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    A collection of academic and practical books and papers related to democracy issues in the Asia-Pacific region, organized by region, sub-region, and country.


    Asia (General)
    Alagappa, Muthiah, ed., Coercion and Governance: The Declining Political Role of the Military in Asia, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001.

    Alagappa, Muthiah, Military Professionalism in Asia: Conceptual and Empirical Perspectives, Honolulu, HI: East-West Center, 2001.

    Asia 2000 Yearbook: A Review of the Events of 1999, Hong Kong: Review Publishing Co, 2000.

    The Asian Economic Downturn: Two Years beyond the Crisis, Washington, DC: The Asia Foundation, 1999.

    The Asian Financial Crisis: Lessons for a Resilient Asia, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.

    Birdsall, Nancy, and Stephan Haggard, After the Crisis: the Social Contract and the Middle Class in East Asia, Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), 2000.

    Corporate-NGO partnership in Asia Pacific, Tokyo; New York; Washington, DC: Japan Center for International Exchange, distributed worldwide by Brookings Institution Press, 1999.

    de Bary, WIlliam Theodore, Asian Values and Human Rights: A Confucian Communitarian Perspective, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.

    Haggard, Stephan. The Political Economy of the Asian Financial Crisis, Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics, 2000.

    Hsieh, John Fuh-sheng and David Newman, How Asia Votes, New York, NY: Chatham House, 2002.

    Jacobsen, Michael, and Ole Bruun, eds., Human Rights and Asian Values: Contesting National Identities and Cultural Representation in Asia, Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 2000.

    Johannen, Uwe and James Gomez, eds., Democratic Transitions in Asia, Bangkok: select publishing, in association with Friedrich Naumann Foundation, 2001.

    Laylee, Tang. Creating Asia: Rice and Rights and Freedoms: 1998 Human Rights Report, Bangkok, Thailand: Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, 1999.

    Menon, Rajan, and S. Enders Wimbush. "Asia in the 21st Century," the National Interest, Spring 2000.

    The Politics of the Economic Crisis in Asia: Consensus and Controversies, Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), 1999.

    Rethinking Energy Security in East Asia, Tokyo, Japan: Japan Center for International Exchange, distributed worldwide by Brooking Institution Press, 2000.

    The Security Environment in the Asia-Pacific, Armonk, NY: Studies of the Institute for National Policy Research, 2000.

    East Asia
    Bell, Daniel. East Meets West: Human Rights and Democracy in East Asia, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.

    Diamond, Larry, and Marc F. Plattner, eds., Democracy in East Asia, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

    Lee, Rose J. and Cal Clark, eds., Democracy and the Status of Women in East Asia, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000.

    Marsh, Ian, Jean Blondel, and Takashi Inoguchi, eds., Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance: East and Southeast Asia, New York, NY: United Nations University Press, 2000.

    Ravich, Samantha Fay. Marketization and Democracy: East Asian Experiences, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

    Root, Hilton L. "What Democracy Can Do for East Asia." Journal of Democracy, January 2002.

    South Asia
    Chadda, Maya. Building Democracy in South Asia: India, Nepal, Pakistan, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000.

    Shastri, Amita, A. Jeyaratnam Wilson, eds., The Post-Colonial States of South Asia: Democracy, Development and Identity, New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2001.

    Southeast Asia
    Approaches to Human Rights in Southeast Asia, Washington, DC: The Asia Foundation, 1999.

    Emmerson, Donald K. "Southeast Asia After the Crisis: A Tale of Three Countries," Journal of Democracy, October 1999.

    Eng. Peter, "The Media and Democratization in Southeast Asia," Current History, December 1997.

    Hewison, Kevin. "Political Space in Southeast Asia: 'Asian-style' and Other Democracies," Democratization, Spring 1999.

    Bangladesh
    Murshed, Yasmeen and Nazim Kamran Choudhury, "Bangladesh's Second Chance," Journal of Democracy, January 1997.

    Schaffer, Howard B., "Back and Forth in Bangladesh," Journal of Democracy, January 2002.

    Shah, Aqil, "Democracy on Hold in Pakistan." Journal of Democracy, January 2002.

    Wilkinson, Steven I., "Democratic Consolidation and Failure: Lessons from Bangladesh and Pakistan." Democratization, Autumn 2000.

    Bhutan
    Adhikari, Narad, "Bhutan Embarks for Constitutional Monarchy: Yet Another Dramatisation," 2002.

    Burma
    Fink, Christina, "Living Silence: Burma Under Military Rule," London: Zed Books, 2001.

    Lintner, Bertil, "The Proof of the Pudding." Far Eastern Economic Review, May 16, 2002.

    Reynolds, Andrew, Alfred C. Stepan, Zaw Oo, and Stephen I. Levine, "How Burma Could Democratize." Journal of Democracy, October 2001.

    Silverstein, Josef, "Burma's Uneven Struggle," Journal of Democracy, October 1996.

    Cambodia
    Neou, Kassie and Jeffrey C. Gallup, "Conducting Cambodia's Elections," Journal of Democracy, April 1999.

    Peou, Sorpong, Intervention and Change in Cambodia: Toward Democracy?, New York: St. Martin's, 2000.

    Roberts, David W., Political Transition in Cambodia 1991-99: Power, Elitism, and Democracy, New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2001.

    China
    Chao, Sui-Sheng, ed., China and Democracy: The Prospects for a Democratic China, New York, NY: Routledge, 2000.

    Davis, Michael C., "The Case for Chinese Federalism," Journal of Democracy, April 1999.

    Election Observation Report: Shanxi Province, People's Republic of China, Washington, DC: International Republication Institute (IRI), 2000.

    Feinerman, James V., "The Rule of Law...with Chinese Socialist Characteristics," Current History, September 1997.

    Francis, Corinna-Barbara, "Quasi-Public, Quasi-Private Trends in Emerging Market Economies: The Case of China," Comparative Politics, April 2001.

    Friedman, Edward, "Chinese Culture and Democracy," Journal of Democracy, July 1998.

    Gilboy, George and Eric Heginbotham, "China's Coming Transformation," Foreign Affairs, July/August 2001.

    Hachigian, Nina, "China's Cyber-Strategy." Foreign Affairs, March/April 2001.

    Junning, Liu, "Classical Liberalism Catches On in China," Journal of Democracy, July 2000.

    Louie, Kin-Sheun, "Village Self-governance and Democracy in China: An Evaluation," Democratization, Winter 2001.

    Lum, Thomas G., Problems of Democratization in China, New York, NY: Garland, 2000.
    Nathan, Andrew J., "The Tiananmen Papers," Foreign Affairs, January/February 2001.

    Pearson, Margaret M., "China's Emerging Business Class: Democracy's Harbinger?" Current History, September 1998.

    Santoro, Michael A., "Global Capitalism and the Road to Chinese Democracy," Current History, September 2000.

    Santoro, Michael A., Profits and Principles: Global Capitalism and Human Rights in China, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000.

    Shao Hua Hu, Explaining Chinese Democratization, Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000.

    Perry, Susan, "Holding Up Half the Sky: Women in China," Current History, September 1998.

    Seymour, James D., "Human Rights, Repression, and 'Stability,'" Current History, September 1999.

    Sun, Yan, "Reform, State, and Corruption: Is Corruption Less Destructive in China Than in Russia?" Comparative Politics, October 1999.

    White, Tyrene, "Village Elections: Democracy from the Bottom Up," Current History, September 1998.

    India
    Bryld, Erik, "Increasing Participation in Democratic Institutions Through Decentralization: Empowering Women and Scheduled Castes and Tribes Through Panchayat Raj in Rural India," Democratization, Autumn 2001.

    Frankel, Francine R., Zoya Hasan, and Rajeev Bhargava, eds., Transforming India: Social and Political Dynamics of Democracy, New Delhi, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000.

    Ganguly, Sumit, "India's Multiple Revolutions," Journal of Democracy, January 2002.

    Hansen, Thomas Blom, The Saferon Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University PRess, 1999.

    Jayal, Niraja Gopal and Sudhai Pai, eds., Democratic Governance in India: Challenges of Poverty, Development, and Identity, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2002.

    Kohli, Atul, ed., The Success of India's Democracy, Cambridge, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

    Overholt, William H., "Hong Kong: The Perils of Semidemocracy." Journal of Democracy, October 2001.

    Rudolph, Susanne Hoeber and Lloyd I. Rudolph, "New Dimensions in Indian Democracy," Journal of Democracy, January 2002.

    Varshney, Ashutosh, Democracy, Development, and the Countryside: Urban-Ryral Struggles in India, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

    Indonesia
    Harymurti, Bambang, "Southeast Asia After the Crisis: Challenges of Change in Indonesia," Journal of Democracy, October 1999.

    Hefner, Robert W., Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.

    Hefner, Robert W., ed., The Politics of Multiculturalism: Pluralism and Citizen in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2001.

    Malley, Michael, "Beyond Democratic Elections: Indonesia Embarks on a Protracted Transition." Democratization, Autumn 2000.

    Japan
    The Japan - U.S. Alliance: New Challenges for the 21st Century, Tokyo, Japan: Japan Center for International Exchange, distributed worldwide by Brooking Institution Press, 2000.

    Vogel, Steven K. ,"Japan's Political Transition," Journal of Democracy, July 2000.

    Malaysia
    Case, William, "Malaysia's Resilient Pseudodemocracy," Journal of Democracy, January 2001.

    Hefner, Robert W., ed., The Politics of Multiculturalism: Pluralism and Citizen in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2001.

    Mongolia
    Sabloff, Paula L.W., "Why Mongolia? The Political Culture of an Emerging Democracy," Central Asia Survey, May 2002.

    Pakistan
    Constable, Pamela, "Pakistan's Predicament." Journal of Democracy, January 2001.

    Rashid, Ahmed, "Pakistan's Coup: Planting the Seeds of Democracy," Current History, December 1999.

    Shah, Aqil, "Democracy on Hold in Pakistan," Journal of Democracy, January 2002.

    Wilkinson, Steven I., "Democratic Consolidation and Failure: Lessons from Bangladesh and Pakistan." Democratization, Autumn 2000.

    The Philippines
    Abinales, Patricio N., "Coalition Politics in the Philippines," Current History, April 2001.

    Landé, Carl H., "Return of 'People Power' in the Phillipines." Journal of Democracy, April 2001.

    Montinola, Gabriella R. "Parties and Accountability in the Philippines," Journal of Democracy, January 1999.

    Singapore
    Hefner, Robert W., ed., The Politics of Multiculturalism: Pluralism and Citizen in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2001.

    South Korea
    Armstrong, Charles K., ed., Korean Society: Civil Society, Democracy and the State, New York, NY: Routledge, 2002.

    Diamond, Larry and Byung-Kook Kim, eds., Consolidating Democracy in South Korea, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000.

    Kim, Samuel S., Korea's Globalization, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

    Lee, Junhan, "Political Protest and Democratization in South Korea," Democratization, Autumn 2000.

    Mo, Jongryn and Chung-in Moon, "Korea after the Crash," Journal of Democracy, July 1999.

    Solinger, Dorothy J., "Ending One-Party Dominance: Korea, Taiwan, Mexico." Journal of Democracy, January 2001.

    Sri Lanka
    DeVotta, Neil, "Illiberalism and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka," Journal of Democracy, January 2002.

    Young, Miriam, "Making Peace in Sri Lanka," Current History, April 2001.

    Taiwan
    Campbell, Kurt M. and Derek Mitchell, "Crisis in the Taiwan Strait?" Foreign Affairs, July/August 2001.

    Chao, Linda, and Ramon H. Myers, The First Chinese Democracy: Political Life in the Republic of China on Taiwan, Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

    Freeman, Jr, Chas W., "Preventing War in the Taiwan Strait." Foreign Affairs, July/August 1998.

    Pye, Lucien W., "Taiwan Gets in Rights," Journal of Democracy, January 1999.

    Rigger, Shelley, "Machine Politics and Protracted Transition in Taiwan," Democratization, Autumn 2000.

    Solinger, Dorothy J., "Ending One-Party Dominance: Korea, Taiwan, Mexico," Journal of Democracy, January 2001.

    Teng-Hui, Lee, "Understanding Taiwan," Foreign Affairs, November/December 1999.

    Thailand
    Bunbongkarn, Suchit, "Southeast Asia After the Crisis: Thailand's Successful Reforms," Journal of Democracy, October 1999.

    Arghiros, Daniel, Democracy, Development and Decentralization in Provincial Thailand, Richmond: Curzon Press, 2001.

    Tibet
    Goldstein, Melvyn C., "The Dalai Lama's Dilemma." Foreign Affairs, January/ February 1998.

    Norbu, Jamyang, Rangzen Charter: the Case for Tibetan Independence, Dharamsala, India: Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), 1999. Released on April 27, 1999, at the Tibetan Children's Village, Dharamsala, on the occasion of the commemoration of Thupten Ngodup's self-immolation in New Delhi on April 27, 1998.

    Vietnam
    Abuza, Zachary, Renovating Politics in Contemporary Vietnam, Boulder, Co: Lynne Rienner, 2001.


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