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. The text highlights the salience of Northeast Asia; the resurgence of Russia and Eurasianism; and the class, gender, and ecological implications of a conflict-ridden regional ascent for the future of the North-South divide and for the struggle between the spirit of Davos and the spirit of Porto Alegre.
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Explains the critical centrality of Asia in the new millennium, marking the end of US hegemony and financial globalisation.
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;
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ISBN
9781594517419
Publisert
2009-07-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
453 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
U, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
170

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Biographical note

Dr Ganesh Trichur teaches political economy and historical sociology drawing upon world-systems perspectives. He has published several articles on neoliberal globalization and the current world crisis, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and political Islamism and political Hinduism. His most recent work is on internal migration in China in the context of the resurgence of East Asia.