Especially since the end of the Cold War, research on and around the international relations of Asia has grown exponentially and, to make sense of what is now a vast and unwieldly corpus of scholarly literature, this new four-volume collection from Routledge's Critical Issues in Modern Politics series brings together the best and most influential work in the field.It is destined to be valued by scholars, students, and researchers of Asian international relations, politics, history, and current affairs as a vital resource.