1st Edition

Asia and the Transformation of the World-System

By Ganesh K. Trichur Copyright 2009
176 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

In this collaboratively authored book world-system scholars critically synthesize Asia's re-emerging centrality despite the myriad financial crises that have punctuated the end of the U.S.-dominated Cold War world order. From different vantage points the authors review the turbulent landscape of the region that points toward a new Asian world order as well as contradictory symptoms and signals.... Read more
Part 1 Asian Regionality and the Geopolitics of the World-System; Chapter 1 East Asian Regional Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century World-System, Ganesh K. Trichur; Chapter 2 The Politics of Geopolitics, Immanuel Wallerstein; Chapter 3 Asia, Eurasia, Eurasianism, Boris Stremlin; Chapter 4 China in Three Geographical Contexts, Steven Sherman; Chapter 5, Thomas D. Hall, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Richard Niemeyer; Part 2 Asian Struggles; Chapter 6 Dictatorship and Development in China, Robert K. Schaeffer; Chapter 7 China, Asia, and Labor Standards after the 2005 Multi-Fiber Arrangement, Robert J. S. Ross; Chapter 8 Aquaculture Commodity Chains and Threats to food Security And Survival of Asian Fishing Households, Wilma A. Dunaway, M. Cecilia Macabuac; Chapter 9 Utopystics and the Asiatic Modes of Liberation, Mohammad H. Tamdgidi;

Biography

Trichur, Ganesh K.