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This book explores the possible routes to transform the current hostile dynamic between North Korea and South Korea into a lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula.

Through critical assessments of the current political and security conditions in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia the book presents innovative ideas for peacebuilding, with a particular focus on denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula. Focusing on issues such as North Korea's nuclear proliferation, strategies for peaceful coexistence and a peace regime between the two Korean states, and the quest for peace and stability in Northeast Asia, the chapters examine the interests of the four surrounding powers concerning the Korean issue and their roles in establishing a peaceful regime in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia. Providing expert scholarship from the United States, Korea, and Japan it provides novel information, diverse viewpoints, thoughtful analysis, and valuable insights on the issues surrounding the Korean Peninsula and security in Northeast Asia.

Highlighting the plausible pathways to establish a peace regime in both Korea and Northeast Asia, whilst considering the roles of neighbouring powers in this process this will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Korean Politics, Security Studies, Peace Studies.

This collection of over fifty essays provides a comprehensive overview of the Pacific theater of World War II. Scholars and practitioners from around the globe unite their expertise to explore the interaction of the belligerents, with multiple chapters co-written by Japanese and American authors.

Part I provides the political, economic, military, strategic, and legal backdrop. Part II highlights operational and strategic concepts and approaches: assessment, deterrence, strategic culture, war gaming and planning, access and anti-access campaigns, cumulative and sequential operations, strategic and operational intelligence, and logistics. Part III focuses on turning points: the Axis alliance, wartime mobilization, naval buildups, the key campaigns of Malaya, Midway, Guadalcanal, and Leyte Gulf, unrestricted submarine warfare, and aerial bombing. Part IV turns to the warzone societies with chapters on Australia, China, Indonesia, India, Indochina, Japan, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Part V concludes with the war's diverse legacies: the Communist victory in China, suspicions of a Pearl Harbor coverup, the transformation of international law, the fate of veterans, the teaching of the war, its operational and doctrinal lessons, and the many movies and museums about it.

The handbook offers original and enduring analyses that will interest scholars, students, policymakers, and history buffs alike.

Japanese Joinery and the Future of Timber: Fibre to Fibre explores the rich legacy of Japanese timber joinery and examines how advanced robotic timber fabrication methods can benefit from the ancient art of wood-only connections. It blends historical insights with captivating imagery and interviews with industry experts.
The book is split into three chapters, with each chapter further subdivided into sections. The first chapter reveals the secrets of traditional Japanese joinery, featuring ancient temples and expert craftsmen. The second chapter studies advanced fabricators and engineers in Europe who operate in the world of engineered timber construction but also choose to exploit timber-only connections in their work. The first two chapters contain case studies of two 7th century Japanese buildings and two 21st century Swiss buildings, the comparisons between them revealing similarities across the millennia. The third and final chapter features conversations with luminaries from the industry, including Pritzker Prize-winner Shigeru Ban, renowned architect Kengo Kuma, and Japan's most revered carpenter Mitsuo Ogawa. The book advocates for merging old techniques with new, aiming to design sustainable timber structures devoid of nails or screws. This approach not only reduces carbon footprint but also facilitates easier disassembly and reassembly, prolonging the lifespan of buildings and simplifying maintenance.
Japanese Joinery and the Future of Timber: Fibre to Fibre promises to enlighten readers with its poetic narrative, vivid photography, and engaging interviews, inspiring architects, engineers, and craftsmen to embrace timber-only joinery for a more sustainable future.

This book examines the experiences of the South Sudanese displaced during the latest civil war, which caused a quarter of South Sudan's population to flee their homes. It considers how these experiences relate to the ways in which the identities, rights and sense of belonging of displaced citizens are scrutinised by local authorities and contested by the individuals and communities inhabiting the South Sudanese-Ugandan borderland.

Drawing on extensive original research documenting the personal accounts of people displaced to Uganda's settlements and urban centres, this book pushes the conceptual boundaries of what being 'displaced' or a 'refugee' entails in a borderland region. The book introduces the concept of 'multi-site living' to explore public and private efforts to coordinate settlement life and mobility across borders. The book goes on to consider what the disruptive nature of violence and insecurity in South Sudan means for modern politics and State-making processes in the world's youngest country.

Engaging with important questions across both the social and political sciences, this book will appeal to university students, scholars and researchers working on displacement, mobility, borders, and identity politics, both within South Sudan and beyond.

This open access collection argues that an emotional revolution occurred in Imperial Japan between 1900 and 1950, transforming the lives of millions and spawning new social communities. Exploring the lived experiences of the Japanese, both as individuals and as members of social groups, it examines changes in meanings, expressions and practices of love and loyalty during that period.

Rather than accepting a stark opposition between Western-individualistic love and Eastern-feudalistic loyalty, this book finds a nuanced, entwined and dialectical relationship between the two sentiments that remade the Japanese relationship with family, state and the world. During a time when Japan emerged as a capitalist society and the centre of a growing empire, Loves and Loyalties in Imperial Japan shows how new media dramatically expanded and affected emotional change, while different groups and individuals fought over the meaning and value of their social attachments. Exploring the different versions of love and loyalty that were being circulated while Japan experienced a spluttering democracy, an autocratic wartime empire and military defeat in 1945, this book is the first of its kind to address these issues and help globalize the history of emotions.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by University of California, Santa Barbara.

This book explores the evolution and impact of deliberative democracy in East Asia, focusing on Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan through a deliberative systems framework.

Democratization and democratic development in the region are intertwined with social movements, public participation, institutional reform, and deliberative innovation. The book highlights how deliberative democracy can transform politics, inform policymaking, and strengthen democratic governance, while also exploring the integration of deliberation with digital technologies and artificial intelligence to advance democratic innovations. Drawing on practical experiences, it demonstrates how democratic deliberation can shift public attitudes, shape policy, and address complex challenges.

Essential reading for students and scholars of East Asian politics and deliberative democracy, The Transformative Power of Deliberative Democracy in East Asia is also invaluable for political and social scientists interested in comparative democracy, public governance, and public participation in science and technology.

Interrogating the divide between violent and nonviolent protest, including Aragalaya, this volume highlights the importance of strategically connecting seemingly unrelated historical events and political movements across Sri Lanka's North and South, spanning the period from 1948 to 2022, to offer fresh insights into intranational conflict.

By bringing the different protest movements of insurgency and civil disobedience (as well as the ethno-religious communities aligned with them), under one umbrella, this book represents a call for political action to address long-standing socio-political conflicts plaguing Sri Lanka. Divided into three sections (revolution and militant violence (1971-2009); postwar politics (2009 to present); and civil disobedience and the Aragalaya (2022)), the book offers case study chapters that draw on a range of sources such as literature, film, and performance studies, citing aesthetic expressions as acts of political resistance. Providing a conceptual framework for how we define protest, and how protest intersects with war and revolution, the book deliberately reframes the act as a continuum that includes insurgency, civil disobedience, and artistic resistance.

Ultimately challenging established regional and ethno-linguistic divisions that have been understudied by scholars of Sri Lanka since the 1970s, this book will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students in the field of South Asian studies in particular, as well scholars researching protest movements and peace studies more generally.

This book offers a timely and accessible exploration of how humanitarian work is changing across one of the world's most diverse and crisis-affected regions. Set against a backdrop of shrinking global aid budgets, growing humanitarian need, and weakening of long-standing Western leadership, Humanitarian Policy and Action in Asia brings Asian perspectives to the centre of debates about the future of humanitarianism. Drawing on contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, the volume examines how humanitarian policy and practice are shaped by new technologies, regional institutions, state interests, and local traditions. Case studies range from disaster management reforms in Southeast Asia and humanitarian engagement in Afghanistan and Myanmar, to China's evolving role as a humanitarian actor and the growing importance of South-South cooperation. Together, they challenge the assumption that humanitarianism is driven solely from the Global North and highlight Asia's long history of supporting crisis-affected communities. Clear, wide-ranging, and grounded in real-world experience, this book shows how a more multiplex and polycentric humanitarian system is emerging-one that places affected communities, regional voices, and local knowledge at its heart. It is essential reading for students, researchers, and practitioners in humanitarian studies, international development, and Asian studies. It will also appeal to policymakers and NGO professionals working in crisis response, disaster management, and regional governance. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Asian Public Policy.

Exploring how Russia and Turkey have shaped the contestation of democracy across South-Eastern Europe and Eurasia over the past two decades, Sonja Katharina Schiffers examines the pivotal role of gatekeeper elites in Georgia and Bosnia, how their choices enable or resist authoritarian and illiberal external influence, and assesses the counterpressure exerted by the EU and US.

Drawing on nearly one hundred exclusive interviews, this book offers a detailed account of Russian and Turkish external influence and its consequences for democracy in Bosnia and Georgia since the early 2000s. Combining rigorous analysis with practical insights, this book delivers compelling policy recommendations for those committed to defending liberal democracies.

This book is a classic introduction to Chinese philology - the discipline of textual interpretation - which is grounded in rigorous exegetical and linguistic analysis of ancient texts.

As a discipline devoted to explaining classical texts with a particular focus on semantic interpretation, philology is at the heart of the study of classical Chinese language and literature. This concise introductory volume surveys foundational concepts and approaches, including the discipline's definition, scope, and applications; the content and methods of philological annotation; word meaning and its evolution; and new directions in the field. Drawing on the author's teaching and research experience, the book combines scholarly rigour with lucid explanations and offers original insights.

It is an ideal introductory read for sinologists and students of classical Chinese studies who are new to the field and want a clearer understanding of ancient Chinese texts.

Western views of southern Somalia are dominated by perceived gaps in the overall liberal order. Classical Western liberalism emphasizes individualism, civil and political liberties, the rule of law, and state structures.

Counter-insurgency warfare in former European colonial possessions since the 1960s has been a continuing challenge. Neither in Vietnam, nor in Afghanistan, nor in Iraq did Western armies "win" counter-insurgency wars in a way that left them stable, moderate, peaceful, states. They were left wartorn or under great oppression. Local elites did not share Western aims and did not unify to work together. Liberalism's aims of peace and progress were not achieved.

Every time a large liberal expeditionary force has been dispatched to stabilize a developing state since 1990, the results have been mixed or poor, even after deployments sometimes measured in decades (for example, the United Nations in the Congo since 1999).

A detailed examination of the civilian government, international and indigenous military forces, and the police in southern Somalia shows that they are not capable of defeating the Al-Shabaab insurgents.

Both the "Sunni Awakening" in Iraq in 2006 and the local clan offensives against Al-Shabaab from 2022 in Somalia offered the hope that a locally empowered approach, however, might make counter-insurgency success more attainable.

However, from the situation in southern Somalia, it appears extremely unlikely that liberal counter-insurgency aims can be achieved through a locally empowered approach. Local elites do not share wider Western aims and are intensely divided.

More generally, large, transformative, liberal-democratic expeditions into the developing world appear to have virtually no chance of success. First and foremost this is because local elites share neither their values nor aims. These elites are also, generally, bitterly divided and willing to fight for victory over each other's factions into the indefinite future.

The toll of climate destruction is growing, meaning Western resources will be increasingly needed closer to home. Between the very poor prospects of success, and the growing calls on limited deployable expeditionary resources, large, transformative Western liberal expeditions should end.

Gender and International Relations in North Africa: Decentring EU Policies in Tunisia offers a critical rethinking of international gender agendas by placing Tunisian perspectives at the centre of analysis.

Drawing on a rich, interdisciplinary, theoretical account and extensive empirical research, the book examines European Union gender policies in Tunisia from the 1995 Association Agreement through the 2010-2011 revolution and the recent authoritarian resurgence. Grounded in the "decentring" approach in International Relations and inspired by Gayatri Spivak's distinction between "giving voice" and "speaking for," it interrogates how far EU policies genuinely engage with, or marginalise, the diverse agencies of Tunisian women. Situating EU initiatives within broader United Nations frameworks, the study highlights the reciprocal circulation of gender discourses and practices across international and regional levels. Methodologically informed by the "Grounded Theory," it adopts a self-reflexive approach, addressing key issues such as positionality, freedom, safety, and care in research, while challenging Eurocentric assumptions about knowledge production and policy design.

This book will appeal to scholars and students of Gender and International Relations, Middle East and North Africa, and European foreign policy, as well as practitioners interested in feminist approaches to international governance and Euro-Mediterranean relations.

This book uncovers the history of emotions surrounding death in colonial and semi-colonial Anglo-China during the 19th century. Engaging with both English and Chinese sources, including obituaries, memoirs, personal correspondence, missionary publications, mourning poetry and travel accounts, Death and Emotions in Anglo-China explores how this common human experience was understood, expressed, and felt across different cultures, where it became not merely a personal matter but a hotly contested issue.

Illustrating how emotions of death solidified communities, buttressed regimes and galvanised political movements, the book pays attention to the dilemma between personal grief and communal commemoration, arguing that the chaotic process of grieving was often pushed aside by collective narratives, which stressed the emotional norm of solemnity. Such collective emotions provided the Western powers, namely the British, a sentimental rhetoric of sacrifice for their imperial cause, and for the Chinese, a powerful impetus to rising Chinese nationalism by the turn of the century.

Focusing on a culturally dynamic context previously overlooked in the field of emotional history, this book contributes to the global dimension of growing interests in historicizing the universal human conditions of emotions and death.

This book provides a valuable insight into the Mekong River sub-region which consists of China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

It investigates numerous policy relevant issues including Mekong water governance, economic cooperation, and security affairs while examining the role of global powers in the region, particularly the US, China, Japan and South Korea, with their overlapping and conflicting strategies and policy priorities. Revealing how the competition between the US-led order and China-led order is evolving in mainland Southeast Asia and addressing the problems in the Mekong sub-region, the book goes on to examine the Mekong sub-regional institutions and the role that they play in the policies of both, the Mekong countries as well as the external powers.

In exploring the increased involvement of major powers, including the US, China, Japan, South Korea and Australia in the Mekong subregion, this book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Asian studies, comparative politics and international relations.

Adopting a spiritual history approach, this book traces the evolution of the concept of "New Women," which first emerged in China during the 1920s and 1930s. It reveals the profound significance of this concept, as well as the inherent tensions and losses involved in the creation of a modern Chinese identity.

Taking "leaving home" as its analytical starting point, the study examines the life histories and spiritual trajectories of "New Women" in Republican China. Although leaving home initiated their quest for independence, the question of "belonging" remained an ever-present shadow. Through a rigorous analysis of notable figures such as Ding Ling, Xie Bingying, and Xu Guangping, the book explores how this tension unfolded during significant historical events, including student movements, romantic relationships, revolutions, and material culture. The book argues that when "New Women" left home to resist arranged marriages, they sought alternative emotional support in new social relationships yet confronted new challenges. Ultimately, their spiritual history often led to two typical trajectories: Sublimation of the self through dedication to a "greater self" or a collective, or a descent into material consumption and the "bodily utopia" of self-decoration.

This volume will serve as an invaluable reference for scholars and students of modern Chinese history, Chinese feminism, and Chinese social history.

The establishment of the African Union and its African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) in 2002 marked a fundamental transformation in how African states collectively address security challenges. This book examines the origins, institutional design, and early performance of APSA, revealing the political dynamics that shaped this landmark initiative in regional security governance.

Drawing on extensive elite interviews with key decision-makers, such as former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, and access to foreign policy documents, this study reconstructs how a coalition of states known as the Like-Minded Five (South Africa, Nigeria, Algeria, Ethiopia, and Mali) exercised disproportionate influence over the creation of APSA. The analysis traces the formation of state preferences, the negotiation process through which diverse visions were reconciled, and the relationship between institutional design choices and subsequent performance. The book challenges the tendency to underestimate the agency of African states in shaping continental institutions and instead demonstrates how domestic political considerations shaped South African and Nigerian preferences, whilst strategic coalition-building and normative entrepreneurship enabled these middle powers to translate their vision into institutional outcomes.

Understanding the political bargains struck during APSA's formative period remains essential to understanding security cooperation in Africa and beyond. This book will therefore be an important read for policymakers and for researchers across the fields of African studies, international relations, and security studies.

The world is witnessing the rise of numerous ultraconservative and authoritarian leaders, governments, and movements that have challenged democratic institutions. The use of social media and disinformation tools - including the spread of fake news and, more recently, the use of artificial intelligence - has become a common feature across national contexts. From the national to the transnational level, ideas and practices circulate with the shared objective of undermining democratic principles, norms, experiences, and multilateral organizations.
How should we understand the impact of this wave of antidemocratic and ultraconservative politics within multilateral arenas, particularly within the United Nations? And what are the distinctive features of the Bolsonaro administration (2019-2022) within this broader context?
Drawing on research produced through a broad collective effort coordinated by LABMUNDO, this volume offers critical perspectives on the use of terms such as "populist leaders," "populist governments," and "populist foreign policy" to describe this phenomenon. Addressing the issue from theoretical and conceptual standpoints, the studies gathered here explore the Brazilian context of bolsonarism and examine how ultraconservative and antidemocratic leaderships and movements have exerted negative influences on Brazil's foreign policy agenda.

This book critically rethinks the dominant narratives around the so-called 'liberal international' / 'rules-based' order, by examining how China discursively engages with, and mirrors, the very hegemonic order it contests. Moving beyond the commonplace representation of China as a paradoxically 'revisionist' yet occasionally 'compliant' power, it aargues that what appears contradictory is, in fact, a coherent counterhegemonic strategy rooted in discursive rearticulation rather than outright rejection.

Using a Gramscian analytical lens, the book disarticulates the ideologically fused concept of the 'liberal international order', revealing it as a hegemonic construct that equates liberalism with order and opposition with illiberal disorder. It demonstrates how China's international practices expose the ideological and relational structures underpinning liberal hegemony. Rather than simply resisting liberal norms, China mirrors and re-articulates them in an effort to position itself as a more legitimate global leader.

This book challenges IR orthodoxy by examining hegemonic representations, and by foregrounding the role of the global South - not as a passive recipient, but as an active co-producer of order. In doing so, it raises provocative questions about whether liberal hegemony is tied to Western dominance at all, or whether it may survive its unmaking by being mirrored into new forms.

The book delves into China's strategic extension of its influence over global digital standards and governance.

The author introduces the concept of normative power adapted for the digital domain, and constructs a multi-level theory of normative diffusion, disaggregating mechanisms operating at bilateral, regional, and international levels. The book examines bilateral dynamics through eight cases: Vietnam, Chile, Malaysia, Zambia, Egypt, Kazakhstan, the Philippines, and Laos. At the regional level, it analyses how China navigates and shapes regional digital orders through the SCO, RCEP, BRICS, and ASEAN. Regarding the international arena, the book traces China's strategies across two decades of engagement with the UN system and the ITU. In addition, it outlines its implications for digital governance and the future of global internet ordering. The book argues that Chinese normative power in cyberspace is real but bounded, and it operates not as unilateral export but as a relational push-and-pull between Beijing and recipient states that actively seek, filter, adapt, and resist what China offers.

This book will appeal to academics and students studying international law, comparative politics, cybersecurity, and China studies.

Discourses of War, Media and Politics in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict examines how language, media, and political narratives shape understandings of one of the world's most contested conflicts.

Moving beyond military and diplomatic analyses, this book explores the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a struggle over meaning, legitimacy, and historical interpretation. Through interdisciplinary approaches to discourse analysis, the contributors investigate how terms such as "occupation," "terrorism," "resistance," "security," and "genocide" have been contested, reframed, and politicised across different historical moments. The volume demonstrates how discourse does not simply describe political realities, but actively constructs them by shaping public perceptions, moral evaluations, and the boundaries of political possibility. Bringing together established and emerging scholars from around the world, the book provides critical analyses of the narratives, media representations, and ideological frameworks that continue to influence debates surrounding violence, justice, and human rights in Israel/Palestine.

This book will appeal to scholars and students of media studies, political communication, discourse analysis, Middle East politics, and conflict studies, as well as readers interested in the relationship between language, power, and representation in contemporary global conflicts.

This book examines the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War and its aftermath, analysing the conflict through the lenses of war, sovereignty, power politics, international law, and unpeace, demonstrating how coercive diplomacy, conflict-persistence, and institutional failure reshaped the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict and the regional order.

Combining international relations, security studies, legal analysis, and a wide range of empirically grounded analytical models, the book provides a rigorous framework for understanding the 2020 war, the geopolitical factors leading to it, the shifts in the region's structure and security architecture, the humanitarian crisis, forced displacement, and the collapse of Nagorno-Karabakh. It meticulously explores not only the events that transpired, but also the underlying reasons behind them, the responses of international actors, regional players, and institutions, and the insights these reveal about the limitations of structural dependence, weak deterrence, ineffective mediation, lack of recognition, and accountability gaps in contemporary conflict.
The book is intended for scholars, students, and practitioners in international relations, conflict and security studies, post-Soviet politics, international law, peace and conflict studies, human rights, and Eurasian studies. It is also relevant for journalists, policymakers, and those working on conflict prevention, mediation, and regional security.

The book introduces Media Anthropology as a distinct sub-discipline in India, presenting a sustained trajectory of research and media practice that have contributed to its growth over the years. Across five thematic sections and 18 chapters, the book presents wide ranging research on various strands of media anthropology as a field, including ethnographic and engaged studies of visual and digital forms of media. The chapters present anthropological research exploring vibrantly diverse spatial settings and subjectivities, allowing readers to grasp the ways in which media practices emerge and come alive.

This book will be indispensable for scholars and researchers of media and communication studies, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and South Asian studies.