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• Straddling Economics and Politics: Cross-Cutting Issues in Asia, the United States, and the Global Economy (2002), by Charles Wolf (PDF files at rand.org)

• Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping (3 volumes, covering 1938-1992), by Deng Xiaoping (HTML in China)

• The Case for India: The Presidential Address Delivered by Annie Besant at the Thirty-Second Indian National Congress Held at Calcutta, 26th December 1917, by Annie Besant (Gutenberg text)

• Khomeini's Incorporation of the Iranian Military (McNair paper #48; Washington: Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, 1996), by Mark J. Roberts
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Strangling of Persia: A Story of the European Diplomacy and Oriental Intrigue That Resulted in the Denationalization of Twelve Million Mohammedans (New York: The Century Co., 1912), by W. Morgan Shuster (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Why War Came in Korea (New York: Fordham University Press, 1950), by Robert T. Oliver (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Military and Democracy in Asia and the Pacific (2004), ed. by Ronald James May and Viberto Selochan (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), by Adeeb Khalid (HTML at UC Press)
• Alpamysh: Central Asian Identity Under Russian Rule, by H. B. Paksoy
  • HTML in Italy
  • text files with commentary at Euronet

• Afghanistan and the Future of Warfare: Implications for Army and Defense Policy (2002), by Stephen D. Biddle (multiple formats at Google)

• Azerbeycan ve Inkilâbi (in Ottoman Turkish; Istanbul: Sirket-i Mürettibiye Matbaasi, 1921), by Efendizade Mehmet Serif (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Dictatorship, Disorder and Decline in Myanmar, ed. by Monique Skidmore and Trevor Wilson (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Charter 08 (English translation with commentary, 2009), ed. by E. Perry Link, contrib. by Liu Xiaobo
  • HTML at chinafile.com
  • original Chinese text: HTML at 2008xianzhang.info
• Far Eastern Governments and Politics: China and Japan (second edition; Princeton, NJ et al.: Van Nostrand, c1956), by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, Djang Chu, and Ardath W. Burks (page images at HathiTrust)
• China, a Model for Europe (including a translation of Quesnay's "Despotism in China"; San Antonio: Paul Anderson Co., c1946), by Lewis A. Maverick, contrib. by François Quesnay (page images at HathiTrust)
• China and the U.S.A. (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1937), by Earl Browder
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at flvc.org
• The Problem of China, by Bertrand Russell (Gutenberg text)
• The Story of a Chinese Oxford Movement (second edition; Shanghai: Shanghai Mercury ltd., 1912), by Gu Hongming
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • page images at Northwestern
• The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-Sen: An Exposition of the Sun Min Chu I (reprint of a 1936 thesis; Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1973), by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, contrib. by Arthur N. Holcombe (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• An American Diplomat in China (Garden City, NY and Toronto: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1922), by Paul S. Reinsch
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• China and the World War (New York: Macmillan, 1919), by W. Reginald Wheeler (illustrated HTML at BYU)
• The Fight for the Republic in China (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1917), by B. L. Putnam Weale
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Fight for the Republic in China (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1918), by B. L. Putnam Weale
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Awakening of China (Chicago: Daily Worker Pub. Co., c1926), by James H. Dolsen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• India: Its State and Prospects (London: Parbury, Allen and Co., 1835), by Edward Thornton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Bankruptcy of India: An Enquiry Into the Administration of India Under the Crown; Including a Chapter on the Silver Question (London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey and Co., 1886), by H. M. Hyndman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Reconstructing India (London: P. S. King and Son, 1920), by M. Visvesvaraya
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), by Ervand Abrahamian (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Islamic Government: Governance of the Jurist, by Ruhollah Khomeini, trans. by Hamid Algar (multiple formats at al-islam.org)

• President Saddam Hussein's Speech on National Day, 1981 (Baghdad: Dar al-Ma'mun for Translation and Publishing, 1981), by Saddam Hussein, trans. by Naji Hadithi (multiple formats at archive.org)
• One Common Trench or Two Opposite Ones? (with links to additional speeches), by Saddam Hussein (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Review of the Civil Administration of Mesopotamia (London: H.M. Stationery Off., 1920), by Gertrude Lowthian Bell and Arnold Talbot Wilson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Israel, Anti-Semitism, and Free Speech (New York: American Jewish Committee, 2007), by Bernard Harrison (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Brief Guide for the Perplexed (revised and updated editions in multiple languages; New York: American Jewish Committee, c2018), by David A. Harris (HTML and PDF at ajc.org and joomag.org)
• Our Sisters' Promised Land: Women, Politics, and Israeli-Palestinian Coexistence (paperback edition, with new preface; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003), by Ayala H. Emmett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Jewish State: A Century Later, by Alan Dowty (HTML at UC Press)
• Tradition and Politics: The Religious Parties of Israel (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1977), by Gary S. Schiff (multiple formats at Wayne State)
• The Iron Wall: Zionist Revisionism from Jabotinsky to Shamir, by Lenni Brenner (HTML at marxists.de)

• Shadow Over Asia: The Rise of Militant Japan (Headline Books #29; New York: Foreign Policy Association, c1941), by T. A. Bisson, illust. by Graphic Associates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Far Eastern Governments and Politics: China and Japan (second edition; Princeton, NJ et al.: Van Nostrand, c1956), by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, Djang Chu, and Ardath W. Burks (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Crisis of Democracy: Report on the Governability of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission (New York: New York University Press, c1975), by Michel Crozier, Samuel P. Huntington, and Joji Watanuki (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Japanese Government Documents, 1867-1889 (special issue of Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan; 1914), by Japan, ed. by W. W. McLaren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women and Wisdom of Japan (London: J. Murray, 1909), by Kaibara Ekiken, contrib. by Shingoro Takaishi (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Women and Wisdom of Japan (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1910), by Kaibara Ekiken, contrib. by Shingoro Takaishi (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kazahkstan: Freedom of the Media and Political Freedoms in the Prelude to the 1999 Elections (1999), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML with commentary at hrw.org)

• Korean Report, 1948-1952: A Review of Governmental Procedures During Two Years of Peace and Two of War (Washington: Korean Pacific Press, 1952), by Robert T. Oliver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report to the President, Submitted by Lt. Gen. A. C. Wedemeyer, September 1947: Korea (redacted unclassified version; China material omitted; Washington: GPO, 1951), by Albert C. Wedemeyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Verdict in Korea (State College, PA: Bald Eagle Press, c1952), by Robert T. Oliver (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Vanguard of the Islamic Revolution: The Jama'at-i Islami of Pakistan, by Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr (HTML at UC Press)

• The Era of Reform (1973), by Qatar Permanent Mission to the United Nations (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ceylon Sessional Papers, by Ceylon (partial serial archives)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.