Steve Tsang 
If China Attacks Taiwan [EPUB ebook] 
Military Strategy, Politics and Economics

This book analyzes contemporary changes in immigration and integration policy in the wake of populism and rise of right-wing parties across the world. It examines how, in the face of substantial migr …

This volume provides the first study of the history of sinology (aka China studies) as charted across several communist states during the Cold War. The People’s Republic of China was created in the f …

With the demise of European socialist economies and the marketization of Asian communist countries, a new global capitalism has reshaped the configuration of the world economy, with speed a determini …

Orientalism – the idea that the standpoint of Western writers on the East greatly affected what they wrote about the East, the ‘Other’ – applied also in Russia and the Soviet Union, where the study o …

This is the first work to systematically examine the British occupation of Indonesia after the Second World War. The occupation by British-Indian forces between 1945 and 1946 bridged the gap between …

This book provides an analysis of the country»s political economy in transition. It documents the history of the gold mining industry»s involvement in shaping the political landscape of South Afric …

The civil war in 1989 promised freedom from ten years of vicious dictatorship; instead the seeds of Liberia»s devastation were sown. Mark Huband»s account of the conflict is a portrayal of the war …

Retaining the conceptual framework of the first edition through emphasis on the dual themes of continuity and change, the second edition of Libya is revised and updated to include discussion of key d …

A journalist on the Japan Chronicle for eleven years, the author collected in this volume the most significant current events for discussion. They include the financial crisis of 1927, hostilities wi …

Insurance is the world’s largest economic industry, providing a form of security that more than triples global defence expenditure. However, little is know about the form of security insurance provid …