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Innovation and entrepreneurship rank highly on the strategic agenda of most countries today. As global economic competition intensifies, many national policymakers now recognize the central importance of entrepreneurship education and the building of financial institutions to promote long-term innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. Drivers of Innovation brings together scholars from the United States and Asia to explore those educa...

Innovation and entrepreneurship rank highly on the strategic agenda of most countries today. As global economic competition intensifies, many national policymakers now recognize the central importance of entrepreneurship education and the building of financial institutions to promote long-term innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. Drivers of Innovation brings together scholars from the United States and Asia to explore those educa...

Does South Asia exist? Globally, regional integration and prominent regional institutionssuch as the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nationshave been on the rise. In South Asia, by contrast, such progress has been slow, despite the recent dynamic growth of Indias economy.

Examines different aspects of Japan's political economy within a longer historical trajectory, from multiple angles, to depict a flexible but resilient system. Included is a comprehensive overview of the political economy, Japan's financial system, corporate reorganization, the politics of reform, small and medium enterprises and the labour market, compensation systems, and foreign multinational corporations.

Scholar and journalist Kim Hakjoon's latest book on North Korea is a timely analysis of the rise of the Kim Il Sung family dynasty and the politics of leadership succession in Pyongyang. Drawing on official North Korean statements and leaked confidential documents, journalistic accounts, defector reports, and the observations of foreigners, the book synthesizes virtually all that is known about the history of the secretive family and how it op...

From 2007 to 2011 South Korean filmmaker and newspaper reporter Hark Joon Lee lived among North Korean defectors in China, filming an award-winning documentary on their struggles. Crossing Heaven's Border is the firsthand account of his experiences there, where he witnessed human trafficking, the smuggling of illicit drugs by North Korean soldiers, and a rare successful escape from North Korea by sea.

Of Asia's 800 million Muslims, 215 million are minorities within their countries. These Muslim minorities have experienced a persistent decline in their socioeconomic and political status. Using detailed analyses of China, India, and the Philippines, this title argues that key factors in this phenomenon include the linkage between socioeconomic decline, loss of political power, and narrowing of identity, nationalism and its associated connotat...

Why do North Korean leaders resist reform of an economic system that impoverishes the people? Can a country so dependent on outside help continue to defy the international community? In Troubled Transition, leading international experts examine these dilemmas, offering new insights into how a troubled North Korea may evolve in light of the ways other command economies and totalitarian states have transitioned.

Governments in Greater China (Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore) are striving to create higher valueadded — and homegrown —products, services, and technologies.

Argues - using case studies of major incidents during the period - that anti-Americanism was not simply a reaction to US actions, but was powerfully embedded in a longstanding Korean national narrative of victimization at the hands of great powers, magnified by the election of a left-national government and media dynamics in the Internet age.

China's New National Urbanization Plan (2014-20) sets ambitious targets for sustainable, human-centered, and environmentally friendly urbanization. This title features policy-focused contributions from leading social scientists in the US and China who explore challenges ranging from migration and labor markets to agglomeration economies, land finance, affordable housing, and education policy.

Drawing on social science expertise from China, India, and the United States, the contributors to this study examine the social and economic challenges for policy across a range of domains, from family planning and old-age support to human capital investment, poverty alleviation, and broader issues of governance.

Security has long trumped democracy as a priority for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). But the brutal dictatorship in Burma/Myanmar, political pluralism in Indonesia, and the global growth of democratic norms have led some Southeast Asians to question ASEAN's habit of turning a blind eye to domestic abuses by member states.

The division of the Korean nation into competing North and South Korean states and the destructive war that followed constitute one of the great, and still unresolved, tragedies of the 20th century. Peacemaker is the memoir of Lim Dong-won, former South Korean unification minister. Lim traces the process of twenty years of diplomatic negotiations with North Korea, from the earliest rounds of inter-Korean talks through the historic inter-Korean...

Coverage of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) all too often focuses solely on nuclear proliferation, military parades, and the personality cult around its leaders. As the British ambassador to North Korea, John Everard lived there from 2006 to 2008. Only Beautiful, Please unveils the human dimension of life in this hermetic nation. Everard recounts his impressions of the country and its people, his interactions with them, and hi...

2005 will be remembered as a year with crucial implications for the Korean peninsula and beyond. It may go down in history as the year the United States was able to establish a foundation to resolve the intractable problem of North Korea's nuclear weapons activity. It could also be the year North Korea committed itself to becoming a nuclear weapons state without compromise. Understanding that 2005 had watershed potential, the contributors to t...

As its miracle growth continues seemingly unabated into a fourth decade, Chinas emergence as a global economic and political power is accepted as inevitable. China is changing and the world is changing in response. Yet such radical transformation has also brought challenges that China must face if it is to continue its upward trajectory.

Pharmaceutical policies are interlinked globally, yet deeply rooted in local culture. Prescribing Cultures examines how pharmaceuticals and their regulation play an important and often contentious role in the health systems of the Asia-Pacific.

First Drafts of Korea" examines how the American mass media shapes U.S.perceptions of Korea and, thereby, U.S. foreign policy. Beginning with a detailed analysis of American newspapers' coverage of Korea between 1992 and 2003, the book features essays from Western journalists and senior U.S. officials with firsthand experience in Korea over the past two decades.From the democratization of South Korea in the 1980s to the current North Korean nu...

In the past twenty years, Japan has undergone dramatic changes. Electoral reform has altered the relationship between politicians and voters, and Japan is increasingly a two-party system.