| Bib ID |
4545541 |
| Format |
Book, Online - Google Books |
| Description |
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008
xlvii, 280 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
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| ISBN |
9780313354120 (alk. paper) 031335412X (alk. paper)
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| Series |
Hot spot histories, 1934-631X
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| Full contents |
- 1. China and East Asia / Sally Burt
- Geographic factors
- Pre-independence
- Communism
- Foreign relations after September 11
- The Spratly Islands
- Taiwan
- Japan
- 2. East Timor / Clinton Fernandes
- Portuguese colonialism
- 1. China and East Asia / Sally Burt
- Geographic factors
- Pre-independence
- Communism
- Foreign relations after September 11
- The Spratly Islands
- Taiwan
- Japan
- 2. East Timor / Clinton Fernandes
- Portuguese colonialism
- Carnation Revolution
- Indonesian invasion and occupation
- Crimes against humanity
- UN transitional administration
- Post-independence challenges
- 3. Fiji / Jon Fraenkel
- Land policy
- The political order
- The 1987 coup
- The 2000 coup
- Makings of the 2006 coup
- 4. The India - China border / Manjeet S. Pardesi
- Historical interactions
- State structures before colonialism
- The historical status of Tibet
- The frontier from 1914 to 1947
- The pre-war years
- The Tibetan revolt, India's forward policy, and the war
- Normalization of relations
- 5. Indonesia / Damien Kingsbury and Clinton Fernandes
- Aceh
- West Papua
- 6. Kashmir / Nicolas Blarel
- Partition symdrome
- The second Indo-Pakistani war
- The Bangladesh war
- The 1987 insurgency
- The Kargil crisis
- Dispute after September 11
- 7. Korea / Stewart Lone
- Japanese colonialism
- Volatility after World War II
- The Korean War
- Inter-Korean relations in the 1970s
- The North Korean economic decline
- Post-Cold War conflict
- Nuclear weapons
- 8. Myanmar (Burma) / Sally Burt
- The rise of modern-day Myanmar
- The 1988 crisis
- The SPDC and the NLD
- International relations
- 9. The Philippines / Clinton Fernandes
- Spanish rule
- U.S. rule and the Huks
- The era of Ferdinand Marcos
- Aquino and Ramos
- Insurgencies
- 10. Solomon Islands / Sinclair Dinnen
- The political system after independence
- Ethnic tensions and the 2000 coup
- The Townsville Peace Agreement
- The instrumentalization of disorder
- Regional assistance mission to Solomon Islands
- April 2006 unrest
- 11. Sri Lanka / Damien Kingsbury
- Tamil separatism
- 12. Thailand / Carlyle A. Thayer
- Al Qaeda's "safe haven"
- Historical roots of the Thai struggle
- Separatism in the South.
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| Notes |
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-272)
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| Subjects |
Hot spots (Political science) - Asia. | Hot spots (Political science) - Oceania. | Asia - Politics and government. | Asia - Foreign relations. | Oceania - Politics and government. | Oceania - Foreign relations.
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| Other authors/contributors |
Fernandes, Clinton
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| Also Titled |
Asia and Oceania
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