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Category : East Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Symposium on U.S.-Pacific Rim Relations
Author: The United States Trade Relations with the Pacific Basin Newly Industrializing Countries
Author: Won Kwang PaikPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative advantage (International trade)
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Globalization and the Challenges of a New Century
Author: Patrick O'MearaPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253028183
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
"If you want to catch up on some of the best articles written about globalisation since the topic became fashionable several years ago, this reader is the place to start." —The Economist A blue ribbon collection of major articles and position papers on the concept of globalization. By bringing together a number of major thinkers and different perspectives, this book provides a broad introduction to the topic and lays the groundwork for an interdisciplinary collaborative dialogue. Contributors include Kofi Annan, Benjamin Barber, Francis Fukuyama, Samuel Huntington, Robert Kaplan, Paul Kennedy, Walter Lacqueur, Bill McKibben, Lester Thurow, and Jeffrey Sachs.
Pacific Basin Industries in Distress
Author: Hugh PatrickPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231513821
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Pacific Basin Industries in Distress
New Challenges for ASEAN
Author: Richard StubbsPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774842660
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
New Challenges for ASEAN examines some of the most important policy issues confronting Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) governments. These include the degradation of the maritime and urban environments, new strains on inter-ethnic relations, domestic and international pressures to ensure the protection of human rights, growing barriers to trade with the outside world, and security concerns arising from a changing regional balance of power. The responses of the ASEAN governments to these challenges, at domestic, regional and international levels, are critically examined by a group of experts with longstanding interest in Southeast Asian affairs.
The Emerging Technological Trajectory of the Pacific Basin
Author: Denis Fred SimonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315485117
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
This work covers in depth the new patterns of manufacturing and technology transfer that are emerging as Japanese companies seek to harness Asia's technological resources, and to utilise them to compete both regionally and globally.
Insatiable Appetite
Author: Richard P. TuckerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520220870
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Yankee investors and plantation managers mobilized engineers, agronomists, and loggers to undertake what they called the "Conquest of the Tropics," claiming to bring civilization to benighted peoples and cultivation to unproductive nature. In competitive cooperation with local landed and political elites, they not only cleared natural forests but also displaced multicrop tribal and peasant lands with monocrop export plantations rooted in private property regimes.
Rethinking the Cold War
Author: Allen HunterPublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439904561
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A path-breaking collection of essays by cutting-edge authors that reassess the Cold War since the fall of communism.
United States Trade Relations with the Newly Industrializing Countries in the Pacific Basin
Author: Won Kwang PaikPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042985661X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
With the resurgence of ‘new Protectionism’, international trade and trade relations are once again prime topics for study. This book, first published in 1997, examines in detail the different ways to answer the questions: What are the causes of trade relations? And specifically, what factors determine a flow of commodities from one country to another?
Race to the Swift
Author: Jung-en WooPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231071475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A comprehensive and original account of the rise of Korea's developmental state, Race to the Swift by Jung-en Woo argues that Korea's industrial growth is neither a miracle nor a cultural mystery, but the outcome of a previously misunderstood political economy.