Book of Donmon Teith

Predicts that East Asia, with its remarkable diversity of political regimes, economies, and religions, would likely be the critical arena in the global struggle

East Asian democracies are in trouble, their legitimacy threatened by poor policy performance and undermined by nostalgia for the progrowth, soft-authoritarian

Comparative analysis of case studies across East Asia provides new insights into the relationship between state building, stateness, and democracy.

A unique, comparative-historical analysis of the impact of democratization on five nationalist conflicts in Southeast Asia.

Taking a comparative approach, Alan T. Wood traces the evolution of democracy from its origins in prehistoric times and describes democratic growth in thirteen