Asia Pacific Legal Culture and Globalization
The Asia Pacific Legal Culture and Globalization series explores intersecting themes that revolve around the impact of globalization in countries on the Asia Pacific Rim and examines the significance of legal culture as a mediator of that impact. The emphasis is on a broad understanding of legal culture that extends beyond traditional legal institutions and actors to normative frameworks and the legal consciousness of ordinary people. Books in the series reflect international scholarship from a wide variety of disciplines, including law, political science, economics, sociology, and history.
Globalization, Poverty, and Income Inequality
Insights from Indonesia
Globalization, Poverty, and Income Inequality uses diverse empirical approaches to reveal the sometimes unexpected effects of trade and globalization on poverty and inequality.
Exporting Virtue?
China’s International Human Rights Activism in the Age of Xi Jinping
Exporting Virtue? critically explores the ways in which China is attempting to change international human rights standards to accommodate its interests.
Good Governance in Economic Development
International Norms and Chinese Perspectives
Good Governance in Economic Development examines what happens at the intersection of international and Chinese conceptions of transparency, accountability, and public participation.
A Human Rights Based Approach to Development in India
This book demonstrates why economic development is synonymous with institutional development for the furthering of human development issues.
Grey Zones in International Economic Law and Global Governance
Grey Zones in International Economic Law and Global Governance examines contested zones of global governance to understand state policy and market behaviour in the current era.
The Stability Imperative
Human Rights and Law in China
Legal expert Sarah Biddulph uses case studies to examine the multiple and shifting ways in which the Chinese government’s efforts to maintain social and political stability impact on the legal definition and implementation of human rights in China.
