New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific

The fully up-dated 2nd edition of The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific presents a coherent framework for understanding the complex international and global politics of the Asia Pacific. This is an introductory textbook to the main frameworks needed to understand the region (realism, liberalism, critical theory), which is reader-friendly while still offering sophisticated competing interpretations. The authors present a highly topical account that provides an overview of the main actors, institutions and contemporary issues, such as security and transnational actors.Connors, Michael is the author of 'New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific ', published 2004 under ISBN 9780415285636 and ISBN 0415285631.