on the lives, livelihoods, and landscapes of the people of Northwest Vietnam. Over the past two decades, the homes and farms of hundreds of thousands of people have been appropriated to make way for dams, rubber plantations, and mining operations. While this development has enriched the state and private enterprises, ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Water Rights and Social Justice in the Mekong Region

    Edited by Kate Lazarus, Bernadette P. Resurreccion, Nga Dao, Nathan Badenoch ...
    The Mekong Region has come to represent many of the important water governance challenges faced more broadly by the mainland Southeast Asian region. This book focuses on the complex nature of water rights and social justice in the Mekong region. The chapters delve into the diverse social, political and cultural dynamics that shape the various realities and scales of water governance in the region, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • 50 Years Of Asean And Singapore

    by Tommy Koh, Sharon Li-lian Seah, Li Lin Chang ...
    On the 8th of August 2017, ASEAN will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its founding. ASEAN is of great importance to Singapore, the region and the world.In 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN in short, was founded by five countries in Southeast Asia which had just gained independence from their former colonial masters, united by a determination for the region to live in ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground

    An Ethnography of Climate Change in Shishmaref, Alaska

    by Elizabeth Marino ...
    With three roads and a population of just over 500 people, Shishmaref, Alaska seems like an unlikely center of the climate change debate. But the island, home to Iñupiaq Eskimos who still live off subsistence harvesting, is falling into the sea, and climate change is, at least in part, to blame. While countries sputter and stall over taking environmental action, Shishmaref is out of time ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Revolution, Reform and Regionalism in Southeast Asia

    Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam

    by Ronald Bruce St John ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    Based on research carried out over the three decades, this book compares the post-war political economies of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam in the context of their individual and collective impact on contemporary efforts at regional integration. The author highlights the different paths to reform taken by the three neighbours and the effect this has had on regional plans for economic development ... Read more

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  • Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific

    Between Local and Global

    Edited by John Connell, Eric Waddell ...
    Series series Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies
    This volume examines the economic, political, social and environmental challenges facing rural communities in the Asia-Pacific region, as global issues intersect with local contexts. Such challenges, from climatic change and volcanic eruption to population growth and violent civil unrest, have stimulated local resilience amongst communities and led to evolving regional institutions and environment ... Read more

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  • Vietnam

    Rethinking the State

    by Martin Gainsborough ...
    Vietnam: Rethinking the State offers an exciting and up-to-date look at the politics of this fascinating country as it seeks to make the transition from war-torn economic backwater to a dynamic and modern society.The book argues for a move away from the commonly associated idea of 'reform', arguing for a deeper understanding of the concept and questioning the idea of state-retreat. The result is a ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Political Economy of Vietnam’s Industrial Transformation

    by John Walsh, Burkhard Schrage, Trung Quang Nguyen ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book presents an overview of political economic change in Vietnam during a period of significant social and economic change and an era of international turbulence. It combines various political economic perspectives to offer an integrated and comprehensive review of Vietnam’s recent development, discussing topics such as public administrative reform, labour markets and special economic zones, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Socialist Market Economy in Asia

    Development in China, Vietnam and Laos

    Edited by Arve Hansen, Jo Inge Bekkevold, Kristen Nordhaug ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book is intended for policy-makers, academics and students of development studies, area studies, political economy, geography and political science. Three of the best global performers in terms of economic growth are authoritarian states led by communist parties. The ‘socialist market economy’ model employed in China, Vietnam and Laos performs better than the economic systems in countries at ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • International Relations in Southeast Asia

    The Struggle for Autonomy

    by Donald E. Weatherbee ...
    Series series Asia in World Politics
    This fully revised and updated edition of Donald E. Weatherbee’s widely praised text offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to international relations in contemporary Southeast Asia. The author analyzes the efforts of the Southeast Asian states to adapt collectively through the ASEAN Community-building process to the challenges of traditional intraregional security issues, the requirements ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Upland Geopolitics

    Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush

    by Michael B. Dwyer, K. Sivaramakrishnan ...
    Series series Culture, Place, and Nature
    **Winner of the 2024 EuroSEAS Social Science Book PrizeCold War legacies in Southeast Asia enable new geographies of enclosure**In the twenty-first century, land deals in the Global South have become increasingly prevalent and controversial. Transnational access to arable land in impoverished "land-rich" countries in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia highlights the link between ... Read more

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