The newest addition to CQ Press’s Political Handbook series, Political Handbook of Asia 2007 offers researchers a timely, one-stop source for understanding the political climate in Asia. This volume covers 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.