Security Competition and International Order in the Digital Era 数字时代的安全竞争与国际秩序

Security Competition and International Order in the Digital Era” mainly analyzes the strategic competition of great powers and the changes and continuation of international/regional order and their impact mechanisms in the process of entering the digital era. It combines the reality of international relations to reveal the impact of digital technology on national military capabilities …

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Ethics of Belonging: Education, Religion, and Politics in Manado, Indonesia

The city of Manado and province of North Sulawesi have built a public identity based on religious harmony, claiming to successfully model tolerance and inter-religious relations for the rest of Indonesia. Yet, in discourses and practices relevant to everyday interactions in schools and political debates in the public sphere, two primary contested frames for belonging …

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Strongman’s Brokers Old Diasporas and New Networks in the Age of Populism

This book explores the critical role of informal diplomats in shaping contemporary global politics as they navigate complex networks of power and influence in the age of strongman leaders. The world of international relations has long been viewed as the domain of state institutions and career diplomats. But in the age of strongman leaders, a …

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Asian Ethnicity – Special Issue: Asian Ethnicity Co-Producing Ethnicity in Urban Asia (Volume 24, Issue 4)

The articles in this special issue examine engagements across ethnic boundaries in Asian cities over the past two centuries. We see these cities as stages for the co-production of ethnicity, where multiple actors, including but not limited to state authorities, have attempted to define, manage, and challenge the social boundaries between their diverse inhabitants. These …

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World of Worldly Gods: The Persistence and Transformation of Shamanic Bon

In World of Worldly Gods, Kelzang T. Tashi offers the first comprehensive examination of the tenacity of Shamanic Bon practices, as they are lived and contested in the presence of an invalidating force: Buddhism. Through a rich ethnography of Goleng and nearby villages in central Bhutan, Tashi investigates why people, despite shifting contexts, continue to …

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Global Networks – Special Issue: Beyond Migration? Alternative Articulations of Transnational Religious Networks (Volume 23, Issue 3)

A growing body of scholarship on transnational religion is grounded within the analytical framework of the religion–migration relationship and has highlighted migrant individuals and groups as main players in forging religious networking. This ignores a wide range of alternative drivers that are forceful in the (re)making of transnational religious networks. In this introduction of the …

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Social Enterprise in China State-Third Sector Relations and Institutional Effectiveness

Wang offers an empirically based exploration into work-integration social enterprises as a means for delivering social services in China. Focusing on the political economy of social enterprise development in China, Wang examines the nature of the relationship between the state and social enterprises and the implications of such relationships for their institutional effectiveness. She adopts …

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Stalemate: Autonomy and Insurgency on the China-Myanmar Border

Stalemate reveals the history and contemporary politics of the United Wa State Army (UWSA), Asia’s strongest insurgent army on Myanmar’s border with China. This ethnographic tale recounts how a highland group, often dismissed as rebels or narcotraffickers, maintains a relational autonomy between two powerful lowland states. The Wa polity engages rather than evades these surrounding states, yet …

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Marriage Migration, Family and Citizenship in Asia

Amidst the increasing global trend of cross-border marriage migration, this book offers timely theoretical and empirical insights into contemporary debates about migration and citizenship. Extant scholarship on marriage migration and citizenship have concentrated on East-West inter-cultural marriages and tended to approach citizenship as an individual-centred concept linked to the nation-state, thus fading the family into …

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