Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Maps, Tables and Figures -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Crafting the Modern State: Religion, Family and Military in Japan,China and Korea -- 2. Nationalism in the Age of Globalisation: The Case of East Asia -- 3. Domestic Mobility and Elite Rent-Seeking: The Right to Migrate among Provinces and Vietnam's Economic Success Story -- 4. The State and Ulama in Contemporary Malaysia -- 5. Counting Votes That Count: A Systemic Analysis of the 2007 Timorese Elections and the Performance of Electoral Institutions -- 6. The Ongoing Crisis in East-Timor: Analysis of Endogenous and Exogenous Factors -- 7. Populism in East Asia's New Democracies: An Analysis of the Taiwanese Discourse -- 8. Dominance of SMEs among Overseas Chinese Business Networks: A Network Structural Approach -- 9. Building Regional Security Architecture: The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation From an Organisational Theories Perspective -- 10. Regionalism in Asia -- 11. The Impact of China-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement on Textiles and Clothing Sectors of Asian Regions -- 12. China and the Transformation of the Post-Cold War Geopolitical Order -- List of Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index.