New Books at ISEAS Library – Jan 2023

Highlights

The twilight struggle: what the Cold War teaches us about great-power rivalry today / Hal Brands. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022.

Call no: E840 B81

“America is entering an era of long-term great power competition with China and Russia. In this innovative and illuminating book, Hal Brands, a leading historian and former Pentagon adviser, argues that America should look to the history of the Cold War for lessons on how to succeed in great-power rivalry today.” – Publisher.


Leniency in Asian competition law / edited by Steven Van Uytsel, Mark Fenwick, Yoshiteru Uemura.  Cambridge, United Kingdom; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Call no: KM750 L56

“In response to cartel formation, competition lawyers and policymakers in nine Asian jurisdictions have experimented with leniency programmes. […] In this volume, local experts from key Asian jurisdictions, together with international experts, offer an introduction to this fast-developing field, and explore the theoretical, international and regulatory contexts of leniency programmes.” – Publisher.



Other new arrivals

by country in alphabetical order, then by region

Cambodia

The East Mebon Stele inscription from Angkor (K. 528): a Sanskrit eulogy on the tenth-century Khmer Sovereign Rājendravarman / Dominic Goodall.  Pondicherry, India: Institut Français de Pondichéry: École Française dʼExtrême-Orient, 2022.
Call no: DS554.62 G64


Laos

Upland geopolitics: postwar Laos and the global land rush / Michael B. Dwyer.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022.
Call no: HD890.4 D99


Malaysia

Making democracy work: institutional reforms for Malaysia / Bersih, edited by Ooi Kok Hin.  Petaling Jaya: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (SIRD), 2022.
Call no: JQ1062 A58B53

Stanning Najib: fanning a personality cult in Malaysian politics / Clarissa Ai Ling Lee and Amirul Adli Rosli.  Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, December 2022.
Call no: DS501 I59T NO. 18(2022)

We are marching now: the inside story of Bersih 1.0 / Danny Lim.  Malaysia: Matahari Books, 2022.
Call no: JQ1062 A95L731


Myanmar

Profiles of Myanmar personages / by Dr Myint Zan.  Yangon: Gold Publishing House, November 2022.
Call no: DS528.3 M99
Donated by the author.


Philippines

The Marcos era: a reader / editor, Leia Castañeda Anastacio and Patricio N. Abinales.  Quezon City: Bughaw, 2022.
Call no: DS686.6 M32E65

The Marcos restoration: the CenPEG papers on election 2022 / Temario C. Rivera and Bobby M. Tuazon, editors.  Quezon City: Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG), 2022.
Call no: JQ1418 M32


Singapore

Singapore and multilateral governance: securing our future / Noeleen Heyzer.  Singapore: World Scientific, 2023.
Call no: DS610.45 H62


ASEAN and Southeast Asia

Islam, culture and history in the Malay world / editor, Hafiz Zakariya.  Kuala Nerus, Terengganu: Penerbit UMT, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 2022.
Call no: DS523.4 M35I82

Turning land into capital: development and dispossession in the Mekong region / edited by Philip Hirsch, Kevin Woods, Natalia Scurrah, and Michael B. Dwyer.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022.
Call no: HD880.8 Z7T95


East / South China Sea

Monks in motion: Buddhism and modernity across the South China Sea / Jack Meng-Tat Chia.  New York, NY, United States of America: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Call no: BQ408 C53


Asia-Pacific

A nation-state by construction: dynamics of modern Chinese nationalism / Suisheng Zhao.  Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2004.
Call no: DS755.2 Z63

Accidental conflict: America, China, and the clash of false narratives / Stephen Roach.  New Haven ; London: Yale University Press, 2022.
Call no: E183.8 C5R62

Daring to struggle: China’s global ambitions under Xi Jinping / Bates Gill.  New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Call no: JZ1734 G47

Japan as a global military power: new capabilities, alliance integration, bilateralism-plus / Christopher W. Hughes.  Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Call no: UA845 H89

New world orderings: China and the Global South / Lisa Rofel and Carlos Rojas, editors.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2022.
Call no: DS779.47 N53

The governance of China. IV / Xi Jinping.  Beijing, China: Foreign Languages Press, 2022.
Call no: JQ1510 X7 V. 4

The new era in today’s China / Koh King Kee.  Petaling Jaya: Gerakbudaya Enterprise, 2022.
Call no: DS779.47 K79


Climate change and the environment

China’s environmental foreign relations / Heidi Wang-Kaeding.  Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2021.
Call no: GE190 C5W24

Green development 2030 / [Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.]  Bantian Longgang, Shenzhen: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., 2022.
Call no: HC79 E5H87


Media, Technology and Society

How to stand up to a dictator: the fight for our future / Maria Ressa ; foreword by Amal Clooney.  London: WH Allen, 2022.
Call no: PN5426 R43

Student resistance in the age of chaos / Mark Edelman Boren.  New York, NY: Seven Stories Press, 2021.
Call no: LB3610 B73 V. 1 & V. 2

The nature of data: infrastructures, environments, politics / edited by Jenny Goldstein and Eric Nost.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022.
Call no: GE45 D37N28


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