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The Asian 21st Century

This open access book consists of essays written by Kishore Mahbubani to explore the challenges and dilemmas faced by the West and Asia in an increasingly interdependent world village and intensifying geopolitical competition. The contents cover four parts: Part One The End of the Era of Western Domination.

Mahbubani, Kishore
2022-01-01

The Asian 21st Century

Mahbubani, Kishore
2021-12-30

Risk and Resilience in the Era of Climate Change

This book presents essential insights on the interaction between rising risks and raising the bar for resilience during the climate crisis. Its timeliness lies in applying important findings on risk and resilience to runaway climate change. When risk and resilience are brought together in the context of climate catastrophes, three key messages emerge.

Thomas, Vinod
2024-04-15

Forensic Genetics in the Governance of Crime

This open access book uses a critical sociological perspective to explore contemporary ways of reformulating the governance of crime through genetics. Through the lens of scientific knowledge and genetic technology, Machado and Granja offer a unique perspective on current trends in crime governance.

Machado, Helena
2020-01-29

Russophobia

This book defines Russophobia as the irrational fear of Russia, a key theme in the study of propaganda in the West as Russia has throughout history been assigned a diametrically opposite identity as the “Other.” Propaganda is the science of convincing an audience without appealing to reason.

Diesen, Glenn
2022-04-23

Russophobia

Diesen, Glenn
2023-05-07

Managing Great Power Politics

This Open Access book explains ASEAN’s strategic role in managing great power politics in East Asia. Constructing a theory of institutional strategy, this book argues that the regional security institutions in Southeast Asia, ASEAN and ASEAN-led institutions have devised their own institutional strategies vis-à-vis the South China Sea and navigated the great-power politics since the 1990s.

Koga, Kei
2022-09-01

Managing Great Power Politics

Koga, Kei
2022-08-31

Managing Great Power Politics

Koga, Kei
2022-09-01

Love and Death of King Ananda Mahidol of Thailand

This book examines two aspects of the abbreviated reign of King Ananda Mahidol (1935-1946), or King Rama VIII, of the current Chakri dynasty of Thailand. First, it discusses the royal family’s plot to thwart a romantic relationship between the young king, Ananda, and his Swiss girlfriend, Marileine Ferrari, a daughter of a famous pastor of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Chachavalpongpun, Pavin
2022-12-03

The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation

The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation shows that we have unwittingly fallen into an existential crisis of our own making. We have allowed large corporations, the military and other vested interests to capture governments and influence public opinion excessively.

Diesendorf, Mark
2023-07-29

Soft Power and Great-Power Competition

This open access book consists of essays selected from Joseph S. Nye, Jr.’s last three decades of writing and illustrate a variety of perspectives on the nature of power, the role of the United States in the world and US-China relations. Through this collection, it is hoped that readers will gain a better understanding of today’s global environment and find that while great power competition may be inevitable in a world as centers of power shift, cooperating to address transnational challenges can be a positive sum game.

Nye, Joseph S.
2023-05-06

Soft Power and Great-Power Competition

Nye, Joseph S.
2023-05-06

China and the World in a Changing Context

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license.Ambassadors are a kind of vehicle and bellwether for globalization. These diplomatic envoys serve as pivotal contact points between nations across a wide range of fields, from economics and culture to health and the environment.

Wang, Huiyao
2022-03-06

China and the World in a Changing Context

Wang, Huiyao
2022-03-05

China and the World in a Changing Context

Wang, Huiyao
2022-03-06

Artificial Intelligence Applications in Banking and Financial Services

This book discusses all aspects of money laundering, starting from traditional approach to financial crimes to artificial intelligence-enabled solutions. It also discusses the regulators approach to curb financial crimes and how syndication among financial institutions can create a robust ecosystem for monitoring and managing financial crimes.

Gupta, Abhishek
2023-07-19

Party Life

The emergence of China as a great power is perhaps the most consequential development for the world in the 21st century. Yet, what the Western world sees in this development is largely through the prism of misinterpreted ideological dichotomy and misguided geopolitical rivalry.

Li, Eric
2023-11-14

From Trump to Biden and Beyond

The last four years have seen significant damage in US-China relations that will take years to rebuild. Early signs within the Biden Administration indicate that an expeditious return to strong Sino-US ties is premature at best. To fully address these challenges and regain credibility both at home and abroad, the Biden team will need to recalibrate a new set of values, objectives, and thinking in redefining the most important bilateral relationship in the world.

Carr Jr., Earl A.
2022-09-10

China’s Technology War

This book is a short history of the Chinese crackdown on the country’s large technology firms that began in 2020. The book discusses the political and economic context, and outlines the limitations on the power of the state. As the policies of 'common prosperity' continue to develop, this book will be an invaluable reference for economists studying either China, the internet and big tech, or both.

Collier, Andrew
2022-07-09

New World Order and Small Regions

The book provides a comprehensive understanding of the unfolding geopolitical changes in the South Caucasus in the age of increased great power competition across Eurasia. Recent research on the geopolitics of the South Caucasus focuses either on interstate relations among Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia or on each of regional actor’s (Russia, Turkey and Iran) ties with the region’s one or all three states.

Avdaliani, Emil
2022-08-30

New World Order and Small Regions

Avdaliani, Emil
2023-08-31

The Pilgrim’s Guide to the Workplace

This is an Open Access book. Hoping to incubate a unique idea about workplace design, Dr. Agustin Chevez walked in isolation for 42 days from Melbourne to Sydney. His pilgrimage delivered 34 Signposts, a collection of insights which hold the promise to guide us to a better place to work.

Chevez, Agustin
2022-08-30

Self as Method

Despite China’s rise to the status of global power, many Chinese youths are anxious about their personal future, in large measure because the rapid changes have left them feeling adrift. This book, available in open access, provides a manifesto of intellectual activism that counsels China’s young people to think by themselves and for themselves.

Xiang, Biao
2022-10-01

Self as Method

Xiang, Biao
2022-10-01

History Continues

Decades after Francis Fukuyama's 'end of history' thesis became famous, the conflicts and turmoil of history have returned; Dr. Kicmari, having seen his own native land erupt in a European civil war in the 1990s, has been thinking about these issues for many years.

Kiçmari, Sabri
2022-12-08

History Continues

Kiçmari, Sabri
2023-12-22

Global Trends Compendium

This Compendium was conceived as a “pocket compass”, a practical guide that may help readers to orientate themselves while they explore global affairs and attempt to make sense of the highly interconnected, multidimensional challenges of contemporary human development.

Monaco, Edoardo
2023-03-10

Global Trends Compendium

Monaco, Edoardo
2024-02-18

A General Theory of Fluid Mechanics

This book provides a general introduction to fluid mechanics in the form of biographies and popular science. Based on the author’s extensive teaching experience, it combines natural science and human history, knowledge inheritance and cognition law to replace abstract concepts of fluid mechanics with intuitive and understandable physical concepts.

Liu, Peiqing
2022-04-03

Structural Hot-Spot Stress Approach to Fatigue Analysis of Welded Components

This book provides background and guidance on the use of the structural hot-spot stress approach to fatigue analysis. The book also offers Design S-N curves for use with the structural hot-spot stress for a range of weld details, and presents parametric formulas for calculating stress increases due to misalignment and structural discontinuities.

Niemi, Erkki
2017-09-06

Structural Hot-Spot Stress Approach to Fatigue Analysis of Welded Components

Niemi, Erkki
2018-12-23

Hematopathology

This book covers recent advances in the understanding and management of essential hematological pathologies. In addition to updates on Hodgkin’s lymphoma, acute myeloid leukemia and other disorders, it provides essential information on transplant pathology, and the molecular and genetic aspects of hematological disorders.

Saxena, Renu
2020-08-28

Iran in an Emerging New World Order

This book critically develops and discusses Iran’s geopolitical imaginations and explores its various foreign-policy schools of thought and their controversies. In doing so, the book covers Iran's foreign policy and international relations from "9/11" all the way to Rouhani’s rise (late 2014).

Fathollah-Nejad, Ali
2022-05-24

Caste Panchayats and Caste Politics in India

The book refutes the dominant understanding about caste panchayats as mere dispute resolution bodies that are vestiges of the past. In tracing the long career and evolution of intra-caste governance from 300 BC to the present, it challenges several orthodoxies in the caste scholarship.

Ingole, Anagha
2022-05-19

Hong Kong History

This book aims at providing an accessible introduction to and summary of the major themes of Hong Kong history that has been studied in the past decades. Each chapter also suggests a number of key historical figures and works that are essential for the understanding of a particular theme.

Wong, Man-Kong
2022-11-12

Nontraditional Security Concerns in India

This book deals with the constantly evolving, vast, and diverse field of nontraditional security. Nontraditional security goes beyond military security and focuses primarily on socioeconomic security. Its major concern is human beings rather than border or territory of the state.

Singh, Shantesh Kumar
2022-04-02

Catch-All Parties and Party-Voter Nexus in Sri Lanka

This book systematically maps the evolution of the party–voter nexus of the United National Party (UNP) and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP). In doing so, it argues that these parties rely mostly on a complex Web of patronage-based networks to mobilise electorates.

Peiris, Pradeep
2022-11-22

Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA)

Environmental Life Cycle Assessment (ELCA) that was developed about three decades ago demands a broadening of its scope to include lifecycle costing and social aspects of life cycle assessment as well, drawing on the three-pillar or ‘triple bottom line’ model of sustainability, which is the result of the development of the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA).

Muthu, Subramanian Senthilkannan
2022-09-23

The Vortex and The Jet

This open access book is an introduction for the lay reader to understand the basics of flight. The exposure is to the mysteries of lift generation by wings and the basic function of the jet propulsion engine. The text relies on simple descriptions of the physics of air flow without unduly involving mathematics.

Decher, Reiner
2022-02-26

The Vortex and The Jet

Decher, Reiner
2022-02-26

Power and Issue Framing in the Contemporary World

This book puts forward a new angle of understanding the society of states in the milieu of the contemporary world. The absence of a regulatory mechanism, i. e., anarchy, has been the fundamental issue of international relations. This book explains how the normative imperatives, information and communication technology (ICT) and nuclear deterrence generated ambiance have poised the states in a society where they are bound to follow certain normative imperatives that dilute the color and meaning of anarchy and obliges the states to act in a certain way.

Sorkar, M. N. I.
2022-03-17

Power and Issue Framing in the Contemporary World

Sorkar, M. N. I.
2023-03-18

Singapore's First Year of COVID-19

This book addresses the question of what Singapore's COVID-19 pandemic response in the first year can tell us about the strengths and weaknesses of the Singapore model and what its prospects might be in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous post-pandemic world.

Tan, Kenneth Paul
2022-04-13

A Study of Diplomatic Protocol and Etiquette

This book, with its focus on the study of diplomatic protocol and etiquette, collects high-quality papers written by scholars in diplomatic protocol from nine countries, including US, UK, Russia, Japan, Canada, Netherlands, India and China. As a result of in-depth international academic cooperation, it explores diplomatic protocol from three dimensions of theory, practice and country-specific and has the characteristics of internationality and nationality.

Zhou, Jiali
2022-04-26

A Study of Diplomatic Protocol and Etiquette

Zhou, Jiali
2023-05-10

Humanizing Education in the 3rd Millennium

This book proposes some insights and ideas into how education might be humanized. The chapters inform, provoke, and guide further inquiries into imagining and actualizing human education. It presents the view that education should be primarily understood as human education, which offers universal good for the entire planet.

Webster, R. Scott
2022-06-21

The First Line of Code

The First Line of Code is a must-have for developers who want to learn Android and Kotlin, and the best-seller in China. Knowledge between Android and Kotlin is interspersed in a way that readers are easy to understand and get start:· Android part covers all the important aspects of the Android platform, such as activity, service, content provider, broadcast receiver, fragment, basic UI, data storage, network, Jetpack and other application-level knowledge.

Guo, Lin
2022-05-28

Voices from the Contemporary Japanese Feminist Movement

This book introduces six key influential feminist activists from Japan’s contemporary feminist movement and examines Japanese women’s experience of and contribution to the international #MeToo movement. Set against a backdrop of pervasive sexual inequality in Japanese society—on a scale that makes Japan an outlier in Asia as well as the rest of the advanced democratic world—this book offers a snapshot of Japan’s contemporary feminist movement and the issues it faces, including, primarily, sexual violence and harassment of women and girls.

Dalton, Emma
2022-08-16

Japan and the Middle East

The book provides a comprehensive analysis of the emergence, political economy and foreign relations of Japan’s relations with the Middle East, with an emphasis on its relations with the states in the Gulf Region. It offers both country specific case studies and thematic chapters, providing comprehensive study on Japan’s relations with the Gulf and the wider Middle East.

Nakamura, Satoru
2023-03-13

Japan and the Middle East

Nakamura, Satoru
2024-03-26

Reflections on Grand Strategy

The book provides an analytic framework for grand strategy and applies the framework to illuminate the grand strategies of the Great Powers of the twenty-first century: India, China, Russia, and the United States. The book also uses Coca-Cola as a case study to illustrate the potential influence of grand strategy on business strategy.

Tata, Samir
2022-08-09

Understanding Globalization, Global Gaps, and Power Shifts in the 21st Century

This book aims to help readers make sense of our changing world by sharing the views of global thought leaders on some of the most important issues of our time, from US-China relations and global governance to climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Wang, Huiyao
2022-11-25

Reflections on Grand Strategy

Tata, Samir
2023-08-10

Konsultativdemokratie oder Konsultativautoritarismus?

In diesem Buch wird die chinesische Politik theoretisiert, insbesondere Chinas "deliberative Demokratie (xieshang minzhu 协商民主)". In einem vergleichenden Rahmen zwischen China und dem Westen hinterfragt der Autor den Anspruch der chinesischen Regierung, die Bürger zu repräsentieren, und zeigt dem Leser, wie all diese Konzepte innerhalb der chinesischen Ideologie, des demokratischen Diskurses und der Regierungsführung zusammenwirken und in welchem Verhältnis sie zum chinesischen Autoritarismus stehen.

Li, Rongxin
2023-04-01

Post-trauma and the Recovery Governance of Cultural Heritage

This book successfully represents the indispensable interdisciplinarity of viewpoints by its authors combining legal perspectives with architectural and anthropological approaches. With the observation and analysis presented here, this book is the first to demonstrate research-based governance solutions for cultural heritage within the process of recovering from traumatic events.

Kono, Toshiyuki
2022-12-03

Post-trauma and the Recovery Governance of Cultural Heritage

Kono, Toshiyuki
2023-12-17

The Chinese Path Toward a Leaner Government

This book focuses on the administration streamlining aligned with the market-oriented reform process in China. The book is divided into two parts. The first part clarifies why administration is necessary and important, what it covers, and how to deal with the relation between the central and the local governments.

Li, Yining
2024-04-05

Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

This open access book shows how the adoption of global justice, such as eradication of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), has given rise to controversy, resistance, and transformation at the national, regional, and grass-roots levels in African and Asian countries where FGM/C has been practiced.