The Routledge Handbook of Politics in Asia is designed to serve as a comprehensive reference guide to politics in Asia. Covering East South Southeast and Central Asia this handbook brings together the work of leading international academics to cover the political histories institutions economies and cultures of the region. Taking a comparative approach it is divided into four parts including:A thorough introduction to the politics of the four regions of Asia from the perspectives of democratization foreign policy political economy and political culture. An examination of the Big Three of Asia – China India and Japan – focusing on issues including post-Mao reform China’s new world outlook Indian democracy and Japanese foreign policy. A discussion of important contemporary issues such as human rights the politics of the internet security nationalism and geopolitics. An analysis of the relationship between politics and certain theoretical ideas such as Confucianism Hinduism socialist constitutionalism and gender norms. As an invaluable and all-inclusive resource this handbook will be useful for students scholars researchers and practitioners of Asian politics and comparative politics.