Volume 4, Emerging States at Crossroads, analyzes the economic, social, and political challenges that emerging states confronts, including middle-income trap, social disparity, and pressure for political opening.

This four-volume collection of Open Access books presents trans-disciplinary dialogues on the modern state formation and high economic growth of middle-income countries. Volume 1, Emerging States and Economies: Their Origins, Drivers, and Challenges Ahead, showcases such a dialogue. Volume 2, Paths to the Emerging State in Asia and Africa, offers historical and contemporary case studies asking how a country which was incorporated into the world economy as a periphery could undertake the task of economic development. Volume 3, Developmental State-Building: The Politics of Emerging Economy, modifies and revitalizes the notion of developmental state through nuanced analysis on the roles of human agency in structural transformation. Volume 4, Emerging States at Crossroads, analyzes the economic, social, and political challenges that emerging states confronts, including middle-income trap, social disparity, and pressure for political opening.

Highlights the usage of developmental state to understand structural transformation led by political leadership, institutional reform and/or rapid economic growth Attempts a systematic analysis of the nature of the middle-income trap, social disparity, and political instability which the emerging states are required to overcome Compares a variety of emerging states in Asia, Latin America, and Africa to illuminate common challenges they face This set includes four Open Access books Introduces a notion of ‘emerging states’ which have managed rapid economic development Mobilizes multiple disciplines to analyze the initial conditions, past trajectories, state capacity and behaviors, and future prospects of emerging states Explores the dynamics of regional and global connections and other major drivers of emerging states and the sources of risks and uncertainties they confront Explores how a country could make a transition from the periphery of the world economy to the ‘emerging state’ Draws a new perspective on the role of the emerging state by combining the approaches of economic history and development economics Revises the concept of developmental state to understand the politics of emerging economy where society is experiencing various transformatio

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