Asia and Pacific
Engel's collection conveys the local color of a quaint Beijing that is now lost to history and reveals much about the gregarious character and social skills of the man who became the 41st U.S. president.
Fravel's is an elegant argument that works well to explain Chinese behavior during territorial disputes with all of its 14 land neighbors and six sea neighbors. and holds promise for application elsewhere.
Medeiros argues that the driving force in the evolution of Chinese nonproliferation policy was persistent, and often coercive, U.S. diplomacy that, over the course of a quarter century, counterbalanced China's financial and political incentives for proliferation, changed China's view of its own strategic interest, and (with nongovernmental involvement) helped China build the specialist community needed to implement its commitments.
Johnston identifies the working parts of the process by which norms in the international system change the behavior of states; he uses several instances of the involvement by traditionally realpolitik-oriented China in security institutions in which it gave up some military advantage as hard cases to test his theory.
Landry's rigorous research and ingenious data analysis show for the first time how much budgetary and political authority local lords in China command, even as the system of promotion incentives under which they work keeps them responsive to central priorities.
This book answers the question of if Japan is a thin welfare state, why is its income distribution one of the most egalitarian of any advanced industrial society.
