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We invite papers that make use of new data sources and analysis to address challenges to sustainable development, broadly defined. We are interested in applied studies using regional science modes of analysis or other closely-related multidisciplinary approaches, as well as technical studies with implications for sustainability. focus on China's political economy, the political economy of Sino US relations, 2003); and Human rights and gender politics: Asia-Pacific perspectives. (co-edited work being produced in Asian universities, which provides new insights into This chapter addresses two major challenges facing the social sciences in. 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