The Routledge Handbook of Politics in Asia provides a comprehensive reference guide to scholarship on politics in Asia from a comparative perspective. Covering East, Southeast South and Central Asia, it brings together the work of leading international academics to cover the political histories, institutions, economies and culture of the region.

Introduction 1. The Comparative Study of Asian Politics, Shiping Hua Part 1: A Comprehensive Introduction to Comparative Asian Politics Democratization: Political Institutions and Processes 2. East Asia, Brian Woodall 3. Southeast Asia, Ehito Kimura, 4. South Asia, Maya Chadda 5. Central Asia, Mariya Omelicheva Foreign Policy: Asia and the World 6. East Asia, Dennis Hickey and Dean Chen 7. Southeast Asia, Shane Barter and Amanda Boralessa 8. South Asia, Arndt Michael 9. Central Asia, Roger Kangas The Developmental State: Political Economic Considerations 10. East Asia, Linjun Wu 11. Southeast Asia, Yueting Tong 12. South Asia, Amita Batra 13. Central Asia, Luca Anceschi The Asian Way: Political Culture and Tradition 14. East Asia, Yu-tzung Chang, Yun-han Chu and Mark Weatherall 15. Southeast Asia, Bridget Welsh and Kai-ping Huang 16. South Asia, Subrata Kumar Mitra, and La Toya Waha 17. Central Asia, Nalin Kumar Mohapatra Part 2: Introducing the Major Powers in Asia: China, India and Japan 18. China's Post-Mao Reforms, Jason Chunlong Lu and Ting Yang 19. China's Foreign Policy, Baohui Zhang 20. Huaxiaism, A New World View, Zicheng Ye and Xiaole Zhu 21. China's Foreign Energy Policy, Qinhua Xu 22. The Adaptation of Democracy: India, Ajay K. Mehra 23. India's Foreign Policy, Shibashis Chatterjee 24. Japan's Foreign Policy, Sebastian Maslow Part 3: Issues and Problems 25. Multilateral Institutional Development in Asia, Yong Deng 26. Human Rights in Asia, Thio Li-ann 27. Politics of the Internet in Asia, Jason P. Abbott 28. Military and Politics in Asia, Aurel Croissant and David Kuehn 29. The State of Democracy in Asia, Amy L. Freedman 30. Security in Asian States, Kenneth Boutin 31. Nationalism in Asia-Pacific , Kam-yee Law 32. Geopolitics and Geo-economics in Eurasia and the Indo-Pacific Rim, Peter J. Rimmer AM 33. The Politics of Ethnicity in Southeast Asia, Joel Selway 34. New Regionalism and Euroasia, Mikhail A. Molchanov Part 4: Explaining Asia: Theories. 35. Confucianism and the Rise of East Asia, Jinghao Zhou 36. Is Confucian Culture Compatible with Democracy? John Fuh-sheng Hsieh 37. Hinduism and Democracy, Rina Williams and Nandini Deo 38. Socialist Constitutionalism, Yuxin Ma 39. Gender and Politics in South Asia, Vidyamali Samarasinghe Conclusion 40. Prospect of Comparative Asian Political Developments, Peter Moody