Political Handbook of Asia 2007 (Regional Political Handbooks of the World)

Editors, Arthur S. Banks, Thomas C. Muller, William R. Overstreet. Includes Index. Covers the political climate in Asia. Includes North Korean's nuclear tests and the threat to security of the region; tensions between Taiwan and China; the growth of the economies of China and India and their need for sources of energy; central Asia's struggle with authoritarian governments in old soviet republics; and the rise of fundamentalist Islam and political violence in Uzbekistan, Pakistan, and Afghanistan