Weitseng Chen 
Beijing Consensus? [PDF ebook] 
How China Has Changed Western Ideas of Law and Economic Development

A distinguished selection of contributors provide the theoretical background to the restructuring of Europe that is currently underway. It attempts to situate the ethical debates in a historical, leg …

This edited volume brings together critical insights that address the multifaceted problems of governance and democracy in the developing regions with specific reference to Africa. It explores both t …

This title was first published in 2000. This series brings together significant journal articles appearing in the field of comparative politics over the past 30 years. The aim is to render accessible …

Many books on performance management or evaluation are about the public sector in general or specifically about some programs or organizations. Only a few of them target the public institutions. This …

This title was first published in 2003. Mexico”s presidential election in 2000 marked the end of 71 years of one-party rule, after a slow process of emergence of democratic institutions and viable s …

Nationalism is once again rising and spreading. Nationlist movements are active throughout the world, demanding political recognition of their nations” identity. Yet the current revival of nationali …

This monograph provides a coherent and systematic explanation of China’s regional economic development from the perspective of regional government competition. It gives an almost unknown exposition o …

Through a discourse analysis of Japanese parliamentary debates, this book explores how different understandings of Japan’s history have led to sharply divergent security policies in the postwar perio …

This book deals with a variety of issues of history, of national security, and of political economy, and focuses on the need for a dynamic perspective. It emphasizes the development of ideas as the m …

This book assesses the evolution of the Soviet approach toward European security policy since the mid-1980s, as seen from the prism of assessments of and policy toward the Federal Republic of Germany …