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Andrew J. Nathan

ANDREW J. NATHAN is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University.

Letters From Prison

Japan’s Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty

Three Books on Pakistan

Korea: A New History of South and North

Three Books on Technology, Governance, and Capitalism in China

Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century

Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

Reading the China Dream

The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy

Japan’s Quiet Leadership: Reshaping the Indo-Pacific

Stalemate: Autonomy and Insurgency on the China-Myanmar Border

An Ecological History of Modern China

Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions

Banking on Beijing: The Aims and Impacts of China’s Overseas Development Program

The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline

Japan’s Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance

Contemporary Japanese Politics and Anxiety Over Governance

Victorious in Defeat: The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887–1975

Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China

Narratives of Civic Duty: How National Stories Shape Democracy in Asia

The Return of the Taliban: Afghanistan After the Americans Left

Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future

China’s Law of the Sea: The New Rules of Maritime Order

No Limits: The Inside Story of China’s War With the West

Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism

Chasing Freedom: The Philippines’ Long Journey to Democratic Ambivalence

Unity Through Division: Political Islam, Representation, and Democracy in Indonesia

Hostile Forces: How the Chinese Communist Party Resists International Pressure on Human Rights

Patrol and Persuade: A Follow-Up Investigation to 110 Overseas

Deadly Decision in Beijing: Succession Politics, Protest Repression, and the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre

How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding

Under the Gun: Political Parties and Violence in Pakistan

China’s Quest for Financial Self-Reliance: How Beijing Plans to Decouple From the Dollar-Based Global Trading and Financial System

Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China

Qing Imperial Illustrations of Tributary Peoples: A Cultural Cartography of Empire

On Dangerous Ground: America’s Century in the South China Sea

The Dalai Lama’s Special Envoy: Memoirs of a Lifetime in Pursuit of a Reunited Tibet

The Fractured Himalaya: India, Tibet, China, 1949–1962

Winning by Process: The State and Neutralization of Ethnic Minorities in Myanmar

Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China

Open Borders, Open Society? Immigration and Social Integration in Japan

Corruption Control in Authoritarian Regimes: Lessons From East Asia

From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia

We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks

Ultimate Economic Conflict Between China and Democratic Countries: An Institutional Analysis

Coalitions of the Weak: Elite Politics in China from Mao’s Stratagem to the Rise of Xi

Two Books on China's Campaign for Influence Abroad

Line of Advantage: Japan’s Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzo

How to Avoid a War Over Taiwan

Books for the Century: Asia and Pacific

The Alternate History of China

Beijing Is Still Playing the Long Game on Taiwan

All Roads Lead North: China, Nepal, and the Contest for the Himalayas

The Tiger Leading the Dragon: How Taiwan Propelled China’s Economic Rise

City on the Edge: Hong Kong Under Chinese Rule

Americans in China: Encounters With the People’s Republic

Retrofitting Leninism: Participation Without Democracy in China

When the Iron Bird Flies: China’s Secret War in Tibet

Infiltrating Society: The Thai Military’s Internal Security Affairs

Religious Pluralism in Indonesia: Threats and Opportunities for Democracy

Three Books on Social and Political Life in China

The Digital Silk Road: China’s Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future

India Before Modi: How the BJP Came to Power

A Rival of America’s Making?

Colonial Institutions and Civil War: Indirect Rule and Maoist Insurgency in India

Democracy and Nationalism in Southeast Asia: From Secessionist Mobilization to Conflict Resolution

Rethinking Chinese Politics

When People Want Punishment: Retributive Justice and the Puzzle of Authoritarian Popularity

A Region of Regimes: Prosperity and Plunder in the Asia-Pacific

China and the International Human Rights Regime, 1982–2017

The Political Economy of the Abe Government and Abenomics Reforms

The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam

The Hijacked War: The Story of Chinese POWS in the Korean War

Kashmir at the Crossroads: Inside a Twenty-First-Century Conflict

Two Books on Chinese Economic Influence

Three Books on Tibet

Coup, King, Crisis: A Critical Interregnum in Thailand

Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies

Two Books on Chinese Strategy

Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860–1960

China’s Quest for Foreign Technology: Beyond Espionage

Bombay Brokers

To Kill a Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism

Three Books on Japan's Interwar Period

Two Books on the Belt and Road Initiative

The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign Against a Muslim Minority

China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption

Mao Zedong: A Biography. Vol. 1, 1893– 1949

China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet

Anti-Christian Violence in India

Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps

The Koreas: The Birth of Two Nations Divided

Two Books on Chinese Influence

Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping the World

China: The Bubble That Never Pops

Two Books on the Chinese State

Three Books on Asian Political Leaders

In the Name of the Nation: India and Its Northeast

Kim Jong Un and the Bomb: Survival and Deterrence in North Korea

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