Tag: Asia

Free Download Brendan Howe, "Democratic Governance in Northeast Asia: A Human-Centered Approach to Evaluating Democracy (Security, Development and Human Rights in East Asia)"
English | 2015 | pages: 167 | ISBN: 1349558168, 1137550449 | PDF | 2,5 mb
Comprising case studies of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, this edited volume explores the key characteristics of democratic governance in Northeast Asia. Each democracy is assessed on the extent to which it enables the flourishing of social capital; prioritizes the interests of all as characterized by freedom from fear and want; and empowers all to participate in the democratic process and governance. With particular focus on the experience of minorities, this volume contends that the acid test of democratic governance is not how well the government represents the interests of the elites, or even the majority, but rather how it cares for the needs of vulnerable groups in society.

Free Download Kevin Gray, "Western Higher Education in Asia and the Middle East: Politics, Economics, and Pedagogy"
English | ISBN: 1498526004 | 2016 | 296 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
This multidisciplinary volume highlights the transformed nature of the relationship between higher education and society in the 21st century. In particular, it argues that the development of the global university, especially in the non-western world, has transformed the traditional understanding of the relationship between higher education and society. This has important implications for the relations of state, as education has not only become an object of national development policy but for many states an important export.

Free Download Urban Sustainable Development in East Asia: Understanding and Evaluating Urban Sustainable Trends in China and Japan by Xiaolong Zou
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 141 Pages | ISBN : 9819970148 | 19.9 MB
This book offers careful glimpse from the lenses of selected case studies of major counties in East Asia, namely China and Japan to obtain insights as well as lessons regarding their perspective sustainable cities development. Urban sustainability is the pillar domain for achieving overall sustainability. East Asia has the world most populous countries and cities; therefore, it is of great importance to understand, analyze, and assess the sustainable urban development trends and paradigms in an East Asia setting so as to better guide the future development of sustainable cities in the region. The outcomes of this book are policy-relevant consultations to key stakeholders from various walks of sustainability studies.

Free Download Devesh Kapur, "The Oxford Handbook of Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific Region "
English | ISBN: 0192845985 | 2023 | 976 pages | EPUB, PDF | 10 MB + 45 MB
Since the turn of the millennium it has become clear that the Asia-Pacific Region is, economically, the fastest growing continent in the world, and is likely to remain so for some time despite the setbacks of the COVID-19 pandemic. Asia-Pacific’s share of the world’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) doubled from 15 per cent to 30 per cent between 1970 and 2017 and is projected to account for half of global GDP by 2050. With South East and South Asia also growing rapidly, with over half the world’s population and three of the world’s five largest economies, Asia is soon poised to home half of the world’s middle class – a class that is both the driver and the product of higher education.

Free Download The Geography of Central Asia: Human Adaptations, Natural Processes and Post-Soviet Transition by Igor Jelen
English | EPUB | 2020 | 390 Pages | ISBN : 3030612651 | 111.3 MB
This book provides a profound geographical description and analysis of Central Asia. The authors take a synthetic approach in a period of critical transformation in the post-soviet time. The monograph analyzes comprehensively the physical and human geography as well as human-nature interactions of Central Asia with focus on Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Natural processes are described at a systemic scale, focusing on ecological impacts and consequences and contemporary human adaptations and organization. It also discusses in which ways the human organizations try to apply solutions for their needs such as security, territorial management and resources renewability, material and functional needs, identity elaborations, culture and communication.

Free Download Relevance of European Studies in Asia by Maria Stoicheva, S. G. Sreejith, Indranath Gupta
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 171 Pages | ISBN : 9819977851 | 2.8 MB
This book provides perspectives on the relevance of European Studies as a disciplinary category for the Asian region. That being the primary focus, the book serves a larger purpose. First, it provides insights on European society, polity and economy (including European Integration) as they are accounted in European Studies. The epistemological character of the knowledge thus conveyed has larger credibility and reliability such that they can become policy inputs and imaginations for strengthening Asian-European relationship. This approach helps overcome the trap of subjectively motivated discourses on Europe which may fail potential collaborations between the regions. Second, the design and discursivity of European Studies will be an instruction to the Asian region on the constitutive potential of regional studies in society-building. Third, the book works towards building the idea of "Europe" in terms of international law, in the minds of Asian students, researchers and decision-makers. This is extremely relevant for the future relationship and cultural engagement between the two regions. The book is of interest to policymakers, academics, embassies, state-level government offices, researchers and students.

Free Download David W. Scott, "Mission as Globalization: Methodists in Southeast Asia at the Turn of the Twentieth Century"
English | ISBN: 1498526632 | 2016 | 240 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Through an examination of Methodist mission to Southeast Asia at the turn of the twentieth century, this broad-ranging book unites the history of globalization with the history of Christian mission and the history of Southeast Asia. The book explores the international connections forged by the Methodist Episcopal Church’s Malaysia Mission between 1885 and 1915, putting them in the context of a wave of globalization that was sweeping the world at that time, including significant developments in Southeast Asia.

Free Download Kristin Plys, "Marxist Thought in South Asia "
English | ISBN: 1837971838 | 2023 | 216 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Marxism is not just a Euro-American preoccupation. It has had vibrant articulations around the world, particularly in Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, and amongst Black diasporas. But South Asia has been relatively neglected in efforts to register the revolutionary theoretical traditions of the Global South.

Free Download Jun-Hyeok Kwak, "Machiavelli in Northeast Asia "
English | ISBN: 1032256915 | 2022 | 192 pages | PDF | 901 KB
Analyzing the multifaceted receptions of Machiavelli from early modernity to the present history of Northeast Asia, this book explores a better East-West dialogue through which Machiavelli’s political philosophy can be appropriated properly in Northeast Asian practices.

Free Download Siri Hettige, "Governance, Conflict and Development in South Asia: Perspectives from India, Nepal and Sri Lanka "
English | ISBN: 9351501000 | 2015 | 307 pages | EPUB | 855 KB
This volume examines how various forms of governance have emerged in South Asia after colonialism, and the developmental and conflict-related challenges the region faces. Drawing from the contexts of India, Sri Lanka and Nepal, it highlights the degree of institutionalization of democracy.